One amazing week!

So It all began Friday morning at 6am. I was so excited it was friday and also my last day of work for two weeks. So with cell phone in hand, I decided to check my facebook via phone. I logged on and I had a friend request. I was thinking, "who could this be?" So i clicked on it and almost dropped my phone. Now most people have no idea who this person is, but when I went to Cali last year for Montessori Conference I met this man who was a speaker and he was a Montessori Music teacher (which is my interest and what I did at my old school, no time to do it at new school). His name is Frank Leto. Frank Leto ADDED ME ON FACEBOOK!!!! He is like a Raffi and Fred Penner. I have all his children CD's and my class LOVES him. I hear them walking around the classroom singing his songs I have played for them. It's a great feeling when they actually retain something you teach them!! So anyways, I was super excited. This year I didn't get to go to Cali and see him even though I was all signed up for his seminars, but nature took over and grounded me from flying (my miscarriage happened that night i was supposed to leave). So no Frank Leto for me. However, Cindy talked to him after one of the seminars and she video tapped him saying "Hi Jess, sorry you couldn't be here this year, but hello from California" oh my GOD! Then Cindy was walking through the vedors and his wife Pilar was talking to Cindy (she bought me a CD for the class) and his wife was "Yes I remember you two, she is short with dark hair" wow!!! So long story short, Frank Leto added me on facebook!
Next exciting thing? My aunt and I went to Burlington Mall to watch the olympic torch. While Jackie was in Oakville standing with Adam V, the rower, my aunt and I were standing there next to no other than MATT HAYES!! Now you can ask my mom and grandma, I LOVE HIM! it has been my goal the last 10 years to meet him! There he was right beside us. I called mom and was "mom we are standing next to Matt Hayes". Where is my camera? oh ya, at HOME!! boooo. So we followed him around for a bit before settling down in front of where the torch would be passing through (which we later somehow ended up 4 people deep, we went from first row to like fourth, how did we get pushed back? so annoying people are especially this holiday season. Anywho, before we got bumped back Matt Hayes came around and wished us a Merry Christmas personally!! woo hoo! Matt Hayes wished us, my aunt and I a merry christmas!!! My aunt talked to him but i was too shy to speak. I didn't want to sound like a star stuck teenager. ha ha ha.
So while we waited for the torch the anticipation was growing. Here comes some buses, but where is the torch? oh here it comes. Right when it passed us I got a bit teary eyed. I was so happy i got to experience this and felt so much Canadian Pride at that very moment. And that my friends is one of the best weeks of my life. My life is almost complete, just working on the last chapter (baby making time)!!!

Welcom BAck

Well it feels like forever that I have written here. Hope I haven't lost my readers interests. ha ha ha. Heather are you still out there reading? Nicole? Jack?
Well the Policelli's (Phil and I) had our first annual open house (Christmas one) and let me just say we had way too much food. People ate and ate but it didn't seem to make a dent in our servings. I didn't even cook the frozen apps. Who's coming over during the holidays to eat apps? Heather and Aaron I think you are over due for a visit!!
Funny thing happened yesterday. My dad went to the dentist for his bi annual cleaning. I guess our hygenist now takes your blood pressure. She told dad he has high blood pressure. ha ha ha. So Phil goes " does your family doctor clean your teeth?" So needless to say dad had to go to the dr's today after work. His blood pressure is only 10 points too high. Nothing a little weight loss can't cure. Now i'm on a mission to get him to eat right and healthy. Although he is a healthy eater (due to high colestoral problems), he just doesn't know portion control. Perhaps he should be the one eating off a small plate, not mom and I. also perhaps he shouldn't eat out of the pot/pan after he has already had two plates of food. Now this man should be on the biggest loser for the amount of food he eats. But he doesn't weigh 400 pounds. He's always had a high motabilism (damn him for not passing that gene down to his children, but thanks for the great teeth I have all cause of his genes). Anyways, i will try and make sure he doesn't eat tons after dinner.
That's really all that has been going on. Now we are getting ready for our first Christmas in our new house!!! Bring on the entire family here on Christmas day!!!

Life lessons

As you all are aware I am a very strong person and not much gets me down and when I'm down I bounce back up at carry on (at least that's what I think you guys think about me, I could be completely wrong). I've been thinking alot since this miscarriage. Not about the miscarriage persay, but all my life events up until now.
I feel I have been through hell and back over the past 10 years of my life. But my friends make me feel a whole lot better by telling me "I was so worried you weren't going to learn something from this situation". and that makes me feel better cause I was hoping I wasn't joking myself and that I have learned things.
The biggest lesson I learned was from my past relationship with "you know who" and how I was not going to be treated in my next relationship (which happened to be Phil). To this day I don't think people know the abuse I had to endure and I saw things and went through things people should never have had to deal with ever. Which sucks because those images are forever going to be in my head. I think you guys know what I'm talking about? This isn't a pity blog, I've just been thinking a lot lately. I just for once would like something to go smooth and easy in my life. It's incredibly frustrating. As I sit here and write this blog, I impatiently await trying for another baby again. I can't do that right away until for another month. So I guess I will just sit back and let life take me where it wants to go (eventhough it's incredibly hard). This is too deep, even for me ha ha ha. But I am having a moment. I'll have to write about something funny next time I log in.

