After a day of feeling like I was going to vomit, it was nice to be able to sit down to dinner with the kids and my Mom. Our dinner was pork chops, mashed potatoes and veggies. The food look and tasted so good I thought I should share it as my picture of the day.
Today wasn’t much of a picture day, I spent most of it in bed trying to recover from a stomach virus. I did manage to capture this one of Violet and I trying to sleep. The virus hit Jacob on Saturday night. Today it hit me and my little girl. She threw up this afternoon at Nan’s house. Of course shortly after this picture was taken I was taking her to her bed and she threw up all over both of us. I’m just hoping Melissa doesn’t get hit with this bug, it’s really not fun.
Today while picking up the van for a shopping run, I snapped a picture of Papa’s knew Jeep. I had thought of using a picture it on Friday when Danny picked Jacob and Me up at swimming, but it was too dark to get a good photo. But today when I walked into the driveway and saw it, I knew today would be a good day to snap a picture. It’s a peppy little Jeep, and would probably be fun to drive. Of course it’s a standard and I’ve never even thought about driving on of them. The funniest thing about it is that for a while now Violet has started laughing when she sees a yellow cars. She says ‘It’s Yellow… Ahahaha’
It was a long day, starting the day with Violet’s ballet class. Followed with Jacob’s hockey and ended it off with a trip down-town with the kids. I had hoped to share some of the Ballet or Hockey video I took, but tonight I just haven’t found the time to get it ready for the blog. So we’ll settle for this picture of Violet showing off her sticker from her class.
Today was the kids last day of swimming for the fall session. Which means that we’re going to have an early morning sitting on the internet to register them for the new year. We’ve also have to decide if Violet will continue with Tiny Tots, or move her up to pre-school. Is she ready to be in a class with 3 other kids? Should Jacob move from his small class ultra with four kids up to a regular sized ultra with 7 kids? At least we have a couple of weeks to decided.
Today we have a picture of the New Canadian 100 bill. I think it’s crazy that we’re moving towards plastic money, that’s see through. When I was holding it today I thought it felt like play money. In fact it reminded me of the money from our Monopoly Millennium Edition. Of course it will be a few more years before all our bills are updated to the new style.
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This morning as I was getting ready for work, Violet took me by the hand and brought me to the kitchen to show me her artwork. She wanted me to take a picture of it, so I did. She loves ‘colouring’ and what she ‘colours’ she wants to display. To be fair, the one on the bottom right is Jacob’s, I’m not sure what he was drawing. It was an impressive collection she had managed to put together. I tried to get her to pose with her art but she wouldn’t stand still.
For the last few days Violet has wanted to watch Frosty the Snowman. I’ve meant to pull out the DVD and put it on for her, but I haven’t had a chance. I had checked Netflix but it wasn’t there, but it wasn’t. Tonight while Violet was asking to watch an episode of Strawberry Shortcake on my old phone, it occurred to me to check YouTube. And what do you know, there it was in three parts. So she sat on the coach and watched on my the little screen of my phone.
With the Santa Claus parade winding through our streets yesterday, in my head it’s now the Christmas season. So as I was walking to and from work today I thought it might be a good time to take a picture of the local fountain with its fancy Christmas light display. I’m not sure that on a normal night if I would have used it as my picture of the day, but after spending the evening in the ER it’ll have to do. When I headed out with the kids after getting home from work I had hopped to have a quick visit to the kids clinic at St. Joes. unfortunately the TTC had other plans. After just missing a streetcar we arrived 10 minutes after they stopped taking patients at the clinic so I was left with a choice of waiting till tomorrow to take Violet to see her doctor, or brave the ER. I figured since I was there I would brave the ER. That was probably a mistake. The place was full and we waited hours to be seen and finally told that Violet has Pink Eye. The doctor proscribed a week of eye drops. So it’s probably good that I didn’t wait till tomorrow, but as I sit down to write this I’m really just wanting to head to bed.
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For about month we planned a family get away to the USA for some shopping and a little relaxing. Two weeks ago we went, of course because things can never go as planned we were forced to change our plans at the last-minute and Violet ended up stay back in Toronto to have a special adventure with Nan. That left Melissa, Jacob and I on a road trip with Nana and Papa. Having one less child let me sit in the back row of the van where Violet usually sits. It was a great way to keep Jacob entertained during the live drive. It was how I was able to capture this photo:
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