Suit shopping

I woke up pretty early this morning, but continued snoozing after a bit. All of a sudden a familiar, but slightly out-of-place sound woke me again. I listened to a loud scraping sound go by the front of our house three times. I was suddenly convinced the sound was made by snowplows. Just then my mum walked into my room and I mumbled, "Did it snow last night?" "Yes, it sure did," my mum replied. As she left my room I dragged myself from my warm bed and looked outside. Sure enough there was a thin layer of snow sitting on top of front lawns all down our street. The snow looked like crisp, clean white sheets stretched over large mattresses. So finally we got snow! Even though it was just a little bit, it was still enough for the city to get the snowplows out on the road, so I think that is pretty significant. We actually had been forecast to get snow when I checked the weather last night, but that happened last week with no fluffy white results, so I hadn't believed the report. We got some more snow tonight though not very much. We have snow forecast for the next few days as well until the week is supposed to end with rain on Saturday.

Around 4 p.m. our entire family went out to Moore's to help Ty pick out a suit that he got as a gift card Christmas present. He found several he liked and then we all said which we liked best and he finally picked from there. My mum and I left then to take my grandma to the hospital to visit Auntie Beth. We made sure she got in the hospital alright and then went back to the store to help with picking out dress shirts, ties, shoes, socks and a belt. Man, it's quite a complicated process to get a new suit. I used to be jealous of guys cause they can get ready for church so fast. All they have to do is pick a suit and then make sure the shirt/tie etc. match and they're good to go. But I realized tonight that a lot goes into the buying of the suit. Maybe shopping for dresses/skirts/tops isn't so bad after all . . .

After the purchases were made we drove back to the hospital and all of us went up to visit Auntie Beth except my dad stayed with the car so we didn't have to pay for parking. She had just been moved to a floor in the hospital and I liked it a lot better. It seemed more cheery and happy. When we got to her room my grandma told us the story about trying to find the new room. She sure went on a trek to get to the right place, but finally she found it and was happy to see her sister. She called us to let us know the new hall and room, which was nice so that we didn't have to go through the same confusion. After a short visit with both Auntie Beth and her two new roommates, we prayer with her and left. Then we went straight to my grandparents place where my grandma and my siblings and I got out. My parents went home to get some extra food and us kids helped my grandma get everything ready to eat haystacks. I turned on the World Junior game and it was near the end of the 2nd period with Canada beating Slovakia 7-1. By the end of the game it was 8-2. There was another hat trick tonight and that guy got the Player of the Game award. So, because I know you all care so much about hockey, here's some interesting facts about Team Canada so far in this tournament: (1) Canada has scored 30 goals so far and only has 2 goals scored against them (both in tonight's game). (2) Canada had a shutout (no goals scored against them) for 157.25 minutes before Slovakia finally found the back of the net. I think that's pretty impressive.

My parents had come back over and we were pretty much ready to eat by the time the game was done. It was delicious and I ate too much. Then we gave our grandparents their presents that they hadn't had time to open on Christmas Day before sundown. After that we cleared the table and played some games. First up was 7-Up (the game played with Rook cards) and somehow I won that one, even though Bryn usually does. Then Ty wanted to play Probe because he had an awesome word to use. It's a game only really made for four players so we teamed up. I was with Ty. As it turns out, curmudgeon isn't such a great word when the G, O and N are guessed/exposed right in the first few rounds. Our word was guessed first. Then I figured out Bryn's and my grandma's word of phonics. Bryn and my grandma guessed my parents word of icily and then they eventually guessed my grandpa's word of curriculum. By the time all the other words were guessed we had only guessed the C and the L and two blanks of my grandpa's word, but then my mum guessed M and I knew the word right then. Too bad my turn didn't come back around until after Bryn and my grandma's turn. Oh well, they won, but I think Ty and I had the next most points. Then some people wanted to leave and get home to bed, but I convinced them all to play one game of SkipBo. My grandpa finally won that game and we headed home. So it was a relaxing morning and early afternoon and then a busy but fun evening and night.