Life

Well it's been a pretty rough couple of days. In and out of hospital and dr's office. But all in all, life must go on. I do not wish what I went through on my worstest enemy. The physical pain alone is a killer. Emotionally I am fine because unlike some, I know the true meaning of a miscarriage and why it happens and how often it actually happens. What most people don't know is that it happens to every woman 1 in 4 pregnancies. The percentage could be higher because some women don't even know they've had one because they don't know they are even preggers.
My brother says at least Phil and I know we can get pregnant and it will happen when the time is right. My brother has a friend who has been trying for a year and no baby/pregnancy yet. I feel bad for that friend. But Tom is right, at least we know we can have children and there are no problems (that we know of, let's hope we don't have a second miscarriage, then we will have to go for testing or something). One thing I learned from this pregancy is that my blood type is A- which means if I ever am pregnant with a baby who has + blood, my body needs antibodies put in it so it doesn't reject the fetus or I give birth to a "blue baby".
I'll tell you what hurts the most, the disappointment everybody else feels. Me? I'm strong and will get through this. Everybody else is what weakens me. Some might say I have a soft heart but a strong hard head. But the next pregnancy will bring just as much joy to everyone and like Jack said, "imagine the excitment when that baby is actually born".
I'll keep you all posted and just know as soon as it's ok to try again, Phil is all over it! ha ha ha, he really wants to try again, so do I. I don't think he realized how exciting it was until it was too late. He's sad and ready to try the minute we can.
And thanks to everyone for their kind words and their concerns. I never knew so many people cared about us. Thanks guys! Love you lots.

It's been a long time

Sorry I haven't blogged for awhile but things have been super busy since school started. Phil and I got our bedroom set yesterday. It looks AMAZING!! The Mennonites did a great job and I completely recommend them to anyone who is looking for furniture. They can do anything you want as long as you have drawings/pictures and measurements. Pics to follow on facebook! Dad and I were discussing how they new how to get to our house since they really shouldn't be using the internet. Dad asked them when they were leaving and low and behold they have GPS!! can you believe it? We laughed and thought it was so funny. Dad says "guess I was wrong". He thought they used the internet. ha ha ha.
You must keep checking on because Phil and I are going to be on quite the adventure in the year to come! I just have to wait until things get sorted out. he he he!

All Settled In

Well, it's been a few weeks now and Phil and I have done so much to our new home. You wouldn't believe how different it looks from when we first turned the keys. We have painted two rooms and the hallway and I'm not bias but I think it looks amazing!!
We've had many visitors pass through our doors. The little vistors are the best!! (No offense adults)
The other day Annie and Sofia came for lunch and a swim. Now as you all have probably guessed, I love that little girl like she was my own. I see her once a week (since she was born a year ago, Happy Birthday baby girl). I was thinking about her the other day. I think the reason I am so close with her is i saw her while she was in the hospital and continue to see her once a week. When she was here, I fed her chicken for the first time. Annie was having a heart attack and was scared she was going to choke. But she did great. After she took it from my hand she'd give us a little giggle and it was a "look at me i'm eating your food" giggle. She was so proud of herself. It was so cute. It's moments like that that make me melt. I'm also very close with Aidan (Alicia's oldest) and it's due to me seeing him once a week as well. I am so excited to be looking after Sofia every wednesday after school, I can't wait!! Anyways, I just felt like writing about Sofia cause she is just so damn cute.
I l ove all my little kiddies all for different reasons. The other day Daniella, Phil's god daughter (and her parents and Dante) was over and oh man, she was too funny. She followed me and tom around. I can't believe she is almost 5. I think back to when I met her, she was only like 20 months or so and now she's starting kindergarten.
Aidan and Taylor are Alicia's babies. Taylor is GORGEOUS and is going to totally break a lot of hearts. Aidan is so funny. He called me the other day to ask if he could come over. Then when he got here, he climbed up the stairs like a baby and turned to Sofia and said, "like that Sophie" ha ha ha it was so cute.
I don't really see tina's babies anymore. But she has Abraham and Emmanuel (I think that's how you spell it)
Anyways, enough about babies. Next blog will be more entertaining. I start school/work in a couple of weeks, and am actually looking forward to it. I'll get there and then start count the days down till Christmas break, ha ha ha. Bill already said, "soon it's christmas break". ha ha ha.
Well my fingers are tired of typing. Good night you all. ha ha ha, i will not say ya'll.

Married Life can Officially begin

Officially tomorrow at around 3pm, our married lives will begin! I know we have been married since May 9th, however we haven't been living so to speak as a married couple with our own house. I have been living in a house that isn't mine nor Phil's and to me it was very stressful. Only for the fact that I couldn't decorate, i couldn't change anything since we weren't living in our own place. So look out!! Tomorrow a whole new part of our lives begins! To start our day we are going to St Jacobs to talk to the mennonite people about our furniture. Picture this, we go to the furniture store (not the Mennonites place, but a box store) and dad brings his trusty tape measure and Phil takes control of the camera. Dad sits down on the ottoman for sale and starts making diagrams and drafts a duplicate of our bedroom set full with measurements of every nook and cranny! Mom and I took off and looked around the store, we were scared of getting caught. So about after an hour, we took our scetch book and headed off to Kim's (Tom's gf) birthday party. Needless to say no one in the store said anything to them, or so those two claim. At one point mom and I say a salesperson walk away with their papers. Phil said he was going to check the price of the wardrobe ha ha ha. I was, "ya right you got it confinscated" But he brought it back.
A little word of advice, if you are looking for any furniture and want it quality made for a very low price, I really recommend going to St Jacobs and having the real professionals (Mennonites) do it! They actually take pride over what they produce. And turns out, at the big box store we were at, the furniture wasn't even made of real wood, it was made from cherry veneres. So fake wood. And yet they charged 6500 plus tax for three pieces of furniture. Our furniture is real Oak and half the price for three pieces!

