Ridiculous Girl

The next 20 Ridiculous Facts about this Ridiculous Girl.   Enjoy :)   61.  After a summer long visit to Poland when I was a kid, I forgot all of my English.  One afternoon, after we got back to Canada, Mama overheard me trying to talk to some kids in Polish on my street.  I soon became the laughing stock of our neighborhood :(   But don't feel bad, eventually I learned English again. 62.  But....I'm pretty sure that's why, to this day, I continue to mess up common English sayings.  For example, instead of saying "Not the sharpest tool in the shed", I will say "He's like, not the sharpest pencil.....no wait....nail?....in the .......toolbox??  Oh forget it!  Sayings are stupid." 63.  I'm extremely claustrophobic.  Once my kid tried to go down a tube slide at an indoor play park, but once she got to the top, she was too scared to go down.  I had to go up and rescue her.  It didn't go...

Last Sunday, I joined my best friend Mandy for church.   The message was about raising your kids so that they would eventually grow up to be kind, intelligent and good people.   Mandy and I listened intently trying to memorize every word in hopes that one day our children would become adults that wanted to spend time with their parents. In my mind, this was not an easy thing to do.   I take my parenting role very seriously and for the most part, I think I'm pretty good at my job. But sometimes I get completely consumed with the everyday struggles that come with my position.  The tantrums, the emotional ups and downs, the energy......oh, the energy!  The Energizer Bunny has nothing on my kids.........NOTHING!   Some days it is nearly impossible to keep up with them.  I've spoken before about collapsing on my couch shortly after I put the kids to bed.  Some nights I am even too tired to treat myself to a glass of wine...

You all know my struggle with working out right?   My struggle being that I don't want to work out. I will pretty much do anything to stay out of a gym environment, similar to a cat who refuses to take a bath.   But for some reason, I always look forward to my next yoga class.  I go at least twice a week and I'm starting to get pretty good at it!  I can almost do a headstand! And my flexibility and strength have remarkably improved!  But as with any exercise, there will always be challenges.  And new things to learn.  And you may just get yourself into a compromising position that you don't know how to get out of. Just recently my yoga teacher said something to the class while I was struggling trying to get into triangle pose.   My legs were shaking, my hands were sweating and I just couldn't seem to get the position right.  I just wanted to get into the pose and stop struggling. I w...

I'm sick. I have a cold. It sucks. It's one of those stupid colds that lingers around forever.  And you know how much I hate "lingerers".  Ughhh.....lingerers. It's one of those stupid colds that no doctor will prescribe any medication for because it's a "virus and not a bacterial infection".   Great.  That doesn't help me at all. So..... I just cough.   And hack.   And cough some more. Sometimes the cough gets so bad that I have to drink hot water with lemon and honey for hours on end.  And if that doesn't work, then I take cough medicine.  And if that doesn't work, then I suck on a Polish eucalyptus candy.  And if THAT doesn't work......then I spray Chloraseptic spray a million times down my throat.  I know what you're thinking.  How could something from Poland NOT work?  I know right??  It boggles my mind too.  I might have to contact the Polish Consulate about this.... Anyw...