December 17, 1998 7:20 A.M.

Good morning folks!
Why must I write my journal entries twice all the time. Well....partly because I never save them while I am working on them and the other part is because I’m such an idiot!! I always do something dumb.....like this morning I wanted to eject a floppy disk....cause u know i get doing other things and thinking of other things......always other things.......can never do one thing and concentrate on it with out doing or thinking of a other stuff. Anyway, I went to back up another file onto a floppy. The floppy had the write protect on....so....I went to eject it and guess what.....I, not looking......press......the power button. POOF goes half a page of my journal entry. Arrrrrggggg!!!!
Oh well, Happy Day!!! It’s snowing!!
That means I must drive careful while I am out today. But it is always nice to have snow before and while Christmas. I couldn’t believe the unnatural warmth of the year yesterday. It was gorgeous!!! Pierre was home early.....so we piled some wood together. Got the Christmas tree up. The first thing Brandon asked me as soon as he walked in the door is.....Can we put up the tree now? Of course I gave the kids some chores to do first....then we put up the tree while dinner was cooking. I put the lights on the kids put on garland and a few ornaments. I guess I’ll have to finish doing it later today or tonight if they don’t put any more ornaments on. Maybe cause dinner was ready and they got interrupted and they thought they were done. lol *shrugs* i donno

Now......let me tell you what else now.....
Well....I talked to Dutchess5 aka: Sharon. Talked to her on the net and called her on the phone....all the way to Texas. Anyway......the poor girl.......broke her damn neck in a car wreck. Now don’t panic. She is ok....so she says. She has this thing she calls a bird cage on her. I’m just glad she lived to tell about it! I was wondering about her and poof she appears on the net. Anyway....I also am mailing Joti a Christmas card. I wrote her a little letter too. I got other cards ready to go too. Just need to get the U.S. stamps and send them out.

Guess what? It’s snowing!!! ha ha.....i told u that already, i know, but.....just had to tell ya again.

Did I mention Brandon’s horrible burn. He burnt his arm on the wood stove. He was fooling around with Josh. I feel really bad about it. I think he learned a painful lesson though. Because he knew to be careful around the stove....and we told them many times. Anyway, it’s on the one side of his arm damn near from his wrist to his elbow. I think it’s healing up pretty good though. I shudder when I look at it because it reminds me of the pain it must have caused him.

Also want to quickly mention that Robert is interested in going to the French Immersion school. They have half a day of school in French and a half a day in English. Politically, Pierre doesn’t agree with him going. I think it would be good for him though. The political thing is that in Ontario we do this but in Quebec they don’t do it for the English people. In Ontario we have French schools that if you are French you can go to. But in Quebec all schools are French and there are no English schools. I agree with Pierre that it isn’t politically fair but it would put Robert at an advantage if he were bilingual.

Anyway, I think I should go now. I need to get into the shower and get lunches for the kids.

Bye for now
Lots of love
Christine

PS It’s snowing.....lol