My labour day lasts a lifetime!

Labour Day is fast approaching and with Labour Day comes back to school and the corresponding sales. I don't know about you, but my inbox is full of Labour Day emails from all sorts of stores. I think I need to unsubscribe to a lot of stuff, too bad they haven't created an app or something where you can sign up for these notifications and they collect there so they don't clog up your email.

Anyways, when I saw the first Labour Day email, I was a little confused and excited. I didn't understand why stores were offering discounts on the day you went into labour. It's an awesome concept since you're in some wicked awful pain, but how do they keep track of that and I'm busy birthing a baby, I don't care about your damned sales.

I think I was a little exhausted when I read through the subject lines. It then came to me that they were referring to the holiday, Labour Day, not the day I went into labour. I'm pretty sure the baby I get to take home after my labour day is better than the sales you're offering me on material possessions. Thanks, but no thanks!

I think I need to catch up on some sleep.

My labour day!

Live, Laugh, Lover

Today is our two year anniversary. I am so much more in love with my husband today than the day we got married. He's my favourite person in the whole world and I am so proud to call him mine. I can't wait to spend the next 73 years together.

Our wedding day was an interesting day. It was hot and sunny, then rained for a few hours. I was ready before everybody else was and ended up waiting for the photographer and other people to get our pictures done before the ceremony. Once we were about to walk down the aisle, after we moved all the chairs into our backup location, the rain stopped. I did have music I wanted played, but my sister's engineering boyfriend (now ex) couldn't figure out how to get my music to work, so we were musicless. I can't listen to the song without tearing up, maybe some day I will get to walk down the aisle to my dream song.  During the ceremony and after, it was so hot and humid we were all sweating buckets. I don't think I've ever been that hot in my life. When we were signing our marriage license, our officiant told me I should sign in the witness spot, meaning my sister actually almost married my husband. Wouldn't that have been interesting.

Anyways, let's get back to the point of this post... Celebration of love!

I don't expect anything from my husband for our anniversary other than some time with him. Last year the two of us went kayaking. I was supposed to work the day of our anniversary, but one of my coworkers was kind enough to take my shift for me. Since I missed our birthdays because of work, I couldn't miss our first anniversary for a measly $13 an hour. That money wasn't worth missing one of the best celebrations of my life.

Last year when we went kayaking was interesting. I was a little pregnant at the time and was concerned about fitting into the life jacket and the kayak. Luckily I fit. We had the kayaks for about a year and it was my second or third time in them; I was so excited to have a day with my hubby without thinking about anything other than spending time with him. (I can't seem to find any pictures right now, but I'm sure I'll find one somewhere.) In my mind, I wouldn't have asked for a better anniversary than spending time with the ones you love the most.

This year my husband is working away so we can't do anything special on our day. I'm totally ok with this since I married him while he was in this profession. He works away quite a bit which makes our time together all the more special. His mom came over today and brought his gift for me, a white and red carnation (my favourite flower, although I don't know if he remembers or got it because it's cheaper) and a gift certificate for a 75 minute pedicure. Who gives pedicures for 75 minutes, I'm nervous and excited all at the same time.

I still have a little time before he gets home to figure out what to get him. I always have the hardest time with anniversary gifts, I find Christmas and birthdays so much easier. I'm hoping we can spend the weekend relaxing, just the three or us. He cleaned up the fire pit area a couple of weekends ago and WE have yet to use the wonderful fire pit he made me for Christmas. I hope we can use it this weekend. I really love having low key weekends with my boys and couldn't ask for anything more. I'm sure my idea of anniversary time will change as we have more kids and they get older (like a night alone.)

What is your favourite way to spend your anniversary?  Do you have any suggestions for a gift for my hubby?

Birthdays, for me or for him?

My son's first birthday is coming up. I am so excited for a couple of reasons. I love throwing parties and I it will be a whole year from the time I pushed him out of my vajayjay.

I didn't really have very exciting parties growing up, but they were pretty much what we could afford. My parties consisted of a campfire with roasting hotdogs, presents and a homemade cake. It is a great party, but it's the only thing I can remember, I don't remember activities or anything like that. I know my son won't remember his party either, but I will and I want it to BE THE BEST PARTY EVER!!

I have thrown two surprise parties so far and hopefully will be throwing a third next year (hubby turns 30!) so I have some experience with throwing parties. I want to do a themed party for my son, preferably Pixar, but I can't decide which movie I want to go with. We're torn between Monsters Inc and Up. I have so many great ideas for both but it will be my first kid birthday party so I don't really know what to do.

Maybe I should wait until he's older to do themed parties. When the guests are a little older they can better appreciate the awesome parties I'll be throwing with the themed food and themed games. Maybe I should join an event company so I can throw kiddy parties all the time with all the wicked ideas I have. IT WOULD BE SOOO MUCH FUN!! Man, I need to calm down.

If you need help planning any parties or need ideas, I'd be more than willing to share some of mine with you. I don't think I'll have enough birthdays to use all my ideas.

At this point in his life, I'm pretty sure the birthday parties are more for me than for him. What did you do for your kids first birthday party?

You, your baby and thrush.

When the little one was a couple weeks old, I developed a piercing pain in my boobs. It almost felt like there was glass shooting through them, needless to say, it was uncomfortable.

I had a slight inkling it was thrush. Not only did I have this piercing pain, my babe smelled like yeast. Thrush is a yeast infection you and/or your baby can develop for a variety of reasons. We most likely developed it as a side effect of me taking antibiotics while pregnant. I had this wicked sinus infection that made me want to pull out all my teeth.

When I called up the midwife, she asked if he had white stuff on his tongue that would not wipe off. He didn't. She was hesitant to prescribe the antibiotics; she didn't believe that I knew what we had with the symptoms we presented, but thankfully she did. It was between these yellow drops for my son or this purple gunk that I slather on my nipples, I chose the former.

I went and picked up the antibiotics and started giving them to my son; 1mL twice a day like it said. What it didn't say was that shit stains. I was wearing my white nursing bra and it is now forever tainted yellow. It looks like I dropped mustard on my bra, which ironically happened at a later time; the mustard came off easier than the meds did.

I didn't stick with the meds long enough and the pain was back. We had a little bit of antibiotics left so I started the treatment again. This time I gave him half a mL (at my own discretion) twice a day. He was just a wee babe, so I didn't think he needed the full 1mL.

The half mL worked! We were finally thrush free and now the pain in my boobs wasn't from the thrush, it was from the joys of being used as a chew toy!