Soooooooooooooooooo, just got back from good old Hun City BC. I saw a bunch of good friends and like a bunch of my grad class (that was weird). I felt weird with my child around them. ANYWAY, we had a great time other than the colds and sucking boogers out of Silas' nose. My nephew Cornelius was wonderfully behaved and hardly annoyed me, he even let me beat him up because he couldn't fight back with a pregnant lady. I finally got to see the more open side of my brother in law who's been married into the family for 14 years now. I think it's cuz he drank a lot. He was cool. Silas liked the snow only when he wasn't dressed up and unable to move. He tried to get out onto the balcony as much as possible and then he fell face first onto the snow....on purpose. I guess he thinks snow is for eating. My hopes and dreams of him enjoying sledding were smashed when he didn't like it....I was excited about going to the big hill until I remembered I was pregnant and shouldnt sled so I sulked around a bit. I made the best stuffing I've ever tasted for xmas dinner (along with leg of lamb and other bits of things). Never make stuffing without turkey stock and a healthy amount of white wine. It was good. Perhaps I shouldn' experiment SOOOOO much with xmas dinner but it worked out well. Everyone seemed to drink the entire time but no one got drunk which was a good idea. My sister spent the last two days editing my brother in laws manual he wrote on the bigger Air Canada Jazz plane. I think it's special she's a part of that, if your plane crashes blame her editing. I learned you should never smoke in the airplane bathroom but if you throw a butt in the garbage there's a heat sensor and an automatic thingie that puts out any flamage....but then a big alarm goes off and you get arrested at your destination....apparently it's a criminal offense. I was sad when my husband went home on boxing day. I'm at home waiting for him to get home for work. It's nice to come home to more holiday (long weekend) and time with family. My step-dad gave us a digital SLR camera and I've taken many pictures already, I plan to open a photo blog thingie and I'll update it often, I would now but everything is still in the car, kinda hard to unpack with a one year old who's been in the car all day. Silas fell asleep in the car reading a book, it was really quite darling. Hmmmmm....what else happened? We played a lot of Halo and it made my sister Jill ill because she hates that stuff but she didn't watch. I bought a rad new sweater and necklace from Didi's with Christmas, haircutting and clothing exchange money. I've never had a nice piece of Mexx clothes, this sweater is soooo cute and my necklace is a rad carved wood piece. I wanted to buy something from a local person I went to school with but nothing seemed to work for me.....sorry Erica. Silas was a really good boy all week. He got used to sleeping in the playpen and woke up each night at 4am and then 7am on the dot pretty much, it was rather annoying. my parents, Andy, and Jay took off yesterday and the rest of us left today. It was sad to have Christmas without my doggies :(. I think that's all the info I can give you and all the bad grammar I can muster up for today. Hope your Christmas was loverly too!!

i posted a new blog on my healthsanity site. Please go and read, it's a good one!! http://healthsanity.wordpress.com/2006/12/19/deep-breathing/

My son is cutting his canine teeth before his front teeth. HE'S GOING TO LOOK LIKE A VAMPIRE!!! I'm laughing my head off because that thought didn't cross my mind until I read a blog on it just now. He's very needy today but the cheerios are shutting him up. Looks like we'll have a teething baby at xmas....I did tell him to not do that. I was thinkng the other day that his canines were looking ready to pop out of there....looks like they are well...his left one is at this moment. Vampire baby!!

One thing you never expect when you're about to have a child is that suddenly, when you've been the pregnant star of the show for 9 months, someone else takes front and centre. You know as a mother you're going to have to make sacrifices and that you're going to have to give up some self but you never imagine that people begine to take it away from you also. I'm getting very tired of people visitng and not hearing anything I say. Getting phone calls and people just wanting to know about Silas. I've had visitors that are so focussed on Silas that I can start talking and they ignore me so I'll go onto say things like "well I can see you're not even listening". They don't even notice. It gets pretty frustrating when you're home alone all day and then you're looking forward to some adult conversation and you get totally blown off! Anyway, I'm trying to prepare myself for Christmas and for this happening with the people I miss a lot and would love to talk to. I guess this is just a heads up, if you know someone in my shoes then ask them about THEM not about the baby and pay some attention, you'll make their day. If you do that you'll most likely hear all about the baby.

I think I've found a school that fits me more now. UBC would be really hard to get into, Id have to do major upgrading beforehand and ya, it didn't seem to fit. I found a college in burnaby that I can do online and it looks GREAT! They will give me a full education with biology and chem and all that stuff and they all offer a vvery natural holistic aproach. I wish I could start right now!!! Then you guys would all have to listen to me when I tell you what to eat and what not to eat!!!!! MUHAHAHAHA.

here's the college www.aliveacademy.com

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So I'm looking at getting a BA in nutrition. It's frightening. I'm going to have to go get my grade 12 math, Biology, and Chemistry. That's frightening. What's more frightening is that I'm going to have to take university levels of Math, Bio, and Chemistry. FOR TWO YEARS!! Well math is one year. Man, I like community college courses, they aren't so frightening. That's all a big deal. That's really intimidatng for me. Although I'm not dumb, I just did really terrible in those courses in highschool because I didn't care. It's just frightening and overwealming. I still want to do it though, I'm going to look into perhaps two year nutrition courses as well and see what sort of jobs I can get from those. Anyway, thinking school again and feeling excited and frightened.

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Just so you all know, it's more environmentally friendly to get a real tree for Christmas. Making fake trees cause more emissions and once thrown away they leach toxic chemicals into our environment. So go the distance and get a real tree, they're prettier and smell nice too!! Just remember to recycle it!!!

I woke up pretty grumpy this morning, I didn't have a good nights sleep and I was so tired. Silas topped it off with one of his famous temper tantrums (yes that's the newest phase) and i just felt hard and cold and cranky. I was losing my patience with him left and right and getting upset with myself for it. I decided to just lay down on the couc for a while and watch him play. He was playing right below me and I asked him for a kiss (which he usually rejects) but he gave me a big smile and dropped what he was doing to plant the most lovely kiss on my lips. All of my insides melted and suddenly I have patience again. Man, mother's really don't ask for a lot hey? It's so easy to be pleased with your child!

EVERYONE!! GO HAVE BABIES!!!!

Leah

I'm sure most of you have heared of Al Gore's new documentary about global warming. I haven't seen it yet, I will, but just his presentation on Oprah yesterday really enspired me. I've always been slightly environmeltally concerned. I do some of my part like using biodegradable cleaners in my house and recycling. We just bought those rad light bulbs that last around 7 years and use way less power (they're so bright you only need one in the fixtures that normally need two) . If everyone in america used 5 of them, it would be like taking a million cars off the road for a year. Neat huh? Anyway, I want you all to watch the documentary and try and do your part. Just something small. If you go here https://www.americanforests.org/ you can buy trees that people will plant for you. If you plant 30 trees you'll make up for the C02 your family emitts daily (about 75 pounds per family). I got 30 trees to be planted in Russia to expand a forest that used to be a large habitat for the syberian tiger. So I'm helping the air and the tigers. Feels good to do my part and it's convenient. We live in a world of convenience, it's got us to the state we are in, so this is a good way to get us convenience seeking people to help out!! Please don't turn a blind eye. Earth is not invincable and we need to keep it in good condition for our kids!!

made it to 2001 so far...yay me!!! I'll blog about something important later. In the meantime, check out my health blog you will not be sorry!!!

ta tas!!