Winter Wonderland.....Again

Today I awoke to a winter's wonderland.

Sounds lovely doesn't it?

And it was absolutely beautiful...

...especially since I didn't have to shovel it!

At some point in the wee hours I woke up and

saw my alarm clocking flashing

12:00     12:00     12:00      12:00       12:00

Oh no!!  What time is it really??

According to Michael's cell phone it was 4:22am

so I hadn't overslept.

I turned on the light and reset the clock and alarm

but didn't go back to sleep, too worried that the hydro would

go off again.

Michael got me to school safely and within about

half an hour all school buses were cancelled.

However, my broken angel was brought to school despite

the cancellations and fortunately four of my

regular EAs made it to school too.

We discovered that our broken angel likes having the

classroom all to himself.

He had a really great day and so did we.

It was a very positive ending to the week and a

great beginning to our March break.

I hope you all made it safely through your Friday.

Michael and I are off to the movies as usual.  Two "new" movies

are showing at the Hyland so we are putting our memberships to

good use. We are seeing "Biutiful" and "The Way Back".

AND I plan to have popcorn!

The Twelve Days of February

This is the first day of the final 12 days of February. Are you going to make it to the end of the month before the end of your money?? That seems to be the big question right now. Sharon, the creator of the No Spend February challenge is down to $271.00 for the rest of February (but she heard about a way to find some unclaimed money - to find out how she did this click HERE!)

Yesterday I unexpectedly had to spend $30 at the drugstore. Rats! Fortunately I am doing well in the categories of food and gas due to a little help from other family members. (Sidenote: I just found out I LOVE LENTILS!!! They are delicious AND inexpensive!!)  As it stands right now I have $102.00 left for groceries, $75.00 left for gas and $68.00 left in misc spending for a grand total of...wait for it...$245.00. Normally I would say that's enough but this Friday Michael and I are celebrating an anniversary as well as Valentine's as we didn't get to spend Valentine's Day together.

To save $$ Michael is cooking dinner at home, then we plan to go to a couple of movies and maybe out for a drink after the movies. We'll save more $$ by going to see the movies at the Rainbow.  Do you suppose the jazz club will let us BYOB??

Well, we're over the hump - tomorrow's Friday and this has been a pretty good week overall. Our broken angel is doing quiet well with our new strategies provided by a behavioral consultant from CPRI. The staff is working together well and the week has been much less stressful. Tomorrow our Best Buddies are coming to visit and we're having a pizza lunch:)

THEN - a THREE DAY WEEKEND!! This coming Monday is "Family Day" in Canada, a fairly new holiday (I think this is the 3rd year since it was implemented). I am really looking forward to spending a day with my wee family and to working a 4 day week next week.

Do you (my fellow Canuks) have Family Day plans??