Life Lesson #3 (for Auntie Lolo) - NEVER Say Yes to Babysitting For Your Bro (NEV-AHHHH!)

I babysit for my brother the other day.

Clarification, did you hear me straight?
I babysat 

LEIA

BAZ

EVIE 

and

ELIE.

And well, this is kinda what happened....

First it was Evie who broke down.

Then it was the NEVER ending photoshoot....because not EVERYONE could fit in.

UGGGGGHHHHH.

 Riiight.

FOUR FACES IS HARD TO FIT.....just saying!

The there was ANOTHER sighting of the deer....and well, ALL the kiddies!

But I am PRETTY sure this was my favourite part of the day.

I slept like a baby that night and NOW KNOW that I ONLY 

want a pet deer.

No children.

Just a pet deer.

Period.

BAH - HAH!

Life Lesson #2 - Dance PARTIES are a must (especially in the kitchen)

For the record, I had a baby in my arms so it was kinda

hard to showcase all my moves but I thought 

I did a fairly good job.

For a CRAZY - AUNTIE!

Just saying.

A little thought before bed tonight...warning: CHEESEY!

Sometimes all you need is what you already have...

...wait, WHAT!?!

I don't get it?

Sigh* 

JUST LOOK!

It's all around you - DUH.

Oh yeah, it's right there!

Sweet dreams Santa and the

rest of the world...who is waiting 

for a big, fat, jolly, man.

Hah-hah-ha!

New Respect For Teachers with Kids (I bow down to YOU!)

I don't know how they do it.

Teachers who have kids....when do you find time to work

WITHOUT 

being interrupted every 5 minutes?

For example?

Me trying to grade this morning.

Me LATER that same day....

 

So basically...I didn't get a lot done.

Sigh*

THANK GOODNESS FOR TOMORROW!

WARNING: This WILL Make You Feel Better About Yourself (trust me)

There are two things that nobody's likes to be told, while in an airport.

(Just my opinion of course!)

1) Ummm, Miss? Your bag is still over-weight.

(Insert every bad word known to man in either French, Italian, German and 

English and that is what I was screaming in my head)

And the second worst thing?

2) Yes, we have you booked on a flight but that flight 

leaves tomorrow night, not today. Sorry.

Riiiiiiiiiiiight.

Wait - WAIT - WAIT!

Hold the phone.

Let's back the bus-up for a second.

(take a breath Lauren and a SIP of your coffee)

Lauren, haven't you  travelled more than the average person?

Yes.

And haven't you dealt with more extreme/important situations such as;

a. Not having seat on a train and sleeping in the train station on a bench

b. witnessing a fist fight on a plane and giving testimony

c. holding a baby while a mother is sick both 

on a plane and while in the airport waiting for the plane

d. helping a child find their way out of the bathroom stall - hah!

Yes, to ALL of the above.

So then HOW the HECK do you manage to

(remember, I am currently 32 years old - an adult in some regards)

1. Leave for the airport only 90 minutes before boarding time, when the airport

is at LEAST 30 minutes away?

2. Over-pack your bag so that you have to BUY a new bag at the airport and well, 

(gulp), 

re-pack everything in front of everyone at the airport?

3. NOT know any of the codes necessary to get you on a flight

(Of COURSE, I did not write them down before hand. In fact, I kept doubting myself unsure if I had booked all my flights Air Canada or Cathay Pacific? 

No worries, I DID BOTH! Not confusing at all)

(Breath Lauren, take another sip of coffee and dip some dark chocolate in it too!)

4.) Then my bottle of GREEN GOUPE exploded on the plane.

Pure awesomeness...thank gawd there was no Spirulina in 

it or people would have been SUPER pissed.

5.) Upon arriving in Vancouver, I realized I had booked my ticket for Nanaimo the wrong DAY!

(all good feelings left my soul for the next 12 minutes while the lovely

ladies at Air Canada just shook their head at me and kept calling me dear)

6.) Then I lost the boarding pass the lovely ladies had so KINDLY made/booked/given to me...left it in the bathroom.

(typique Lauren!)

7.) And then I TRIED to get into the Maple Lounge Area...oh DIO! 

(Just breath and take another sip and bite Lauren!

OHHHH don't worry, I will. Never travel without dark chocolate 85%)

Ahhhh.

