Even next week with the school barbecue, friends coming in from out of town, a DPAC meeting, the draft for the hockey pool that Ninja and I run, Brownie cookie sale day, my Guiding test, the Guiding District Meeting, our Guide
Pack meeting and dinner out with friends… I’m not feeling as much stress because I’m organized and I know that I can handle this shit 😉!The kids are settling in nicely into their new schedules as well. I no longer have to fight with a SBean about naptime, she wants to go to bed LOL.
I was singing These Boots are Made for Walking and SBean was like, “sing it Mom!” and I looked at her and said, “Baby your such a rocker chick.” She tilted her head and said, “awwwww thank you Mommy!” She then went on to say, “my whole life I wanted to be a doctor but I change my mind! I want to be a rockstar!” 😳
On Saturday we divided and conquered 😳 sometimes you have to do that when you have 2 kids hence why I believe 3 should be illegal LOL never let them out number you! Ninja and HBear did shelters. Our company has the contract to clean all the bus shelters and benches throughout the city once a week. Usually Dad does it, although Ninja and I both have had our turns in the past LOL. Dad went to Winnipeg this past weekend so while they were out doing shelters SBean and I drove to Kelowna to do a little shopping. Along the way we listened to Ninja’s podcast, the theme this week was bands of Woodstock. It was a fantastic episode and SBean loved it! When Johnny Winter’s 2nd song came on SBean began clapping and yelling, “Woo woo woo woo” she is seriously such a rocker!
HBear got the student of the week last week!
HBear worries. She doesn’t like to make mistakes so much in fact sometimes she doesn’t try things because she scared she will fail. I took out the best book ever from the library! It is called What to Do When Mistakes Make You Quake: A Kid’s Guide to Accepting Imperfection.
Yesterday was what would have been my Mom’s 58th birthday. Every year we donate to the Terry Fox foundation on behalf of my Mom. She would have been 58 this year so we donated $50 and HBear insisted on contributing this year and took $8 from her donation compartment of her piggy bank.
Early in the morning I took her up flowers. I cranked the music, did a little dance party and cleaned up her headstone. When I was driving out I looked down.
It was crazy! The whole cemetery was shaded except my Mom’s yellow flowers that I just placed there. The sun was shining directly on them and they looked like happiness personified. It took my sad mood and made it so much brighter! 💛
Being one of the older girls she was chosen as a Circle Leader! She is a Leprechaun. We used to call them Sixers and Seconders but I guess nowadays they call them Circle Leaders. She loves Guides.
To be honest, I was never a huge fan but I am super happy that she loves it. This year seems very organized and the leaders seem to have a lot of their heart in it. Which is amazing. As I’ve mentioned I have taken on the responsibility of becoming a Guide leader as well. Because I am not a fan of camping and I am unable to attend the regular weekly meetings I am trying to help out in other ways. Next week I will be making 20 superhero Brownie capes! It was so funny during the whole discussion about making the capes somehow people began to think I know how to sew? 😂 I do have a sewing machine and I do know how to thread it but unfortunately that’s about as far as it goes LOL this is going to be interesting!
Mom is howling! Guaranteed! She was my Brown Owl and I always said I would NEVER follow in her Guiding footsteps.
Remember when I told you that my SBeasty gave me zucchinis? Yeah, last week we made zucchini treats and still had TONS to freeze. I still have another huge zucchini to use up as well!!!!
I used my Mom’s recipe for chocolate zucchini loaf. I decided to just insert her actual recipe for a few reasons.
Chocolate Chip Zucchini Muffins
Adapted by i heart naptime
3 cups flour
1 tablespoon baking powder
1 1/2 teaspoon cinnamon
1 teaspoon salt
2 eggs, whisked
2 1/2 cup shredded zucchini
2 cups sugar
1 cup canola oil
2 teaspoons vanilla
1 1/4 cup chocolate chips
Pre-heat oven to 350° and fill a cupcake pan with liners. Set aside.
In a large bowl combine flour, baking powder, cinnamon and salt.
In a separate bowl mix together the eggs, zucchini, sugar, oil and vanilla.
Pour batter into the prepared pan until the cups are 2/3rd the way full.
Bake for approximately 20-25 minutes or until a toothpick comes clean.
Both of these recipes are amazeballs! A perfect way to use up that zucchini! I have more coming, my MIL has a freaking awesome chocolate zucchini cake that we baked last week too. It is coming soon!
Unlike summer, I don’t have a lot of weekly pictures. This week was school pictures. HBear and I disagreed on her picture outfit but in the end, it is her picture so she won.
SBean had a great week! She brought Ladybug to school for Show & Tell, we cuddled,
AND she had date night with Daddy! They went to Red Robin for dinner and then to Toopy & Binoo!!!
She even got to go to her favourite store with me on the weekend! Chapters! She begs to go play at the teacup as soon as we cross the bridge into Kelowna.
While we were shopping Daddy and HBear had a fantastic morning together!
Thank goodness for routine and falling into it without too many bumps and bruises along the way!
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I feel your pain with school pics. My youngest wears glasses and because of the glare, the photographer had her bend her head so much, it looks strange.