This Week

So I know that again I haven't been blogging.  Just so you know that that means that I haven't been doing my tread milling.  It's crazy how knowing that I might have readers out there makes me feel bad and WANT to treadmill!

This week didn't really start out so hot.  Today, Wednesday, is E's birthday.  On Monday I decided to go to Walmart and get a few things that were missing for today.  But, alas, J would have none of it.  He was super cranky and needed his bed in a bad way.  So we stayed home instead.

I decided to go to Walmart on Tuesday instead.  We were having so old family friends over and I HAD to go out and get the last little things for that.  So I packed E, J and C up and off we went.  I warmed the van up for fifteen mins, thinking it would be super warm when we got in.  I was wrong.  It was cold and I wasn't sure why.  To top it off, I had put J into a thick hoodie, but not a winter coat.  One of the kids that I watch before school forgot his backpack so I went to drop it off for him.  I noticed the supervisors were bundled up and I still hadn't clued in.  And for any of you readers that aren't up here in Northern Alberta, you know that this winter has been an especially mild with temps hovering around minus five or so.  So me dressing J into the hoodie wouldn't have seemed like such a bad thing, right?

Well I get back into the van after dropping the bag off and am listening to the radio and it's the weather report.  Here it's minus 20 outside.  Minus 20!!  It's no wonder the van wasn't warm!  Thankfully I keep extra blankets in the van for the kids on days like this so they can get and stay warm.

We get to Walmart and I wrap the frosty cart up in the polar fleece blanket so J doesn't stick to it when he gets in.  Our Walmart is under a huge renovation and everything is moved and not in it's normal place.  So our shopping trip that should have taken about 45 mins stretched out to over an hour.  That wasn't even the worst of it.  I went to pay for everything, I even had the bags back into the cart, when I went to pay for it all.  I reached into my purse to get my wallet and it's not there!!  Nope of course not!  It was sitting on my couch at home!!  How irritating!  So I had to go all the way home and then back to Walmart to pay for it all.  Thankfully the lovely ladies at Walmart kept all my bags behind customer service for me and I didn't have to reshop!

The rest of Tuesday was a blur.  I made pies and cookies and cleaned the house.  Our guests arrived around 5pm and we had a great visit and supper if I do say so myself (shake and bake chicken, fettucine with homemade alfredo sauce and a spring salad, super tasty!).

Today is Wednesday so we went to bible study and E had a Valentine's/Birthday Party.  Tomorrow I have some more friends coming in the morning and then I am going out again right after lunch to visit some more.  And then on Friday I have a very old friend coming over to play cards in the evening.  It feels like a very busy week!!

 I'm hoping to be a bit more on a treadmill schedule next week.  I'm contemplating getting up an hour earlier to treadmill, but the thought of losing sleep doesn't sit well.  But on the other hand I wouldn't really have any distractions.  We shall see I guess.

Until next time.