Yet Another..... Awkward Moment!

Working with kids is quite the challenge just when they are in a somewhat decent mood, but when they are in an outrageously bad mood, which borderlines on the edge of completely certifiably insane... Well that's not just a challenge, but a complete competition of will power and patience!

Today at work one of the little girls was being a bit of a diva. Shoving, pushing screaming, and purposely obstructing traffic.. and by traffic I mean standing on the stairs to the slide. Any ways we asked her to move, she wouldn't, we tried to bribe her to move, she wouldn't, finally we tried to pick her up and move her.... She tried all she could to defy the laws of gravity at that very moment, and pulled the move I like to call "Dead Weight". After her attempts of screaming and shouting didn't work, she took of her glasses and tried to break them, which resulted in us taking the glasses and her demand for them back. At that point my boss had taken her inside due to the fact that everyone on the street heard the little girls screams!

I waited 5 minutes, 10 minutes, 30 minutes... no sign of them. After 30 minutes my boss came out and asked me to take over. When I stepped inside I was in shock to see a bare bum facing me... She has stripped in protest of our decision to move her. I tried everything to get her to put her clothes on, but nothing worked. Finally after I took a few "Stay cal" kind of breaths, I turned to her and said "What is it that is making you upset?" she turned to me and said "You took my glasses".

So after almost an hour of screaming, biting, kicking, punching, pinching, and tantrums, she finally put her clothes back on. These are the days that make me realize I may be older, and stronger, but my negotiation skills just aren't what they use to be!


Today's awkward moment:

That awkward moment when a child protests your decisions by stripping naked until you finally give in to their demands, and give them what they have asked for!

Maddison Babineau

6 Years ago today one very special girl left us. Although you can no longer be here beside me I carry you with me everywhere I go. You were a comedian, a defender, a fighter, an inspiration, but most of all my friend. I cherish every moment that I spent with you. I miss you so much, but I know I will see you again.

Tradgey

Last Monday a man named Tim Bosma was abducted while taking 2 men on a test drive in a truck he had been selling on kijiji. For a week our community gathered together to send hope and prayers to him and his family in hopes of his return home. After a week of looking Tim was found. It is with a heavy heart that I say Tim cannot return to his home on this earth, but he has been called to his home with god.

I did not know Tim before this last week, but within this one week I grew to care, hope, pray, fear, cry, and worry for him. I cannot find the right words to say, or how to express my condolences. I feel angry that this happened, that his wife is now a widow, his child now without a father. I feel sad knowing the future his family will face living life without him. But most importantly I feel the need to protect. I feel that as a community we worked together to raise awareness, now it is time to support his family, protect them, comfort them, and allow them to rely on us when the need it the most.

How many times do you take your life and the people in it for granted. You constantly say there's always tomorrow, or save it for later. What if you or someone you care about doesn't get another tomorrow, one last kiss, one more good bye hug, one last I love you. In light of this tragic situation please remember to always say I love you, and show how much you care, because life is so precious, we need not take it for granted.

So tonight light a candle and say a prayer for Tim and the Bosma family.

My Passion... Baking!!!

I wanted to share something with you guys that would maybe help you get to know me a little bit. My passion in life is baking. I love being able to take a cake and turn it into something really beautiful, or different. Baking is also some what therapeutic for me. When I have a flair up from my arthritis and my joins are hurting, and my body is tired, I like to go to the kitchen and bake. It takes my mind off of the pain for a little while, and thinking of ways to create something from the cake helps defog my brain for a bit. My boyfriend, family, and friends have bought me all sorts of things to encourage me to keep baking. Last Christmas my boyfriend Erik bough me an electric mixer, so I didn't have to use my hands. My mother-in-law is always gifting me really neat things like silicone cupcake liners, baking trays, decorations, and baking cook books. My mom is always buying me new stuff! Just a few weeks ago she bough me a pie pop maker. You take pie crust, cut it into little circles, put your filling on one of the circles, cover with another circle  seal and place in the machine. They turn out to be little itty bitty pies, and they are really yummy!!

I want to share with you just a few of my creations!! Let me know what you think.

