Conditions at 4:30 am: -3' and overcast
Expected later: -1' and a few clouds
Talk about a busy couple of days! Friday I left work at 3:30 and went over the the Rural to pick up Brenda. I had just arrived when she drove in with her bus. So off to the airport, where my flight to Halifax was slightly delayed. The fellow at the gate told me there was very little time when I got to Halifax so not to be surprised if my luggage didn't make it. Sure enough, when I got to Halfax I went straight to the gate and arrived just in time for the final boarding call. No problem. An easy trip to Toronto, albeit a bit late landing but the amazing thing was when I got to the luggage carousel, the bags hadn't started coming down the chute yet and there were three lonely bags circling around and can you believe it - one of them was mine. I'm thinking they may have sent them on a later direct flight so they would be there when we got there. No idea but it was great! I called Lloyd who met me out front and we were soon on our way. It was by far the most seamless flight to Toronto I've ever taken.
We zipped back to Guelph in time to meet Jana and Scott for sushi. We made absolute pigs of ourselves but it was SO good! We had a lovely time and it was great to get caught up with them. We eventually had to leave as the place was closing. They had walked and we drove so we got home slightly before them. It's the first time I've stayed there and it felt really strange, as I know the place so well. Lloyd has a lovely spot to live.
Saturday morning dawned bright and sunny. We headed out at 8:00 for breakfast with the guys from the airport. That's always an entertaining time. Then we poked around and made a couple of stops until it was time to meet Heather and Kim for lunch! After lunch we stopped round to a consignment shop where she had placed a small antique spinning wheel, that Heather very graciously thought I should have. It's now taking up a small space in Lloyd's apartment (it's not the big style, it's actually quite compact).
Then back to Guelph for a wee nap until time to go out for supper with Jan and Kathy. I napped while Lloyd played on the computer. James has him totally hooked on this cyper airline game that the two of them play with. We were getting ready to go out and I got an email from Patti a little after 5:00 wondering what time we would be arriving. They were getting a little nervous about the snow. Snow? What snow? Well I went and looked out the window and we must have had at least 3 inches of new snow that had fallen in the past hour and it was still coming down quite hard! We had no idea as the blinds in Lloyd's apartment had been closed. Boy did that come fast and furious. So we headed out to meet our friends for dinner and eventually ended up at Symposium. We had tried to make reservations at a couple of places but none were available. Regardless, we had a lovely evening.
We arrived at the Dennison's around 8:00 and after a quick briefing on what was going on when, they were off on their grand adventure! The kids were needless to say, excited to see us but they quickly settled down and we all went downstairs to watch a movie. When it was over, it was bed time for everyone.
Sunday morning James woke up early and he was really not feeling well at all. He was coughing, and had a sore throat, and he claimed his stomach wasn't feeling well either. He spent most of the morning lying on the couch covered in a blanket. He was also running a bit of a fever so I just let him stay there. I spent the morning puttering in the kitchen, taking stock of what we had in the freezer and the fridge to see what we were going to have to eat this week. Once everyone was up, we made breakfast and all sat at the table and ate together (except for James, who still was lying on the couch). By lunch he wasn't feeling much better so I gave him a children's advil, in hopes it might help with the fever. I asked him about baseball and he really didn't feel up to going, so he stayed home. He really didn't start feeling better till about mid afternoon. Needless to say he stayed home all day.
Meg and I went out briefly to the dollar store to pick up a few decorations for her shoe box that will hold her box lunch on Valentine's Day. It turned out quite nicely. She did a really good job on it.
We all sat downstairs and watched a bit of TV later in the afternoon and then the kids helped me with supper. I found a large steak in the fridge so we made Beef Stroganoff with buttered noodles. We had salad and steamed brocolli along with it and lemon meringue pie for dessert. We'd picked up some frozen pie shells at the store and there was a package of pie filling in the cupboard. I can tell James stilll wasn't feeling well, as he ate a tiny bit of supper, and only had about three bites of his pie and gave the rest to Papa. That speaks volumes as lemon pie is his favorite!
After cleaning up the dishes, it was time enough to finish home work, watch part of a movie and then get bathed and off to bed. Lloyd stayed up watching the super bowl.
Meadow was a really good girl all day. She didn't have one single accident in the house all day.
Now it is early morning, and Lloyd has left for work. I have a bit of quiet time before it's time to get everyone up and off to school!
We've come up with a chart that is on the fridge. Yesterday was a day off but today we will start earning stars. They will get stars in each of 4 categories - Manners, being helpful, listening and doing what you're told and homework completed.There is a graduated system as well. Really great behaviour will get you a gold star, but then we have three degrees after that - not quite up to gold, really needs improvement and then really bad. Everyone is working really hard to get gold stars. Sunday was a trial run, with no stars awarded but we will start tonight. It worked yesterday. If I made a request and it was met with less than enthusiastic response, I just had to mention that wasn't worthy of a gold star and I got immediate compliance! No one wants any bad stars on the chart when mom and dad get home!
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