Rainwater Rambling Archive

Braces: Round 2 and Fractured Fairy Tales

Today we started round two of braces. I took Angela this morning to get braces on her top teeth. She was pretty excited about getting them on. Here she is before we left.

And here she is with them on. She gets her bottom ones on at the beginning of April.

Tonight all three girls were going to Gillian's Pathfinder meeting. Gillian's group was putting on a play for all the area Sparks, Brownie and Guide groups. Gillian and the other third year Pathfinders put the show together as part of ther Canada Cord requirements. That's Gillian in the middle. Their play was called "Fractured Fairy Tales".

It was a good show and they put a lot of hard work into organizing it for the past couple of months.

Guide, Pathfinder, Guide

What's the chair about? At the school we were at, they had boxes of new folding chairs. As Chair of our school council, one of my goals is to do a fundraiser to help purchase new chairs for our school. Our school still has the wood seat and metal leg chairs that most will remember from their days at grade school. They are wobbly, they have cracks and are all round uncomfortable. My idea is to have families donate a chair and then recognize them by creating a plaque with names. Originally I thought we could put the plaque right on the chair, but it probably wouldn't last that long. I'll let you know this goes.

Way to go Claudia!

Claudia was one of two kids in her class who were chosen to go on to the gym for the speech competition. Her speech was on the World's Fastest Things. She has some time to practice and memorize her speech.

Way to go Gillian!

Gillian got her report card today for her first semester and she did great. She worked hard and it paid off with a 90 average. She has started second semester and has English, Science, Geography and Business.

Way to go Angela!

Angela is also going on to the gym for the speech arts competition. Her and Claudia will be in the same division. Angela's speech is on genetically modified foods. Unfortunately I'm in Newfoundland next week and will miss them. Their speeches are on Thursday morning. Good Luck to both of them.

The Rock in February and Happy to Be Off!

I spent the first week of the Olympics in Stephenville Newfoundland. It was bad enough trying to stay awake in Mississauga with the 3 hour time difference, try the 4.5 hour difference. Suprisingly, the winter out there has been similar to ours, a little bit more snow, but not as much as usual.

I was scheduled to be back early Friday morning, things were going to plan, settled into my priority seat. There were electrical problems with the system, so they tried the Airbus equivalent of the Ctrl-Alt-Del. After a few attempts, they announced the flight was cancelled. When they cancel a flight due to plane problems in Toronto, they just shuffle things around and voila, a new plane, you're good to go. In Deer Lake, when they cancel a direct flight back to Toronto on an Airbus 319, you're pretty much screwed as there are no other planes.

Eventually they re-booked us on a 12:15 pm flight to Toronto, not bad, only about six hours to wait. Through the morning, things got worse, 12:15 turned into 13:00, than 14:00, then 14:45 and finally 15:15.

There was some consolation when they announced over the PA that the plane had left Montreal. The ground technician covering up the engines, as they were expecting some weather to pass through.

It was almost 12 hours later than my original arrival time, but it was good to be home. A lot of people on the flight were going to destinations beyond Toronto, so they were scrambling to rebook their connecting flights. Many were going to the Olympics and down south. When the second plane arrived, it was starting to look like Pearson.

Speech Update

While I was away, the flu was going through the girls, and I caught the tail end when I got home. Angela was off early in the week followed by Claudia. Unfortunately this was also the week for the speech competition at school. Both were able to go to school that day and do their speeches in the gym, but they weren't 100%. Neither Claudia or Angela placed, but Susan said they did an excellent job, and Susan was the only parent there who had two kids in the gym.

Chloe Update

It's been awhile since I've done a Chloe update. She is up to 14 lbs, and Susan thinks she has stopped growing, I think she still has a little more to go. She started out in the bed, but she slowly ended up sleeping on the floor.

She loves her bucket, this one has cracked, but she still plays with it everyday. We'll have to look for a new one in the summer.

What little snow we got this winter sure liked to stick to Chloe. She would come in covered in snow.

Glad They're Over...Can't Wait For The Next Ones

The lack of blog updates through the end of February can be squarely blamed on the Olympics. Actually the lack of anything getting done around the house could be blamed on the Olympics. The girls really enjoyed them and were sad to see them go, okay so was I. Gillian wants to try curling next year at school.