Getting ready for Christmas

I know it's just a few days before Christmas, but we're only now getting ready for Christmas (fear not the gifts are long purchased). Here we see Suzanne hard at work.

Mathieu is in the Christmas spirit.

Ghosts

I dreamt of ghosts last night. It was at my mom's place, in the summer time. We were a group of us mingling in front of the stables near the house, when some people came out of the open stable doors. They were a bit different, walking among us as if they were part of us. Nobody really noticed but at one point I saw a man who was watering bushes with a hose that was not connected to anything. So I silently told the living about them.

I still remember the feeling of awe I was in, how beautiful everything was. For some reason it was quite touching. Us, the living, were amazed, happy. These feelings are strong as I write this.

I remember us leading them back to the stables, gently, like you help an older person to something.

Ski and Knowlton

Today we went to ski at Bromont. It rained from the time we got in the car to the moment we got to the mountain. Troupers that we were we still did three runs.

But you can only get so much rain before getting tired of it. We went to have lunch with mom. We had a good time but the food was subpar to what we paid so, never again at that restaurant.

The drive back was a tad tiring for the kids.

We ended the day with a nice fire in the fireplace.

Karate Belt Passing

Today Mathieu and Sabrina both climbed a level in karate. Sabrina went from being a blue-yello stripped to a yellow belt, and Mathieu went from being an orange to a blue belt (now in the same mid-category as his sister). Real cool.

Practicing moves

Sabrina doing her katas

Sabrina is now a yellow belt

Mathieu is now a blue belt

Ski, Finally

I was woken up by Sabrina who dumped her Playmobil Advent Calendar on my stomach, all excited because it is the 1st of December. Today is also exciting for us for we are going skiing.

We left late and arrived at 10:00pm, partly because we weren't ready since it was our first ski day of the 2012-2013 season, partly because we were just being relaxed. As I stopped my car in the parking it reached a milestone...

We met Pascal and Ben who had been skiing for an hour (I can't believe they started skiing before us). Here's a nice father and son moment...

Here we are getting ready to go up.

I feel like a fish who's been put back in the aquarium... So good. There was global happiness throughout the family this afternoon.

We were spent, but so happy. I was in bed by 8:00pm.