Each year we get a week off from school for Family Week. Monday is a provincial holiday - Family Day and then Thursday and Friday is teachers convention so we get the whole week off. In normal life, we would have a Southern Circuit Rodeo on Family Day, but not during pandemic shutdowns of no gatherings. Some years we are happy for the break, but since December 1, we had 3 weeks of online school, 2 weeks of Christmas break, 1 more week of online school, Lucy had 1.5 weeks off for testing week, and Carly had to stay home in quarantine for 1.5 weeks because a student in one of her classes tested positive for covid.
So Carly made a list of ideas of things we could do this week and one of the ideas was - Not do Nothing.
Luckily, Austin pulled through and made a fun week and it had warmed up 30 degrees from our deep freeze.
Monday they got to rope at Academy and then we took Grandpa and Grandma to Waterton and had a hot dog roast. (Monday morning I hurt my back doing nothing and was in a lot of pain).
Lucy had basketball practice on Tuesday and Wednesday afternoons.
Wednesday and Thursday Austin took Lucy and Carly snowmobiling in Mountain View thanks to the generosity of Troy and Stacey Jacobs. The second day Jason, Piper & Max Janisko snowmobiled with them to the top of Pole Haven. They were a little nervous and timid at first, but Austin said they got brave and cruised right along.
On Friday, we went to Calgary and Austin gave Lucy and Carly each $200 to spend at Irvine Cowboy Store. We went out to lunch at Montana's Steakhouse and stopped at CrossIron Mills Mall and then headed home. It was actually a fun day, and we bought some things we needed.
On Saturday they went roping again and then they both went to friend parties on Saturday night.
We love our family!
