Super Duper Funny!!

I know I’m far from the only one who is so sick and tired of the H1N1 this and H1N1 that crap. And noooooo I absolutely will not be getting my family vaccinated, in fact in all the research we have done about vaccines since checking out to learn more about this one I am now very very upset with myself that I didn’t do the same before giving my kids any vaccines and very much regret ever having them get any. But anyway, one of the pages I’m a fan of on Facebook shared this video and we had a HUGE laugh over it! I shared it on Facebook too, but just had to post it here!!

Come Out, Come Out Wherever You Are!

I need to find some good homeschooling blogs! I’ve found lots, but not quite what I’m looking for. All the ones I find are either families with younger children than mine, or don’t seem to do schooling quite the way I do….not that I really have a “way” though LOL. I want to find new ideas and stuff to make it more exciting, or something. I don’t know, I guess I don’t really know what I’m looking for, inspiration of some kind I guess. But most of the homeschool blogs I find are for the little ones, or they are very religious based, which we sooooo are not and I don’t want religion in my kids school….for us it’s a separate topic and they will learn about all religions so since hubby and I are not at all religious the kids can learn about all of them and decide for themselves if they want to follow a religion of their choice, or just remain neutral like us.

Wow, what a totally run-on rambling paragraph that was LOL. That’s what happens when you can’t get 5 minutes of peace and quiet to get your thoughts out properly haha!

Happy Halloween!!

I hope everyone had a great time trick or treating tonight!

The weather returned to real Fall weather for us, and while it was cold enough and windy enough that my legs and behind were pretty chilled, it was great! The snow we got earlier in the week was all melted, and the temperature was actually above 0.

My boys had a great time, as always. There were not many kids around though, wonder where they all were? LOL.

Wayyyyyy too much candy though!! OMG, each boy carried a bag the size of a pillow case and each bag was FULL!! And of course full of mostly chocolate and chips….my biggest weaknesses!! LOL

Here’s my Pirate and my Vampire. (my Vampire kinda scared me, no not his costume, but in it he looked like a teenager!! Yikes!!LOL)

 

****just a little footnote here unrelated to Halloween…..all ignorant people, and anyone who has some holier than thou attitude or anything of the sort piss off!! LOL. Sorry, but I blog for me when I feel like it. I don’t blog to debate things. I don’t blog to please anyone. Take your small little minds elsewhere and get a life!! Some people in this world are just so sad and really need to grow up or shut up. I don’t even want my kids to act immature, and they’re kids! It’s so sad that there are people who are supposed to be adults and they can’t act like proper human beings.

Stupid Entrecard

LOL, ok, so it’s not really stupid, EC was great when I really into blogging. But now try as I might I just can’t get back into blogging on a regular basis. When I do blog nobody reads it anyway(except for Sandee, Callie and I think occasionally Rene that I know of…thank you guys!). So instead or worrying about making sure I post once every 3 weeks in order not to get booted from EC I was going to just get rid of it.

Thing is, I have over 21, 000 EC credits built up!! I don’t want them just to disappear. I have checked their marketplace several times to see if there was something in there to spend them on, but found nothing. So I thought maybe I will just divide up my credits between some of the blogs that I really like and/or support from when I actually read a lot. Only to see that there is a limit! You can only send out 1,000 EC credits in 7 days!!! WTF!? I sure as hell don’t feel like going back there every week fro 21 weeks and then have to worry about posting every few weeks, but I also don’t want them to disappear. Grrrrr!!

Now, I don’t know if it will actually let you send the credits and then you just get in “trouble” if you oversent, or if it won’t even allow you to send them. Since the plan was to leave EC anyway I guess I should just try, because it doesn’t matter if I get into “trouble”. If it won’t let me send them, well I guess here’s a post and I’m good for another few weeks LOL.

 

**update** Well it seemed to work! I sent out chunks of credits to a few bloggers, big time fees it took off but at least not all the credits were lost. Now I’ll remove my widget and just blog when I feel like it….which could be months, who knows LOL.

I Can See Clearly Now

Nope,  not because the rain is gone!(It’s actually been snowy rain, yuck!)

BUT! Because I finally got my eyes checked and got glasses! I got glasses when I was 13, that excitement was short lived and I hardly wore them. I knew my eyes were pretty bad, but they were even worse than I thought…..hehe, oops. Guess that happens when you don’t get them tested for a dozen or so years.

We picked up my glasses on Friday and OMG!! The world was once dull and blurry, it is now clear and sparkly! I cannot believe the difference!! I was to the point that I couldn’t even read the guide on the TV from the sofa anymore….on the weekend I was reading the score of the Football game from the Dining Room…which is on the opposite side of the house!!

See my cool pink glasses(excuse the grainy webcam snapshot LOL)….my husband picked them out!

After I ordered them from Walmart to try and get something cheap I found out about a website here in Canada that I could order them from for CHEAP!! I know I’ve done posts on Zenni Optical in the US before, but not knowing if or what I would get dinged for duty on them I opted not to order from there for now. But this other site is here in Canada, so no worries about duty, AND they have a 30 day 100% money back guarantee…and you don’t even have to pay for 15 days. I could have got 2 pairs from this site for what I paid for my glasses from Walmart…even though Walmart was WAY cheaper than anywhere in town I knew of. So I ordered some prescription sunglasses from the website. For $98 I got a pair of Carolina Herrera frames that normally retail for $400. For $98 I got the frames, upgraded to tinted lenses, and shipping….and I got them 3 days after I ordered them! I was totally impressed! I’ve tried them on and they seem fine, the prescription seems the same as these glasses.

And NO, this is not any sort of paid post or anything like that. But if anyone reading this is in Canada and you need glasses or contacts you might want to check out their site, it’s www.clearlycontacts.ca . I get nothing for you visiting there, I just like sharing good deals with other people :).

