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Wednesday, February 03, 2010
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.
Friday, February 05, 2010
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.
Saturday, February 13, 2010
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.
Saturday, February 20, 2010
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.
Sunday, February 21, 2010
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.
Saturday, February 27, 2010
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.
Sunday, February 28, 2010
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.
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