Another two day entry… yesterday was a busy one… the battery on mom’s car decided it hated winter, Ken and the idea of starting period so our early morning jump plan (thank you anyway Nathan) was a no go… this knocked out a series of events we had set up for the day – all around Ken doing stuff OUTSIDE of the house. Haircut, bottles to the depot, taking advantage of a sale at Michaels, all not done. Thankfully we were able to catch Chris and Chris before they headed back home out of town for the evening and they stopped by so (he)Chris could drive Ken to Canadian Tire to pick up a new battery. On the up side it now starts like a dream!

Last night we dress the whole family up in their fancy clothes and had our favourite professional photographer over for a session. I have to say from just looking on his camera screen, the best of all the pictures has to be of Miss Trinity. I cannot wait until we get our cd… he had some great ideas of fun poses and had TONS of patience with the questions the boys had AND Trinity’s original playing shy.

Trinity in her dress

We have coloured our human bodies – life sized tracings of each of the kids so that tomorrow we can label where the sense are – ie seeing eyes. Of course there has been more worksheet work, now if I could just get us out and about to take advantage of our Leisure pass so that we can expand what we are doing I will be a happy camper.

Colouring bodies (Gavin yellow)

Most of my spare time has been spent working on decorating our tree and hunting down our Christmas decorations. The friends’ party is on the 18th of the month so I want to get as much done NOW so I can focus on baking and gifts. We have our Perler bead Advent calendar and the mini tree just for the kids that have to be set up, and I found a rubbermaid tub FULL of Christmas craft supplies. The plan tomorrow morning is to open up the tub and let them use their imaginations. Should be interesting.

Kids' Christmas corner

The weather has actually warmed up a bit around here! -2 Celsius as a high is so much better than -20! I am hoping the kids can get out in the snow tomorrow while Ken is FINALLY able to run out and get his errands done. We have to pick up the twins’ snow pants tomorrow, Ken sourced out nice affordable ones at Superstore. And with the sale of another of my Kijiji ads I can buy a set of the kids’ traditional Christmas pj’s. We always start Christmas day with new jammies.

I am seeing the end of the cross hatching on my nephew’s stocking, and the heel and toe are stitched and ready for outlining. That leaves the name and the actual design portion, I am hoping the weekend will be long enough to complete it. After all mom is the one who is going to finish it off so we can give it to him as a gift from us both!

Stocking to date

I have found some more ribbon instructions and am looking forward to spending some of tonight with the hot glue gun and my imagination. I really need to find a place other than Michaels to buy my ribbon, they just do not have the colour selection I am looking for in the 3/8ths gauge.

So for 2 days not much to share BUT I am remaining hopeful that our vehicle issues are coming to a close. No word from the mechanic tonight BUT he does do work on Fridays and Saturdays AND I have talked to a couple people about my Monday appointment. Pain in the bum but I am desperate NOT to reschedule. Gotta get these things OFF my list! Wish me luck.

Big brother Zander