One Day at a Time

• We survived the blizzard!!! I have no idea how much snow actually piled up out there once it was all said and done, but boy, was it ever nasty business for a good long while. Glad that's over!! It has all melted now, and we are back to having an abundance of muck outside. Wonderful.
• Matt has absolutely mastered the Wii! I'm wondering if one of our controllers has a stronger connection to the actual Wii than the other one, because Matt always insists on using this one particular controller, and he kicks our butts but good! I think I'll proceed believing this theory, because it beats having to admit that my four year old can smoke me at boxing, golf, baseball...
• Speaking of sports, we called to inquire about registering Matt for Lacrosse. Wow! Were we ever in for a shock! The lady on the other end of the phone politely told Barry that the Lacrosse league has some requirements of families wanting to be involved. The registration fee is around $100, then the equipment can run $300 -$350, depending on where you manage to find it, there are two practices a week, and games on most weekends. Some of the games require travel, and they do want the entire team there, so we would pretty much have to pack up our bags and go to wherever the games are held. They also like to see about 100 volunteer hours coming from each family. Barry asks her, politely though, "So, you know that he's four, right, not fourteen?" Yah, so, we've registered Matt for soccer.
• Things are going well for me at work, I'm learning lots in some different departments, and there might be some movement coming up, so we'll see what happens. I'm enjoying it more than I thought I would, and Matt is loving daycare so much I'm almost jealous!! Well, he really only gets overly excited about Fridays - show and tell day. The daycare director tells me that he LOVES to be the centre of attention, and apparently, he holds the crowd quite well. Oh my.
• As usual, Matt had some interesting stories for me lately. We borrowed a video from the library (a documentary sort of thing about African animals) and while we were watching it this afternoon, he turned to me and said, "I have three elephants you know. One is a girl. She is the mom, and her name is Crossy. I keep the two babies in a giant cage. The babies are named Lefty and Fastie. Fastie is the Fastest you've ever seen! Yup, I keep them in a cage at Home Depot. Do you think they have toys at Home Depot?"
• Barry headed to Mackenzie this weekend for a multitude of reasons. He needed to finish the seemingly never ending Peach Tree renovation, and view it since the vast majority of the restoration is complete (the pipe bursting incident after all his hard work was really the icing on the cake). This time I think we're really done! He also picked up the patio set and other outdoor items that were too far buried under the snow to get at when we moved the majority of our belongings in February. He is also pulling a friend's RV here (well, to Calgary) for him, so it seemed like there were enough reasons to just bite the bullet and go.
• I, however, am exhausted now. With Barry gone it has been a full plate for me this weekend. I have cleaned, done laundry, ironed, done the grocery shopping, played Wii with Matt (and been soundly beaten) been to the park, played chaotic (whatever that is, Matt pretty much tells what to do, how to do it, and when to say what), ...and it feels like the list goes on and on.

So, folks, it is possible to feel completely drained and completely happy all at the same time.

Hugs,

Laura