Going Old (scratch) Home School!

This week was an interesting one... at least I think interesting is the right word to use when you get 30 home schooled kids between 12 and 19 locked up together on a boat for a week.

It actually was just a lot of fun. Everyone single one of them had a personality, to say the least, and since they hadn't met before it had more resemblance to a summer trip than most school trips do. They were a gullible bunch (I think that all my lies are going to catch up with me one day...) and a group that got excited about everything. There is something special about taking groups from outside the lower mainland to a tide pool or beach and seeing them look at shells and barnacles as if they are special treasures made just for their hunt.

Thanks to my previously mentioned ninja training (and icebreaker base layer) I was dramatically warmer this week, and another promo for Icebreaker here, I actually didn't take it off all week and no it didn't stink! It has however slowly been warming up lately, I even got outside today to do some gardening which was lovely and relaxing. Although I need to figure out which ones are weeds and which ones aren't...

Also my sister came to see me this weekend and helped me clean my house, which was the most amazing gift ever (thanks again!) I am once again enjoying living in a sparklingly home with a back entry that I can walk through!

Sayonara,
Off for another week.

When the Snow Blows and I become a Ninja!

Three trips down and hopefully March will hold true to its word and go out like a lamb, it sure came in like a lion! Our first five day trip greeted us with inches of snow on the deck and a frigid northerly wind. I am so thankful for the down jacket that I bought, it feels like I never take it off, even down below it takes a while for things to warm up once the stoves are on.











The water temperature doesn't change more than a degree or two most of the year and we had some swimmers despite the cold weather; I told my watch that if they jumped in the water they didn't have to do the dinner dishes we were responsible for that night...two takers, both girls, so the guys and I did all the dishes that evening. I also ended up making breakfast the next morning, because I guess I was feeling in a wagering kind of mood and told our cook Krystle that if she jumped in she could sleep in and I was make breakfast...we both thought we got the better end of that deal, there is almost no chance of me getting in the water before May at which time I will be in the Pacific off of Costa Rica and it's guaranteed to be much warmer than here.
To help me battle to cold weather I have also decided to start Ninja training.




This will allow me to partition my mind into tropical and arctic sensations and remove cold and ice from my external sensory perception.

My parents have also aided me in this effort by providing me with an Icebreaker thermal base layer training outfit. So far the Icebreakers are working wonders and next week promises to be my warmest yet!!

In which I come back from a very cold adventure and get a new couch and a down jacket.

Well, as usual I have neglected to update this blog, I'm not sure if anyone besides my mother even reads this anymore, but at least for her sake I will put up the pictures of my new couch. It was actually quite an adventure getting inside my house. The deliver drivers after being excited about my largish front door were thoroughly disapointed when I opened the door to reveal a less than spacious entry way into another offset door before arriving in the narrow hallway to my home... They told me that there was no way it would fit, to which I replied, "well there are three other doors, it must be able to fit through one of them, right?!"

In any case after removing my back door as well as the door to my living room, the behemoth of a couch made its way into my lovely home and I am enjoying it as I type.


As far as the very cold adventure goes. I have officially started my sailing season, and I'm going to suggest that March is a tad but chillier than June...The group of grade sevens we had were great though, if not a bit wee. (I'd almost forgotten how small they were; I haven't had any onboard for about two years!) They braved the weather with good spirits though, and thank God for the sunshine or they might not have been so brave. But overall a great start to the season, I did however realize what working in an office over the winter does do my wimp status (it increases it) and I went out and bought a down jacket this weekend. Hopefully this trip will be toasty warm!

p.s. I've started painting my laundry room, and I'll post some before and after pictures once it's done, but for now I have a stacked washer and dryer (thank you Aunty Christine and Uncle Bill) and a jalapeno and dill pickle coloured laundry room in the making!