Busy Times!

Well, January is just flying by. Between coaching basketball, the many workshops that I seem to have signed up for, and trying to get to the gym as regularly as possible, the month is rapidly disappearing. Charles is coaching the boys and Kelly and I are coaching the girls so at least one of us has a practice or game pretty much every day of the week. I also attended a workshop on the new Math 7 curriculum and the corresponding resources. The afternoon was informative if not exactly captivating. The second workshop was on teaching reading comprehension strategies for non-fiction writing which was a fantastic presentation - lots of usable and practical ideas that I can use in my classroom right away. On Friday evening, Rina and I went out to see Atonement which I've been dying to see for ages. After battling the crazy line-ups at Colossus (45 minutes - there went our plan to grab a coffee before the movie) the movie was fantastic. It's so nice to see how well a novel can translate into film. On Saturday we went out with Mandy and Kevin to CinCin for their Dine Out menu. We had amazing, attentive (but not overly so) service and we all thoroughly enjoyed our meals. My favourite was the Goat Cheese Ravioli and Roasted Veal Terrine appetizer that all four of us ordered. After dinner we went back to Mandy and Kevin's for some wii. Thanks to Charles's initial attempt at the sandwich delivery game (I forget the name) in Mario Party, I laughed so hard that I cried. I haven't done that in a long, long time! Well, now we're into another week that looks just as busy as this one - if this keeps up I'll really be in need of our two-week Spring Break!