Nothing like some coffee and darkness to make 

all the bad things that happened today, go away!

(that I did to myself, of course)

In the end?

It all worked out.

But officially?

There is no more luck up my sleeves.

Supplies are empty.

Storage is at an all time low.

Today's take away?

If you would like to have aneurysm, travel with me.

If you want be normal, 

I am perhaps NOT the best person to travel with.

Just saying.

Santa Says "Ho-Ho-HOME TIME!!!"

TIME TO GO HOME!

I never really knew how important Christmas was for me, 

until this year.

Don't get me wrong,

I don't like the whole-consumer-made-up-holiday-need-to-buy-stuff-for under

the-tree-to-be-happy!

(That is garbaggio in my mind)*

HOWEVER

If I may?

If there is one thing that this "time of year"

 does DO well, it's that people end-up spending time with one another.

Families, friends and love ones are driven?

Expected?

Forced?

MADE to spend time with one another, right?

(Again, perhaps for all the wrong reasons but still....)

CAN WE REALLY HATE ON A HOLIDAY THAT RESULTS

(most of the time)

ON PEOPLE SPENDING

 TIME WITH EACH OTHER?

Is is a bad thing to like Christmas?

Perhaps.

BUT

I do I like it?

Well....yeah.

WHY!?!

Because it reminds me of...

What it's like to be a little girl again.

It makes me want to give or think of others.

I briefly believe in magic again

(flying reindeer or Santa eating cookies)

I get to practise starting a fire...no, not in the kitchen but in a fireplace.

I get to drink mulled wine at night and Baileys and coffee for breakfast

(and no one will ask questions because it's JUST accepted)

I get to freeze my aRse-off while making a snow-fort and then 

endure the prickly pain in my hands and feet while my hands defrost.

Realising how good it feels to throw a snow ball in someones face or 

white washing your nephews and nieces.

OR 

Simple admiring the twinkle lights on tree with fresh powder snow...

Ohhhhh buggar.

I've totally been brain-washed.

Sigh*

I give up. No one should like Christmas.

Ever!

(hhahahahhahahahahhahahah)

So...yeah.

How about that local sports team?

This Happens When You Ask a Grade 6 Student To...

So, every Thursday we have a 

WEIRD - WACKY - GROSS (because gross is cool) - FACTS

SCIENCE DAY!

We asked our students to make the 

"grossest" 

organism they could think if with coloured plasticine.

Ummmm.

Yeah.

This is what we got.

Absolutely the grossest thing I have ever seen.

(Also looks like a primate....? Aren't we related to primates? Ew. Gross)

I always knew mushrooms were gross.

That kinda looks like one of my old boyfriends.

(And yes, he definitely was weird - gross! Nailed it kids!)

That is just scary, not gross.

I jumped when I saw this.

It startled me because I startle easy but also because I 

THOUGHT

it was real.

Explain your thinking!

Grade 6 students are funny.

Period.

This one I believe came in second....

...so then who ONE the competition?

(because everything in life is a competition, remember?)

THE WINNER....errr, what is that?!?

I have NO idea but man, is it EVER gross!

Yup. They win!

Just a typical Thursday homeroom activity.

Boom.

Bill Murray Monday - Life Lesson #2

This guy (Bill Murray) rocks my world.

For reals.

His advice on saying "NO"

“It’s extremely powerful to say no; it’s really the most 

powerful thing to say.”

Why Didn't I Read THIS on Monday?

Not happy because I didn't get the memo.

Sigh*

That would have been REALLY helpful to read on Monday.

Oh well.

Here's to being THANKFUL it's Thursday.

Bill Murray Monday's...Life Lesson #1

Bill Murray

 always has had a lot to say.

Why not give him a fixed day to share his thoughts?

Done&done.

I will try to remember that every MONDAY is now HIS day.

(A day where Bill can teach us ALL a lesson on life).

Today's life lesson?

LOVE.

It stumps us all but  not Bill.

CHECK IT OUT.

"If you have someone that you think is the one,

don't just say, 

OK - let's pick a date, let's get married!

Take that person and travel around the world.

Buy a plane ticket for the two of you and go to places

that are hard to go to and

hard to get out of.

And, if when you come back, 

you're still in love with that person,

get married at the airport."

Hmmm.

So...yeah,

Happy Monday.