Wednesday Dec. 9, 2009

Today Grant went to the gym again. I am inspired by his dedication. It's motivating to see him going almost everyday. Maiya chose the slip today for the advent calendar, but as soon as the kids got home from school, it was go, go, go..so we didn't have time to do our activity today. It was supposed to be "play a christmas game together". So we missed it for today, and will have to do it tomorrow.
After Catcher went to school, Grant, Maiya, Tyson and I went to the mall. I needed to shop for Grant for christmas. We split up, he took Tyson and I took Maiya. I went around looking for gifts for him, as well as my brother Daniel (I got his name in the name draw). I`m not saying what I got in case he ever reads this blog. It was a nice time shopping. Then we had to get home in time for the kids coming home from school. Grant ordered pizza for dinner tonight. Then it was time to get ready to take the kids out. I had to drop off McKenna at activity days first, and then dropped off Damian at gymnastics and then hop on over to the rec centre to drop off Kaitlyn at swimming lessons. McKenna made and delivered cookies to people for her activity. This was Damian`s last class of gymnastics, and he passed. So he will start level 3 in January. Kaitlyn got her mid term report for swimming lessons and is doing well. She just needs more work on her front crawl. Later when we got home, the kids went to bed and Grant and I watched "Harry Potter and the Half Blood Prince". I think it is one of my favourite movies out of the series so far. I love it! I also worked on my family christmas letter. Every year, I ask my family to write a letter about what has happened in their lives in the past year, and add a page with recent photos,
and then we all get one at my Mom's christmas party. We have been doing this for about 4 years now...and I LOVE it. It is cool to look back on those letters and pictures (I keep them in page protectors in a binder) and to see how much things have already changed in each of our lives. I think it will be an awesome thing for the kids to look back on especially. To see what their cousins looked like back then and themselves, and to read about what they did that year. It's our own easy way of pulling together some sort of family history. I look forward to it every year.