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I've been a little bored with the appearance of my blog lately. There are some snap dandy looking blogs out there but mine is just, sort of, well, blah. Why not kick it up a notch and *gasp* try a different template. Whoa Nelly! What was I thinking?


At least I was smart enough to take Blogger's advice and "back-up my template." I tried installing a new template and reinstalling my widgets. HTML heh, heh, heh, how hard could it be?

I honestly don't know where I went wrong. There were widgets everywhere, my header appeared twice and my nav bar was MIA.

Thank goodness I backed up! After losing my entire blog and reinstalling it I am finally back at my old comfy look.

You know the saying: if it ain't broke, don't fix it. Or should it be: if at first you don't succeed make sure you mess up so badly that you don't recognize the results!

Mommy Time

I have just come from a mommy lunch group. Every month or so a group of us, all with children under the age of five, get together at someones house. We all bring food and our children. We eat, talk, and let the kids play. In the spring and summer we get together at the park where the little ones can tear around the playground and the water park. It is heavenly!

It is so important to connect with other moms when you are at home. It provides me with a bit of desperately needed adult time (talking about the weather with the cashier in the grocery store just doesn't cut it some days!) Other moms understand if you show up in your yoga pants and a baseball cap.

The kids play very well together with minimal intervention. It allows us time to talk about anything and everything, share recipes, gossip, and news. By the time we get home, the kids are fed, played out and ready for a nap. Makes for a wonderfully relaxing day and usually a quiet evening!

Digging out again

It snowed last night, again. Only about 10 cm, but it is enough. Already. OK? I have nowhere left to pile it! Our small yard is hedged with huge snow piles. The edge of the driveway is like someone parted a great white sea. We seldom see a snow plow down our side street.

Sigh. I am Canadian. But I am not a fan of snow. Yes, I am complaining but what I wouldn't give to get out the jogging stroller, go for a nice long walk, and let the little people of the posse roar off some energy at the playground! Did I mention that we don't normally get this much snow? I'm sure I mentioned it. Maybe many times. Already. OK, I'm done.

Mega Bloks...Scourge of the Livingroom Floor

I am having an issue with one of my children's Christmas gifts. We have had Mega Bloks in the house for quite some time now. My children love to build towers with them. For those who are not familiar with Mega Bloks they are like Lego but, well, mega. Think Lego on performance enhancing steroids. They are large enough to kick out of the way as you traverse the sea of toys on the livingroom floor instead of finding their way painfully underfoot.

My children received a bin of Mega Bloks as a Christmas gift this year. But these are different. Apparently Mega Bloks come in different sizes: mega and not-so-mega. They received the latter. These Mega Bloks are about half way between Lego and the Mega Bloks we know and tolerate. These blocks are small enough to find their way underfoot but unfortunately not small enough to be eaten by the vacuum. For the past week I have been avoiding these little pieces of plastic shrapnel like mines in a mine field. I'm sure the novelty of them will wear off, or at least the posse will learn to clean them up by the time they leave for university.