We knew that Saturday was going to be a write off for going anywhere fun.  Although the temperatures were great, just hovering around freezing, the forecasted and received snow was bang on.  March came in like a Lion in my eyes and this is the year we all keep saying, “enough with the snow already”.   Our wonderful neighbour once again blew out our driveway, which was a Godsend as Hubby threw out his back last week and I didn’t want to throw mine out by shoveling another 15cm of snow.

We got some stuff done around the house.  I got my drying racks installed in my laundry room, and it only took three years, whoot, whoot.  I had taken a few photos, but they showed more of my food and stacked laundry on the drier than the racks, so I opted out on those ones.

We managed a trip to the grocery store so I could pick up ingredients for a test cake.  I am making a cake to be raffled off at J’s school this Friday and I had never made Marshmallow Fluff Icing, so I wanted to try it out first and see how it would hold up for me.

 I think it turned out great!  Does it look like the colour of grass?  J wanted a garden cake with bugs, and I wanted to do a cake that wasn’t so girlie.  My intention will be to decorate it with ladybugs, butterflies, flowers, worms, etc.  made out of chocolate molding.  I did a rough drawing, you can see how rough it is…

 I just hope it turns out in the end.  This is my first cake raffle.

We also got some shelves built for the almost finished basement and were getting everybody prepared for our scheduled visit to the Maple Sugar Bush on Sunday morning.  Then…

…. I got sick.

Yes, sick as in running to the bathroom sick.  At first I was thinking I had had too much cake for dessert, but then I realized I had what J had.  Either all my cleaning was in vain or I encountered someone at the grocery store with the same virus.  I don’t actually think I mentioned this, but on Friday I found out that one of J’s classmates was sick at school on Wednesday and J was helping him out and he stepped in it!  Yes, it would have been nice if he had told me.  So, yes I had the same bug.  I took some Gravol but, it makes me very groggy.  Our Sunday plans were shot and Apple was being a handful, so I called in reinforcements.

Mom arrived all smiles, sat and played with Apple, cuddled he while she napped. I napped too.  And Hubby took care of J.  Frolicking in the sunshine and mountains of snow in our backyard.  I tried hard not to cry as I was very sad that we did not make it to the Sugar Bush.  There is always next weekend I guess. And now I am on to the cold that J has.  I think we will be making another return to the Doctor’s this week.  This is the most we have seen him in four years!

Ahhh Winter, is it over yet??

Don’t get me wrong here, school is an absolute must.  But, I have to say that today was wonderful not to have to take J to school.

Last night was not as bad as I thought it might be.  J went to bed and slept.  We checked on him a few times, but the last check in before bed his room didn’t smell the greatest.  So I turned on a few lights to reveal that he had been sick again.  All over his pillow and part of the bed.  I was able to clean him up, move him to our bed and back again after changing his bed and he did not wake up. He did this once before, was sick in his sleep and didn’t wake up.  So, now I am freaked out that he could be sick and choke.  All night Hubby and I woke up and checked in on him.  The night went on without incident.

In fact.  Apple didn’t wake up either.  It was wonderful.  Her first true full night sleep since the night she was born.  When both Apple and J awoke at 5am, I was good to go because I had just had the best sleep since I was about 7 months pregnant.   By  7am everyone was fed, J was showered, Hubby was off to work and Apple was down for a nap.  By 8am, when we normally be leaving for school.  I had all the beds changed, bedding washed, four loads of previous laundry folded and put away. And I had had a shower.  By the time Apple woke at 9am I was well on my way to a full tidy.  I hadn’t been that productive in months.  It was wonderful.

J will be back at school tomorrow.  He has not had another incident.  He still has a minor cough that he has had for two weeks or so, but otherwise he seems to be himself.  Complete with running around the family room (doing laps) after dinner. Hopefully tomorrow’s school day will be productive and that he doesn’t catch something else.  I would love nothing more than to put us all on a plane to somewhere hot and tropical to help get over the sickies, but that just isn’t in the cards right now. So for now we will march on forward and hope for the best.

I did get my craft situation organized and J helped a little.  I will post photos when I get them well on their way.  I realized the other day that most of my frustration about the projects I want to do is that I wasn’t organized.  I love it when the light bulb finally turns on.