I'm so glad that Melayna enjoyed her winter retreat with her youth group last weekend because she woke up with a scratchy throat on Monday morning and announced that she felt like she was getting sick. She fought it pretty hard for a couple of days, but she finally came home from school early on Thursday and used most of the e-learning day on Friday to sleep more.
Unfortunately, she was scheduled for a "Scholarship Day" at Grace College on Friday where she was chosen to interview with two or three faculty members for chances for valuable scholarship offers. She was suppose to arrive at 12:15 and then meet and mingle with other incoming students and meet with other faculty members before having her interviews. Thankfully, due to her sickness, Grace was very understanding and allowed her to just show up for her 15 minute interview and then leave early without participating in any of the student activities. Normally she would have been really disappointed to have to miss the fun activities but she didn't even care this time around. She just came right back home and went back to bed.
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I was only able to get out walking one day last week due to the kids' various school schedules. And despite the fact that it was only 15 degrees on Thursday, I do think it was the warmest day all week. I might have been the only person out walking so I had a really peaceful time and despite the cold air, I was thankful for the sunshine.
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On Thursday afternoon, our new living room furniture was delivered. It had been over 15 years since we bought our previous living room furniture and the couch has been broken for over a year. Noel and I had looked occasionally over the past year but finally, a couple of weeks ago, we decided that it was time to not only get a new couch but to add a few more seats as well so Noel took a morning off from work and we did a little shopping.
When we got the call that the furniture would be delivered last Thursday afternoon, Noel and I moved the other couches out of the way and then I cleaned the floors really well in the area where the new couches would go. (I also found quite a few pens, pencils and other misc things that had fallen under the couch and had been "lost" for quite a while).
And then the new furniture was delivered around 2:00 on Thursday afternoon.
I LOVE it!!! It's absolutely beautiful, even if it's all bigger than it looked in the warehouse and easily fills up our entire living room. But it's so comfortable and it all looks so nice in that space.
We definitely have plenty of room for everyone to sit now!!
OR lay down! LOL
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Noel will cut up the larger (and broken) couch and burn it on our wood pile, but we took the smaller love seat downstairs to our basement to create a cute little seating area downstairs as well.
We woke up on Sunday morning to several inches of snow and since it was still snowing, our church was one of many that cancelled services. We spent the day working on our puzzle, reading books, and watching a movie together. Nolan also took some time playing outside in the snow and then we finished out our Sunday by watching the football playoff games.
Despite the fact that school was cancelled on Monday, Noel got up early and headed over to his mom's to shovel her porch and driveway for her. Then he came back home and shoveled all of our drive as well. We haven't heard an official total, but I think we probably ended up with 8-10 inches of snow by the time it had all stopped on Sunday night.
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More pictures of the beautiful snow from different angles...
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Due to cold temperatures and then the blowing and drifting snow, school and all after school events were cancelled again on Tuesday. By that point, Laynie was feeling better and we all wanted out of the house so I took Nolan and Melayna out to Walmart. 'Maybe I should have called ahead to warn the other shoppers that Melayna was feeling like her ole' self again. LOL
And now, with the weather forecast looking much of the same over the next couple of days, we will wait to see if the kids even go back to school at all this upcoming week.
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