Sunday 10 February 2008; 20:50

Hi Everyone!

Here it is Sunday evening again already and almost time to hit the hay in order to get back up at 0500 for work. It's been some week, both Henry and I fighting off some sort of gombooh all week; we both stayed home on last Monday, Henry's Mum kept him home on Tuesday and then I stayed home again Thursday and Friday and still I haven't been all the way up to snuff this weekend either so it's been a pretty relaxing weekend as well. I did get out to the cinema this afternoon to see "No Country For Old Men" at the local theater and before that got Butch out for a nice walk as well when the rain broke and things dried up a bit.

Henry bowled his first 100+ game w/o bumpers yesterday and his team won two of 3 games. They went into the week in 8th place (out of 8 teams) and as much as we tell the kids they're there for fun and not really the competition it's always nice when they are in the top half of the league so they can keep their confidence up. They were doing really well yesterday after winning the 2 games though so I don't suspect there'll be too much problem with the confidence levels for the next week. We're also ordering a new heavier ball for Henry as it's time for him to start letting the ball do the work and carry through the pins. The 8 lb ball just doesn't quite do it for him.

As you can probably see I've put a couple enhancements on the blog page here; a slide show with the photos from past blog posts and also an email subscription tool so all you need to do is enter an email address and you'll receive notices when I post. I also linked Kristin's blog where she talks about her journey through her breast cancer battle and my friend's wine blog where they talk about their take on inexpensive wines they try.

Not much more going on, Valentine's Day is coming up I'm still keeping up with my far away friend. Henry is refusing to distribute class valentines but apparenly we're to take sugar cookies to school on Thursday but he can't remember how many; at least we got an advance heads up rather than at 8am on Thursday morning :)

I'll sign off for this week now and maybe we'll have some more exciting news in the upcoming weeks. We have a long weekend next week with Friday off for teacher work day Friday and then Monday and Tuesday the 18th & 19th for President's weekend in place of mid-winter break. Not a lot planned; Henry will go to the office with me on Friday and maybe we'll get some fun stuff in between pruning the plum trees and roses; ahh mid-winter garden chores - cold, wet and not at all satisfying :)

Until next week