Bugs for breakfast, ski with spongebob, fun mail, fallen snowman

We are having a January thaw. Sadly it's only a one day thaw. All that does is make a persons body confused and hopeful, then when we wake up tomorrow and it's cold again it will be like the weather is laughing, ha ha tricked you!

Anyway....Wednesday was yet another monthly mixed class day. In Mad science class the kids worked with polymers and made some fun slime to bring home. In animals class the theme was Bugs for Breakfast. All the animals this month were bugs or animals that eat bugs. As we are not normally allowed to get near the animals in this class, it was a novelty that the woman let us get up close and take photos of the bugs after the class. I took advantage of that offer since they were an interesting bunch of bugs and creatures.

Tarantula


Scorpions




Millipede


Gecko with food stored in its tail


Odd frog, might have been a tomato frog, I forget!


Toad


So that was Wednesday and a hectic day it was. I still had to work until shortly before we had to leave for class. Trevor wanted to go along to hang out with his friend who also has younger sibs in the classes so there were 4 kids to hurry along in the 10 minutes I had between work and needing to be back on the road to mixed classes. After class we visited with friends and the younger kids had fun sledding and playing Wii while Trevor and his friend played some sort of strategy game on the computer.

I worked 5 days and the house sure suffered (my sanity too!) The kids are doing good about helping out and keeping up with their chores but its not enough it seems. I took Saturday morning for cleaning and at least made a dent in the chaos.

Towards the end of the week we got a fun parcel from our friend Dorothy in England. we opened it on Saturday afternoon and had great fun looking over the contents and looking up some things. Tristan loves, loves, loves the Stonehenge rock rubber eraser.


Sunday was for skiing. What would I do without boys to drag me onto mountain tops?? Nothing like young boys to keep a mother young and slightly frightened :-).


It was character day and although we saw a couple dozen characters such as Nemo, SpongeBob, Bob the Builder, various sports and ski area mascots, we didn't get any photos with the characters. The kids were all about the skiing.


Enjoying a drink break.


It was a nice Sunday except for the fact that my broken toe isn't healed yet and the ski boots did irritate it. That was a pain but also a handy excuse when I fell down, it's my toe I tell you, I AM a good skier.

Monday brought a blink and you'll miss it January thaw. It RAINED instead of snowed. Very odd. This did mean I got an unexpected day off work! Very nice indeed. Not so nice is the fact that we used the last of our firewood today. Not good when you run out of firewood before you run out of winter.
Our poor snow people didn't cope with the 1 day thaw at all.



Poor snowpeople.

Back to normal tomorrow, work, cold, winter, maybe new snowpeople? Maybe they have to wait for the next snow which is predicted for Thursday.