Spring has come late this year but I think it is finally here… Fresh air is flowing through the house and cleaning is easier…

Something about having the windows open makes it easier to get into the cleaning mood and makes the house Feel cleaner at the same time…

I am getting back into the decluttering mood and at a community sale for baby/kid items we sold some things at yesterday  that we got when I was pregnant with Xavier and used a few times but have proved to be completely useless or cumbersome and I would never use for another baby… a playpen and portable swing being two of the useless (and quite a bit sad baby containment devices) and a 3 in 1 high chair that just took up too much space and we didn’t even use much for Colin… a few other things also made it out the door never to return…

Decluttering feels so good and it makes it so much easier to clean up also…

As for the boys at the moment…

Xavier doesn’t like going out side too much… so he often sits at the kitchen table with construction toys… making Star Wars figures, spaceships and robots and then playing out stories with them…If we do convince him to go play outside though, he stays out for long and then wants to stay out…
Colin however loves playing outside and has been spending hours playing in little corners of the yard… It surprises me at times about how imaginative he is and he makes up tons of complex stories with cars and misc toys and of course his “Woody” and “Buzz”… the Toy Story toys… At two and a half his vocabulary is pretty much equal to Xaviers… the ideas are not always as complex but his language is there…

Another thing that has come with spring is the return of yardwork… I need to get my garden ready and as the snow and ice melted in the pool this year holes formed and the liner is beyond repair… since it was installed by the old owners and was not installed well… we are not going to make the same mistake… so new liner and installation will be one of the big ticket items this year… the other is the new fence of which the cost will be split between the neighbor and us…

Anyway… Spring is here…  and it feels great!

I was directed towards the Facebook site about about 2 weeks or so ago…

I am hooked…  Facebook is like an ultimate reunion site and though there is mostly the younger genration, there are more and more people of my age… (not like I am old… but still!)
You fill in a profile, find a few friends and your contact list starts to grow… old friends add other old friends and you just keep on finding more and more people…

It is well thought out, your front page is a running tab of all of your friends activities… so you see who they add and what groups they join… .. and though there are a few things missing, it is really easy to navigate…

I have found old friends from where I grew up in Nelson BC, I have found friends from elementary school and high school, college and beyond…

I really enjoy reconnecting especially since I moved so many times, and went to so many schools that there will be no reunions in which I can do such…

My blog is not as much of a place to rant anymore as it is a place to share…
When I started this blog, I had the need to rant… I was hanging out with people of the mainstream and if I didn’t have my blog I would have exploded… Since then I have cut many ties with people of the mainstream. I can’t stand to hear about the abuse that people make their kids go through… CIO, spanking, shaming and all of the other things that people think that it is OK to do to their kids…
Because I stay away, I have less to rant about…

I may still rant of course but I want my blog to be about positive than negative…

So, “a hippie with a minivan” it is!

This week was a bit busy….

I think I either got Food poisoning, intolerance or just a bit of the flu at the end of last weekend… I am the only one that got it and I got it bad… nausea, chills, headache, weakness, dizzy etc…. really not fun…

Khéna was also fussy but I think it was a bit of a tummy ache and just complaining that he wasn’t with mama as much as he wanted to be while I was sick… of course he was never more than a few feet away in his daddy’s arms… but that isn’t the same…

Then on Monday Simon noticed something wrong with the bathtub… water has accumulated under it and the whole floor of the bath moved with any pressure put on it… I went to Rona in a very groggy state to get ideas and while trying to explain the problem I understood it more myself… the old owners had bout one of those covers for the bath to make it look nicer… So I called the company and they offer a service to take the water out…. What happened was that water had got in from the sides were there was putty missing and went between the cover and the old bath… finally the glue unstuck and the there was water fully between the two layers…

They finally came on Friday to fix it they redid all of the sealing and made it look brand new again and it cost us 80$… it could have been worse….

On thursday I got a visit from my friends Nat and Ali and Ali’s 9 month old dd… At one point we put her and Khéna side to side on the floor and not only was Khéna bigger than she is…. he is also as tall as her!!!

Then on Friday, when I tried to fix a problem with the board I host a database error caused the whole thing to crash… I had made a backup a few minutes before trying to fix it so I felt pretty safe… But… the board has been having a problem for a while with the database so all the backups that I had been making were corrupted, I worked for at least a dozen hours to get things back but it was just too far gone… So, we had to start all over… but a fresh installation will make things a lot cleaner and better… but it is sad to see so many posts lost….