Winter has Struck!!!

It is BRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRR so cold here. For the Canadians and Australians, it has been about -32 at night. Americans you'll have to convert, but just think "really stinkin cold!!!!" The cold makes me cranky. My hubby is getting sick of it. The floor in our house gets freezing cold and the bedrooms upstairs get none of the fireplace heat. COLD COLD COLD. I HATE being COLD! The I got feeling sorry for the dogs and the cat because they are freezing so my dear hubby thought he'd do something about it, and he traded some hours of work with Dan (our heating and airconditioning expert) and I now have his guy here putting our old furnace into the garage and venting the house so the heat from the fireplace goes up to the bedrooms. YAE FOR HEAT!!!! As for the ice cold spot on the kitchen floor, I fixed that solution with a rug. Back to good mood!

Yes, as you can see, Kylie is now taller than Abby. Although, her legs are short so she can still have Abby's old pants. It all works out.

Can't wait until we're done swimming. It takes forever to bundle everyone up and then trudge out on bad roads to get to lessons. I think they'll both pass. The teacher at half-way report told me Kylie's a little fish and she has no worries. Abby swims amazing. You would not believe this is the kid who wouldn't put her face in the water last year. She swims lengths under water now. WOOHOO!!!

Steve worked 72 hours last week. Whew! Now this week he is having some early days so that's great. Hope he gets some sleep now. Oops. Chelsea is awake so I better go. I also need to make cookies for the bake sale at Abby's school.

Love you all,

Jen and family.

I am tired

Beyond tired actually. I would like to go back to bed for the entire day, but alas....it is not meant to be. Perhaps an afternoon nap is in order? Pretty sure with a new bed and a new back I'd feel a lot more refreshed. I slept on the hump in the middle last night and it was a wee bit better. The kids are awake. Well better go get the week over with and hope that this weekend I'll actually have my husband home with me. Feels like it has been MONTHS! Happy Tuesday.

Love,
a very tired Jen

Just another day in crazy town

Hi. How are you? What's new? I hope you're having a good November. We are so far, in spite of the business of life. The little people have been doctoring a little bit. Hayley has a home sleep study on December 9th to rule out sleep apnea as part of her snoring issues. Her teacher has also informed me that Hayley pees way more than the average student so guess we'll try to figure that out too. Abby has this intense sore throat that has her crying all day and night and not eating. She even cries when she drinks water. She had a 2-3 day fever that went away but didn't take care of the sore throat. I was thinking strep....the doctor thinks hand, foot, mouth disease??? We'll see who's right when the swab comes back. In the meantime we will be sleepless. Oh yes and lice came back to live with Hayley and Abby so this week we have been trying to comb lice out of a fever ridden child while doing 40 loads of laundry and disinfecting furniture....it has been exhausting to say the least.

So I went out for my usual Monday night coffee and finally found some really cool big tea cups. Love them. I've been looking for big mugs for a long time so that was exciting to finally find some neat ones.

And that's it. Nothing else is happening around here. We continue to do all the things we normally do....school, swimming, piano etc..etc... we're not bored anyhow.

Steve works hard at work. Or....plays hard :) It would seem that when I call him he's just discovered some new game on his computer. But I know it's hard work organizing his sub trades and making sure he knows what the plans say and it must be kind of boring when there's nothing to do but supervise.

Well I am freezing cold because I let the fire die out so this is all for now. I'll maybe write next month. I am getting anxious for a hot holiday and it hasn't even snowed yet! I think I'm in for a looonnnggggg winter!

Until next time,

The 6 of us.