Monday December 7, 2009

So it was back to school today. The kids had to walk to school in very cold -26 temps this morning. They are serious troopers. I did not really leave the house today again. It's just too cold. It was Kaitlyn's day to open the advent calendar. Today's slip was to make paper snowflakes for our front window. They did really well. It looks festive! Grant went to the gym again today (I think I need to follow his example sometime soon). Chelsea and her kids happened to be a the Cross Iron Mills mall today, and stopped over when the kids were done school. They stayed for dinner, and a visit. Then we had to get ready to take Kaitlyn to swimming lessons. That was definitely something I did NOT want to do tonight. It was -22, Grant was at work and so I had to bring all of the kids to the rec centre and wait with them all while she had her lessons. It didn't go as badly as I imagined. It was cold, but not windy. We went to check out the new side that just opened at the rec centre. It was pretty dead in that hallway and it sloped downwards, so my kids had a fantastic time racing cars down it. It kept them busy for most of the time, and then we went in to watch Kaitlyn. She is doing really well. She surpassed all of my swimming skills a long time ago. When we got home, we had quite the surprise waiting for us. On our coffee table, there was a christmas tin full of hershey's kisses and candy canes. The kids were excited, and I thought it was really nice of someone. There was no tag on it, so it unnerved me a little to think that someone was in my house when I was gone, LOL! We had not locked the door when we left. The kids ate a few of the treats, and then made their snowflakes. I am wishing for warmer weather, but at the same time...it has kind of kept me away from any type of shopping because I don't want to go out. Bittersweet!