Currently: February 2022

As always on the first Wednesday of the month, I'm linking up with Anne at in residence for "Currently."

Before I get into this month's prompts though I just wanted to give you an update. Last month we were just starting a "time limited period" of remote learning and more restrictions and I was feeling so frustrated. Thank you to all of you for your kind comments and understanding. I HATE how much Covid (and its restrictions) have defined my mood (and life) over the past two years.

Thankfully, our government actually stuck to their promises (it was seriously a SHOCK) and our kids went back to school on January 17th 18th. They were supposed to return on the 17th but we had a major snow storm and everything was closed, including things which rarely close like the universities and the libraries. So, as of today, our kids are midway through their third week of school and our restrictions are slowly starting to lift. Yay!

Now on with "Currently"...

[loving]

Well if you're new to my blog, you will not already know that my parents are our neighbours for a couple of months. Normally, they live three provinces away. We are loving having them so close. Last night Sam and Rachel texted Oma and Opa to find out if they could run over for a cookie for dessert. It was a short, twenty minute visit, and absolutely perfect!

[making]

On Sunday, we got started on making our Play-Dough snowperson village. We got a little delayed on it this year due to some health issues I had. We still have to make a few more snowpeople to fill the shelf. Also, the green pieces are an alien Dave attempted to make which fell apart :)

[taking]

 

On Sunday night we went to a small town near us to take in its light and sound festival. The town is Stratford and it's famous for its Shakespeare Festival every summer. These light displays were in the Shakespeare Gardens and I enjoyed taking so many pictures. I will share a blog post with more pictures from this fun evening soon.

[wanting]

Since I picked up three new puzzles on Monday, I am now wanting some time to do them. The middle one which is sights from around the world in stamp form, especially appeals to me. If we have a snow day today (see below under "wondering") then I will definitely be spending some time doing one of these!

[wondering]

In January, we were expecting a lot of snow and Sam's teacher told his class that if you wore your pajamas inside out, and slept with a spoon under your pillow, it might be a snow day. Well it worked in January so, since we are currently under a winter storm warning, both Sam and Rachel slept with their pajamas on inside out last night. And with spoons under their pillows. I'm wondering if that will do the trick for a snow day today. (I am writing this post on Tuesday night and our school board doesn't make decisions about snow days until 6am the morning of. No sleeping in for parents on snow days. Ugh.)

Updated at 6:43am to add: No snow day :(

So that is what is up with us "currently." We're slowly getting a little more back to normal and trudging through winter. Maybe by next "currently" we'll have some spring-like weather. It will probably be too early to dream of that but I can always hope...