Friday, November 21, 2008

Busy Week

It is thankfully coming to the end of what has been a very busy week. Everyday except Thursday the boys and I have had a parenting group to go to, Thursday we had Micha come to play while her mommy was having driving lessons (to drive a school bus). Then after parenting group today the boys and I drove to Collingwood to go see my girlfriend Sara, who also happens to be my former employer while I was working at the paint your own ceramics studio in Toronto about 5 years ago.
I painted 3 mugs and put David's foot prints on them, they are going to be Christmas presents for Daddy, Granddad (my father-in-law) and Ukki (my dad). Then while I was painting up the mugs Alun painted himself a mug too. This will be his hot chocolate mug once we get it after it has been glazed and fired. We had fun painting while we were there, just next time we'll have to make sure there isn't a snow squall in place over the area. I got to Sara's house shortly after 1pm and we left around 5pm; in those 4 hours the truck ended up getting covered in close to a foot of snow. The roads were terrible for about 20 km, then when I turned onto the county road towards Hanover about 5 minutes down the road the skies were clear and the roads were almost bare.
I had wanted to go to Owen Sound so that I could pick up the pictures I've been waiting for for quite some time from Sears, but with the weather the way it was, I wasn't about to risk our lives to get there. The snow was heavy enough that in places the visiblity was good if it was a few hundred meters.
Anyway, the boys are in bed after a long day of playing and driving, and I wanted to try and relax in a nice hot bath before the party light candle party tomorrow night. I have a kitchen and dinette to tidy and a guestroom to change the sheets and tidy up the room after Alun has been playing in there for the past month or 2 since I last tidied up.
I'll post pics of the finished glazed and fired cups when I get them, I forgot to bring our camera with us to take pictures during the painting process.

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