New Obsession

Ok so my tip for the day? Only eat foods that come from the ground or have a mother. Source, Jillian Michaels. Ok, it's not secret by now that I have a new obession and love Jillian Michaels. Come on, what's not to love? She is on the Drs. every week and she is so helpful!! That is where I learned that great advice! Another thing I noticed. Look at my pictures. Do you see how I have lines/cheek marks when i smile? guess what? Jillian has the same thing. ha ha ha. Call me crazy and I won't care!! But those lines or whatever it is when i smile drive me nuts and I wish i could get rid of them but my mom says that I will always have them and there is nothing i can do. Well now that I know Jill has them too, which i still think are weird, I feel a teeny bit better to know I'm not the only one with those lines.
Onto something more interesting. I went to the Jays game yesterday with the kids in my class. It was summer camp day and my school runs a summer camp so I thought it would be fun to go with them. I learned I have a bunch of unenthusiastic children. Cindy and I were the only ones cheering like crazy. My throat hurts. It was like pulling teeth to get them to even yell "Go Jays Go". Then after the game they got to run the bases. Cute. THEN we sat and had snack outside the CN tower. Tourists were coming up and video taping and taking pictures of us RIGHT IN OUR FACES. We were like "um no you can't take their pics" One man even pushed one of the teachers out of the way. Honestly it was like they had never seen children before where they come from! I told the summer camp leader she should have said to the guy that was an inch away from her face looking at the words "Go Jays" that In Canada we have a thing called Personal Space and right now you ARE IN IT!!!! Man it was annoying. All in all it was a fun day!

Two More Weeks!

Well Phil and I have been super busy picking out furniture, packing and picking out colours! We visited our new house today and Phil said when my dad got into the car to leave our house he says to Phil, "I have a good feeling about this house". ha ha ha how cute. I love my dad. Sometimes he says the most funniest things without even trying to be funny. Like last Sunday we were having dinner and after we cleaned up he did something stupid and mom gave him the evil eyes and he says to her because she must have said something about, "what do you say?" and he goes, "love is having never to say you are sorry" and we were "where the hell did you hear that" and he was "church" and we were "when did you go to church?" he goes, "if you must know it was in Jackie's reading at the wedding, and I must have been the only one to pay attention" This coming from a man who can't remember what he had for breakfast this morning. He's a nut. I will stick up for him no matter what! Always have. When mom is mad at me, she's mad at my dad and vise versa. That's just the way it's always been. Apparently we are a package deal. ha ha ha. I do remind her of my dad a lot of the time!
Anyways, that was a side not cause I've been dying to tell that story.
So today we went to Stoney Creek Furniture with my parents. We found this amazing bedroom set that we both love (rare that we both love it, yes). So dad had a great idea. One weekend soon we are going to Meninite country and see how much they can make us our bedroom set for. According to dad, they can copy it which would be great, but only if it's cheaper. Phil is very very into this decorating thing. We pick out everything together. Tomorrow my mom and I and aunt are going to Hamilton to pick out fabric for a wing chair. Phil has to work but he trusts us and our judgement. ha ha ha. He is my metro husband.
Well better get back to my favourite thing, packing!

Biggest Loser (I'm talking about the t.v. show people)

Well, I have decided to do my very own Biggest Loser. I have a 30 day workout schedule designed by yours truly, Jillian Michaels. And I'm not talking about her dvd. I've had her book for a while now and I decided the summer is a perfect time to do her workout.
So yesterday was my very first day. All I could hear was Jillian yelling at me to keep going. Honestly, I heard her in the back of my head. And boy, I'm paying for it today. I can barely walk and sit, my legs and abs are killing me. But I had to go today.
I start off by jogging/walking to the gym. Do her 45 min circuit workout then walk home. It takes 2 hours in total. Today was a killer since I am already hurting from yesterday. Wednesdays and the weekends are my days off. And let me tell you, I am looking forward to tomorrow. ha ha ha.
I am also trying to eat every 3-4 hours like you are supposed to. So far I had breakfast at 7 and I just had (10am) a nectarine and yogurt, not bad, eh Jack? So we'll see how this all goes down and I'll tell you this, if nothing happens I'm going to be pissed!!!
If any of you would like to join my Biggest Loser, just let me know! I can write out the routine for you!!!!! New recruits are welcome!

Shopping Grove City! Now back to reality!

Well, we got back from Grove City PA two days later and 400 dollars poorer! Wow, I have never been there and will DEFINATELY go back again.
We stayed in Erie (an hour away from Grove City). So when we got to our hotel, we just chilled, ate dinner and then crashed. We woke up the next morning, had breakfast and headed towards our shopping destination.
Kim and I went together while the boys shopped together and did their thing. When we met up with the boys, Phil was empty handed. Background info, it was Phil's idea to go because he is desparate need of jeans and pants. So he was real frustrated. So we split up again, Kim and I kept finding little deals in Gap, Guess, American Eagle, the usual girl stores.
It was time to meet up with the boys. Phil had some bags in tow!!! We were so excited for him! We went into Coach while the boys went into the underware store. We lost them and had no idea where the hell they were. Only to find Tom and Phil rushing towards us and indicating for us to hurry! Banana Republic had the greatest sale of everyone!
Phil and Tom went nuts in that store with dress shirts. I bought TWO shirts for three bucks each. That's right, 3 $ each. Wow! Tom bought lots of shirts for school for dirt cheap. Banana Republic pulled through and made the whole trip worth while! We should have gone to that store first. We actually forgot about that store and thank goodness we lost the boys! Well worth it!
The next day (saturday) we just walked the mall in Erie and headed home, that is after the major ass thunderstorm we had there! I was so nervous about the ride home and hydroplaining. ha ha ha. I know i'm weird!
So now we are home and back to packing! Phil hasn't touched anything! Well he's in for a rude awakening when it's Aug 1st and we move in 3 days! And then I will have to tell him " I told you so" again! ha ha ha. Just like in the hotel room this weekend. We went to the liquor store and they wanted a big bottle of wine. I told them to just get the small bottle, but oh no Jess doesn't know what she's talking about, the bigger one is only 12 dollars and they will drink it over the next two nights. Well Saturday morning arrived and it was time for us to go and they ended up putting the whole thing minus 2 glasses down the drain!!! If they would have listened to me and bought the smaller bottle, they wouldn't have spent 12 dollars to just go down the drain. Oh the life i have to live! My everyday frustrations! Anywho, back to packing! I will be packing this week so I will be ready to move!!! I will keep you posted on how that goes!

