RR - 8k. I am thinking I will bust out a skirt for the first time this year. My run yesterday turned into social hour. It was a beautiful, sunny day, and I ran in the afternoon, so everyone was out on their front lawns. I kept seeing people I knew and stopping to chat. Since I kept getting side stitches during my run yesterday, I was quite happy for all the breaks!

TR - Took her to the farm yesterday and she had tons of fun. She walked into the sugar shack and started chatting up a couple farmers, asking them to give her more maple syrup muffins, lol. They showed her the maple syrup making operation and, when she saw the fire burning in the evaporator, she said "fire!" and started trying to blow on it, even though she was about 10 feet away.

FR - Teriyaki meatballs, egg noodles, baby bok choy

NRR - Okay, this week I really need to stop just thinking about getting all my tax stuff in order and taking it to my accountant and actually do it.

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zorbs - Woo hoo, peak week! Are your legs fully recovered from ATB? Ugh, of course dickhead manager purposely makes your schedule difficult in your last two weeks. Do you think bitchy neighbour will be able to watch B? Too bad I don't live closer or else I could watch him for you.

Morning

RR - SRD, my legs were sore after the 28k run Friday, then I ran easy on the treadmill Saturday, and sunday DH and I ran outside together, it was lovely out and nice to run in the mountains, but we could both feel the lack of oxygen plus it was all up hill for the first half, then all downhill on the second half - except there was a half km up hill right at the end, which I used to smoke DH and finish 20 seconds ahead of him!  He usually has so much more kick than I do so this was fun

KR - was so good this weekend and had so much fun!  There was a little gondola that went from the lodge/ski area down to the lower part of town, and she rode around it a half dozen times just for fun.  We went to the hot pools both days and she had a blast playing in the water.

TR - also very good.  It took her a bit to get used to sleeping there, and she did not sleep at all in the car on the way down.  On the way home I set her up with my tablet and a movie and she happily watched it the whole way.

FR - not a clue.. M is eating at MIL's tonight so as long as I get something in O, I'm not worrying.

NRR - we stopped for dinner on our way home last night - in a town called Canmore, just outside of Banff.  We went to a brew/pub/restaurant that I LOVE and always look forward to going to and it was SOOOO SLOOOOW.  I think our waitress was new too, or lacked confidence and just didn't know how to deal with the fact that we weren't impressed that it took over an hour to get our food.  The kids were really good though, and other than being annoyed it wasn't that big of a deal.  Then when the waitress brought our bill, I was not going to tip bc of the slowness and lousy service, and noticed at the last minute when I actually read the bill that she had comp'ed us all our beers, plus given us 50% off - she didn't even tell us she was doing those things!  Silly girl almost lost her tip bc she didn't speak up.  We didn't get home till after 8:00 in the end, but it was a super fun weekend!

zorbs - sorry about the work situation.  I must have missed some of it, but that is rotten.  Yay for little boy times - so messy yet so fun!

ernie - My only motivation for tax time is the refund.  If I had to pay I would wait until the last minute for sure.  Yay for skirts!  Can you save me some baby bok choy?  I love that stuff, but I only have made it once.  I need to buy it more often.  Where do you get your produce and stuff?  Sounds like a big place if they even make their own maple syrup!

CA - great running this weekend!!!  I read your post and all I can think of is "Hi, it's Mike...from Canmore"  I laugh every time I think of him!  SO glad you had a great weekend away!

RR: Bootcamp followed by 5.8 miles this morning. Yes, I would have run an even 6, but I have a PT client who's house I drive to, and I have my runs pretty much timed down to the second, lol.

TR: happily munched on Multigrain crackers while we were grocery shopping and running errands this morning. He loves to blame his farts on the dog, aL&D laugh about it.

NRR: mom and dad are coming on Friday for the weekend! Can't wait to see them. DH put in 2 new windows, 5 outlets, and most of the insulation in R's room over the weekend- all yesterday as he had to work Sat. Things are coming along well!

Be back for personals in a bit!

Mer- haven't heard from you in a while- hope you're doing ok!

ernie - next door daycare lady won't take B on such short notice, even if she would, that means we'd have to pay her full day, an extra $20+.  Plus why should I put myself out to accomodate dickhead's bullshit?  I already warned my long time clients that if something happens this week, I'm perfectly prepared to leave whenever instead of April 18th.  I bet the maple syrup demos are in full swing now.  didn't B say something about the fire at Kortright? except I think B wanted to call the fire dept.  My legs are recovered enough to handle the mileage but forget about anything speedy.

eh - I haaaate when they get up early and whine.  I treasure my quiet time in the morning.

CA - in the letter I wrote my last day is April 18 but since that is Good Friday, I guess April 16th.  Unless dickhead pisses me off further, in which case I'll just walk out ASAP.  I hate when DH complains about slow service at fine dining places.  I tell him if you want fast food, go to Mcdonalds.

nola - unfortunately I don't have another job, but at least one of my clients wants to continue on privately.

rg - how does he blame farts on the dog?  "doggy fart!"  I don't think B knows the word fart yet but he does do an "oops!" face when he lets one rip.

spike - does your DH know how annoying it is when he refuses your dinner?

zorbs- I honestly don't care if he doesn't eat what I make as long as he fixes something for himself- he eat leftovers, a can of soup, bean burritos, scrambled eggs. It would bother me more if we had similar tastes in food, but I think the problem is that the meal wasn't ketchup friendly. If I catered to his tastes we would eat tatortots every day.

nola - HEY!!  Good to see you here, I hope you do post more regularly.  Sorry for the allergies, that sucks!  I'm training for the Calgary Marathon - June 1st.

RG - wow, your DH is super handy!  That's awesome.  We need new windows upstairs in our bedrooms, but that's something that we'll for sure be hiring out.

spike - That's great that you got to run your friends long run with her!  Too bad your DH doesn't have the same food taste as you... Mine will sometimes rather make his own thing too, and he also prefers to eat way later than I do... I also don't care too much as long as he takes care of himself.  I don't know when I've been comped anything before either, and was surprised, especially since she didn't even mention it.

zorbs - well we were definitely not at a fine dining restaurant, and I don't expect fast food like service, but waiting more than an hour (especially when you have two small children) is terrible service IMO.  When we're fine dining, I expect to be in the restaurant for the evening, but that's totally different.

kant - I had to go digging around for my pump on Friday before going for the weekend as the tires were completely flat - mine was in the spare room   Oh man on MIL - my take, I agree, I wouldn't hit/spank a 1 yr old under most circumstances, but regardless of whether you/ or I would/ it's not her place to do so bc it's not her kid.  If you feel comfortable w/ her I'd talk to her and say that you need her to trust you to choose the right discipline methods for your kid - if you don't I'd have DH do it since it's his mom.  Spring here too!  +17 today!!!!!!