Favourite things.

I started off today with the song from The Sound of Music and the idea that we should go purchase some books and create our own Favourite things collection. So that when the dog bites when the bee stings, when we're feeling sad- we can just look at our books and u know how it goes...

Somewhere along the way we got distracted- by Kim and Taylor Dayne. Haha and then laundry and cleaning up- then we dragged Dad out to lunch and after lunch the kids got sleepy.

Then they all went to sleep and i cleaned up a little more then suddenly Tivi was home and i had to make dinner and yell at her for rushing her homework.

Haha... sometimes life gets in the way of ideas... and sometimes i let it.

Kim and i had a funny little conversation about motherhood and the inability to escape its reaches once its bestowed upon you. Even in the precious time you get away from them, half your mind is on whether there's been a catastrophic incident thats occured whilst you were away selfishly having 'me time' and no ones been able to contact you for some inexplicable reason, and oh my god your baby is like dying of malnutrition you know it and why did you even leave now you'll have to suffer that guilt forever.

Haha... we congratulated each other and ourselves on the immense task that we were undertaking, we bore and birthed and nurture these children, sacrificing everything and asking nothing- hahaha... after we talked shit (and there was a moment where we were literally talking about shit... haha) we ended it by paying tribute to our own mothers and their ability to handle way more kids than us, with seeming ease and overflowing bowls of delicious homecooked foodstuffs.

Then we quit our bitchin and set about our motherly duties, ashamed of our petty complaints and inspired by the women who did this singlehandedly before us.

Anyway whilst we were a chattin away the kids played, and they found balloons and i blew them up and they hit each other with them as they do and made merry and dobbed when someone actually got hurt.

I got to thinking a bit about the strangeness of motherhood and how i struggle to maintain this balance between being in charge and being myself.

I dance around and sing with them and be silly and then at the same time i know we have things to do and places to be - when i start playing we end up late and that stresses me out some these days. I hate being late.

Since i started this, i've been more aware of the way i am these days, the way i like things to be put away, the dishes, the table, the toys, the clothes- and how i tire myself out doing these things because i dont enjoy them at all. These are the parts of motherhood that really suck. They make me cranky and i yell coz i am constantly doing things i don't like to do.

I'm trying to unlearn the things i learnt early on when i had 3 children in almost consecutive years, the need to do things a certain way all the time, just like i taught myself to leave the house and trust that nothing spectacularly awful will befall them in my absence.

Anyway i'm writing this blog at an ungodly hour of the night/morning and i've been trying to make Chris Write it for me but she keeps making excuses that she can't blog from her iphone. Haha so she gave me these here Videos to post up for you. And thank god fot that coz i'm hella tired right now!!

so here look at these awesome videos of CHRISTINA CHOOOOS mega awesome world adventures!! haha they're sideways so just tilt your heads on to the left and ride away on her adventures through Montreal on a bike. With a dude. Haha she can explain it! I have to go to sleep now.

* Oh wait its like sideways on my computer then uploads the right way sorry sorry now you can just enjoy it as is!! hahaha
THanks Chrisssssssssssssssss for this!! You are one of my favourite things of all time. To good friends, who travel and share their videos with you. Cheers and goodnights!