Derek's a big boy.

Today is the day. Finally after months of procrastination, months of waiting and planning and stress it has finally arrived....and what do we find? a broken board. The brand new mate's bed that we have been waiting for, finally arrives and it has been damaged in shipping.... which in the south would be fine, but in the north, that means improvisation or waiting months. In the end, Sears agreed to send a replacement board, so we've temporarily improvised - now its just a frame bed until the new board arrives. However, today Derek is officially a big boy. He is sleeping in a big boy bed!

Play Day

One of the things I've learned about the north is that houses are small. I'm used to the Okanagan's need to show off to each other. Here people live in trailers - atco trailers that I'm used to looking down on - and duplexes, and prefab or what are called hab houses. I currently live in my biggest home in the wells. It is a 2 story a frame house. We have 3 bedrooms and 1 bathroom. The kitchen is too tiny, and there isn't enough storage, but I love it. The catch is, with -40 being the average temperature for the month of January we were getting a bit of cabin fever. Luckily we have a playgroup. We are just a bunch of parents who hang out and have coffee while our kids run in the in the community hall - graciously donated by the town. The community hall is a room the size of a gym, we have a storage area for bikes, balls, tables and all sorts of other stuff. My kids have their favorite toys that they play with every time to start the day off, then they vary with what they change to. Today is a playgroup day, we played with the bikes, the shopping cart, the keys, the hop scotch and much more. It was such a busy day for playgroup, there were 4 boys under the age of 6 months there. Plus a bevy of girls, and 3 more boys. In total there were 15 kids. This is not a drop in group, so I had lots of parents to talk to and drink coffee with.