Not to much to report from the weekend, well, not anything different than I have been writing about for months anyway. Lessons and tournaments and house cleaning.
Lessons: Nathan finished up his swim lessons this weekend. Red Cross level 4. This was a pretty big accomplishment for him, he repeated level 3 three times. We have always maintained he can quit after level 6 if he wanted too but now that he is heading into level 5 he said that he likes it and may go past 6. We'll see how he feels when he gets there. In the mean time, just having him go up the ladder off the diving board and jump off on his own accord, that was something special.
Tournament: Our Dan. Another looong day sitting in a gymnasium waiting for our sparring times. Thank fully he had two fights this time around. We have figured out how to pack enough food and snacks for us for the day and to bring a cushion for the butt. Those bleacher seats are unforgiving. Dan and I went on an adventure while waiting for his ring to get through the other sparring matches (the electronic scoring system was down so they had to do things manually) We were at NAIT so we had hallway after hallway of exploring. We had fun checking out the campus. We found a cool spiral ramp inside the building that spanned four floors so we ran up and down it. Fun. Oh, and the best part was Daniel kickin it like he can and getting gold in his belt and weight division. Woo Hoo!! Did I mention it was a long day!?
Cleaning: Typical stuff but all the same it felt different. Everyone helped. I think it may have been the moving of the kitchen table and the giant old wooden stereo that made things feel different. The upstairs is more open and the table is in a cozier area. It made us hang out around the table and chat quite often. I like it! We have a plan for this kitchen dining area now that's pretty solid and I can feel it taking shape pretty quickly. So exciting.
So beside the typical lessons, tournament, cleaning weekend we played a board game ,watched a movie did some grocery shopping ...pretty typical as well. *yawn*
Out of the ordinary, Daniel practiced his fire starting skills in the back yard in anticipation for his up and coming out door ed. camping trip in May with school, they will be graded on basic survival skills, but the coolest part I think, and Daniel tends to agree, is the tickets we purchased to send him to Winnipeg in June/July alone for a long weekend of awesome camping/fishing adventure with his Grandpa. Over the top excited is a good way to describe him when we did it. Although it was weird to see his extreme spike in mood after we finally booked it maybe 30 minutes later, he got really grumpy and stand off-ish for a while, we put it down to emotional over load.
Tayler ventured into the big city of Edmonton on a transit bus alone to a mall she had never been too without me. Despite catching a the right x-fer bus in the wrong direction once she managed ok and made it to her destination. Funny that this is such a big deal to her when I grew up on city buses. Different worlds thank goodness.
Woke up to quite allot of ice/snow this morning (good call Corrie) the drive to work was eventful, lots of lane changes due to spin outs and accidents, very slow moving. Wasn't it just winter last weekend? How soon we forget.
This week at work will be an extra stressful one, more so than normal due to the fact we are getting busier, I am anyway, and we are being sent back to the main office five blocks away. Back to where we came from three years ago. Back to my husbands day in and day out work space. He wasn't my husband when we left that building. This leaves me feeling full of anxiety. I can feel it building with every passing minute here. Trying to maintain our work loads, pack up our cubicles, what to keep, put into storage, throw away. What are our responsibilities in this move, what are the companies? Going back to an office where we spent so many many years, some of us going back have been at this company for 37 years (not me) and so many faces have changed over there since we have been gone. We will be walking the halls and no one will know who we are. We will be the new people. They have their own office groups and clicks, their own routines and gossip. We are going back the new/old kids on the block, it just feels weird. Having been here over 7 years myself I am still the baby in the group, the new kid, but at times it feels like a life time. What is old will be new again at the end of this week.
Time for a vacation.
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