Grown up phrases

When you were a kid older people would always make references that you never really understood, and then they would say "You're too young to remember" or "That was before your time". While I was growing up I never really thought about change, or even that I would one day be able to turn to a child and say " You are too young to know about it".

The other day at work my boss and I were discussing how independent and smart one of the girls is. Her name is Hayden and she is 5 years old going on 30. She loves helping us with the kids. She talks to them, plays with them, stops them from making bad decisions, cleans up after them, and even tell us that she worries about them. We have tried to tell her many times not to worry about the kids. That it's our job to do so, and she needs to be a kid, but no matter how many times we say it she still does it. She has a natural instinct to help and care for the younger kids. 

With that said I gave her the nick name "Matilda". Like the movie that came out in 1996 about a young girl who's parents left her home alone all of the time, and she was left to fend for herself. She turned out to be a smart little girl with a wonderful and caring personality, and she was very independent. Hence the reason I gave the nick name. One after noon Hayden asked me why I called her Matilda. I tried to explain to her that there was a movie and she reminded me of the girl in the movie. She replied with "Oh I don't know that movie" and in turn I replied "The movie is from when I was a kid. You're too young to know of it". After that came out of my mouth I turned in shock with wide eyes and said to my boss " I never though I would ever say that in my whole entire life!" We both laughed so hard and I made a comment about how I must be old.

I catch my self all too often these days, saying little comments that I use to hear from adults when I was a kid. I guess it can only mean one thing. I'm all grown up! So this is what being an adult feels like.... 

Yet another awkward moment...

Today at work the kids were completely, utterly, out of this world CRAZY!! They were super noisy, running around every where, throwing toys, and talking gibberish..... At lunch time we had what we like to call a "Dip Day" meaning as a side to our meal, we have veggies and dip. It's one of the more popular lunch items. To get to the point of this whole post, one of the little boys, who is very much a comic relief for us adults, decided he would scream "SUGAR TIME!!!" in the middle of lunch. This got the rest of the kids laughing, and hyper. They all chanted in a not so harmonious way "Sugar! Sugar! Sugar!". When all this had finally settled down, the one boy who had started it all picked up his dip covered carrot, shoved it up his nostril, and said "Look I'm a snow man". I'm not sure if at this point I had become delusional, or If his charm and charismatic personality had something to do with it, but I laughed and laughed until I had to leave the room to catch my breath.

Today's awkward moment:

That awkward moment when a child sticks a carrot up his nose, and pretends to be a snow man. Making you laugh so hard you need to leave the room to catch your breath, when really you should be telling him not to play with his food, and shoving things up his nose is dangerous.

That awkward moment when....

That awkward moment when you freak out and scream "get it off!! Get it off!! It's biting me" you flail your arms in the air become completely hysterical. Then you finally muster up enough courage to fight off your attacker, and realize that its only the spur off of a prickly bush in the field you just walked through... Story of my life!!

To Whom it May Concern...

To whom it may concern,

When I try to express to you how I feel please do not take this as a challenge. This is not me starting a fight, or trying to make you angry. This is me trying to explain how I feel, and why I feel this way. I don't want to blame you for the things that have happened in my life, or make you feel like everything is your fault.... I don't even want an apology from you. The truth is unlike most people, I don't need an apology to be able to move on. What I do need from you is for you to acknowledged and recognize the things you HAVE done and said, that have made me feel this way. I don't want to hear "I'm sorry" because to me the word sorry is like throwing a blanket over a mess and acting like it isn't there. Acknowledgement of your actions is all I ask. " I acknowledge that I..." this is the first part to a sentence that could fix a world of hurt. Why is this so hard for you to do? You brush me off like what I say has no meaning. Like I'm being dramatic by just asking you to recognize the things you have done. I realize now that no matter how many times I ask you to, you never will. So let it be known that from here on out I am done. I acknowledge the fact that I have officially stopped caring. I acknowledge the fact that I am moving forward with my life.

I am trying my hardest, and working really hard so please stop making me feel like I'm not. I have come a long way... Too long of a way for me to stand here and let you try and tear me down.

Sincerely
Me