In packing up my entire life into boxes we seem to have lost a number of items. Lost may not be the right word in this case. I am sure that when we finally collect our belongings from our storage unit and move them to our new house it will probably be like Christmas. I am really hoping to find our missing SD card, my date book, and a number of other things I just can’t find. No matter how carefully I tried to pack things somehow stuff that wasn’t supposed to be packed up ended up being slipped into our packing crates. My packing “helper” gets frustrated with the process and creates these wonderful collections of items that all get thrown together in a box and labeled “stuff”. My boxes on the other hand have detailed listings on the outside and contain like items grouped into corresponding crates. Who do you think might have accidentally misplaced my date book and SD card? I think we all know who to point the finger at right? 
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Posted on May 11th, 2008 by No average mom!
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I love Tim Horton’s coffee. In the last few years I would almost say I am addicted to it. In fact my toddler already says “coffee, double double, Equal”. This is toddler slang for the slang I use to order my morning coffee. As much as I love Tim Horton’s I read a new blip that got me riled up about the recent firing of a Tim Horton’s franchise employee in Canada. Apparently store cameras filmed a worker giving a Tim Bit to a frustrated toddler while waiting in line. The manager considered this stealing since the employee did not charge the child’s parent for the pastry. The employee ultimately was fired over a 16 cent piece of pastry. When the story hit the new she was backed up by outraged patrons who felt the firing was unjustified. The employee is reported as saying “I should have gone to my purse to get the change but it was so busy I couldn’t”. You have to wonder if this manager has EVER stood in any line anywhere with a screaming, hungry, fussy child either in their arms or in the arms of someone nearby. This thoughtful employee acted in the best interest everyone and likely actually promoted business for store by displaying a caring a compassionate “Tim Horton’s” identity. To bad that wasn’t true. Anyhow, the employee was ultimately offered her job back after the public outcry that resulted.
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Posted on May 11th, 2008 by No average mom!
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I love working form home and have made enough money to supplement my husbands income quite nicely. When I first started I had 2 blogs and loads of ambition and now I have steady weekly work through multiple blogs. Now, hopefully, there will be reward for my diligence. I have recently signed up for an on-line medical transcription course and have been guaranteed a job when I am done and I learned about it through the blogging community I talk with. My husband is thrilled and realizes that if I finish this then this could be a full time job for me. There are risks though, like anything you do, something could happen and put a kink in our plans. If this is the case there is always my dream of being an online futures broker.
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Posted on April 23rd, 2008 by No average mom!
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My husband and I have been working all winter to get the inside of our house finished to put it up for sale. Now that the weather has changed we can start to give the outside some needed attention. They say you need to have curb appeal to make a house POP to a potential buyer, you need to have something to grab their attention right off the bat. My husband has started to put the finishing touches on our porch that we screened in last summer. The last thing he had to do was to paint the porch the same color as our trim. To give it that finishing touch he even added a great hammock chair to match the all weather carpet. If he does anymore work like that I am surely going to have a hard time selling the place because it is just too cute.
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Posted on April 23rd, 2008 by No average mom!
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We are going to be homeschooling our son next year. This is something I never ever thought I would be doing. After much research and discussion we have found a virtual charter school to enroll him in. This means he will be a public school student following a standard curriculum that meets all state requirements. The curriculum is awesome and offers tons of added things that you can’t get in elementary school such as foreign language options. We recognize many people don’t get the whole homeschooling thing but in our situation we have to do what is best for our son and this seems to be it. My in-laws are definitely going to have problems with the idea. I already discussed it with my mother-in-law who stated she was fine with it. The next day she was at our house requesting a private lunch date with my husband. I know my father-in-law is going to expound on how my son will never get into college and all that nonsense. What they will refuse to believe is that when it finally comes time for our son to start filling those resume templates is no one is going to care that he went to a virtual elementary school. They will be too busy drooling over the fact that he attended Harvard.
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Posted on April 23rd, 2008 by No average mom!
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In the last few weeks I have had several different types of tests performed. Thankfully all of them came back normal. There was few tense moments after my mammogram but the report in the mail said everything was normal. I also had an MRI of my neck which was normal. The other tests were lab work and whatnot. This is all good stuff because I would hate for anything to be wrong. You never know when stuff like this will come back to bite you when you are getting life insurance quotes or whatnot. Aside from that my family needs me to be okay and I need to be here for them. The only troubling thing is when you go to the doctor for something pain related and they can’t find anything wrong with you. This is especially bothersome when you are like me and never go to the doctor unless something is really bothering you.
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Posted on April 23rd, 2008 by No average mom!
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I just finished reading a book called “Every Good and Perfect Gift”. This is book ended up being not quite what I expected based on the cover. This book depicts the life long friendship between two women. The story centers around a pact they made when getting married to their husbands )who also happen to be best friends) that they would never bring children into this imperfect world. Well, at the age of 40 one of them suddenly decides that she wants a baby. This of course is not an easy road to hoe and requires infertility interventions of all types. I thought this might be where the story ends but it only begins here. After the miracle baby enters the world strange things begin to happen to the mom as her memory begins to fail. Thus ensue a journey no one expects that tests the limits of friendship. Read it.
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Posted on April 23rd, 2008 by No average mom!
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Our littlest man is suddenly fascinated with coloring and drawing. Given that he isn’t even two this seems a little weird to me. Anytime he sees bic pens, crayons, or markers he immediately cries “color” ! This means he wants a piece of paper and a writing implement or else. Besides coloring he has already gotten a hang of the entire temper tantrum thing. My older son absolutely hates to color and always has which has been a problem in school. The only temper tantrum I am hard pressed not to give into is the little man’s desire to color. I would rather give in and let him color than have to battle him later to do so when he has no interest in it at all.
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Posted on April 23rd, 2008 by No average mom!
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