btw...big sales on at tupperware...

sometimes the sales are too good to resist the advertisement over here on this blog! order is going in on friday...email me at rebeccashulba@gmail.com if there's something here you want.

super cereal storers 2 for 1 - $25 for TWO!

the little kid's pitcher and cup set (not available in the catalog) - $16

there's also a 50% off modular mate deal on for which i have no picture but just a description over at my Tupperware You Are blog.

if you spend $40, these 3 items are on sale to you:

round container - $17

set of mini stuffables (except they're a very pretty blue, not green) - $20.50

set of 3 "fresh n cool" which are containers for your fridge - they can fit in the door and hold whatever you want. (except they come in a very pretty green, not blue) - $18

aaaand, last but not least, if you spend $60, you can get this:

the serving center for only $24.50!

monday morning haiku

i think we need more haiku in our lives. did you know that for one of my education classes, for my final project, i chose to write 15 - 20 haiku and present them in a powerpoint? yep.

sky is white with clouds

i look out my window and

wonder, "will it rain?"

best shot monday

my favourite photo of the previous week...

gratitude sunday

an on-going weekly post...

this week, i am thankful for:

> my mom

> another year

> birthday cake

> tim

> sunshine

> sunscreen

> mocha almond fudge light ice cream

> joe clothing at superstore

> discovering $2 new releases at safeway

> baby kisses

> faithful friends

> facebook messenger

a haiku for you

sun blazes outside

i am shivering inside

mocha fudge ice cream

new favourite blog right now...

thx thx thx: a thank you note a day

and yes...i temporarily forgot about gratitude sundays. feel free to remind me when i forget. i have not yet started a list...but it will be back tomorrow.

independent play

staying at home all day with my little one makes me feel like i should be with him at all times when he's awake. it's my job, right? but sometimes when he's playing on his own in the living room or on the deck, i leave him to play by himself. i feel a little guilty about it.

then i read an article about independent play and how it's important for kids to learn to play on their own. parents should help develop this in their children by giving them space when they go off to play by themselves. well that totally makes sense. it was a "duh" moment where i asked myself, "why did i think i needed to be with him constantly again?"

now when he plays on his own (like right now, he's carrying a metal spoon around and banging it on as many things as he can find), i don't feel like a bad mother to be blogging...i'm a fantastic mother. haha. (i know there's a balance to this - don't worry.) but seriously, independent play is a good thing to know about.

the frustration of pedicured feet

they're so pretty. so you wear sandals. but in sandals, your feet immediately get all dry, calloused skin around the heels and your big toe. and you wish you'd just worn socks and shoes so as not to mess up your pedicured feet. :) this is why winter pedicures are the best.

in celebration of 28 years...

tim got up with ben and i slept a little longer. tim booked me a pedicure at 10:30am and while i went to the spa, he grocery shopped for our picnic. then we went to derby reach in fort langley to have our picnic where tim proposed 6 years ago in may.

ben was very helpful at getting the food out of the cooler.

and he was pretty pumped about getting to chew on this slice of red pepper.

not loving being in the stroller for the walk though...

we let him push for awhile...watch the video here

then i got my free birthday drink at starbucks on our way to white rock for dinner with my family. where they spoiled me some more with food and gifts.

a fantastic birthday.

too good to be true?

doesn't this seem like a cool dress? am i being tricked by photography and a person who knows how to make it work? it seems like such a great option...inspect it yourself and let me know what you think. is it worth the $145? (no...i'm not buying it either way at this but i COULD add it to my fav. sellers)

the library

as you long time readers know, i love the library. naturally, i've been excited for ben to be old enough to spend some time reading in the library. but until then, i've been satisfied with quick trips to the board book section. usually these quick trips consist of me reading board books and ben banging on the metal shelves and pulling books off those shelves. thankfully the board book section is well hidden away from stern, librarian looks...

the other day, i brought my camera along but there was another mother nearby so i didn't take too many pictures of my unruly child.

pulling the books

"whaat?"

motherhood

i've been a mother now for almost 11 months. and in celebrating my first mother's day yesterday, here are a handful of thoughts on my first year being a mom.

on one hand, it's a steep learning curve but on the other hand, you think no one is a better mother to your kid than you. the day to day isn't so mundane when your baby starts to gaze at new things in wonder and when you start seeing the world through those eyes, it's all much more exciting. you can't believe you still don't fit into your old clothes. every so often, you're hit in the face with what it means to sacrifice your own wants for your baby and that stings. you shed a few tears about it but then your baby wakes up from his nap with a smile and your own silly want has been forgotten. you learn to get more done during nap time. you can talk about kids 24/7 but you still also like to talk about other things. every moment out of the house alone is a mixture of "thank goodness i'm out of there" and "i wish i was back at home". you think about all the possible ways you could make money without needing childcare. you forget what it was like to be pregnant. you get funny ideas about how you and your spouse should be sharing all responsibilities and force him to bathe the baby even though it doesn't seem to work out well and then after awhile the thought occurs to you, "what if i was only one who bathed the baby? what would be wrong with that?" because you and your spouse each have your own strengths. you learn facts that make your feel better, like: babies have, on average, 11 colds a year. you can't believe you've been so blessed to have such an amazing baby and you can't wait for all the years to come.

