Pi Day and random musings

This past Friday was March 14 or 3.14 aka pi day. It is one of those fun days that are an excuse to do things. For our family that means having pie and other round shaped foods to honour the mathematical concept of pi. So we had MYO pizza pie for supper and apple pie for dessert.

       

Friday was also day two of sick kids. This time it started with a croup cough and congestion accompanied by a low yet persistent fever. I had parent teacher interviews that morning and the kids were off school. Thankfully, I had booked them all back-to-back and so was only gone an hour. The afternoon was quiet as my oldest was invited out with a friend and my eldest daughter had a date with gram. That left me with the two littles who were the sick ones so, after my husband got home and we had lunch they were laid down for naps and we got to enjoy a quiet afternoon to ourselves. We cuddled and watched a few episodes of a tv series we like. Time well spent. We finished the day with our pi themed dinner and then watched The Lorax.

Saturday kids were still sick so it was a low-key morning then I went off to work and hubby had the kids for the afternoon. He did have to get everyone out the door for my oldests hockey game and when I got home from work he had them all down for naps execpt for the sick baby who had slept for a while but woke with a fever, again. More sick cuddles. The oldest was out for the night with friends for a hockey game and we had another quiet night watching a hockey game on TV. The kids will tell you that the bast part about Saturday was that we were puppy sitting a sweet little black Havanese.

    Can you see the little black fluff ball sitting next to boys?

Sunday morning we still had fevered kids so kept things mellow. The only things on our schedule were two games and a team dinner for my son's hockey but he ended up stuck between the bathroom and his bed with an upset tummy. The other kids had all gotten ready so we took them out for a bit as we had all been stuck in the house so much with the little ones being sick. We stopped in at the garden center and began to plan for when the snow finally all melts. The bonus is that we found these beautiful windchimes on sale original price $11.99 marked down to $0.67. I thought they would make great additions to the girls treat bags for their upcoming birthdays and so we picked up a dozen. Total cost $8.44 and I had enough left on a gift card so no money out of pocket.

Then we wandered the hardware store and dreamed about what tile we would replace the linoleum at the front entrance with and looked at deck railings. The kids shared a free bag of popcorn and we all were happy.

Kids went for some quiet time after we got home and we just finished watching Tangled. Time for baths, stories, then off to bed. I am praying for a peaceful night and to wake to healthy kids.