Lessons

This week has been a week of learning valuable LESSONS for the Russell Family!

We have been learning new things about dog training and how to parent when you have been hit by the figurative illness TRUCK!

This week I got sick.  Then William felt sick (never know how bad though as he was still running about like a terror!).  Then Clay jumped on board the sickness train this weekend.  Luckily it was a nice easy week... NOT!!! I worked on Friday, then we headed to Edmonton as we had Dog Whisperer Tickets for Saturday evening.


 Clay's Sister Meagan and brother in-law Matt watched William Saturday night.  They all got dressed up and headed to a formal dinner for Auntie Meagan's school.  Meagan and Matt ensure us that he was great, but I'm pretty sure they arent telling us everything!  Then again when you only have to deal with the craziness that is William for a few hours, his eccentricities are much easier to handle!
We stayed at Matt and Meg's in Fort Saskatchewan.  They have a wonderful little duplex that Meagan has decorated amazingly!  I'm still pea-green with envy over how nice it looks, in comparison to my toy strewn, hair infested, finger printed home!  It was such a nice visit and we totally are thankful for their hospitality to their voice-less diseased family!!!

Saturday night me and Clay headed to Rexall Place and braved the mobs of crazy dog people (side note- If you ever have a chance to see 'dog people' in their natural habitat amongst other dog people, you will get many lesson's in fashion, hair and makeup  and personal fitness do's and dont's!  Almost as good as Walmart on Saturday mornings!)  Ceaser Millan is our personal dog training guru.  We really like his philosophy's,  The show was really great!  Most of the stuff Ceaser discussed was stuff that we knew from watching his show but we both took away a couple of things that turned on the cliche "light bulb" for us.  Ceaser was actually very funny, and he kept talking about "moose-es" and how cold it is up here!  As good as the show was we were both really feeling icky by the end, we got out of Rexall Place in record time and after a couple wrong turns headed back out to Fort Saskatchewan. 

Our weekend was full of learning.  here is a review of some of the lesson's we learnt this weekend;
1- Children still have endless energy when they don't feel well.
2-Parents don't have endless energy when they are sick.
3-Toy robot fighting RC cars will leave a huge dent in brand new hardwood floors.  (sorry M&M!)
4-Sending William to a Formal dinner with his Aunt is a lot easier then doing Auntie Meagan's hair.  (side note- Meagan's hair looked pretty good).
5-"Dog people" are an interesting group, and the Mullet is still alive and Kicking!
6-Loosing your voice causes your partner to think that you are either upset or yelling at them all the time, it tends to fade in and out at the wrong time.
7-Hand washing is VERY IMPORTANT in infection control! (that one we knew already but in my true nursing form I wanted to get some health teaching in to this post!)