yup I am sick

Woke up this morning and wanted to stay in bed.  Thankfully my wonderful housecleaner was here nice and early.  She made oatmeal for the kids for breakfast and I stayed in bed until 9 am.  Unfortunately I did not feel that much better at 9.  So I got the kids to do Math work.  Nathan did dreambox, and gigi did some of her work, not really sure what she did but she did some math.  Next I let them watch brainpop.  Nathan watched all science ones, Genevieve watched all art and music ones.  Nathan said what genevieve was watching was boring but genevieve loved it.  They watched lots of these, for about 1.5 hrs. 

Both Genevieve and Nathan had a friend come over for a playdate in the afternoon.  I got to visit with one of the moms as well, and I was feeling much better in the afternoon.

Nightime came and I wasn't feeling that great anymore.



Saturday - oh boy I have to be two places at once

Genevieve has cheer on Saturdays from 9:30- 11, so off we were at 9 am to head to cheer, I than raced back to Chilliwack because Nathan has soccer at 10 am at vedder middle.  We arrived just before the game started.  Nathan had a great game and scored a goal.  This year for soccer, Nathan s age group is a mess.  We have to travel all over the fraser valley, which isn't too bad, but we don't find out the exact times of the games until Thursday!  How am I supposed to organize, help transporting my kids around on Saturdays when I don't know when, or even where, we sometimes know the city ahead of time.

So after Nathans soccer, we race back to Abbotsford to pick up Genevieve who has been done cheer for 45 minutes.  Thankfully she is the most patient little girl I know, well most times.

After I picked up Genevieve we went to Valhalla and picked up Nathan a new pair of hiking boots.  For the bargain price of $200, and a size 8.5!  Hopefully they will last a few months.  He outgrew his last pair, and he can not fit into mine either, and we are going on a hike up lindeman next weekend with the DIY class with TLA.  Unfortunately even though it is a pretty easy hike, Nathan can not do it without hiking boots!  Tim I am sure would be carrying my 100lb child down the mountain :)

I am also excited that along with two other moms, we have organized a science club.  We will be meeting once a month.  When we were first organizing this us moms were going to be teaching.  We were lucky to be able to arrange to have SFU come and facilitate all of our science club days, from science alive!  How cool is that!  We also have an environmental scientist as a mom and she is taking all of the older grade 8 plus kids and doing some environmental testing studies.  We have also organized for the younger science fans grade 1 and under to do some Charlotte mason style nature walks and local field trips.  We have rented out the yarrow hall to accomplish this task.

And we have had great amount of interest in this of course!  we have 80 kids in all three groups!

In the afternoon, we have also organized a chess club from 1-3. 

So tonight I am sitting here and messaging everyone and confirming attendance and registration.  But it is so going to be worth it!  I will post pictures of Mondays science fun.  The first day is slime....