The grandies were here!

No, not the Vancouver grandies. I did Facetime Feb. 1st, at Bryony's request. I've gone from being 'Gramma Jenn,' with older Cluny, to Bryony calling me 'Jenn Jenn.' Now, she is closer to 'Ga Jenn!'

They are growing so fast.

Saturday, I fetched the trailcam cards, and realized that I should have used my snowshoes.

I brought some wood in, as well, as it was pretty chilly. It's cool in the basement, and the fireplace is wonderful.

The Ottawa kids arrived on a cold and frosty morning. Their electric car was down to 19 % power, so JL plugged it in! It'll charge overnight.



Grampa and Josie were reading in the living room. JL had some conference calls, so he was holed up in the office. Grampa put up a sign.

Green Party HQ
(In session, Do Not Disturb)

Caitlin, Isabelle and I went out to play. First, though, they brought us some more wood from the shed.



Snowman inspection...

We did some drawing in the snow.



I'd neglected to take a photo of our artwork. I went out Sunday morning. The camera lens needed cleaning!!!

Two logging trucks went by.



Caitlin asked if Iz could dig out the pumpkins, there are still there, frozen in the snow. She did!



I love Caitlin's yellow coat. JL brought it home from his Antarctica cruise!

Grandsitting March Madness Day 3

Day 3, Wednesday, it began as Day 2 had ended. We had 17 cm overnight, with drifting up to 35cm high. It was an horrific storm. In Quebec, to the north east, there were 7 deaths due to mismanagement of the highway issues. We had one death in Ontario.


Isabelle had some of Grampa's oatmeal, with raisins. Jos had her toast. After a few cartoons, we thought about getting dressed.
Grampa was itching to play with his snowblower! Off we went, snowpants, mitts and gloves!

Firstly: outside we flew to help Grampa shovel, we did the front walk.


Snow Play from Jennifer Jilks on Vimeo.

Then, we went down to the frog pond. It would have been good skating, if we could have shoveled it!


After our hard work, we still didn't want to drive into town. Happily, the Irish Viking had some surprises.

Irish Viking King from Jennifer Jilks on Vimeo.

After that, we took a break.


I looked outside, "Still snowing!"
"It ruined all our work," cried Izzy!

Afternoon snacks, a bit of an other play, then Trolls, again! It was a rental, what the heck! Also, snacks!


Time for art: window crayons, crafting! After we watched Trolls, we watched the special extras.



It showed how they created the art for the animation. Jos decided to create some, based on their design. I had some pieces and she worked away with glue and scissors. She wanted to create an Angry Birds storey.


We brought out Grampa's globe to follow Papa's recent world trip.
Papa's Trip Around The World from Jennifer Jilks on Vimeo.

Jos and Grampa watched Jeopardy, while I did bedtime stories with Isabelle. Jeopardy has been fun for for Jos. It featured a participant from Ottawa, where Jos lives. That was fun!

3/14/17:
"I crashed my mom's car into a neighbor's at age 3"
"I do educational contract work"
"I think kids keep getting smarter"#Jeopardy pic.twitter.com/RpPvUSEt5M

— CoolJeopardyStories (@CoolJepStories) March 14, 2017

Bedtime was a hoot. Daisy jumped up on the windowsill behind me, while I was reading about Sir Cumference, and proceeded to lick my hair. Then, Isabelle had to tell me about all of her nightmares over the previous 6 years, at least the ones she remembered. I told her that all of my nightmares are about teaching: not finding my classroom, not being able to control the class, losing my class list!


The wind is still howling, so we decided to put on the radio for some nice music.
We had a horrible shock. We had a ToDo list from Mummy, and we haven't started on Jose's March Break Homework. Oops. Tomorrow morning!