December so far...
It has been a crazy busy month. Brian traveled for work for the first two weeks. So... that equals crazy.
However, we managed to get Tinkerbelle into have her teeth surgery. She had 5 rotted teeth, and they were in need of removal. She is doing well and is now working on learning to eat hard food again.
We went to the Pickering Tree lighting Ceremony which was super fun as always. Lots of Christmas carol singing, crafts, Elsa, Anna and Christoph from the movie Frozen were there as well as Puss in Boots. Then the kids even got their picture with Santa and Mrs. Claus.
The bonus for them was a ride on the tea cups, cotton candy (for Hadley) and popcorn (for Easton).
There was a brief trip to Listowel to deliver Lindsay's dogs to her aunt (as Lindsay is still in England and her mother in law is travelling to England for Christmas, so an exchange had to be made).
Then I met up with my friend Shaye and we sorted boxes for Operation Christmas Child in Kitchener. This was followed by a shopping trip with my brother, and the kids (as Brian was away).
There was a day where the propane tank had to be lifted, and reset after putting better material underneath it, so coordinating a crane operator, a bulldozer and a propane mechanic who all had their own 4 hour windows was SUPER fun, but it worked out.
December 11th came and marked the one year mark since Lindsay's sister Sarah passed. It was a hard day. Many facebook messages brought up some good memories. I cried. I facetimed Lindsay which was nice. She had been waiting to put up her tree until after this day, so it was perfect that she opened up a small ornament I had sent over for her to open on that day. My brother was also super awesome and took a photo of Sarah's resting place on that day, so I could send it to her.
The kids had a snow ball at school. A winter dance. They loved that and I was so glad to be able to volunteer to help out with it. They also loved that it was pizza day, and I was again able get KISCO to donate freezies to the school for their frozen event.
My friend Shaye got a promotion? Well, she is moving from nights to days after 12 years at her job, and she is also changing her weekends from MON/TUES to SUN/MON. Super excited for her!
Christmas cards went out before Christmas which was a bit of a miracle. :)
Brian's sister Lisa turned 40! We were glad to be able to facetime her. The kids made a cute little video to send as well.
This year the school decided that with the teacher strike, only the kindergarten classes would do a concert.
So, Easton got up, tried not to look at us, but then sang his heart out to a mitten song, as well as a snowy pokey song. Super cute!
When we asked him later why he didn't want to look at us, he said because then I would smile.
Today is the last day of school before the holidays, and the kids are getting out an hour early... I better get a few more things done!