Nothing much

A quiet Friday really; nap in the morning, puttering around in the afternoon, added my sb pages to my blog, finished up a page... Turns out no one came to scrap Friday last night. That's ok, I finished a few things downstairs, sorted my chipboard letters to put them in little drawers, etc. I guess this is how I like my Fridays...really quiet. I get to do what I want, when I want. No one to tell me what to do, what they need, when to do it, etc. Doing what I want, when I want is my greatest luxury as a mom. I mostly did that yesterday.

Today we are going skiing. Alex has her course this morning, Dominic and I will ski and I think Gilles will finally take a lesson and try it out. I can't wait till we can all ski together. It's supposed to rain today but I don't think it will before noon so we'll be done by then.
Chantal and her kids are supposed to come over this afternoon. Moms will scrap and kids will play. Should be fun.
Maybe I'll have more to say later but this is all I can come up with this morning.

Finally! A day at work.

So I finally got a full day's work in today. Alex is still stuffed up a bit and complains of an ear ache once in a while but she is much better.
The weekend is here!! Even though I only worked 1 full day this week, I'm exhausted. I can't wait to take it easy tomorrow. I don't want to go out, just stay in and scrap.
Dominic is going tubing with his daycare tomorrow since school is closed tomorrow and Monday. He should have lots of fun. Hopefully it won't be as cold as today...it's not supposed to be.
Well, I really don't have much to say...I just want to go to bed and finish my book. I'm reading Full Moon, or is it Eclips...from the Twilight series. Anyways, it's the 3rd and I'm almost done! I would never have believed I would go nuts over a vampire story! Even worse, a teenage vampire story. You get so sucked in you really believe they exist and it's real! So off I go....

Quickie

Well, it's really late and I'm really tired but I really don't want to start making excuses and give up on this...So here's a quickie for you.
Lise (Alex's babysitter) called last and and said she was closing today (personal reasons). Gilles had to be at a client's all day so, AGAIN I had to stay home with Alex. So I decided to take her to work with me and do at least a few things that needed to get done. Turns out we stayed all morning. She loved it. She colored; I set up a little desk for her in my office. She watched Mamma Mia on a computer (I had brought the movie and her earphones). After that she listened to her MP3 player and danced and sang around my office. She didn't want to leave!
Then we had lunch with Gilles and went to a few stores to run errands. We pick up Dominic and went home, it was almost 5!
We're all kind of getting sick of Mamma Mia (house, car, work...) so I decided to make a switcheroo on them...I introduced the to GREASE!!! They LOVED it! Alex got mad that I sang every song though...I just couldn't stop myself. So maybe we'll get a bit of a break for now...I guess I'll have to go get High School Musical when we get sick of Grease :-)
Off to bed and my vampire stories now...good night.

Another day...another fever

Alex is still home. She's a bit better this morning but it may be the Motrin I gave her a few hours ago. We'll see. I'm staying with her this morning and Gilles will be with her after lunch.
I'm going out to dinner with Margie and Marie-Andrée tonight since Margie's in town. I see them so rarely it will be an event!
Not much more to tell today, day hasn't even started yet! It's a bright and sunny day and not very cold; it's supposed to be like that all week. What a nice change! Hopefully it will improve my mood. I've been down lately and I'm not sure why; maybe overwhelmed by all I have to do, sick and tired of the same old dishes, laundry, pick up after the kids (imagine if I didn't have a cleaning lady!!). I know, it's everyone's life, but it's getting to me lately. Could be weather, everyone's sick, Gilles not finding a job yet, etc etc etc. Maybe I'll have 2 drinks with the girls tonight!! ;-)

Monday...

Well, Alex is pretty sick. High fever, ear ache. She's had a cold for over a week but it hadn't bothered her until last night. I laid on the couch with her for a couple of hours tonight and watched Mama Mia....again. Motrin helps her but you can tell when the effect disapears. She stayed home today, and may have to tomorrow again. Poor her, she just wants to play with her friends.

Warning, Sunglasses required

OK, I know this is really bright, but it's Alex's favorite background so I'll give it a week...Promise!!

Snow much fun!

So we went out sledding today. We built a really cool slide by the house and the kids had a blast as you can see.