Monday - Mom needed a day out and about for errands - and it did take all day too! We got home about 4pm. It was a pretty successful day considering the long list we took with us, and the kids all coming too. Not one any of us would like to repeat any time soon though.
Tuesday - We attempted a normal school day, but it was not very smooth as the house was still in a we-didn't-get-to-our-weekend-tidyup-because-we-were-hardly-home state of disorganization. So, it kinda felt like we just added to the mess and disorganization :o)
Wednesday - We abandoned ship (home) and spent the morning at church, had a picnic lunch, and went to the Museum of History as it was free for Remembrance Day. The idea was to explore the Hall of First Peoples as we've just finished our first Canada unit, but the real interest was of course the Children's Museum.
Grace and Jasmin were all excited for the Children's museum, but soon discovered it catered to children younger than them. They still found enough to enjoy though.
Grace took up the challenge of origami, and learned about kirigami, but in the end only came away with a paper airplane, and Aiden's form of origami....
Thursday - We were back to normal school in a
still weekend messy house, so it was rather scattered and not quite complete by the end of the morning. None of us felt like trying to finish in the afternoon though.
Friday - We squeezed in a bit of school before going to lunch and afternoon at NiNi's. It had been a long time since we've been, so there was extra excitement about it and Aiden was all for taking a full crate of toys to show NiNi and YeaYea!
We finally remembered to get new prayer card photos taken - very last minute as we needed them for Sunday at the start of our church's missions week. Thankfully it didn't take us that many tries to come up with a good one. We'd planned to get them printed that night, but we were too late so it had to until Saturday.
Saturday - The morning was spent running around doing errands preparing for the coming busy week at church (like wresting with Walmart photo machines for an hour to get a decent print) while the girls were at Chinese school.
Then, we went to a friend's house for lunch and a much awaited game of Settlers! Grace was thrilled to have 4 adults to play against, and, if we'd managed to stay long enough to finish the game, she just might have won...
And the school scrambling got even worse in the following week...
Monday we gave a half-hearted attempt to catch up a little. I can't even remember why we didn't get all that much done!
Since we were all at church Monday evening for a missions week event and quite late to bed, we decided to do school in the afternoon on Tuesday. Only it was an absolutely gorgeous day that we couldn't resist and we had our own "forest school" down by the river.
Wednesday we were out all day for missions events and in bed even later, so not much school got done today either... we didn't even among to catch up on last week's work!
And tomorrow? The girls are still not home from church (Aiden and Mom are at home because Aiden has a croupy sounding cough) with Dad at 9:30pm so school will shift to the afternoon... only we have to make a library trip tomorrow, which is only open in the afternoons Fridays, so there goes school for the week.
Hopefully next week is better - certainly hope so, as December beginning after that means more disruption of schedules!
After an afternoon of puddle-jumping and Christmas shopping, Aiden fell asleep in the car. Mommy cruelly woke him up when we got home, not wanting him up late. It didn't work. He came in, sat down, and was out again. We left him, hoping the awkward position would wake him up. Nope. He slid down and slept on the step for another half and hour! 
A tradition from the Fraser side: painted windows! This year, too impatient to wait for Mom, this is what the kids did themselves. Fantastic job! (Never mind the paint on the curtain and the floor...)
