I am loving the direction our life has been going the last couple of months, especially this month! Ethan has had no problems for quite some time now (knock on wood) and I am settled into my new job and we’ve had a great flow of life.
It has been a slower pace since it has been cold outside but we’ve had lots of fun doing crafts, playing with cars in the basement and just hanging out with each other.
January will be a bit of a crazy month for me…we have a major shift of positions coming up mid month which means I will be working some overnight shifts, early mornings (4am start, Yikes!) and lots of weird evenings and weekends. Then at the end of the month I head to Medicine Hat for a week…let me just point out that travelling from Grande Prairie to Medicine Hat is not a fun thing…it is like 12 hours of travel! So we have two travel days on top of it! They will be long work days too while I’m there; 7am starts till 6pm then supper from 6:30pm and we socialize until the wee hours of the morning…network, network! You never know when one of these people will make a critical decision about something to do with me!
So since I’ve known that January is going to be so freaking tough on me I took some time on my holidays to downshift and have a break. We had a great time at home at our Mom’s house for Christmas but it was sure nice to come home on Tuesday! Ethan and I hung out in our PJ’s on Wednesday and watched TV and played with all his new toys. Yesterday and today I took him to daycare so he could play with his little buddies and I could have some me time. It’s very rare that I take him to daycare when I’m not working but I know it’s important to have time to myself. I always plan to come home and veg out but I end up going window (or otherwise, LOL) shopping in a tonne of different stores that I normally don’t make it into. It’s nice for me to be able to browse without feeling like Ethan is bored stiff and so I don’t have to rush. I love shopping slowly and looking at things… I don’t think I could just come home and sit anyhow, the house would be far too quiet without Ethan here, LOL!
I’m looking forward to tomorrow; we are heading out to our friends the Smiths’ house. They live on an acreage about 45 minutes out of Grande Prairie. We are going to skidoo to the river just down from their house and take all the kids tobogganing on the hills there. Leanne and Greg have taken their kids there for the last couple of years; Ethan is just now big enough for it! We are going to light a bonfire and make some hot chocolate and roast some hot dogs. Thankfully it is only supposed to be –3 here tomorrow so it should be fairly comfortable to be out in. It will be nice to get some fresh air too! I’m really looking forward to it; I love tobogganing! I hope I get some pictures too, I haven’t taken any for awhile.
That’s what we’re up to…like I said, it’s all good for us right now! Hoping that it will be even better in about a year and a bit from now too…
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