Hey, I think I’m slightly improving on how often I post to my blog! Still have a long way to go to post even close to as much as I used to, but hey, at least I’m better than I was for a while! :)

Wife Swap and Homeschooling

Oh my my! I don’t watch this show all the time, but if there is nothing else on I will sometimes watch. They sure pick complete opposites for this show.

The one I’m watching right now has one family that home schools and pretty much keep their boys away from society. Now I don’t agree with keeping the boys away from everything and everyone, they are way too extreme when it comes to that. The other family is, excuse my language, but pretty much a big clusterfu**! They all do whatever they want, no responsibilities whatsoever. The ignorance coming from that family is astonishing, I can’t believe people act like that! They have no respect for themselves or anyone else. It’s just disgusting the way they live and that they are letting their kids be so immature and irresponsible. I won’t even begin to say what I thought about the mother of that family…lets just say she is the complete opposite of classy.

So anyway, while the home school family is a little extreme with some things at least they are raising very well rounded children with morals…which is so seriously lacking these days. But the mom has this sort of token system that the boys do chores to earn certain things. I have been trying to see if maybe they have a blog or something where I can find out how they do this system. I would love to plan out something like that, though with my own twist. Her boys can use tokens to buy time to listen to a radio show LOL….ummm, I’m thinking TV or video game time is a little more suitable for my family LOL.

I decided to check out the ABC page and see if on their discussion forum there was any mention of it. Well instead I came across complete ignorance!! People on there are commenting that homeschooled kids are so far behind public school kids and that they don’t speak proper English. That kind of ignorance makes my blood boil!! Not only is it obviously not true, in a room full of homeschooled and public schooled kids(heck even throw in some private schooled ones), I guarantee you would not be able to pick out which ones go to which school….with one possible exception….homeschooled kids often are more well mannered because they don’t pick up some of the habits that other kids do from their classmates. Homeschooled kids in fact usually score higher on tests than public schooled kids, and learn a much much broader range of topics. My kids do all the same topics that the public schools do, and much much more!

I am so not for the homeschooling vs. public school debate, every parent has to choose what works for their family and nobody has the right to say the other is wrong with their choice. But it pisses me off when people who are clueless go on spewing some crap that is completely false. The sad thing is that the people commenting on that thread had horrible spelling and grammar, but they were criticizing the education of others?

I hate getting on topics like this, but when I see garbage like that I need to make sure that people are aware of how FALSE the thought that homeschooled kids are less educated is. Homeschooled kids tend to do better in College or University as well because a big thing they learn while homeschooling is self-educating themselves. That is not something public school teaches though.

I am not saying my kids are smarter than a public school kid, in fact I classify my kids as average with potential, but of course all kids have potential. Mine just choose not to live up to their potential at this point LOL…they are typical boys who lose interest fast and whose minds are first and foremost on what THEY want it to be on, not what you want it to be on LOL.

Ok, that rant is over for now LOL….now to search for ideas for this token system thingamajig….

Is it Fall?

They said it was but I’m not sure if I believe it. Today is supposed to be a record breaking day, we are a week away from October and our high today is 32 degrees Celsius(89 for you ‘Merican Folks :) )!! Our normal for this time of year is only 16(60)! Double, yes DOUBLE what we should be!! LOL

Temperatures like this are too hot for me! I wish it could be 20 degrees(give or take a few degrees) all the time! That would be perfect weather!

So the boys and I went for a walk this morning before it got too hot, of course it got hot fast and by the time we were heading back home the sun was already too hot for me. I came home with sausages for fingers they were so swollen. I actually remembered to take my camera this time though so took some pics of our walk through the community.

First we walked around the big storm pond near our house, I’ve seen these in some communities and they’re really yucky, I like that this one they keep it nice all around it and it’s part of the park. This time of year the pond is full of Canadian Geese. Yesterday afternoon there were a ton of them, not quite as many this morning though:

Tried to catch some as they landed in the water:

The boys running ahead of me:

Pretty fall trees at the acreage across the street: (I love living at the edge of the city where you get and see it all; full city communities and pastures of horses side by side)

One bad part of all the Geese is that you need to watch where you walk, because there is plenty of this:  (that is Goose poop in case you can`t tell LOL)

Then we followed the path up and along the another side of the community. Next to the path is creek-like flower beds, this year they have lots of Pussy Willows. I don`t know why but I have always liked them, funny looking things though:

The boys walking the rocks on the other side of the ``creek-bed``(yes, Jman on the right, my 11 year old has started the ``I must hunch over because I`m tall and I`m a teenager`` pose….even though he is not yet a teenager):

Some reminders that not too long ago we would drive past this area and it was still someone`s farm. This borders the community and separates us from a highway:

This used to be part of a cow carcass. We first found this carcass in a lot when we moved to the community, but I never remembered to bring my camera along on our walks before today. Unfortunately the lot has turned into a dumping ground for the construction crews in the area. There are now only pieces of the carcass spread around…it was whole the first time we saw it….ok, yes I have boys so this was rather exciting LOL.

  

And lastly, this one of a couple of traffic circles in our community. I highly suggest that everyone learn how to use one of these. As shocking as it is a LOT of people are clueless as to how a traffic circle works. I don`t drive and I know how it works, so people, please learn since this is not a high traffic area yet we have almost been hit a few times by people who did not know they did not have right of way(or didn`t care, could very well have been that too).

That was our Fall walk on a very Summer-like day….notice not a cloud in the sky…normally we are preparing for our first bit of snow to arrive within a few weeks….which could still very well happen. We had a late but extremely cold and snowy winter last year. We also did not have a super warm summer(which is totally ok with me!)…but it seems we are making up for some of that now LOL.