Packing

Ok, so the packing officially began the other day! Thank goodness my dad wasn't working and helped me. I passed my room to him and he packed it up! I kept asking my parents, "so you sad yet?" only to get a "ha ha ha NO!! keep the stuff coming". Gee thanks guys. This is coming from a man who when I left to move out with Heather three years ago, was "no you aren't moving, I don't care if you are 27 years old, you aren't moving out of here". ha ha ha. He may be singing a different tune when Aug 4th actually gets here. I actually had mixed feelings. I can't wait to move into my new house and the next month coudn't go by any faster for us! Everyone I know keeps driving by. I'm like "hey guys, is it still there?" ha ha ha. I don't know if they expect it to be gone one day or what. But it's cute how my parents and aunts and uncles are excited about our new house! Dad and I were out the other day together (spending quality time together) and he was "we are going to drive by your house". ha ha ha ok. We should ask if we can start moving in our stuff....I know I know.
So we have less than a month to go and still only half my room is packed. PLUS i still have to pack up my stuff in the basement. Phil is in total decorating mode at the moment, looking for family room furniture/accents. ha ha ha. He's so funny! Perhaps he should start packing? Ya my thoughts exactly! He's got more than 30 years of shit to pack, but he doesn't realize it! grrrrrrr...lol...well I gotta jet and get ready for our little shopping trip this weekend in the states! Let you know how that goes!!! Tom and Phil are looking for Casinos near by. urgh.

Oh that brother of mine!

Ok, so the only guy I know to say to Phil and I, "lets go to Flamborough Casino" and then When we get there says "Can I borrow some money" That's my brother, Tom. So like a good sister that I have been to him, his whole life, I give him 50 bucks. So we walk in the casino, I get carded and they didn't think I was 30 almost 31. I go off my own way to play Deal or No Deal which has been replaced with Life (but they are still 5 cent machines, phew). I sit down and loose 40 bucks. I go check on Tom and Phil, they are down 200. So Tom goes to the washroom. Phil and I play this quarter machine to try and win our 200 back. When we get to 50 bucks, I cash out and go back to my Life game for 5 cents. Phil, "you will never win back your money of 5 cent machines". We sit there taking turns. We play and play and then all of a sudden, I hit the bonus game. I won the freakin JACKPOT! I won our money (200 bucks) back and then some. So now we have 274.00. We take 250 cause that's what we all together started with and Tom goes plays the remaining 25 bucks. He sits down at a machine and Phil and I are rehashing the whole "you will never win our money back" conversation cause we are excited I hit the jackpot. Tom is at this point three spins into playing our 25 dollars. and BAM, TOM HIT THE FREAKIN JACKPOT!!!!! We won 757 dollars!!!!! You'd think people would walk away and go home. Have you met Phil? that's right, we went and played like 20 bucks in another machine. We chose the dollar machine now. Big spenders. Two pulls, and we hit the "free spin" on wheel of Fortune. We win another 125 bucks. So we think we are on a roll so for kicks we throw 30 bucks into a 2 dollar machine, that's right 2 dollars. At this point I'm freaking out cause how dare they waste our winnings. We ended up winning 120 bucks on that machine. So finally we decided to give up and go home. So all in all, we walked out with almost a grand. Now here's the most funny part of this whole story. Remember I said tom borrowed 50 from me? Well we split the winnings in half. Half for Phil and I and the other half we gave to Tom. So Tom goes into a casino with NO MONEY and walks out with just shy of 500 bucks. ha ha ha. We howled about that all the way home! Needless to say, Phil and I had to pay our photographer tonight for our last installment which was free because the casino paid for it and Tom is using his half to pay for hotel and gas for our thursday-saturday road trip to the states!!! Tom is the only guy we know who walks into a freaking casino with not a penny and walks out 500 dollars richer!!!! oh god it is funny!!!!

Summer Vaca day 2

So far this week has been pretty good! On monday I babysat Annie's daughter Sofia. She came to my school and hung out there with me. She is 10.5 months and I helped her do her first painting at school. So cute. She is the cutiest baby (besides Aidan, Taylor, Dante, etc) ha ha ha. Yesterday Phil and I went to his brother's house for bbq. A good time was had by all. All we did was eat! Today I babysat Sofia again. There is nothing like looking after a baby who will just sit on your lap and watch the world go by. We watched Price is Right and she wanted to have snuggle time. I love it when she lays her head down on my chest and just chills. I actually checked to make sure she was breathing a few times, that's how relaxed she was. ha ha ha. When we hung outside, she just sat on my lap and did nothing. We talked and laughed and she was so good. I brought her inside because I thought she may want to watch something on the t.v. but she cried and stopped once she got outside. It's so funny, these kids. So that is my vacation so far. This weekend should be good. Cousin Phil's birthday party is saturday (Can't wait to read about your Niagara FAlls trip, Christine). And sunday we will just chill at my house (when i say my house, I mean my mommy and daddy's). I really have to start packing. I don't realize how much stuff I have until I actually sit down to pack it. I have 30 freakin years to pack up cause my dad says EVERYTHING has to come with me! Even my Little Mermaid stuff. ha ha ha, which is fine with me cause my kids are going to have a Little Mermaid bathroom, looks like phil and I will have the dragonfly bathroom that Jackie and her family bought us for our wedding *(which i love so much...lol).
Jackie, please keep entertaining me with funny stories from Thailand!!! Can't wait to see you. And of course you are invited to our PART-TAY!!!!!!! We are literally down the street from eachother, how cool is that?
K, I gotta run and finish my book. I am currently reading "The Choice" by Nicholas Sparks. Great so far!! Heather, if this book becomes a movie, we have to go see it. Just like we went to see Road to Rodanthe!

