The box wall

I have been dealing with this wall for the last week. I am NOT one with this wall...this wall has moved several times. Up, down, around, I have looked inside EVERY box....no point in moving crap from one province to another if I don't have to.
We have collected a lot of crap over the last 4 years, and this isn't even including the "other" wall lol...the other wall of boxes stacked up in the back of the sea can that is from BEFORE we lived here....boxes that have NOT been opened in four years time. Now that will be just like Christmas opening those ones lol.
I do have proof for family members that call us hoarders though, we HAVE thrown out stuff....the following picture is evidence of that....this is one of THREE trailer loads we have taken away in the last few days.

So this pic is proof!!!!!!!!!!!! We actually take stuff TO the dump lol.

This is the back end of the sea can, the part we have NOT seen what's inside the boxes for four years...that and the awesome Jenga like packing that's all on top of it LOL.

Gotta love the small path going from front of sea can to the back of the sea can...not a lot of maneuvering room, plus the sea can is at a bit of a slant, so it's like being a drunk sailor walking in the thing too lol.
So now to top it all off, we have have a dozen MORE boxes at our temporary home that needs to go in there too...as we don't want to have to pack a moving trailer in TWO places.
Oh happy packing to us :-)

Cuttin the lawn

If I could cut the lawn at 7am, I totally would!!!!!!!!! I in fact would cut the lawn at 5am or 10pm or whatever time, but mostly I like to cut the lawn early.
Well, even that's not actually true either....I like to cut the lawn ANYTIME. In fact today, I wanted to go to back to the farm and cut the lawn but I woke up and the skies were all dark and grey....and then they opened up and poured rain for hours....this was very distressing to someone who is itching to get outside to cut the lawn. I often wonder if this is some kind of mental disorder, the love of lawn cutting...seriously...who the heck loves cutting the lawn...ME...I'm pretty sure it's all my parents fault for creating this problem of mine. As a kid we had to cut the lawn on Saturdays, it felt like it took all day at the time, but it probably was only an hour lol....I have no idea...but even back then...as much as I said I despised I actually liked it secretly. 
Well I finally had a small pocket today of nice skies and I went out to the farm and was able to just about get done when it started to pour again. Growing up in BC you tend to become one with the rain, so I continued to cut the grass in the pouring rain, as I only had about 10 min left. I was soaked yet totally content the lawn was cut....ahhhhhhh, now to wait for it to grow so I can cut again LOL!!!!!!!!

Breakfast of champions

I made the most delicious yummy breakfast this morning.....the ingredients weren't all that fancy, just good for you and yummy....they were: baby potatoes, red pepper, tomato, red onion, kale, Field Roast grain meat (vegan Italian sausage made from eggplant, grains, and all kinds of other veggies)

A great way to start the day!!!!!!!!!

Mothers Day bliss :-)

Daughter and I heading for breakfast.

This is what happens when you race out of the house, you go out with your slippers still on LOL.

Flowers my daughter got for me, along with other treats :-)

I cherish our Mother Daughter breakfast times together :-)

Breakfast of champions!!!!

Juicing

I have always known about juicing, just never did it on my own. A dear friend does it and she did it for me when we stayed at her place one time. I was really nicely surprised at how easy it really was and how fast, it wasn't some big long drawn out process to get some real goodness into my body.
The only thing I like to do is have it in a fancy glass when I drink it!!! This particular drink as you can see is one carrot, one beet and one apple....down that hatch! YUM

More then just a sister.....

I have the best sister in the whole wide world...and I am not just saying that because I am biased, it really is the truth. There are not many people who can say so many great things about their siblings. Our Mother told us when we were younger and fighting that one day we would love each other, I thought she was suffering a mental disability if she thought that was gonna be true.....I now know she suffered no such thing, but that she only suffered the jealousy she would of me and my sister because she had lost her own sister at an early age. She told me that having a sister would be a gift.
Well I had no idea then what a gift she would truly turn out to be to me. As I write this story about her I weep, because it's hard to talk about someone who means so much to me and has done so much for me selfishly.
Every Mothers Day I think about my sister. She never could have children of her own, and she has suffered in silence over this, and I hope one day she shares her struggle with me, until that time, I can only brag about how great she was to me and my children. I can only imagine the suffering she must have had to endure watching her baby sister get knocked up and have kids without trying....but she took that suffering and poured her heartache into my children. There are not many women out there that could or would do this.
She loved, cared for, nurtured, mentored, disciplined, praised, fed and about a billion more things for my children. Not only did she pack me around on her hip when she was 9 yrs old and I was a baby, she did the same with my kids.
I was a single Mom for most of my kids lives, and my sister became my children's second Mom. There have been times she forged my signature for school forms, picked up my kids from school or drunk from a concert....she has been there for them when they were babies to teenagers and for their transition from teenagers to young adulthood.
I think my kids know their Aunty is great, but until they have kids of their own, or until they are much older, only then will they truly understand how selfless she was for them.
There really should be a who special day as big as Mother's Day for sister's or special Aunties. But until then, I want my sister to know that she should celebrate Mother's Day just like any other Mother, because she Mother's me and she has been a Mom to my kids too.
I thank you my dear Sister, I love you! HAPPY MOTHERS DAY!

My sister's kids Winston and Kayla

My sister and I on her wedding day 25 yrs ago...whoa I'm old lol

Worlds greatest Aunty and Uncle!

My sister and her husband and their kids.

This last picture is a small glimpse into some of the stuff my sister does for my kids....this pic was taken for my son's benefit....she was pretending to smoke from a hooka lol.....oh my....
I have one other funny story about her and my kids....when my kids were younger, we were staying at my sisters house, and my kids were in the living room with my sister and husband, and one of my kids, can't remember which one said to her "Auntie...why don't you and Uncle have kids?" she replies to them with "We do, have have the dogs".....if you could just have been there to see these kids look on their faces.....you could tell, and practically hear their brains working....and thinking about it.....Auntie gave birth to puppies? I never laughed so hard in my whole life!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Only out of the mouth of babes!

Being a Mom to two AMAZING kids

I cannot deny she is my daughter lol

If I only knew that I should have kept her in here from age 13-16 lol

My son spinning me on a tire swing years ago...it was a BAD idea LOL.

My son in broken ankle recovery at my sister's house.

Seems my daughter had a thing for the police at an early age as well lol, just like her Mom lol

My precious son, looking so innocent what seems like forever ago!

Mothers day will be upon us in a few days, and I thought I would reflect a little bit and look back on some moments and pictures, this is just a small glimpse into my two crazy kids whom I love, adore and continue to learn and become a better human being because of!