Mark this day down,

cause I think that we will see snow from now until spring :(

Oh what a week.....

It has been. Lets see, where should I start. Well last Friday due to circumstances beyond our control both kids were out of school. So we had been planning a trip to Toronto anyway to drop off some important paperwork and figured this would be the perfect time. So to the Go Train we went.

Rode the train into Union Station in Toronto. Then walked to the offices we needed to get to. Both kids were doing fine. We also promised a subway ride and a streetcar ride so down to the subway first, then back to the surface to ride a streetcar. Oops, rush hour, packed streetcar, sardines, two high spirited children, not a good combo. But we bore it out and made it all the way to the Longbranch Loop. Then hopped on a bus and met up with Auntie Cathy at my favorite, all time best burger place, Apache Burger. Yummmmmmm!

Had a nice, albeit short visit with Cathy (gotta hook up again soon girl!) then back on a bus and to the train station for the ride home. It was much later than planned, but figured that tomorrow is Saturday, we can all sleep in. Boy did that go out the window.

We got home at 11:30 pm. Got both kiddo's in bed, then we went to bed a bit later (like for me around 1am). I was woken up just before 3am by the sound of Maddy crying. Went in to find she had been sick on her bed, pillow, Ruff Ruff and of course herself. Fun. Got that cleaned up, only to have her do it again (fortunately in the toilet this time). So got the bucket and headed her back to bed (fully changed of course).

The poor girl continued until after 10 in the morning. Then pretty much slept all day Saturday. She had one more episode at bedtime, but slept all night. Relief, we are done. Nope. Shoulda known.

Kenny was the next victim. He started at 2am Monday. Continued until around 7, then slept pretty much the rest of the day. Hubby also started about 7:30am Monday and tried to go to work, but ended up coming home early and he slept it off.

As for me, I didn't escape it either. Mine started Tuesday, early afternoon. But I still managed to take the kids swimming, although ended up sitting in the bathroom most of the time. Made it home after that and collapsed. Not to be seen or heard from again until almost 8 am yesterday (Wednesday). Yes the kids were late for school, but hey life happens.

So it is now Thursday and I'm finally feeling more human than I have in a few days. Laundry, I gots it. Messy house, I gots it. Willingness to clean, Hell to the no!!!!!! Do I have too, yes. Blah.

Keeping fingers, toes and anything else crossed that there is no more sickness. We need some healthy time!

Halloween

Went pretty good. Especially the great weather we had. That is the first time in recent memory that it has been warm enough to walk around withOUT a winter coat and freezing our bums off.

We stayed local. Just walked around our neighbourhood, making sure to visit our friends places. And of course a stop for the adults at Timmy's. But still, we managed two bags of pure sugar. Now comes the fights of limiting the candy to one or possibly 2 a day. Fun stuff. And now we can't go into a store without being reminded that Christmas is coming. I just want to crawl under a rock and ignore it right now.

And to make matters even better, we have a clogged drain. There is about a ft long section of pipe that drains the kitchen sink and washing machine that is clogged. How did I figure this out? Easy, I tried to do some laundry yesterday morning and ended up filling the kitchen sink with the laundry water and creating a fountain in the laundry room from the drain pipe. Fun fun here, let me tell ya!

The only semi positive thing is that we can still flush our toilet and use the bathroom. They don't seem to be affected. So just means no dishes or laundry. Which means that we are not calling a plumber until Monday. Way to expensive to call on a weekend. So long as the toilet is working, I'm good with that. We did try to snake it out. Didn't work. We tried dumping stuff down the drain. Didn't work. Plunging. Didn't work. So now we will have to suffer with paying someone. Blah. There is always something.

We will also be renting a dumpster this week and start clearing out some of the junk and horrible fake wood paneling. We have a basement full of stuff we need to sort through. Two closets upstairs that need tearing down and rebuilding/replacing and a bunch of junk in the back yard that needs tossing. Lots of work to do. Fun fun.