Let the summer begin!

Well today was sorta my last day of work for 9 weeks!! I am going tomorrow for lunch with Cindy to discuss a few things, but other than that I am a free woman! And all I have to say is let the packing begin. Tom offered to help me. I think he just wants me done faster so he can have my closet! ha ha ha, what a sneak.
My summer plans consist of nothing but packing and maybe a few day trips here and there with whoever is available. I am looking forward to Aug. 4th but I don't want to wish my summer away. However I will have a pool. And whoever is reading this is invited for a swim!!!! ha ha ha. Also I need to know who is game for painting? Nothing much needs to be painting, but if you love to paint, I have a paintbrush for you!
I must find a pic to post of our new house. However, when we move in, we will have a part-tay!!!!!!! with everyone!!! I gotta run and make this a short blog because I just realized I need to do something on the computer! I will keep you posted on my summer events and I will be able to write more often now that school is OUT FOR SUMMER!!!

Married Life

Well Phil and I are moving into our second month of wedded bliss (I think it's been 6 weeks ha ha ha). As I sit here after a long day at work, watching Bride Wars, the memories come flooding back. ha ha ha. My uncle came over yesterday and told my mom he has never seen a bride enjoy her day as much as I did. What can I say? It was totally everything and more I had ever imagined since I was 5 (minus the Dirty Dancing theme, that came later in life when I was 10, lol and Heather and I paused the moment were you could see Patrick Swayze's butt..woo hoo).
My routine has obviously changed since being married, but not tons. After work I still go to the gym. Instead of going home and chilaxing, I drive to Etobicoke, prepare dinner, cook dinner, eat while Phil is at gym, wait for him to come home and then give him his dinner. We sit in front of t.v. and chat about our days events if anything exciting happened, for me it's usually nothing. Then we watch t.v, I shower, then pretty much go to bed. Then the routine begins again the next day. I'll be so glad when I move to Burlington into our own house and not work for 2 months. the joys of being a teacher!!! All my hard work pays off in july and aug. Aug is going to be a busy month this summer, as if last summer wasn't busy enough. But at least this year it's going to be fun. Moving is fun, (i think?). I'm looking forward to packing up my room and everything I have at my parents. EVERYTHING from 30 years ago until now has to come to our new house!!!
Any friends who are around Aug 5-9th are more than welcome to come over and paint and swim!!!!!! I'll feed you! lol....

My friends!

This is dedicated to you girls who I love so much and are near and dear! I have the greatest friends a girl could ask for.
They don't judge, they take me for me (even smelly farts in elevators ha ha ha and cars ha ha ha). I know they too love me back with as much enthusiasm.
I love how we can just talk and talk and remember the good ol' days which I remember the most and do most of the "remember her, remember him, remember we did this and that". I don't know why or how i remember ALL these things, I just do!
Our wedding brought a lot of my friends closer (or close for those who weren't really friends in the first place) together which I am sooo happy for!
I treasure my girls nights with all my friends and look forward to them when ever they happen which just doesn't seem to be enough but in todays times of corporate lives, time is of the essence and important when getting together with my girls! I don't know if that makes sense. ha ha ha.
I treasure my serious talks with my friends and they help me out with all situations, past and present. Heather put it right when she says my past when she tells people about it that it sounds like a movie, Heather baby, at times I feel like i lived in a movie and it wasn't real life, wasn't my REAL life!
In closing, ha ha ha so formal, I thank you girls for being here for me and loving eachother! Can't wait to see you girls during the summer. Hugs and Kisses!

Honeymoon!

Well for our honeymoon we had to go to Barbados (only thing left after Swine Flu forced Air Canada Vacations to cancel our trip) It was AMAZING!!! Everything was great, no complaints. We tried food we've never tried before, like different kinds of fish. We sure got our share of fish (which is a good thing cause it's super healthy for you). Anyways, basically all we did was eat, sleep and sleep in the sun all day long!!
On our second day there we had an orientation with Air Canada Vacations telling us the extras we could do on the island. The rep asked Phil and I if we could stay back for a couple mins. We were "uh sure". Then she ended up giving us 200 US dollars each on a VISA to spend any way we wanted. So later that week we went to the capital of Barbados, called Bridgetown and went shopping crazy. Do you know how hard it is to spend 400 US dollars that isn't yours? VERY! ha ha ha. So pretty much our honeymoon was one of the most relaxing weeks of our lives.
Stay tuned, I have lots to write about and we've only been married three weeks! ha ha ha.

Honeymoon

A very Special Moment

There is one thing from our Wedding that needs to be mentioned separatly. When I walked in to view the room before the guests arrived, I looked around the room and turned around to get a view of everything and there staring at us to the side of us was the most amazing cake I had ever seen in my life. And the cake topper was Ariel and Eric (my princess obsesstion) in their wedding attire!!!!! The children in my class made me the cake with their love! I can not believe it! It brought tears to Phil and I's eyes. It was the most special and amazing gift on our lives! I will post a picture when I get one.

