I went to take a picture of Healthy Weighty Wee Man and these were the result!

Today was Wee Blonde Childs turn for a MiniFest and it rained   But well, to prove that children, as sweet as they are, are not made of sugar! Here are the pictures to prove it!  Enjoy! 

Oldest Large Child had her last game of City Finals, but because of WBC’s MiniFest, I was unable to attend.  Sadly, Foothills Crush lost once again in shoot out.  The girls were greatly disappointed, but they have lots to be proud of.  While a great many of the girls played indoor soccer together last season (really just two months ago) there were a a good handful that were new to the team for the outdoor season.  All the girls got on great and played exceptionally well and I am so proud of al of them not only my own.  Oldest Large Child did show a side of herself that while I knew was there … I hadn’t seen show itself until recently.  OLC is Miss Congeniality off the field, but put a soccer ball in front of her in the middle of a soccer pitch and she is a force to be reconned with! (that’s ma girl! )

Today, both Oldest Large Child and Healthy Weighty Wee Man had soccer. 

OLC had the first of a playoff round.  The girls had to play against a team they have played a couple times before and each time they were handed their jerseys they lost the games so badly.  Today they lost …. in shoot out.  The girls fought hard and played really really well.

Healthy Weighty Wee Man had his own little soccer tournament called Mini-Fest.  After trying everything we could to get HWWM to actively play, consistantly during the regular games in the season, he finally found it today!  Healthy Weighty Wee Man was a scoring machine!

okay so the post is a day late … deal.

You know more often than not you don’t hear Father’s Day being referred to as just that … it is often referred to as Dad’s Day.  I am not offended, dis-heartened, or put off by this in fact I think being a Dad far out reaches being a father any day.  Any man-boy can be a father.  It takes someone really special to be a called a Dad.   Now I don’t have a problem with that.  I have been very fortunate to not only have a father, but my Dad in my life and they are one in the same person.  I have also been very fortunate to have loved and treated as a daughter by three other men in my life, my American Dad, Papa D, my now ex-father-in-law, Big D (not to be mistaken with the previous!) and my now ex-step-dad-in-law, Granda L. 

Too many people forget that to be a dad, a REAL Dad, the kind where you not only capitalize the word, you ALL CAPS the word, takes someone really, Really, REALLY special.  The word, Dad, is significant to so so many for too numerous reasons to list.  Including my own monsters.  For Beautiful Baby Girl, Pretty Morning Sky, Dallas, Erin-the-then-Irish-Baby (and many others in my life now that I think about it!) the word Dad conjures images of the man who raised them.  Taught them to use tools, ride a bike, swim, ski, helped with homework, stayed up all night wiping a fevered brow, cleaning up vomit and all the other things that real Dad’s do.

So for all you real Dad’s I hope that you were able to enjoy your families and love them with all your heart.  Even more than you did the day before.

Okay, so if you have been reading this blog for any length of time, you know that Pretty Morning Sky is one of my longest, closest and quite possibly my best friend.  Anyhow.  Pretty Morning Sky and I do not live in the same city, or even anywhere close to each other.  Because of this, we often have frequent and sometimes lengthy conversations on the phone.  This is a practice that actually dates back to the origins of our friendship.

So today while on the phone with Pretty Morning Sky, we were both on the internet telling each other about different websites we had come across that the other might like.  One website that PMS had found is called Smartcanucks.ca (see link here) its a great website that informs the internet where to find great money saving deals in Canada, as well there is a blog about different products they have found in the world.

One such product was finding condoms in a dollar store (see link here for complete post).  Now, far be it from me that people on a tight budget should not be offered affordable contraceptive options.  But I have to say … personally, I can’t say I would trust condoms from a dollar store …. that is one product best paying full price for!  Don’t you think?  Either way it had Pretty Morning Sky and I laughing so hard, the Monsters thought my head was going to blow up!