The last day of summer and the weatherman lied

I woke up this morning expecting to haul darling daughter in her green wagon to the park. Instead, I've had to cancel our park plans due to rain, which is annoying as the weatherman said there would be sun today.


So when I noticed the dark, large cloud hovering over my house this morning and no sun in sight, I consulted the Environment Canada website. Instead of the sunny and relatively warm weather that was forecast by my local weatherman during the weather forecast last night, I was welcome to the sight of rain cloud icons on my computer screen. Cloudy, showers, thunderstorms, rain are some of the weather action that is being promised for the next four days.


It may just be me, but September seems to be turning out to be a crappy month weather wise. Sunday was a gorgeous fall day, but summer seemed to have disappeared two days after Labour Day. At this point, predictions of it being a warmer than usual September aren't shaping up to be true.


I guess I should cut the weatherman some slack. He's only human. He doesn't create the weather. He just predicts it. But what a crappy day on the last day of summer.

Too hot to blog

Is it fall yet?

I'm sitting in my living room with the lights off. I should really turn up (or is it down) the air conditioner to cool off the house a bit more, but I'm too lazy to get off my chair. After going to the park this morning (and it was H-O-T) and finishing lunch, I'm ready for a siesta. But I'm covered in sunscreen and sand so I really should take a quick shower and sweep up the sand we trekked into the house.

I think the heat is doing something to my brain. I fell off the park bench this morning because I thought there was more seat than there actually was. I've got a bit of a headache and I can't come up with anything remotely witty to blog about. Luckily my brain is allowing me to string together some half decent logical sentences together.

I realize it is summer, but I'm not a fan of heat waves. I'm not too sure what we'll be doing this afternoon. It may be just too hot to play outside. So keep cool, dear readers. Do whatever you have to do to keep cool, even if that means heading to the mall. Tomorrow is going to be hot, too. *Sigh* Come February I'll be dreaming about this weather, but now I'm cursing it.

Days like these . . .

It is days like these that I'm glad that I'm a stay at home mom.

Right now I'm watching darling daughter play with her books and one of the small bins from her trofast unit. And that is fine by me. I've got a major headache, and it isn't from all the snow that is falling to the ground, either. I've been suffering with a cold for the last several days. I'm pretty sure that what I'm suffering from is a cold. It feels different than when I'm battling allergies. Right now I'm thankful that I can breath through my nose, but I wish this horrible cough would take a hike.

The other night I got a grand total of two hours of sleep and last night I got about five. While I more than doubled what I got the night before, I'm feeling pretty exhausted. Add in the fact that darling daughter is refusing to nap longer than one hour a day, and I'm almost to the end of my rope. A two hour nap would feel great right about now.

So before I confuse your or myself any further, the reason I'm glad that I'm a stay at home mom on days like these is that if I only had five hours of sleep, forced to battle the crazy stormy weather in rush hour traffic and work eight hours in an office, I think I'd go nuts. Right now I'm in my usual uniform of lululemon wear. I have no intentions venturing outside. I may not even leave the house for the rest of the week, depending how I'm feeling. Yes, I'm exhausted. Yes, the weather is frightful. But thankfully I'm safe and sound at home, in close proximity to a bed if darling daughter decides to take a nap any time soon.