Married Life begins

I finally have time to sit down and rehash the wedding day! And all i can say was "I had the time of my Life". Literally and I'm not just saying that because that was the theme of the evening, which I might add a lot of people came up to me and commented on how awesome that idea was. toot toot my horn. ha ha ha.
So the ceremony wasn't what I expected or liked. Our original priest backed out three months before our day and got his friend to replace him who is a deacon. I personally don't think the Deacon knew what he was doing. Anyways, I was completely calm cool and collected. Dad and I talked all the way down the aisle. Then even Phil and I were shootin' the shit at the alter. ha ha ha. Thanks Jack for doing that amazing reading. You rocked it! Then after the mass (which was very short) Phil and I headed outside to greet our guests. Our guests included 25 little kids from my class (and a few from the other class). They all ran up to me and hugged the daylights out of me. I have a pic from the photographer (well he has it but i saw it) of the girls around me and I'm like Cinderella and they are my mice. So cute. Everyone commented on the love they have for me and the love I have for them. It was a great idea for them to come!!! so after a couple pictures of the family and group, we headed to spencer smith park for more pictures. They turned our beautiful. My photographer displayed them at the reception on his laptop, great touch Aaron! I must give a huge shout out to my photographer and his wife. They ROCKED! I totally will be giving family and friends his name and number when they get married. I recommened him highly.
So from there we went to the reception. I didn't know we started the recieving line at 5 (the cocktail hour) and the guests go in the room to have the cocktails. So during the recieving line, I look over and there are two guests who were invited who didn't RSVP at all. But guess what, it was no problem at all with the Burlington Convention Centre. They didn't panic, they accomodated. Again, I will highly recommend the BCC to anyone getting married in Burlington. They did everything. All I had to do was show up friday and give them my stuff and they took it from there. That is why I was so relaxed the day before and the day of. I knew I was in very good hands.
So the recieving line ended and the announcing began. PHil and I did our first dance, which I belted out singing to "She's Like the Wind". Then we listened to all my favourite top 40 boyband songs throughout dinner. woo hoo!!! I sang and ate the whole dinner. If I could have danced trust me i would have. After dinner my dad and I danced to "Changes" by Kelly and Ozzy Osbourne, again I sang through the whole song. Again a lot of people came up to me and said "great song". Thank you!! For those who know me (Jack) knows I have to be different and unique in the things I do, I have always had different hair cuts, or different everything to stay out of the norm. So for me to choose a song like that and one no one really knows, is soooo me. And I love love love Jack's blog about our wedding. Thanks hunny, I love you!
So then I danced, drank, danced and drank. I danced to every single song and only left the dance floor to take a shot of Vodka. I really really really had a great time! I want to do it again. Not because I would change a damn thing, but so i can keep dancing to the great music!! Again, I will be recommending my DJ to everyone in this world. He rocked!!!! It's a shame (phil brought to my attention), that you talk and meet these people for a whole year, you get to know them and then the day comes, then you never talk to them again. I will truely miss our vendors! The Burlington Convention Centre did an amazing job!! i will miss the coordinators extremely!
Well I have to write about the honeymoon tomorrow or another day because we are heading out to find my mom a birthday gift! Again, to all those who came and were involved, thank you so much for coming and being a part of our special day. It is truely one I am going to remember for the rest of my life and I love hearing about the day from other people's point of view!!! and the things I missed because I was on the dance floor!! Love you guys!

HOLY CRAP!

Well the time has come. I have only One freaking week left. What do I have left to do you ask?
I have to print off my table seating chart, print off my table names (that's right I'm not having table numbers) and then if I have time I will do ceremony programs. But only if time permits.
So today Cindy and I went to the psychic fair. We sat down with a lady and she read us our cards. I told her to tell me about my relationship and kids.
She pretty much hit the nail on the head about Phil's personality and mine. It was kinda freaky. She said all we do is fight lately and I was "of course, it's natural at this time and stage in our lives" and she was all confused and then I told her it's all wedding stuff. She knew I was getting married because of my ring. Also she drew a card that said our wedding was going to be a blast and it will be magical and people will be talking about it years to come! A success! Here is the really weird thing. Cindy and I have these pendulums we got as a gift from a student. It's used to ask questions and tell you how many and the sex of your kids. So when cindy and I did it on me it said I was going to have a girl and then a boy and right away it swung into a girl which means twins. But the second girl's swing was small which means she's not a strong pregnancy.
So the psychic went on to tell me when i was going to have kids. First she pulled a card that told her i was having a girl first. She said she is going to be brilliant and very cute and people will be doing everything for her. She is going to be a girl who is "can you do this for me"? and can you do that for me? My daughter is also going to be sensitive and a hermit. Then my next pregnancy is going to be twins (keep in mind she has no idea that cindy and i have done this pendulum test on me). A boy and a girl. My boy is very special to me and I feel the need to protect him. He also is very smart and sensitive. My twin girl is sick or has some health issue because in the womb she was the weaker of the two. Apparently we will be making international trips to hospitals for her. hmmm. this is if she makes it out of my womb. We aren't too sure if she lives. My son will also have a learning disability yet is very smart. These are just the highlights of my reading. I belive in some kind of higher power. It's good to believe in things. Now this is the second psychic that told me I'll have a baby next spring. However this one told me I won't be happy about it. That's where I am confused. This pyschic told me my first child (if not next spring) will be in 2012. To me that's a long time away. Maybe she is mistaken and she thinks Phil won't be too happy. I have no idea. But either way, I'll just wait and see what happens. If I don't get a chance to post any more before May 9th. Look out for my blog about our Honeymoon! Barbados here we come (long story how we ended up there, just don't mention Mexico around me next time we talk, I booked Mexico TWICE, first time with Conquest, they went out of business two days later, then second time booking with Mexico, this damn swine flu occured). Barbados was the only place that wasn't booked up!

