The Day went like this... 6am, wake up. Have decided to go to the prayer meeting at church today. (Have always managed to avoid it due to work starting at 8am, now no excuses and so thought it would be a good way to start the day).
And so it was. we prayed for Haiti. May I add - I hate the way it is called 'Hay-tee', which just makes me think of the word Hate. It is actually pronounced by the natives something like 'ah-ee-TEE'. We also prayed for the work of the church and the various projects that our church is involved in as well as the local community. I was surprised by all the people that were there (so early in the morning), surprised I actually enjoyed it (so early in the morning) and of course delighted to be served pain au chocolat for breakfast.
Next was swimming, en route snow materialised out of nowhere. In actual fact I thought it was little bit of paper at first, yes I usually can tell the difference between snow and paper, but well - you would have been mistaken to if you saw what I saw. Anyway did 10 lengths of swimming, and discovered that if I am prepared to put up with the noisy school kids in the other lane, my lane is actually really quiet - less chance of crashing into people.
After doing some shopping, boring but as I have avoided it for a week it was a necessity. Especially since I wanted to a new washing cream for the washing machine. You know the kind where you put the cream in the lid and then the lid in the machine? Yes, well my Dad threw my lid away - ever since I have been using anything plastic I have handy at the time, like medicine containers. All I can say is we have lots of clean plastic containers in the kitchen now.
This afternoon was work, I really hadn't registered how cold it was. How bitterly cold it was. As usual I was early and froze my fingers of waiting for my girl in the playground. I can't tell you how lovely it was to get back to the warmth of her house, and we had lots of fun playing in her room, lots of fun. It started of with Sylvanian Families but just descended in to chaos really. As I said - lots of fun.
And as we had dinner (rice, peas and tuna), we saw the blizzard outside. So surreal, its like nothing we see normally. Can't remember when I last saw snow like that in the day time. Kind of brought 'The Day After Tomorrow' to mind.
Well the day ended with Brownies, 17 of them and my two normal helpers were both off today. Instead I had 1 (very brave) parent helper and 2 (even braver) D of E students (that would be Duke of Edinburgh Award). And we had a blast, we actually did this activity where they write nice things about someone. Afterwards the girls were saying how they never knew that the others thought such nice things about them - it made my day - definitely made the whole stress worthwhile!
And now its time to sit back and relax to Doctor Who, series 3. Yay!
Ps, my brother is wid [sp], he pours the water in to the bowl and then into the saucepan and then the oats when he measures out for his porridge. Even though normal people would just put the oats first (so it doesn't stick to the side). This paragraph is added for the sole intention of seeing if my brother reads this blog (parent's - please don't tell him) and well, annoying him if he does!
(Wid = weird)