On Tuesday, Breanna was standing in the doorway to the kitchen when she announced she felt like she would puke. Then she coughed, hiccuped, and did indeed puke all over herself. She did a repeat performance two more times (I have to give props to two guests who were here to do some music with George – they were sitting at the table with him, eating some wings for supper when Breanna upchucked for the third time in the living room, all of ten feet away – and they kept eating. That’s what I call iron stomachs!).

On Wednesday, she spent most of the day begging for food while I restricted it to a minimum of bland food so as to not stress out her stomach again. In between, she laid on the couch and watched movies with the dog.

Her stomach decided it was not done being upset and I realized she was still sick last night. Today she was better in that sense, but she spent a good 90% of her day lying on the couch with on-and-off mild fevers and she cried a lot because she just hurt and felt awful and let me tell you that nothing in the world sucks quite like being unable to do much of anything for your crying, sick child than to just hold them.

Here’s hoping tomorrow is a better day.

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Hayley got her first report card of the year and she is doing very well. She is equal to or above the class average in everything except one topic (ERC which is like a morals class) and as far as I can tell it’s mostly because she’s reluctant to participate, perhaps unsure of answers to questions. I was really happy with her results and I got to see a bunch of her work at the school, tests with great marks, stories she’s written, and so on.

I love getting to see how she’s learning. It amazes me. I told her teacher that it’s so incredible to go from day one of grade one to now and see the progress the kids make, how much they learn in such a short time; she told me it will be even more dramatic between now and close to the end of the year because the pace will start picking up.

I can’t wait to see what they start learning next!

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I’ve had people ask me about our wacky Canadian government and what is up with Parliament right now.

The short answer is this: We have a minority government led by the conservatives and their party leader, Stephen Harpy Harper is the Prime Minister. Two of the opposition parties, the Liberals and the NDP have joined forces, with the support of the Green Party and Bloc Quebecois to form a coalition government.

And it’s all very complicated. So complicated that I didn’t know what to support. On the one hand, I didn’t think it seemed very democratic or representative to hold an election just recently, have Canadians elect the person they want, only to have everyone else overthrow that (thanks for the $3million cost of that election for nothing!). And dear GOD I hate the Bloc, and while I don’t mind the liberals, Stephane Dion is like a moronic puppet – did you ever see South Park when Mr. Garrison smokes weed and his head turns into a big balloon and floats down the street? He’s worse than that.

On the other hand, I despise Stephen Harper, can not align myself with the Conservatives on much of anything, and never wanted to see them win to begin with.

But to explain it… well, it takes a lot of detailing and I think that rather than try to explain our complext democratic parliament with ties to the British monarch, I’d rather point you to the Yarn Harlot who wrote the best cliff’s notes explanation ever right here. Thank god, because it’s so much easier than trying to lay it all out myself!

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I’m STILL reading freakin’ Breaking Dawn. I just want to finish it. I’m well into part three of the book and it is definitely a vast improvement over part two, and it’s making me wish I could be a vampire too (hee), but I’m still having trouble reading it because it was just so obviously rushed and it’s disjointed, and also right at this moment the characters are being stupid and totally letting me down.

I think when I wrap this one up I’m taking a break from the undead.

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And that’s what’s been going on.