Less than 3 Weeks to go

Ok, so it's wednesday, we only have 2.5 weeks to go. ahhhhh! We are currently looking at houses. We are going to see 4 this friday. I really really want the house we saw a few months ago. Maybe we'll see another one we love on friday. I'm still bitter that house on Augustus sold. I was supposed to live there damnit :(
So, I have table seating to do, and programs for the church if I can get my computer to do it. Than I think that is all.
The cutest thing happened to me yesterday. I went to Annie's house as I always do on Tuesdays. Sofia (her adorable baby girl) is 8 months old now. Well, when I got there she was sitting on the floor playing and I sat down beside her and started to talk to her and out of the blue and for the first time i might add, she held her arms up in the air for me to pick her up. And I did and then she hugged me. It was a heart melting moment. THEN, we were watching tv and she all of a sudden waved, again for the first time. It was funny. She was shocked by her own actions she just kept staring at her hands waving. She was waving them in front of her face. It was so cute and funny.
Anyways, other than looking for a house, fighting with Phil, visiting cute babies, nothing much else is going on. But I will keep you all posted.

Updates

Well Jack, I found out you aren't the only one that reads this that I know. ha ha ha. My friend Nicole reads as well. Hi Nicole!
Well I've had a very busy last couple of weeks. On march 29th I had my wedding shower. Wow there was too many people. All I did was open gifts. You should see the stuff I got for our new house. Which we are in the middle of looking for. It won't be long now until we buy a house and move in. woo hoo! You will all have to come over for parties all the time and go swimming in our pool!!! I just can not believe how much my life has changed over the past years! I could have been living in a trailer instead of a half million dollar home! Thank goodness I woke up and smelt the roses. Anyways enough about that. These are happy times!
So my bacholorette was on saturday night. Oh wait. First Peter and Angie threw Phil and I a party which we didn't get home until like 5:30 and got woken up 7 times (7 phone calls) between 9am and 9:30am. grrrrrrrr.
So saturday night my friends/bridesmaids took me out to a strip club. ha ha ha. Wasn't too bad. We danced. Then we went to rumors night club in Niagara FAlls. It was a great night! Very eventful and one night I won't forget no matter how hard we try. ha ha ha. There was a lot of Drama involved and I felt like I was in a bad teen movie. Again we didn't get in til the we hours of the morning and woke up at 9am. I still managed to go to 2 open houses on sunday. ha ha ha. This weekend is Easter. The only wedding things we have going on is the last thing, the DJ. Then it's all planned and ready! Where did the last year go? No wonder people say it takes a year to plan a wedding!
I will keep you posted on the next month.

For Jackie (since she's the only one that reads these, I think)

Well, this weekend is a busy one (read previous blog). I just finished doing Jillian Michael's 30 day shred and man was it AMAZING!!! I love Jillian, which makes me want to go on Biggest Loser (love that show).
I am just sitting here waiting patiently for Grey's to come on, one more hour to go. It's going to be a good one. Derek proposes to Merideth. I have no idea why I missed the first season of that show. I think I was in denial and felt bad for cheating on ER. However, I am over ER and haven't watched it for years now (since I started watching Grey's). I will forever and ever be a fan of Third Watch, remember that show? Another of those hospital shows. By far the best one though!!!
I don't get to watch mush TV but I can never miss Greys or How I met you Mother or Biggest Loser. I get so motivated by Biggest Loser. I get very proud of the contestants, even though they get to spend 12 hours a day at the gym (which i wish i could). But it took a lot of courage and realization that they had to make lifestyle changes. I watched Oprah (sorta, while i was trying to nap) and she had a half ton teenager. Now, I totally blame his mother. She would go out and buy him any junk food he wanted. While he sat in front of the TV because he couldn't move and only walked to go to the washroom and then back to his "chair". I wasn't sad for him, I was mad at him and his mother. Everyone has the ability to control their lifestyle and heathly eating habits. Look at me, I lost 40 pounds and I changed my eating habits and go to the gym religiously. Sometimes I feel I have a problem. Like if I miss a day at the gym, I get pissed off at myself. I try and schedule my life around my gym workout times. But I must add, I love going to the gym. I love running and weight training. So if I can do it this half ton teen can do it. They ended up taking 80% of his stomach. Easy way out. Even my brother was "so bascially what this show is telling us is if we are obesse we can just get our stomach stabled". And he's right.
Well my hands are tired from my ranting. Stayed tuned Jack! xoxo

Not long now!

Well, I went to the Britney Spears concert. She obviously did not sing and only was on stage for an hour. What is with that? She only sang two old songs and the rest were from her new album. In all, not the best concert I have been to. My next concert (I hope) will be Rhianna!!!! Love her!
Well only 6 weeks left and I will be a Policelli! Where (again) did the last year go?
Phil's rental was almost sold this week. Some couple put in a low offer, we decided to accept after three days of thinking logically about it (cause the low offer was out 5% commission so we kinda won) andyways, they told my uncle "we are looking at a few more houses and then we will decide" Who does that? First you put in an offer and because we came back with another (which I might add they weren't negotiating people, they were firm in their offer) you don't accept when we say ok, you can have it? My sister-in-law feels they were playing us the whole time and wasn't really serious, which I can see why she thinks that. I just want this damn house to sell and then we can buy our house that we love so much!
That's about all the excitment around here. Stay tuned, because next week is music selection for the ceremony and my shower!!

More wedding plans...good lord

Tonight Phil, my parents, his brother and sister-in-law, and myself went to the wedding venue and did our taste testing. WOW, there was so much food! Dad kept requesting special meals. When our wedding coordinator came out to ask us which dessert we liked dad goes, "I love the galato but on the night of can I have another scoop of mango instead of the chocolate? Dad, how embarassing, and the coordinator was "of course". The gelato we choose is one scoop raspberry, one scoop chocolate and one scoop mango. What a nut he is. He also asked for something else special. Who's day is this anyways? ha ha ha.
We also booked our hotel room which is across the street. We want to continue the party. ha ha ha. ya right. I'll tell you what is going to happen. Phil will drag me by the gown and make me go to bed because I'll be wasted. At Alicia's wedding, I got so wasted the next morning Phil asked if there was an open bottle of vodka and then was "oh no, it's just you". ha ha ha it was seeping out my pours. Oh well. A fun time was had by all.
Next is my wedding shower. Can't wait what these ladies have in store for me.

