Don't drink the water

As if there weren't enough things to get sorted in the house lately, this morning we reveived a letter from the water sample people telling us our water was unsafe to drink and had bacteria in it - no E Coli but definitely enough for us to have to have an Ultra Violet thing installed. That means a call to the plumber on Monday too.

We all had to get up early in order to get the boys breakfasted and out of the house in full hiking gear for a Cubs and Beavers joint hike in the Greenwood Conservation Area. Huffle and I were also dressed for a hike but once we got there and it started snowing, we changed our minds and did some shopping instead. So we left the kids with instructions not to get too dirty - ha! and carried on to a supermarket just for stuff for the weekend really.

We managed to buy food, get home, unpack and put away before the kids got home (thankfully the leader brought them both home for us). The kids had a great time and were not too dirty though Smallest did fall in a mud pit (Small said it wasn't Smallest's fault though). We all changed into comfy wear and the kids played nicely together. We had warming jacket potatoes for lunch before settling down to watch Lord of the Rings with a chocolate muffin while it carried on snowing outside. Today the temperatures got to -11* Brrrrr.

We watched about half the film and both Smallest and I nearly fell asleep. We turned it off in the end and the boys played with the scalextric and unfortunately broke one of the cars and then played in Smallest's room. I finished off my Christmas Stocking - it looks a bit weird because I rushed it but I'm sure Santa won't mind.

Late afternoon we got ourselves dressed in full and complete snow gear and headed off to Port Perry for the Santa Parade. The snow was really heavy on the way and visibility was almost non-existant.

We considered turning around but didn't. As we got onto a more major road it was better as the road had been salted. It was very cold. We parked up and walked into town and met NoCustard and Umbrella. Unfortunately we were standing on a corner and the wind was whistling past us.

We were standing watching the parade but it was so cold we started to slowly walk back towards the car but so we could still see the parade. We stopped for periods so the kids could collect sweets and watch the floats. Santa arrived HO HO HO'ing, and it was time for us to go. We went to NoCustard and Umbrellas house and had warming Hot Apple Cider, 3 year old cheese with gorgeous crackers, HoneyCrisp apples slices, Humus and Crisps. That was just while we were waiting for supper. Lovely. The boys got given an advent calendar each and a pair of superhero socks. They are very lucky.

Supper was beef Stew, Pop overs, Soda bread for the meat eaters. For the non-meat eaters we had butternut and Apple soup, Brocolli Cheese Rice. It was fabulous. Then we had trifle which had no custard (obviously) and ginger cake. Just perfect.

Smallest was so tired he fell aleep on the sofa and then moved to a chair and fell asleep there too. He woke up briefly to snuggle up to Small (Small wasnt so pleased!) and then fell asleep on the sofa again. In the end we had to give in and take him home. It was only 9:15 but to him it must have seemed like the middle of the night. We were going to play Irish Monopoly as well!

Again, just to reiterate, he hasn't turned redneck, this is his thermal top (he was too warm).

The drive home wasn't too bad though a car did overtake us hooting manically at us. Huffle made me get out and check the lights but I think the driver was just being impatient because we were driving carefully. Silly us!

The boys tumbled into bed as soon as we were home and Huffle caught up with the cricket while I blogged.

 

 

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