Month: January 2015

Last weekend we invited Grandma and Grandpa F to spend  2 days and a night with us at Ingersoll Elms B&B.  We met Friday afternoon for a tour at the Mint.

Although we didn’t see any pennies being made, there were many other different shapes, sizes and colours of coins to admire.  The guide let L & K hold  the largest coin the mint gift shop carries.  It was pure silver with a diameter of 7.5cm(?), it was surprisingly heavy.

We also looked at “waffle coins”  or the rejected coins that have been defaced, usually because of an imprinting error.

Afterwards we got some exercise trudging through the snow at the St Norbert Ruins.  D&K had their family photos taken in the ruins this summer which brought up questions like where and what, since only L had been there before we checked it out.

The rest of the time was spent enjoying each other at the B&B, playing games and talking.  We did indulge in some silliness and watched “The Gods must be Crazy”.  We had hoped to watch it with L & K too but we ran out of time before bedtime.  We will have to watch it some other time during family movie night.

 

The new year has arrived and, with it, the close of another holiday season.  It’s always sad to say goodbye to the fun and parties that the holidays bring.

Christmas started for us at Grandma and Grandpa F’s house.  Some of us—we won’t mention any names—put in a few hours to insulate and finish their car garage.  We took advantage of the new space and spent much of the family day there.  Here Grandpa, L, and K are initiating the garage with a pillow fight.

Grandma F outdid herself and knitted cute dresses for her three youngest granddaughters.

Next came L’s birthday.  He wanted Lego so badly that it took him quite a while to reconcile himself to the chapter books his Mom and Dad so inconsiderately got for him.  (He got lots of Lego for Christmas.)

L’s piano teacher made him perform some of the pieces he had been working on.  Good thing his teacher was there to play along with him.

K got into the Christmas spirit and made a little hat (out of wrapping paper and decorative duct tape) for cousin M.

We took advantage of the last Friday before the start of classes to do some sliding on the hill by Omand’s Creek.