Well it has been a busy New Year, off to a sickly start for the whole lot of us. We had a bunch of colds and a flu that went through all three of us. Finally we pulled through and are enjoying the strange weather we have had. It was beautiful and warm, followed by a big snowstorm and freezing weather (-30ºC to-50ºC) for a week and a bit and then warm again followed by freezing again and now we are finally back to unseasonably warm weather again. This year, Laurence and I have decided to bust out the bucket lists and conquer a few items each. A few weeks back his guy friends invited him out for a guys day on the lake, ice fishing, drinking and sledding. I was so envious because ice fishing is on my bucket list. It has always interested me and seeing as I have gone almost every other type of fishing I figured I might as well cross that one off my list too. So the following weekend, we went out as a family to the lake to go ice fishing. We didn't catch anything that day but at least we are equipped now with an auger and ice fishing poles we can do it again sometime and hopefully catch something. Anomantia spent most of her time terrorizing the front seat of the Jeep. She was too cold, and seeing as we don't have an ice fishing tent yet, she was in the wind outside.
The transition of being on maternity leave to being a working mum has been a hard one for me and I am finally getting the help I need in order to survive. Unfortunately it comes at a cost, I have to stop breastfeeding as the medication will leach through breast milk. I have spent a lot of time thinking about it and crying by myself because I feel like I have in someway failed my daughter, but in order to help her better, I have to help myself. This past month I have contemplated changing jobs, changing companies, going back to school and lots of other things but I think more than anything, I have decided it is best to stay put even if it means being away from home for 13 hours a day, 4 days per week. I have also decided to take a few courses online to upgrade my certification. Anomantia is in good capable hands with her dad. And has also displayed to him that she can talk when she wants to and what she wants to. Her vocabulary now includes: wake up, debout, oh-no, uh-uh (shaking her head no), what (with lots of attitude), maman, dad, bye, night night, Oh Shit, and Sonofabitch. As well as the standard: ya, yeah, up, milk, jus, juice, lait, and dog (which is a cat to her). She tries to boc like a chicken but it comes out toc-a toc-a and she makes wookie noises if you show her a picture of anything Star Wars related (including cartoon Ewoks). She hates hats and anything on her head and doesn't like cow's milk, so we are trying to come up with some creative ways of getting enough calcium and vitamin A in her diet. She now walks independently and loves it, she is starting to run and is always on the go. This morning, I came home from work to find her asleep on my pyjamas with her dad's keys in one hand and one boot on, the living room is a disaster zone due to hurricane Anomantia, I can tell they had a lot of fun. I am so envious that they get to play and hang out in the afternoons and evenings, I see Anomantia and Laurence only for a few hours on the days that I work as they are both usually asleep when I get home from work.
All in all things in Gurneyland are busy as always and with Anomantia walking now, we are constantly on the go. February brings great adventures for us including Family Day long weekend, the last trip to the paediatric orthopaedic specialist (knock on wood that everything is still ok with Anomantia's hips), more ice fishing, skating and anything else we can cram into an already packed month. It is hard to believe that January has passed us by already, at least I have a start on my Christmas presents for next year! We are doing a homemade year this coming year, hence the early start. And yet again the question looms as to when we will be heading West again... This year the answer is sorry but we are going to stay put, we have no plans of travel at the moment, I don't have any holiday time from work because of being sick over the yule season and from only being back to work almost 4 months, I am back at the bottom of the line when it comes to holidays. And with all that I should head off to bed, another long day tomorrow. Picture update soon, I promise!
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