Can you see the smile on Tristan's face, under his hockey mask????!!!! He just loves to play this game. This was at his last festival, in Montreal.

Yes, that's right... its 3 am and I am up with the worst virus bug I have ever experienced! I have been flat on my back for 2 days now, unable to move. But now, I am awake and can't sleep cause I am delirious - great!

Watch out everyone out there - this one is nasty. You think you have the flu, then you think you have gastro, then somehow it mutates to a cold/cough/fever thing with stomach so sensitive that you can only eat chocolate (I kid you not!). The boys each had it, and Jacob has it again... so another week off perhaps, and Greg and I are running out of sick days/vacation days. Thank Heaven's end of fiscal year is only a month away, and I get my full complement of days off!

We have put ads in the local papers trying to find someone to sit for us, but no luck yet - a 12 yr old, a 13 yr and a 16 yr old answered the ads. We have also contacted a couple of Nanny agencies, but good luck trying to find one that wants to live on the South Shore of Montreal and take care of potentially 4 kids! One lady was very nice and said whether I liked it or not, she was going to make it her personal crusade to find us someone cause she thought we were "normal'! Ha... I guess there are a lot of "not normal" people out there trying to find child care for their children.

We have been waiting for "The Phone Call" re dossiers arriving at our agency, but nothing yet has come in. They did request some new files at the end of January, and it can take up to 6 weeks before they arrive... we hoped that maybe some would arrive during the Chinese New Year holiday, and that we would get the phone call on what would have been Dad's 70th birthday, but none have. So we wait for another 3 weeks or so at least. Maybe on my birthday we will get the news? Or maybe March 24th... Jacob's first day home with us in 2005, and the day we celebrate his "birthday".

Some good news though: Karen, our resource person at Formons, finally got her TA (travel authority) after waiting over 200 days!!! She is happily running around getting stuff done for Presley's arrival. Her husband will be leaving March 2nd - such excitement!