Day 283

Right, let's get this Blog started. It's now 12:07 and I should be asleep...but for some reason, as usual...I'm fighting it.

This morning was a bit of a nightmare. It started off well, and Zach was all decked out in his mouse outfit, complete with face paint, and loving it....I was talking to my parents on Skype and getting Nathaniel's Hedgehog costume ready. <--- That was the good part of the morning. The bad part? When I saw Heloise and Tim had made Josh an entirely different costume. He was a gnome, and I was pissed. Kind of fitting if you think about it. I have a fear of Gnomes and they've creeped me out since Brampton days...so him being that while I'm angry with him...there's a connection there.

As we were leaving Nathaniel said he wouldn't wear his nose. I told him that no one would know what he was supposed to be if he didn't, he'd just look like a guy with a rug on his back. Well...he refused, and on the way to school someone asked what he was supposed to be. By the time we got to the school...he decided he didn't want to wear the rest of the costume either. Brilliant.

Whatever, I left him at his class, and walked with my cute little mouse Zach to his. He gave me a hug, and went into class. I then walked 'round to the gym, got a seat, and waited for his sharing assembly to start. When they all walked in, I couldn't stop smiling. He looked so cute. Then the assembly started. They began telling the audience what and how they learn in their class, and although Zach was too shy to say his line, when it came to the singing, reading and counting he was right in there, and my eyes welled up. I'm going to really miss him. I had to keep thinking of other things, or I would have broke down.

The assembly ended, and emotions high, I began walking back to the house. I was walking out with Michelle, and got just past the school gates when she asked what I was up to. I told her nothing - even though I was meant to be going back to the house to wait for a delivery, I was close to tears and didn't really want to be on my own...and to me, going back to the house was doing nothing. She asked me if I wanted to go to the grocery store with her. She knew it wasn't exciting but thought it may be a change of pace for me, and said we'd grab a coffee as well. I was excited. I jumped in the car, and off we went as I attempted to unravel a slinky.

As we were walking in, we put Emilio on the ground, and each held a hand. HE WAS WALKING! He's getting so big! i couldn't stop smiling. Too cute! We went around the grocery store, and I held Emilio for her. In the middle, as he was getting fussy, I took him out to get his push chair, and then went back in to meet her. Once we had our coffee, and she bought me a carton of chocolate soy milk :p, we headed back to the car, and she dropped me at the house. The delivery men had been, but luckily they'd left the stuff in the driveway. I also think they came while I was at the assembly, not when I was out.

I folded laundry and checked some e-mails, and then decided to go up to Starbucks. On my way, I passed Heloise. I sent her a text asking if she'd want me to bring her a frappuccino, but never heard back. As usual I was made to smile when I walked in there, and my day began looking up.

When I got back to the house, Heloise and I talked, and then I read until it was time to go get Zach. I walked up to the school, and out came this little mouse. The teacher made a comment about how he had whiskers all over his arms etc. So?

He came up to me, and I got a hug. I asked if he wanted to walk up to the post office and get a treat. Friday's are sweet days, so he was pretty excited. He held my hand most of the way and we talked about all different kinds of things. We decided to look at the candy selection in Co-op, and walked out with some murray mints for me, and some soccer gummies for him. We then went into the deli on a search for marshmallows he had his heart set on. We couldn't find any. Our last stop was the post office. They had run out of marshmallows as well, so he chose jelly beans instead. As we stepped outside the door, we ripped into the football gummies, and had one each. They're huge, and although Zach thought they were delicious...I didn't agree. I also almost choked on mine haha. We crossed the street, and went back to the house. When we arrived Heloise had a conversation with Zach, and I poured Jelly Beans into a dish for him, then hid the rest in my room so the other boys don't find and eat them.

Heloise had told Zach he could go to the neighbour's house, and after a very short time, it was time to walk back to the school to get the other two. I stood and talked to parents while waiting for the gate to be unlocked, and then went in to collect them. That's when I saw one of their coaches. One I hadn't seen before, and let me tell you...I wish I had seen him before! He asked me if I was alright, and I said yes. I waited for Nathaniel to come out, and then Josh. I wasn't especially happy with Nathaniel because of the costume situation, but I was still much angrier with Josh. On the way home, he called Nathaniel an idiot, and that didn't help his situation at all. I got mad at him, and continued to ignore him. When we got inside, Heloise was getting Zach stuff to go swimming at a different friend's. Nathaniel and Josh wanted to go as well, so off they went.

I sat on the couch with my computer, and watched some game shows and then put Shrek on. Heloise made the two of us a really nice chicken curry, and made a plate up for Tim. The two of us talked, and before I was finished, she had to leave to get the boys. Josh had to go to Cubs. I sat on the couch once I had finished, and watched the rest of Shrek. The boys had come home and gone to bed, and I spent the rest of the night watching football and other TV shows. I came up to bed around 10:30 probably, but didn't go to sleep until much later. xx