Anna with our neighbor at their mountain cabin

This weekend was the first really cold snap of the season. I mean really cold. The temperature never made it into double digits all weekend and the high today was 5 degrees (which I am not even sure we hit). As I write this it is -4. That’s Fahrenheit folks, for the metric enthusiasts that is -20C. Needless to say, the only time I went outside today was to get the newspaper this morning.

Anna had other ideas, though. When the neighbors said they were going to their cabin in the mountains today she jumped at the opportunity. They have a great remote cabin that is off the grid and Anna braved the cold to play outside with them. They went sledding, ice skating on the river, exploring and Anna learned how to whittle a stick.

Anna had a sleepover with some school friends

On Friday night Anna invited some school friends over for a sleepover. They played games, watched a movie and generally had a good time. The next morning they all painted photo frames for this photo here. They even slept reasonably well.

Hard at work on his Rubik’s cube

Jude had a quiet weekend. It was too cold to ever play soccer. He went out once, but was back five minutes later. He went out today with some of the neighbor kids but again only lasted a few minutes. So, this was an inside weekend for him. There was lots of soccer on TV which Jude enjoyed and then he spent a lot of time on his Rubik’s cube. He can solve it regularly now in under 40 seconds but he wants to get faster so he has been trying a new method.

Finally, we received Jude’s school photos recently and I couldn’t resist including it here.

Jude’s official photo for the 2020-21 school year