We need hobbies!

Last night was a normal night.  We ate dinner, played with Leah, and then put Leah to bed.  Each of us settled onto our respective couches ready to watch whatever our PVR recorded for new TV.   To our horror, there were no new shows on last night.  None that we watch anyway.  After a few minutes of channel surfing Dave turned to me and said "can I play games on your phone there's nothing on."  I threw it to him and thought to myself, there must be something on we have 200ish channels what do you mean there is nothing on.  He was right there was nothing on.  


So I thought, out loud, we need hobbies.  We are so reliant that there will be something on TV for us to watch in the evenings that we are becoming dependent on it to entertain us.  We could play cards, read (which I do but Dave doesn't), find a video game to play together...  Something.  I would like to think that between my new running program with Breanna, yoga with Katie, and up coming work that I won't find myself in this position again.  But, lately, I have often come home to or find Dave sitting and playing games on my phone as there is nothing on and he doesn't know what to do with himself.  I wonder what hobbies are out there that we could do together to fill the voids?  I am sure once I go back to work this problem will solve itself more or less as there will be household chores to be completed in the evening.  But I do still think that it will be helpful to have hobbies.

We did it...Mostly

Today, for the first time, I dropped Leah off at her day home and left.  It was hard, but slightly gratifying.  Leah was only there for about 3 hours.  But still, it is a step in the right direction.

To our day home's credit.  Things seemed to be okay.

I think that a little morning history is needed to give you the full scope of why it was only okay.  Leah woke up at 5:00 am crying for her soother as she couldn't find it in her crib.  This is a full two hours before she normally would have woken up.  She then went down for roughly 20 minutes.  I then listened to her fuss for 15 minutes after she started fussing the second time.  I waited the second time only because I have a strict nothing happens before 6:00 am rule.  When I went in again she was drooling and chewing on her thumb.  She is cutting her 5th tooth.  And I thought to myself, damn you tooth today of all days you had to make your grand appearance into Leah's mouth.  You really couldn't have waited until tomorrow.  So, needless to say, Leah was not herself this morning.

So, when I say things were okay, I mean that Leah was okay for behavior.  I guess she would be happy and then upset and wanted to chew on everything in sight.  I didn't seem to matter what was done to try and comfort her, Leah was on and off happy.  The reason I know this, Leah only ate a yogurt for lunch.  For those of you who know Leah, when she refuses to eat her mouth really must hurt!  So, when she tried to put Leah down for a nap it didn't go well; luckily I was on my way to pick her up.

Regardless of what happened today.  I feel that this was a mini milestone in our lives.  Today, Leah learnt, as the great Hap Palmer song says, "My mommy comes back, she always comes back, she always comes back to get me..."

                                           Leah before we left for her day home.

Spring are you really here?

Wow.  It's nice out.  It changes yours mood.  I think that maybe I was starting to develop a little bit of SAD?!  As the winter months drew on I feel like we were either hiding inside from the cold, sick, sick again, or hiding inside from the cold.  And despite some of the Lew Crews best efforts there were days when we just stayed home cause it was that cold outside.  

Now, I find myself going for afternoon walks with no coat on (or no hat depending on who you are LOL).  I am only wearing one layer today instead of two or three.  I would like to think that spring and eventually summer is our reward for toughing it out through the winter.  


Where else in this world do you get to experience such extreme season changes?  Yes the weather differs through the seasons, but I would like to think that the Northern areas of Canada have very defined seasonal changes and if you have patients and wait you will be rewarded with your favorite one.


Warm weather I welcome you.  Please stick around we missed you so much.  


P.S.  Just think I say this now (that +4 is warm) but come October I will think it is freezing!  

The End is in Sight

I was sure that this time in life would never come.  Everyone always said "enjoy your year off while you can it goes by so fast."  Now, here I am with an 11 months old (11 months yikes) and asking myself where did the time go.  I still feel like it's Christmas and I am thinking yeah I still have so much time left; and now it's March.  Wow.

Let us keep in mind that I have been off work since Feb 2010.  So, in all reality, I have had more time off then the average person.  Due to the kick butt benefits at my work I did not have to go back in Feb 2011. Alas I get to go back 52 weeks after my delivery date. 

The time has come to start easing Leah into dayhome.  Easing myself back into that work mind set.  Prepare us for the next stage in our lives.  The stage where mom goes to work, Leah goes to care, and we spend the early mornings, late afternoons, and early evenings as a family.  No more 24/7 with my little girl.  It makes me sad.  But I do believe that it is the best for me to return to work and for Leah to play all day with friends and with an adult supervisor other than her mommy.  She is already a mommy suck and the older she gets the worse it gets.  

This will be good for us?!  Right?

Dye my hair?

I always have this idea in my head that I should dye my hair.  The problem is I never do it.  I fleetingly think that I should do something to make my hair colour more vibrant and rich.  But what?  Do I go Georgina blond (don't think that I could pull it off), Breanna dark brown (really don't know what that would do for my complexion), or Katie highlights (nice but seem high maintenance).  I know that I should probably do something that is my own.  But what?  I have never hopped on that train.  But I am feeling the winter blues and think that this will make me feel better.  Here's the thing.  I think that I am way to cheap to pay to have a professional do it.  So, do I dye it out of a box?  Which I have do before and have only had one major mishap in college.  Or pay someone....

I have had people comment on my "chocolate brown" hair before saying they love the colour.  But, it has been this colour for most of my life.  I need a change.  And really how many 27 year-olds do you know that don't dye there hair.  Decisions, decisions...

Cold & Bored

Why do I live here again?  Out of all of the choices that I have made in my life why did I choose to live in The City of Edmonton, Alberta even?  It is so cold, and the wind chill makes it cold enough to even question leaving your house with a baby.
I really do wish sometimes that we would move to a warmer climate.  Most of the time we wouldn't even have to leave the province to do that.  Just move south.  Which then makes me wonder why people live farther North than Edmonton.  It is a pickle.  Maybe I should take a Facebook quiz and find out which Canadian City or Province best suits me and move there.  Seriously Mother Nature this is enough it's March now.  Where is the warm weather? I will even take dumps of snow to not have to wear socks to bed at night to stay warm.