  Graced by the sunshine I declared today to be "Bike-day". It brings an end to the annual ritual the kids have of asking me, "CAN YOU GET THE BIKES OUT!! " Every year around this time tires need to be pumped up, chains oiled, cables replaced, handlebars straightened and so on.
It takes all day as there are now 5 bikes to be brought back to life (and that excludes my own). That last trip to Canadian tire did me in - it was the third. Just when I was finishing Sarah's bike (the last one), I popped her tire by accident right at the stem. I could not possibly have left it unfished when all the others were done. She gives you that puss-in-boots look (you'll have to see Shrek 2 to know what I mean). Now I am greasy and tired. We convinced Sam to not wear a diaper today as well. This took much bribing.
He wet himself once and pooped in his pants once. So far he has not gone to the toilet of his own volition. If we succeed, this will mark the near end of 13 years of diapers for us. How delightful. Also newsworthy, today I declared war on the ants in our house. I got this RAID liquid stuff and put a few drops where I thought they were coming in. An ant walked up to it and didn't much care for it - ran away in fact.
I thought GREAT - I bought "too good to be true ant killer"!! The bottle said they take it back to the nest and it kills the queen and the whole colony. An hour later I went to look at my drops and there were swarms of ants taking the stuff and you could see exaclty where they were coming from. It was like they could not get enough of the stuff. Matt said, "Those ants are doing a great job of killing themselves. " Anyhow, we'll see if it works - looks hopeful. 
