Day 100………..EEK.
3 Girls and 4 Suitcases.
I can’t believe that we have been here 101 days (my blog is
a day behind) although in some ways it feels like we have always been here.
How great is it that I am still writing this blog daily,
after one hundred days? So very proud of myself for sticking with it. Writing
the blog is mainly for Bill, so that he knows what we are getting up to and how
I’m feeling but I am glad that some of you dip in and out occasionally to see
what’s happening over here.
I spent a bit of yesterday writing another blog for a fantastic
website which is like a holistic directory….and more. You can find it over on www.theworldofhealth.co.uk/blog
You will find some other blogs there and Eileen who runs the site is keen for
others to send her their information in blog format, for her to share on the
site. Get writing folks, if you have a holistic passion of some sort.
Alison informed me that she didn’t like when I wrote about
the Bach Flower remedies in here. ‘It’s boring’ to her. It prompted the emergence
of another difference between my two girls. Ali ‘skims’ the blog, to see if her
name is there and reads that bit. Jen loves to read the whole thing. I wish I
could be a ‘skim’ reader but I am definitely more of a ‘need to read it all’
person. Now that doesn’t mean that Jen can’t ‘skim’ read (what is the official
term for that?) it just means that she choses not to, for this blog.
The house was cold yesterday-Brrr. Alison was off school for
an in-service (they call it a P.A day here and don’t ask me what it stands for
because I haven’t thought about it as being important as I know the
translation) We curled under blankets and I did my meditation under my duvet,
only to be shocked at the coldness of downstairs, afterwards. I had to run back
upstairs and put on woolly tights under my yoga pants and another sweater on. How
on earth do the homeless cope? I watch a lady, outside the Shoppers Drug,
around the corner and I just shiver at the thought of sitting there. I suppose
(and this is not minimizing the plight of the homeless.) that your body does
adapt to lower temperatures. My father-in-laws house can be pretty darn cold in
the winter, if you arrive there unexpected because he doesn’t feel the cold as
much as we do. When Bill and I lived with him, when Andrew was a baby, there
was not heating upstairs and we used to put Andrew to bed in a hat-eek. A
definite no-no and I was a paediatric nurse-lol.
Back to Etobicoke and Ali worked an extra hour yesterday at
the Day Care. She’s going to work some extra hours during school holidays too.
I love her stories about the little people although some of them make me sad to
think that these small humans have to spend such long days without their
parents.
Andrew came for Pizza and we watched the movie ‘The Rise of
the Guardians’. Initially, I was not too sure of Andrews Christmas choice because
it didn’t sound very ‘Christmassy’ to me but it was fantastic. It wasn’t about
Christmas but it had Santa in it so it did qualify and it was fun.
It was lovely to have my three kids in the one room and to
see the way that they get along. Also funny to see them all with their noses in
their phones, at one point. Ah the joys of family-time in 2014. That said, I
know that I am lucky that they will sit and watch a movie together in the same
room and have some laughter and conversation together with their mum.
Righty ho. It is our day of ‘out-and-about’ today and so I
will close. I did manage to prise myself out of bed at 6.50 but have failed to
have my meditation done before waking Ali. We are heading out for ten because
Ali has a drama workshop across town at eleven. There is some indication that
Jen and I may have to stay but I am hopeful NOT. We plan to go see Hunger
Games, whilst 'oot' and there may be some shopping, if I know my girls.
Love to all and I hope that you all have a wonderful
weekend.
Lxxx
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