Friday = Freak Day!

My wake up call this morning was provided courtesy of the town's snowplows right outside my house.  Now, we have 2 cars out on the street and usually they plow them in nice and tight if they are left there.  Neither of them can move today.  The batteries died and need to be charged and/or replaced and its been too cold and we have not had the time after Derk gets off work to get the job done.  This weekend he's promised to do it, but of course, here come the plows TODAY!  SIGH...

Anyway, we were lucky.  They cleared in front of our house, our driveway and the sidewalk so that's a bonus and it looks like they didn't leave too much snow around the cars either so all is well so far.  I can't stand the sound of the plows.  I've had too many run-ins with these plows here in town because of vehicles needing to be on the street.  We just got our driveway made last fall.  Someone had changed it prior to us living here and so when they redid the streets and sidewalks at some point, there was no ramp to drive in just a curb.  So... it's caused no end of grief for me.  I'm sick and tired of having to throw on coat and boots and run out there jump in the car and plow through a foot of plowed snow just to get out of there so they could finish plowing.

The sun has just showed its face!  It says -23 C on my little desktop weather eye and it feels like that too.  FINALLY!  Last night, the temp was low with a windchill of -50 in some parts of Manitoba!  Yup it's January all right!

I am glad for the light in the house today.  I mean from outside.  It's usually so dark and gloomy.  A person could get downright depressed some times in this living room even though there are 2 windows!

Once the plows left, then the girls decided to wake Michael up by screaming and chanting protest style... GET UP! GET UP!  over and over and over and over and he's still not up!

Josh is at work as is Derk.  Josh gets off at 2:30pm and Derk an hour later and then our weekend will begin.  Not sure that everyone will love me this weekend as I intend for some things to take place and none of them involve ME lol.  My men folk have some outside work to do, yard and vehicles, plus some inside renovation work to get done.  My girls will have plenty of housework to get done too.  It's going to be a busy weekend.  Oh!  You want to know what I will be doing?  Church books and homeschool planning of course!  Gotta get it done.  Josh is now going to stay at work on days when he works split shift.  He usually works 10-2 and then has 3 hours off before being needed again from 5-close at 9pm.  I told him to take his school work there and just work on it.  His boss said YES!  Just use MY desk and my office so he's pretty thrilled!  I think it will do him good to have about 3 hours of uninterrupted work time with no kids yelling and screaming at him or bugging him, no chores, no body asking for a pencil or bumping his elbow.  He's graduating this year and this time should really help.  His Biology is on mp3 so he can take it with him and just sit down there and listen, or listen on the way to and from work, and he can also work on other assignments there as well.  He can call home if he needs help with something too so it really should accomplish alot!

Today my mission is to get the house tidy, kids schooled, and plan Josh's school schedule for the next 2 weeks that I have a work schedule for him.  His hours change every day so I try to make him a specialized schedule every new schedule he gets.  I'll be glad when he's done school.  This takes hours to do, and once he's done, it will be time freed up for me to do other things, but of course by then, I'll be breastfeeding my new baby too! lol.  It never ends does it?

Time to get going again!  Break's over.