Flying

My mother is currently in the air flying to Holland. My grandfather (her father) died last week. It's very sad:(

My brother is flying into kingston next weekend for a job interview. He'll be staying at the hotel belvedere. Anyone know anything good/bad or otherwise about it? (The place he is interviewing with selected it)

Thanks to Marlene, James and Myron went to the fronts game last night and I got a bit of a quiet break. This is good as I seem to have a very nasty chest cold. I am going to bed now in hopes that sleep will have a healing effect.

better

It was a big learning experience but the exam schedule is done. Now I'm just waiting for the complaints to roll in!

James was feeling much better today. He seems to have sprung back to his jolly self.

The Bachelor seemed a lot more positive this week in that the girls seemed to be trying to resolve their differences. I think it is just trying to keep us unprepared for next week when it will all flare up again. We'll see...

sleeping beauty

James awakened from his nap about 8:30pm and commented that wasn't it DARK for the morning? And he was glad it was a PA day today. I had to burst his bubble and tell him it was 8:30pm not 8:30am. His fever seems to have gone down a lot. He is again watching hockey on tv bundled up in his blankies.

Update on the wee one

He powered out of bed at 7:30am dancing but returned after about 1/2 hour saying his tummy didn't feel well. He moaned about a bit as he is not a happy sick camper. It distresses him a lot. He had a bit of a fever. He lay down to watch hockey. He would be ok for 1/2 hour then cry because of the pain. He tried having water a couple of times but that disturbed his system too much. Finally, around lunch time he had some water and it didn't make him complain, so I gave him some crackers and that seemed to go ok too. He ate about a dozen but hasn't had the appetite for anything else. He seemed to do ok in the afternoon- no complaints at least. He played quietly and watched Corner Gas. (thanks bro- I always think of you when he watches it)
Than he was tired and he fell asleep about 6pm. Hopefully, he is on the mend!

Happy Birthday Bro!

All you get this year is a blog post. lol :) Course that's probably what you got last year too...let me know if blog posts don't serve as adequate presents!

In June Kim was told her mom had a week to live. Her mom had chemo. Kim was told it was unlikely that her mom would respond. The cancer was gone from her body after the first treatment. The tumors had eaten away at Kim's mom's bones. They told Kim that she would need surgery to put pins in the bones to hold them together. Last week Kim's mom had X-rays and THE BONES ARE GROWING BACK. She doesn't need surgery anymore! Kim's mom is a walking (literally!) miracle.

James was supposed to go to artillery park gym today to play with his friends but he's not feeling well today :(

Empty

As you can probably ascertain from the lack of posts, the wheels sort of fell off in the last week. A brief summary:
-this is the week I had to get a lot of the course set up + the exam schedule has to be done by Mon aft.= about 4 hours of sleep a night
-myron's uncle died last saturday
-our car battery conked out on wed and so james couldn't go to hockey practice
-I haven't sent my bro's birthday card and his birthday is tomorrow! He's coming to kingston in a couple of weeks for an interview- maybe we can celebrate then. I'll pretend I planned it that way.
-James finished his gymnastics course. After March break he'll be starting ball hockey and swimming.
-James went to the fronts game last night- it was minor hockey night so he went with his team- he didn't get to sleep until 11pm then he had to be up early for an 8am game. I'm going to bed early even if he isn't (Hockey night in Canada)
-my brain isn't really functioning now, so I'm going to mark papers

Ear, Ear

James has an ear infection he was up screaming in the night the last couple of nights. He's on antibiotics and pain killers now.

All of a sudden it seems a bunch of people are in the hospital- Will's son has something leaking inside him after stomach surgery, E-F had her appendix rupture and so on. This downward spiral has to reverse at some point.

We start the exam scheduling for April on Monday but we have no VENUES yet. People at the top have to decide if they will allow us to use the PEC. We are awaiting their decision. Not that we have to do it Mon am as we have to load the data in before we can start scheduling. I hope someone can make a decision very soon!

I have a lot of marking and scheduling to do on the weekend. Need to sleep now as last night was not good at all.

air bubble

Tonight it felt like I had an air bubble in my head. How do you pop an air bubble in your head, I wondered. It's feeling better now though.

The Bachelor last night was good. I thought it was good the he let michelle go before she tortured herself through another rose ceremony. I thought it was good that he let the girl who seemed to be playing games go as well as some other girl I didn't remember. Vienna seems to be the one he is currently most invested in. I think they are down to 9 now and next week he doesn't want to give out 2 of the roses, which is quite a high %. They might have planned to take it from 9 to 7 and it goes 9 to 5 cutting them almost in half instead.

Thinking about Marlene today as they were planning an induction this morning.

for my mom

My mother helped me acquire this great sweater and I promised her a pic :)

Today was noticeably easier for me thanks to Henrie's work on Thursday as I do a lot of my house cleaning on Saturday.
I did up my TA schedules and did some marking.
AJ was over in the afternoon and the boys had a great time together, though AJ was very upset when he had to go home- he doesn't like to leave. They'll have another playdate tomorrow, I'm sure.
I have to go in to work after Church as there is an optional tutorial for the students plus I have a pile of set-up to get done.

I made pizza tonight, tacos tomorrow!

October photo shoot

Pictures from October when James and I were cutting down the dead flowers from the back patch. James did great at cutting them down. He also liked posing for me.