Despite a lot of fuss on the media Melanie made it home as planned in January without even any covid complications to her plans. We were happy that she condescended to return to us.
Although some of us didn't notice much difference. :p Matthew
Jennifer was happy to get advice once again on her sewing projects. After all, for the three weeks Melanie was gone, I only spent 30 minutes in the sewing room with her.
Evelyn was happy to get help again too.
The kids like to approach me when I am peacefully relaxing for the evening with a big stack of school work for me to mark. They love to hear me sigh and complain about the extra work.
Daniel is working (not so hard) on his math. He does not work through it very efficiently. But here in the kitchen we can anticipate whatever cookie or treat Melanie is cooking up...if the math gets boring!
Evelyn does not enjoy having to speak out loud for her second language learning. I used to think there was a problem with the microphone. Or the program. But perhaps it is a problem with her accent! I got a picture of her before she got frustrated. Sometimes she just leaves.
We had some great days for skating in January. Melanie spent most of the time telling us how much bigger and better the ice was in Smithers.
Matthew spent some time practicing his foot work--kicking the hockey puck around is more difficult than doing it with a hockey stick. Plus it's just fun to do something different.
Daniel decided to enjoy the snow instead of the ice.
This snowboard is a bit tricky to use, but it looks like he's managing ok. When I try the board just digs into the snow and I stop. I guess I'm a bit too heavy for it. :( Unless the snow is really hard packed.
Such a lovely sunny snow day! Even Nathan made it outside on the ice for a break from his studies.
We spent an afternoon at a friend's house...well, actually at their river. It was a really cold day, but then the ice was guaranteed to be good and frozen!
It was fun having a nice big stretch to skate on. We couldn't go further downriver though, as there was open water at the end of it!
We had a nice spot for getting on and off, this is where I happened to awkwardly fall on my chest, and possibly even crack my rib. Just thinking about picking up the "mat" and move it over, and whoops, I'm winded on the ice. Oops! Melanie had been racing away for a tag game and fell hard (on her jackknife in her pocket too) but SHE didn't break anything!
Tag was especially fun! We skated for a long time! Our hosts were pretty cold by the time we headed in for some delicious hot food.
We had some games and conversation too. It was a lovely day!
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It's so nice to be able to skate long expanses. It looks like it was a beautiful day for that.
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