All booked

We're all booked up! We've found a lovely place. Heated outdoor pool (which for me was a MUST). It's going to be so strange going with only three children! I can't wait! I just want a small break because we're off to Florida again for 3 weeks or so in March so I don't need a big holiday now, but I do feel the need to go somewhere - especially with all our trips being canceled and with all the renovations which are driving me crazy. It will just be nice to have a few days away.

Friday

Abigail and Sam were ill all night - both with fevers and bad headaches. Lloyd sponged Abby down all night with a cool flannel and we gave them advil regularly and they slept off and on and today has been the same pretty much - they aren't too bad when they have had meds and they have kicked in but as soon as the meds wear off they are feverish and miserable and bad heads and sleepy and not well. When the meds are working they are well and happy and playing.

So I had to cancel breakfast with Val and our trip to a splashpark.

Chris moved his movie making venture from here at the house and instead he met 8 of his friends at South Cooking Lake where they filmed a movie all afternoon. I supplied refreshments - endless cans of pop and endless snacks as well as the camera and tripod and 'green screen'. I dropped him there at 11am and stayed chatting to his friends Dad for about an hour then came home. As I left Chris was directing his friends in a movie involving lots of guns and various boys and girls running here there and everywhere by the lake and the picnic ground and parking lot...He phoned at 4pm to say they were still filing and he would be walking home!

It's been a boring lazy day. I haven't done much at all. I haven't been in the mood to do much at all. I am tired from having sick kids when I want to be out and about enjoying summer. I am sad I had to miss breakfast with Val! I am frustrated with the building work outside - or LACK of it which is PISSING ME OFF! I am frustrated with our holiday plans or LACK OF THEM for next week. Our trip to Toronto in April got canceled. Our trip to Vancouver Island in July got canceled and now we can't decide where to go next week and Lloyd can't seem to make a decision and now everywhere I look is booked up and trying to get Lloyd to make a decision is impossible....And everywhere I think about going is BORING because I want to go somewhere fun and interesting and I want an outdoor pool but I can't find anywhere nice with an outdoor pool that has rooms available!

So until I find somewhere I am going to be cranky!

Can anyone recommend somewhere fairly close for a family of 5 (2 adults and 3 kids) for 4 nights with an outdoor pool. And JPL is full :(

Tadpoles in the kitchen!

The tadpoles in our pond are about 6 weeks late this year - that must be because of the cold snap we had in early May ad maybe because of the long winter and late Spring we had. We normally have tadpoles in mid to late May but we checked and checked and then gave up checking for them. We figured it was just a bad year for them. Then last weekend we saw bubbles rising in the pond - we went to check and were shocked to find tiny tadpoles! Just before Canada Day!!! A few are big with legs just sprouting but most are tiny baby tadpoles. So at last we are able to finish our life-cycles project.

This week we were also able to finish the bee life-cycles project with the baby bees emerging too from their life cycle completion.

So we have done the butterflies, the seeds and flowers, the bees, and now the tadpoles. Last year we did the meal worms too. 'A' was given grass seeds to grow as well, on Canada Day as part of the Good Growing Edmonton Campaign.

Archeologists!

Yesterday the children went digging for Mummies and old bones! They had to be very careful with their tools and brushes so as not to break the ancient bones and fossils!