Bam! Welcome to 2018....

Wow!  The year has barely seemed like it started and it feels like it's been a Tornado so far!
The first day of the year we started off with celebrating some family members birthdays and eating some Dutch delicacies of olibollen and kroket.

The remainder of the day we hung out with my extended family in celebration of the New Year.

The 3rd day into the new l year involved signing into my first online class.  My brain is a little rusty!!!  I'm looking forward to the challenge that University has to offer even if it means a little hard work, and writing a 2500 word essay.  (ahhhh a little panicked about that!)  It has been a very long time since I've had any formal education....
Meanwhile we were continuing to live our somewhat usual schedule of taking care of this cutie. It’s very helpful when my kids are home from school to help entertain daycare.   It’s a win-win.



It was also a crazy week of weather...but made for some interesting tobogganing in the backyard. The sled and rider almost landed in the neighbours yard.  The kids also found all kinds of cool things that ice rain made.






The week also consisted of play dates for some of the kids. So my other kids got to ha g out at play Abby. (Along with loads of other kids)


We ended the week with a family swim in the Surrey pool and a dinner outing. Dinner was in a patio. With fire pits so cozy!!




Finally the kids were back in school and I worked at
The office...with this cutie!  He ended his day exhausted in the shopping cart...







The kids week was cut short with snow days....however locally we had no snow.  Thanks to their aunt for rescuing them and taking them to the trampoline park (finally!!!!) benefit of our school bein I’m a different town. The tramps were empty just for them!



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