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So I have had sick children - or been sick myself....for two weeks now...so we haven't been anywhere or really done anything for two weeks........I love to be at home when its my choice but now I am starting to feel a bit housebound and fed up! The roads are nasty in town ...took Lloyd sooo long to get to work this morning....luckily everyone is being careful and there weren't many accidents reported.....but it puts me off going out tonight for date night and leaving the children......so we will stay home instead................

Yesterday we had thick fog so I stayed home and misses homeschool group, library day etc etc.....but the girls went to dance.....today Lloyd has taken my truck in to be serviced so I have no truck to go anywhere.....I had no truck Monday because Rosie had to go to the vets...

We had a big dump of snow last night....a surprising amount for early November.....looks like it could well hang around for the rest of winter......tonight the temp is supposed to drop to -19c..........in fact it reached the high 0f 2c at 4am this morning and has been dropping ever since...... -8 by the drive home they say..............

Please tomorrow NO fog and NO icy roads or more snow.....I am going OUT!!! I'm meeting my friend Samantha and she has invited my younger two into her preschool class for a while in the morning.......Chris is working all day and we want to go shopping too...........tomorrow night the kids all have friends sleeping over (hopefully) and Friday I am going to the opening of a new playgroup......then the boys have the homeschoolers teen movie night in town....they go at 3:30 and they are having a movie marathon......watching all three Indiana Jones movies, discussing them and sharing pizza :) it's a monthly thing! It ends at 11pm I think....

But for today I am 'stuck' at home again....the furnace guy should be here at any moment... he is servicing the furnace and fixing the humidifier.....

We have tidied up and the bathrooms are clean, floors are vacuumed, laundry sorted, kitchen clean and main floor dusted.....basement is tidied.....

Its now 9:44am and I am catching up with emails ......Chris is in the shower.......the other 4 are at the table doing various things.......finishing off their Guy Fawkes projects and then we will start our next project which is for Remembrance Day................that will take us to Saturday when we are going to an exhibition.......

Next week we are planning to start a wonderful project idea that I have 'stolen' from Daisy!!!! You can read all about it on her Montessori blog (link to the right) it's based on 'around the world in 80 days'..................we are 'tweaking' it to suit us but the idea is wonderful! Daisy often has wonderful ideas on her blog...so even if your children are in school you can find things to do at weekends/ evenings and holidays etc with your children.

Yes we unschool but unschooling doesn't mean we do nothing...and my children love projects and calendar unit studies....I make them fun by adding things like cooking or meals out to fit and field trips for each project ....or ways to celebrate at home (sadly our Guy Fawkes celebration was cancelled because we were sick) so yes we unschool and follow the childrens interests but that involves creating projects and unit studies that they love!

I am looking forward to getting out of the house tomorrow...I am not 100% better but I want OUT!!!!!