Sleep Talking Man

I saw a story on tv recently about a wife who records her husband's very funny and odd musings in the night as he rambles on in his sleep, sounds like someone I know....me...or so I'm told.

The very first night Dana stayed at my apartment, she quickly became aware that I talked in my sleep - when I woke up in the morning she was sleeping on the couch in the other room. When I asked her Why? she said it was because "I wouldn't stop talking all night long"...

I usually don't remember anything I said the next morning, and Dana, if she isn't annoyed about not getting a full nights sleep, will tell me the nonsense I was talking about the next morning. She has grown accustomed to it, and will just tell me to "shut up!" or wake me up and tell me to "Please. Just stop talking!" I can be heard singing, laughing hysterically and just generally talking about complete nonsense. The other night, her sleep was interrupted with this insight about one of my favourite subjects...bacon.

"I was going to cook it on the front of my head, but I'm going to cook the bacon on the back of my head"

No wonder I'm so tired in the morning. And yes, I did have bacon the next morning, but it was prepared the normal way.

March Break recap

Wouldn't it be easier if I just blogged once a day, a photo here and there instead of waiting and compiling them all at once? Maybe more fun to look at too. But here's a quick summary of what we've been up to.
Hannah was in her first skating competition. Just at her own club against others in her club, but good to get the first one under her belt. She was VERY nervous, but I thought she did really well! We watched Charlotte for Eri & Mike one evening while Hannah was out at a sleepover. The boys were very entertaining for her and it was nice to get an individual visit with her!

The weather's been FANTASTIC (although it was back to snow this morning!) and we took full advantage of it! The kids shopped at Chapter's with their birthday gift cards and had all sorts of new reading material to take outdoors.

Hannah and her friend set up a lemonade stand to raise money for the cat shelter where Hannah volunteers. They will deliver the $26.00 they made tomorrow.

Then there was the birthday party...this is the first time we've done all 3 kids at once and I have to say, I would do it again. They went bowling and each brought 9 friends for a total of 30 kids - 6 lanes! The girls pretty much looked after themselves.

Jack had a really hard time narrowing it down to 9 friends! How many do I invite from my hockey team? What about my friends from Cubs? He has a lot of friends at school too. But eventually we made the list and I have to say, his lanes were really self-sufficient too.

Charlotte and Bennett were put in Henry's lanes since they were closest in age, but Hannah's friends really liked bringing Char over with them. I like that Charlotte's in mid-air in this picture!

Henry and friends needed the most help but they were really good and really cute! Henry had to do some crazy pose every time he knocked even one pin down. Lots of fun and not nearly as noisy as everyone warned me it might be.Every year Eri makes one of my kids' birthday cakes. She's an amazing cake maker/decorator and the kid of the year gets to tell her their cake theme. So it was Henry's turn this year and he asked for a hockey cake. Once again, Eri created an amazing birthday masterpiece!

After an hour of bowling, we got a party room for another hour. The bowling alley looks after EVERYTHING! They order the pizza, put a movie on and provide decorations, utensils, paper plates...we only had to bring cakes and loot bags! It was really wonderful!

Coincidentally, my friend Nicola had her baby the day between my kids' birthdays. That will be an easy date for us to remember! So yesterday we paid her and brand new Amelia a visit. It seemed like a long time since I held a tiny baby! So sweet! Congratulations!

Sorry for the delay

Although it hasn't been as busy around here, I've somehow neglected the blog. Jason's home and we're all thrilled to have him back! We hear new little snippets about the Olympics each day as they come to him! We had 3 kids' birthdays but they came and went without too much fanfare. They're having a bowling party (yes, all 3 of them at the same time!) over March Break so we'll celebrate some more then. Thank you to everyone for the phone calls and cards and gifts!
Henry got a gem excavation kit so he and Hannah worked away at that for a few days.

Jack's team is out of the hockey playoffs so now it's just practices and a final tournament at the end of March before April's tryouts for next year! Henry's still finishing up his hockey year and looking forward to playing 3 on 3 this summer. He's also signed up for soccer but Jason's hoping not to coach this year. He coached each of the kids for their first year but Henry for his first two when the original coach backed out the day before soccer began. Jack's playing baseball again this summer and Hannah's hoping to continue her figure skating. The schedule and cost of such an activity hasn't come out yet but I'm afraid to think what it costs to keep a rink cold in the summer!

He's Home!

He may be found wandering around the house at 2am, but he's HOME!!