AAAHHHHHH!

Well two months today and I'll be Jessica Policelli. Or as I tell Phil, I will be Jessica Ingham-Policelli. ha ha ha. He does not like that, being typical and traditionally Italian. Over the next two months I feel I have so much to do and no time to do it. We have our tasting this saturday. We go and taste a selection of dishes and choose what we want to serve our guests. I have heard good things about this place.
I'm in the middle of making a wedding program. I am searching the web for a letter or poem by Mozart or Winston Churchill. But I keep finding the same ones over and over. I guess I will just have to look/read my Love Letters book which contains letters written between Winston and his wife, Clemintine. This book is 1000 pages.
So the next few days, I will be working on wording and thank yous for my program. And I have to work on a speech for that night. I already have it in my head, but I have had great advice to put it down on paper. ha ha ha.
Well, I am off to bed. I will keep you posted on what happens next! I need more followers, btw. ha ha ha.

More wedding update

I think it's kinda silly after reading Jack's blog about apes and monkey's hand control to be discussing something silly like my wedding. But it's been a troubling time for me. ha ha ha. First of all I hadn't heard from my photographer for THREE WEEKS!!! What is with that? Then I wasn't sleeping because I was worried about not fitting my dress (across the back and chest because of my weight lifting). However, the photographer called back, FINALLY and I had my first dress fitting tonight. And I am happy to announce, it is TOO big across the chest and back. YES!!!! ha ha ha .
I am starting to get some replies from my invitations. I will admit, there were people I didn't think that were coming and they responded with an "accepts". Which I am quite happy about! It's so nice to know that people are looking forward to coming out and seeing us and sharing in our special day. Very exciting. I only have two more months left. Can you believe it? I can't. It all seems so sureal! (just like in the movie Nottinghill). It's not like I never thought I wouldn't ever get married, but it just creeps up so fast on you! I'm excited, yet very nervous and I will admit, scared.
Now on to my next biggest worry, Phil's rental property selling. I hope all the time that one of these days I will get a surprise call saying "we have an offer". Then we can look seriously and actually not have to live at Phil's house where I don't wanna be. It's not his house, and it certainly won't feel like mine. Phil lives in his "family" house and his dad lives in another house. Anways, these are the thoughts that consume my mind all the time these days. I know it's not cognitive thought process, but keep in mind, I hang around 5 year olds all day every day. I only know about The Wiggles, or what is happening on Mighty Machines! And some child told me the other day "I was watching Dirty Jobs and I saw a vet take a horses balls and cut them off and then grab the penis". That my friends is the intellectual conversations I encounter every day.

I jinxed myself

K, so I wrote too soon. I totally jinxed myself by writing everything was going smoothly. Right after Iwrote that, the priest called the next day and told me, get this, that the bishop called him and he now has something to do the day of MY WEDDING!!!! What is with that? I was speechless on the phone. He went on to tell me he called in a friend of his down the street to do the wedding. He's a deacon though, not a priest. For those that have never heard of a deacon, they are priests that are allowed to be married and have sex. Ya it's all fine and dandy that someone is going to marry us, but it's so sad that we have gotten to know the priest and was looking forward to having him marry us.
Anyways, on a happy note, I finalized our centre pieces with the flower nursery. I also bought gorgeous red vases for the girl's bouqets. They are authentic red vases, not painted glass.
Also today (Valentine's Day) Phil and I purchased our wedding bands. whoot whoot!!!!!!!!!
The day is coming up too fast. ha ha ha. Some of you may not know this but I am a huge Daddy's girl and am currently having a hard time with the fact that I will be leaving my daddy in only 2 months and 3 weeks. It's going to be just as hard on my parents as it is on me! ha ha ha.
I will keep you posted on the wedding and house plans!!

Things are finally to work out.

Well, all the things I was having problems/worries about regarding the wedding have finally worked out. I ordered wedding favours Nov.29 and no one told me they were back ordered so in jan. i emailed them and asked the the hell my stuff was and when they told me they were backed ordered i told them it would have been nice to have been told. They said the would be shipped out on Jan. 21st. THEN I emailed them on Jan 22nd to see if my order had been shipped. Get this, they are on back order now until FEBRUARY 15th. I said so help me they better be here by April. Turns out they got shipped out yesterday to me!!! Phew, I was really worried I wasn't getting them at all. Also, today the rose lady called and gave me a qoute for doing my centre pieces for me. Which turned out to be cheaper than I expected. So, two of my biggest worries, are now behind me. The music lady called today too. Looks like my March is booked solid. I can't believe it. It doesn't even seem real. 3 more months. I remember it was like yesterday where it was a year away. Where did the year go?

Up coming months

Well, it seems every day we are doing something for our wedding. Today mom and I went to the flower nursery to see about our roses. This weekend we are looking into bands and bridesmaid gifts. There seems to be more and more to do and not so much time anymore. Phil and I are still looking for a house and hoping every day that his rental property sells so we can buy a house before our wedding. Our dream house sold, which totally bums me out big time cause it was a great house and had everything I wanted. Oh well as people have been telling me lots lately, "it wasn't meant to be". Well, I would normally write on and on, but I have invitations to address and am getting ready for bed. Teaching kindergarten aged children all day is tiring. By the way, what is in the air? the kids are acting nuts!