best shot monday

i am copying a favourite blogger: a new tradition that i am starting today is posting my best/favourite photo of the previous week. i will be joining this group of bloggers on Tracey Clark's blog.

typewriter

remember those? how fun does this sound? i want one for ben a few years from now...soule mama is the best!

free printable card

i love this blog. and this card. and that it's free. i wish i had a good printer. or a printer at all. haha.

forgetful

i'm forgetful. it's not a good sign at this young age but anyone who has worked with me will tell you that it's true. i often forgot my day for chapel, devotions, kids' birthdays, special days i'd planned, etc. etc. i never forgot when it was my snack day (or lunch day at ACS) though (though it was often forgotten until the morning of and i'd have to stop at the store on the way to work) - the reprecussions of that would be too great. in fact, if i have ever remembered your birthday (pre facebook) or a dinner date we had, consider yourself special.

my first principal was also forgetful but he kept a list in his pocket at all times. throughout the day, when he told someone he'd call them back or he thought of something he wanted to tell someone else, he wrote it on the list. in and out of his shirt pocket it would go all day. it meant that he was not a forgetful person because he checked that list all the time. i'd think to myself, "i should really have a list." but i never got around to making one.

this morning i forgot that i was meeting someone for coffee. i thought about it all week and then this morning when i woke up, i thought, "there was something happening today...what was that?". and i didn't think of it until i was an hour late. sigh. if only i had a list. but chances are...i'd forget it somewhere.

hanson?

yesterday i was at the gym taking a "no sweat" class. one hour, you do strength exercises to music. at the end, all your muscles hurt. they keep the no sweat routine the same for 6 weeks no matter what gym you go to (if it's called no sweat, it's the same class) and it's the same music for those 6 weeks. then they change it. new moves, new music.

well, i have been taking this class off and on for the last couple years and love what a great workout it is, especially when you go consistently. yesterday was a new routine though and it felt like it was ALL ARMS. i have very weak arms/shoulders. i can squat and lunge with the best of them but tricep dips, push ups, and shoulder presses? i'm dying with my piddly 5lb weights.

are you thinking, "where is this going? why isn't this on the life on points blog, rebecca?" well, that's because the music to this new-to-me routine yesterday was hilarious. who's bed have your boots been under?, mr. jones by AQUA (yes, aqua), a grease medley AND...mmm-bop by hanson. and you know, i couldn't help but hum along to hanson and giggle while i did my chest flies. but man, what a flashback.

THEN, on facebook tonight, what happens to appear on my sidebar ads? HANSON in concert at the commodore on september 25th! they're STILL performing? who is their audience? then i thought, that would be funny...maybe i'll go. clicked on the ad only to find out that tickets BEFORE taxes are $46.50! whaat?! who is paying that? i'm intrigued. obviously intrigued enough to share this lengthy non-story.

but i don't think i'll be going. unless sharelle wins me some tickets.

HOT

our hot water tank kicked the bucket this past weekend. thankfully, it did so with a slow leak and not an explosion. we got ourselves a new one...for a hefty price tag. (did i mention we just got a new roof a few months ago as well? sigh.) but anyways, now our hot water is HOT! probably boiling. before we had gotten this tank, i was always complaining that our water wasn't hot enough. i'd have the hot turned all the way up in the shower and the cold all the way down and it still wasn't as hot a shower as i wanted. i figured our tenants were having long, hot showers and using up our water. i guess cold showers are a sign that your tank is going. now tim's got to go downstairs and turn down the temperature because this is craziness! at least we're immediately benefiting from our purchase.

oops moment

everyday has oops moments and these are mostly moments one doesn't exactly want to share. because people will laugh. at you. (or shake their heads and mutter, "this woman is a mother? poor kid...") and there's usually a moral to the story. but i'm always a fan of getting a laugh so here's yesterday's oops moment:

i was sitting in the living room trying to get ben dressed and i pulled him onto my lap to pull his pants on. as i was trying to pull his pants on (you know, like how we lay on the bed to try to pull up the skinny jeans), i leaned back and it turned into a roll all the way backwards. we tipped all the way back and then we sat up again. lots of giggles. and as a good mother does when she hears giggles: she does the same action again. we tipped backwards and as we did, ben threw up. well, spit up...but it was a lot. and since we were rolling backwards when he threw up, it went all over his face and my face. we sat back up startled. ben cried. i laughed and wiped up his face.

the moral of the story: don't roll your kid around when he's just drank a lot of water.