Let’s talk about the birthday first because I LOVE my birthday. I turned 37 last week. I didn’t get the skating party with friends that I had planned (see note in the title about the sick child) but it was still a lot of fun. After picking Katrine up from school on my actual birthday the two of us went to the skate trail together. She is quite fun to skate with when she is well. The Glenn surprised me with dinner out and some fabulous gifts. I had to make my own cake this year thanks to my growing list of allergies but it tasted like cake to me so all was well. After Katrine was in bed Glenn made me up a peppermint soy steamer with my new milk frother. Just think of all the money I can save not having to buy one! I also had the gift of snow. Looking outside it is beautiful. White clouds of snow.
Now about the skating. Yesterday Katrine was registered to skate in two events at the Winter Glitters skating competition. Well, on Friday night she came home from Chinese class with a fever and complaining of a headache. Now your going to be thinking, just don’t go to the competition she’s obviously sick; and you’d be right except that one of the events was a team event where the team consisted of only two people. So we doped her up on Tylenol and headed out to Ajax. The Tylenol got her threw the day but by the time we headed home she was miserable (poor thing). That said, she skated really well. She got a 1st in both her individual event (if you are going for one event you might as well do both) and a 1st in the team event. Plus, she got her first bouquet of skating flowers because the other family thought that the girls would get a kick out of having them. They were right. She was thrilled.
Today she has spent the morning laying on the couch or playing her computer games. I don’t blame her. It was a long day yesterday. Hoping that she gets better before next weekend because we are suppose to be dancing at the Robbie Burns dinner at the Legion in Midland. We are even going to do a Mother-Daughter dance which should be pretty cute. Keeping my fingers crossed.
