Canada is like a thermos............

HB is struggling with the time difference and falls asleep by 8pm.  Last night she put on her Onesy, wrapped herself in our cosy blanket and dozed off.  If you thought her leggings were "wild", then this outfit is "out of this world"!!!

Then there are her socks..............

Crazy

I found out why Small was upset that he only got a ruler yesterday as a prize for good dancing.  It was because one of the other prizes was a sledge.  Ahh okay then I suppose I would be a little disappointed with a ruler, buy hey he won something and not everyone did.
Because both of the boys are at school today we decided to go to a Mall.  Whilst we were driving along, HB started waving.  I asked what she was doing.  She said there was a man dressed as the Empire State Building waving at her.  Empire state building said I?  How do you dress as that building.  Oh no says HB, I meant the Statue of Liberty.  Bet that'll be on the blog she said.  Oh go on then!
First on the agenda was sweets for GP (HB's boyfriend), he requested Canadian Sweets.  We asked the lady in the shop which sweets were typically Canadian but she wasn't Canadian and she didn't know.  PAH!  So she chose the most illuminous looking sweets.

 Any E Numbers do you think?

 Picking out sweets

 Ooh foxy lady

We went to Tim Horton's and I bought some TimBits for HB to try.  We sat there taking a bite, putting it back in the box if we didn't like it (took them home for Huffle - we put them bitten bit down so he can't tell we've had a bite - sure he won't mind).  Neither of us liked the Cinamon ones, HB didn't like the chocolate ones or the jam ones, we left quite a few.  He was pleased when we handed them to him, then he looked inside and said "oh I think a mouse might have nibbled one".  When we laughed, he said "oh don't tell me I've got all the leftovers no-one wanted?".  As if?

 I think she liked this one

We stopped for lunch and HB decided she wanted to eat something Canadian.  She came back with a Roast.  Ahh not quite so Canadian then eh?  She wanted to compare it - verdict: good, then not so good. 

We also compared the Mikado's which are called something else here.  We ate the whole packet and liked them, now we have to eat the English ones to see which is better.  Oh the chores we have, having to compare Canadian Chocolate with English - when will this stop ha ha ha ha ha ha.

Before we went out this morning we watched the post person deliver a letter to our mailbox, he didn't put the marker up so HB put it up so Smallest would know we had mail when he got home from school.  Lucky, because it was for him anyway, although he was hoping it was a letter from a friend back home but it was a letter from the bank!

 What's in the mail today?

Aunt and Unc Pear skyped their little princess to find out how her day had gone.  Unc pear was showing us his new sunglasses.  Yeeeeaaaahh Cooool.
We played with Smallest in the garden when he got off the bus all by himself (Small was at Taekwondo).

HB pushing Smallest on the swing

 Grizzly bear paw print (just for you Unc Pear)

Smallest decided he was going to break our snowman (or SnowHB) and he pulled the arms off, so HB decided she was going to pull Small's arms off.  They laughed a lot.

We cornered Smallest and kicked and threw snow at him until he surrendered.  Then we went off to pick Small up.  We were 15 minutes late.  I had it in my head I should pick him up at 4:45 but it should have been 4:30.  Small was not happy.  What an awful Mummy I am!!!
HB and I made Butternut Squash Soup for dinner.  It was lovely - I'm teaching her to cook for when she goes to Uni, I am determined she won't live on MacDonalds and Subway for the next five years!
We bought a new game today.............wait for it.................................

Yes Monopoly Deal.  A card game version.  We played it for 20 minutes and just about understood it before it was the kids bedtime.
Huffle got on with his ironing, HB put the boys to bed and I blogged.

HB took this picture.  I didn't notice the oven gloves till I posted it.  Very patriotic.
Tonight we are going to do some more comparing of chocolate.  Ummmmm yum.

Handy Man

A little bit more snow in the night, but just a dusting.  Huffle had to scrape my car again and I caught him starting to shovel the drive but then gave up.  

Huffle scraping

View from front window

We went to a Mall mid morning as the boys had some money they wanted to spend.  They were very well behaved so Moo bought them (and us) an ice cream.

We had cookie dough, chocolate caramel swirl, coconut grove 

and Jamaica almond doodah (Moo's of course)

Huffle bought a drill and a plane (not an aeroplane but a small wood plane to make the door on my bathroom close (as I pulled it off its hinges on the day the toilet got blocked........ Long story, not readable).  Anyway he did a fantastic job, except now he thinks he's Mr Fixit and he's looking at things around the house in a strange glazed way - he even wants to put a shelf up somewhere, oh no Frank Spencer, please don't, else I will have to tell everyone about the time he made a bedside table that turned into a barbecue holder that......... Oh no, leave it!!!!!

Just a little bit off there and a bit more, whoops!!

It is rubbish day tomorrow so we collected all the boxes, tied them up neatly and put them out on the path ready for the morning.  Hope they take them all.  Hope Mr. Raccoon leaves it all alone, else there'll be trouble.

For our dinner we had a soup made out of left overs from Christmas (not the meat part as Moo and I are vegetarians).  Sound awful but it was lovely.  Very wholesome, parp says I.