Michele’s Musings

I picked our portrait package out!  I decided on #12 to send out to family and friends, but I also ordered 11 5×7’s of others.  I think I’ll put 3 of the B&W’s together in a frame for the livingroom, and 3 of the coloured pictures together to hang in our bedroom.  We highly recommend Tammy from Smiley Eyes Photography, we had a fun time taking the pictures and she is so very nice to work with!  We’ll definitely be booking another session with the kids for a family portrait.

Well I survived day 2 of the deep freeze by not leaving the house (unlike yesterday when I had to shovel….)  I was up sick 1/2 the night and got no sleep, so I called in sick to work so I could get some sleep…. unfortunately when I tried to nap my eyes wouldn’t stay shut, so I got up, ate a handful of chocolate covered coffee beans, sucked back a few cups of coffee and managed to make it through the day.

Since the windchill this morning was -45C or something ridiculous like that, we decided to keep the kids home from school today.  Silly me forgot to ask Arran if he had any tests today….. yup he missed 2 midterm exams although he claims there will be a make up test on Thurs, he better hope so!  Our streets have still not been shovelled by the complex, so even if James had driven them this morning, they would have had a horrible time trying to walk home through the snow drifts.  Here is what they looked like this afternoon.

That is along the side of our house, the sidewalk in the front is even worse because of drifting snow, but I wasn’t going OUT in it to get a good shot!

Here is our yard, you can see the depth of the snow from this angle.  Our deck is under there somewhere….

And a little perspective, to see how much snow fell in one day, here is our old Little Tykes table stored in the yard…. there was maybe an inch or so of snow on it before the storm.

So glad the forcast doesn’t call for any more snow, only bone chilling cold.   So the kids will go back to school tomorrow bundled up really well!

We had a nice snow day at home though, Arran got some learning in by watching a 2 hour program about the history of the Great Wall of China that he TiVo’d on the weekend.  Rowan baked cookies with Fun Dough from the cookie dough fundraiser, and we played board games in the afternoon.  And amazingly, James made it to and from work with no problems…. just very slow going.  His car started and he didn’t even plug it in!