The day continues...............................

So Wednesday afternoon was again kind of mellow and relaxed....the girls built a fort in their bedroom ready for when Susannahs friend comes over on Friday......she has a friend sleeping over Friday night and she is just soooooo excited.............so they built a fort to sleepin that night...........

What else? They decorated some badges with sharpies.......I bought a huge pack of white pin-on badges a couple of years ago and every so often they make them for clubs etc that they start...today the girls just decorated them with flowers and pictures............

Laurie did his pop quiz about Banff......comparing the height of the highest peak with the height of Everest etc etc.....finding out what 'theme' the roads in Banff are named after and finding three retsaurants online then finding a menu and deciding what he would choose.............amongst other things he had to look up.....population growth, average temperature in September etc......he had to use the Banff town website, Weather network, mapquest etc etc..........and google a LOT......

They got the chopstics out and all had a turn at eating jelly beans again....they love doing this to practice with their chopsticks..........I love that they are good with chopsticks for when we eat out....................

Chris.....he did some local research using the local newspapers.......he used the computer for a while....................did some reading....................played with the others upstairs for a while.............

I get my confirmation from the city facilities today for the workshops I booked the kids into so I organized the receipts etc from that............

Lloyd phoned to say he had a surprise for me :) He brought home The 40 year old Virgin on dvd :) and Pride and Prejudice too :) also some raspberries and ice cream to go with them :) so tonight we will curl up and watch the movies and eat ice cream and raspberries :)

Susie peeled all the potatoes for me while I made the filling for the cottage pie :) Lloyd brought home the sweetest little carrots too so we boiled those lightly and had those with the cottage pie.......everyone was so pleased to be having cottage pie again...its a favourite here but is definitely a winter meal....so we haven't had it for months!!!!!

I'm sure there are things I am forgetting but I am going to switch off now and go have a bath before I curl up and watch the movie.............Lloyd is bathing the younger two right now and the others are playing quietly down stairs...............it's been a wonderfully mellow day with everyone being happy and mellow and quietly pottering about doing their thang ;) but its date night and even though we aren't going out I wnat to be with Lloyd :)

Have a great night whatever you are doing! What ARE you all doing??????????????

Wednesday so far..................

Its lunchtime................its grey and rainy outside................we had a big thunder storm last night and it seems to have rained constantly ever since...........I don't mind the rain....its calming.....rainy days are the days where everything naturally slows and we feel all cozy inside................

This morning I watched 100 Huntley Street....mainly because I wanted to see the interview with Max Lucado...author of 'Cure for a Common Life'.............more about that later..................I folded laundry while I watched..............

Laurie did some work in his workbook....then he did some Math U See............Susannah did Math U See and then worked on a pop quiz I created for her on Calgary Zoo....it included things like finding out when the zoo opened...she couldn't find this on the website so she emailed them and they replied telling her how great the quiz idea was and that the zoo opened in 1929!

Laurie has a pop quiz on Banff to do later.....they love these things as they get to research by themselves online............even using sites like mapquest.............

Chris created more Japanese flashcards, learnt more vocabulary and then sat and watched Empire of the Sun to see if he could recognise some of the Japanese language.....he also read through some of the things the Consulate sent him yesterday........

I spent a while printing things out based on Aesops Fables ready for later....................

The children want to use the chopsticks later so I bought jellybeans for that yesterday.............

Tonight is date night but Lloyd and I both feel ill so we are having datenight on the sofa in front of a good movie instead :) It was my choice about where to go so I said THE SOFA!!!! :) I think he was pleased too :)

Abigail did a little of her Disney math this morning (her choice) and then flopped on the bed watching tv because she isn't feeling great either................

I phoned my Dad......he's on his own this week as my Sister and her husband are in Majorca for the week and Mum is babysitting (well, looking after my Nephews aged 5, 15 and 19) so I chatted with my Dad for a while about stuff.......buying a new computer, Steve Irwins death, suicide in young people because of pressure from being intelligent............my blog news..........their new kitchen plans and deciding whether to get rid of their front door..........

Susie is now reading to Sam...........endless books....his favourites are Dora books atm...........I am about to drive down to the mail box and see if we have mail.................

The homeschoolers are planning a get together at Lets Play in a couple of weeks which will be fun! Christie is also planning a survival course for the kids which would be FAB! Archery is being planned too................................

I think I will walk the dogs while the rain has stopped..........

So thats my day so far.....I did have a to do list but haven't actually done much of it yet ......no great surprise there!!!