Insomnia

Occassionally I go through bouts of insomnia. By Day 10 I'm a zombie-like creature minus the good looks and coordination. Here is my middle of the night, can't sleep forray into songwriting - a Follow Friday rap is soon to follow. Please sing to the theme song from Spiderman*



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Follow Friday: Two

Clearly (yes, clearly. I like to use the word clearly. It's funny. And yes, it's over-used. And yes, I know you can twitter search it and have 50,000 tweets come up, but I like it, okay?)

So clearly, my video blogging has to come to an end because (a) I'm an idiot and (b) I'm an idiot.

http://www.yummymummyclub.ca/follow_friday_two_

Lunch Notes

Last year I wrote about how I put notes into Son No. 1's school lunches. He never mentioned them and I wasn't sure if they were even being read but I kept putting them in, even on the mornings we were running late. Then one very special day, he wrote me back. He was reading them! I continued putting notes in his lunch for the rest of the school year and started again on the very first day of school this year.

Every day for the past 2 1/2 weeks, I've packed his lunch and put in a note - some days the notes are filled with encouragement, other days they're plain ol' silly - but I put them each and every day.

Yesterday he wrote me back.



http://www.yummymummyclub.ca/lunch_notes

Exciting News!

Congratulations to Yummy Mummy Club blogger Maureen Turner who just announced she's pregnant....

http://www.yummymummyclub.ca/exciting_news

Art In The Park

Last week was our third annual neighbourhood Art In The Park. Art In the Park is exactly as it sounds. We invite all the neighbourhood kids to the nearby park where they don their DaVinci hats, whip out their Picasso paint brushes, embrace their inner Warhol and Gogh Gogh Gogh create until their creative juices run dry – or until they get hungry. Whichever comes first.

http://www.yummymummyclub.ca/art_in_the_park

Even God Needs a Vacation

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Why I Will Never Win Mother Of The Year

There's a reason why I will never win the Mother of the Year Award.

Actually there's many but this is last night's reason...

After dinner, Son No. 2 came bounding over to me with a smile on his face, enthusiasm eminating from every pore of his short, slightly dirty (when was the last time I bathed him?) body and gently tapped my leg. "Will you play a game wiff me Mummy?"

Was my first response a resounding and equally enthusiastic "Yes!" grabbing his chubby hand in mine to skip off happily and play board games, living in the moment and enjoying this special time with my youngest son?

http://www.yummymummyclub.ca/why_i_will_never_win_mother_of_the_year

Follow Friday

This week I decided to do my Twitter #FollowFriday as a video, an idea I totally stole got from Scott Stratten (who's @unmarketing on Twitter). Because here's an Inside Scoop Tip you need to follow....steal ideas from really really smart people. Scott Stratten is really really smart.

The whole stealing ideas from Carrot Top didn't work out so well.

In the process of making this video, I've also created a new drinking game for all my readers and college students across the country!

So grab yourself a bottle of Peach Schnapps, sit back, watch my #FollowFriday video and drink a shot every time I furrow my eyebrows.*

http://www.yummymummyclub.ca/follow_friday

Lessons Learned While Training For a 15 k Race

If you haven’t read about it here, here , here and here and here too….a couple of weeks ago, a few of us mummies got together and ran the Mid Summer Night’s Run 15 k race. The event was of the awesomest possumest calibre and I got to meet some ultra-fantastic women and spend an evening running, laughing, and drinking (not necessarily in that order).

But before you run a 15 k race, it’s important to train and with the August 22nd date looming over my head, it became quite clear that I should actually “practice the running” instead of only "thinking about the running". So around June-ish...

http://www.yummymummyclub.ca/lessons_learned_while_training_for_a_15_k_race

The Inside Scoop on Volunteering in the Classroom

When Son No. 1 was in kindergarten, I signed up to be a class volunteer. I'd volunteer mostly for the field trips but my favorite memories are from when I'd go into his classroom just to help out. Like that time when...

I'm lying. I just lied to you. I am a lying liar. What's that I smell? Ya smoke...'cause my pants are on fire.

I did do all of the field trips but only went into the class to help out once. I just didn’t like it. It freaked me out being around that many kids, I couldn’t remember their names, it was loud and they were all STICKY. So I stuck with the field trips where I’d get my little group of five and be done with it.

Then came Grade 1...



http://www.yummymummyclub.ca/the_inside_scoop_on_volunteering_in_the_classroom

Fear of Heights: Part Duh

If you’ve just tuned into today’s blogging chronicle, you’ll need to read the previous blog before you read this otherwise you’re gonna to miss out on why I chose to climb up a fifty foot telephone pole and walk across a Burma Bridge which sounds all solid and non-moving and maybe like something you can relax on while taking pictures of the beautiful scenery before you but is really just a tightrope with two other ropes for you to hold on to with your VULCAN DEATH GRIP because you’re going to PLUMMET TO YOUR DEATH! AND WHAT THE HELL AM I DOING? I’M GOING TO DIE ON VACATION AND MY KIDS WILL GROW UP MOTHERLESS ALL BECAUSE I WAS AFRAID OF HEIGHTS AND WAS IT REALLY SO BAD AND (glances down briefly) OH GOD, WHY DIDN’T ANYONE TELL ME THE HARNESS WAS STRAPPED SO TIGHTLY AROUND MY THIGHS. HOW IS IT POSSIBLE FOR MY LEG FAT TO EVEN DO THAT? I’M LIKE A SAUSAGE WITH A SLIT CASING AND OH CRAP CAN EVERYONE BELOW SEE THAT?

http://www.yummymummyclub.ca/the_inside_scoop

Fear of Heights

I’ll let you in on a little secret. I’m afraid of heights. And not just a little afraid, it’s a shit my pants kind of afraid...

http://www.yummymummyclub.ca/fear_of_heights

Drowning

My son almost died before my very eyes on a sunny afternoon with children playing and adults laughing because I had been careless.

So I’m writing this to tell you not to be. If your child can’t swim...

http://www.yummymummyclub.ca/drowning

The Surprise Birthday Party

If you didn’t read about it here, Lisa (a.k.a. Party Mummy) threw me a surprise 40th birthday party. And although she tried, she couldn’t’ get across the fun and shenanigans of the week prior to the birthday because she was busy focussing on things like “details” and “tips”. Like whatever. Since when did this become about her anyway?

So let’s start at the very beginning. My husband approached me a month before my birthday and said “I’d like to throw you a 40th birthday party. I’ll book the place and arrange it all if you can just give me a list of people you want to invite”

I politely declined because 40 IS JUST A NUMBER PEOPLE. And HOW THE HELL DID I END UP MARRIED WITH TWO KIDS WHEN I HAVE THE MENTAL CAPACITY OF AN EIGHT YEAR OLD BOY WHO LIKES FART JOKES? What’s this 40 crap anyhow?

Enter...

http://www.yummymummyclub.ca/the_surprise_birthday_party

Change is a Beautiful Thing

I’m not good with change. At the mere mention of change, I dig my heels in like the anchor in a game of tug-of-war and won’t let go.

Just last week my husband suggested we change our kitchen shutters to blinds. Even though every single day I curse opening these stupid shutters I still said no. Why? Because my instinctual response to change is an emphatic “no”. I like my life on an even keel and when a wrench gets thrown into it I FREAK OUT

So you can imagine the fun times at the DeVellis house when I needed to update my computer ...



http://www.yummymummyclub.ca/change_is_beautiful