Mums Taxi :)

Location: Guelph Ontario
Time: 9am Saturday morning
Mission: to survive the day with all 3 kids in one piece by the end of it!! and not having a nervous breakdown :)
Avoid: Guelph General Hospital and/or any form of required medical care!
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...mummy wheres my skates........... mum wheres my swimming togs................. what time is it.............. i can't find my bag.......... welcome to Saturday morning in my house!! at the same time i have a naked 3 year old boy using the stairs to toboggan and a 3 year old girl dressing herself in the most fabulous combination of clothes including a 'pretty dress' (its -18 outside and she can't understand why i object!!)

we finally make it out of the house, half dressed children, half washed faces, unbrushed hair, and the mandatory 2 returns for forgotten items.........and another pounding headache for mummy and its only 10.30am on a Sat morning!!!! Let the fun begin!!

First Stop..... Ice- skating @ exhibition park

http://www.guelphskating.ca/

All 3 kids are skating in the Canskate Program

http://www.skatecanada.ca/en/skate_for_life/programs/canskate/

I have watched them wobble their way onto the ice in October, being securely propped by two skaters... to kissing me goodbye and taking off like old pros in the space of 6 months oblivious to the skates on their feet!!

Now as they learn to twist turn, do spirals and bubbles!!!!! i have learnt to stop watching from between my fingers and clenched jaw! i have the arnica ready at the end of each session for damage limitation :) There is pride with each bruise and we have the bruise comparison competition each week.... to who is the proud owner of the 'coolest' one!

I'm now the proud mum of 3 kids who can skate :) now i just have to get them to teach me!!... so i can earn me some pretty cool bruises too!

Next Stop........ Gymnastics :) Ah gymnastics is an old favourite, saoirse has been doing gymnastics since she was 3! so i have had 6 1/2 years of practice with this one!!!!!! i am used to seeing her upside down more often that the vertically correct way :) there are always legs, arms and general body parts flying randomly around the sitting room! since coming to Canada... she has joined http://guelphsaultos.ca/ and is in the extended program! ( that just means double time for mum!! )

the bigger concern is finding the concealed leotard on alannah who was adamant she was going too today as apparently 'i got big in my sleep mummy, so i can go now to gymaskics'!! we compromised with some impromptu tumbles around the viewing area in her 'leotard' :) as she copied the big girls!!
Final Stop for today...... University of Guelph 'red pool' Waterpolo! We are soooooooooooo lucky to live just down the road from the university which as absolutely every single sport you can imagine ... and then some (underwater hockey championships coming up!!!!) The place is an athletics dream!
So Waterpolo has been the chose sport.... suppose she didn't pick that up from the street! Its cool though, in Ireland it would be another 10 years before she could give it a shot!

Mission accomplished :) another Saturday complete.... 3 dirty faced, tired kids! 1 exhausted mum...... one sanity required trip to Pizza Pizza to feed the troops!
There is only one catch....... as i check on the 3 sleeping angels all tucked up tight in their beds!! I know i don't need to set the alarm clock...... as tomorrow morning at roughly about 8am i will be woken to the sounds of........ mummy wheres my cheerleading shoes.......... i can't find my swimming togs....... as we start all over again...............

Sunday = 3 1/2 hours of cheerleading...... go Rays :)

Monday = two rounds of Swimiming... Twins at 6pm - 630pm/ saoirse 6pm - 7pm
Tuesday = Cheerleading....5.30pm - 7pm

Wednesday = Swimming 6pm - 7pm / Gymnastics 7pm - 9pm

Thursday= Ice-skating x3 6pm-7pm

Friday= crash and burn :)

and start the whole process again ........................................ with lots of 'whoo hoos', 'good job' 'super' 'high fives' and did you see me mummy............... mummy did you see my jump.........mummy was i fast.................

Perks of the job......... The smiles, the gushing tales to be told immediately after each activities, the puffed up chests as they finally master a new technique!!!CANT wait to do it all again this week........ the super proud mum role is just MAGIC :)