I went out on pass for part of the day yesterday. It was a much needed break from hospital life. A chilly day out but I took deep breaths of that cold air and enjoyed every minute of being outside in the snowy weather. Chris, Caeleb and I went to Once Upon a Child and bought Caeleb some snowpants and we also got some cute little outfits for baby girl. Then we went home, enjoyed a fire in the fire place made by Nathan and watched a claymation show about Timmy the sheep with Caeleb . It is his new favourite. He had a bit of fever this morning so he was my little snuggler and we snuggled the morning away. But we also did some playing in the fort Uncle Nathan made with a huge box we had. He cut out windows and a door and now it is Caeleb's fort.
Now I am back on unit 41. Home sweet home (for now). It was so nice having that fire in the fire place when I was at "real" home today. The smell and crackling sound reminded me alot of cold winter nights on the farm. Alot of winter farm memories have come back to me tonight and I want to share just a few.
I remember roasting hotdogs and marshmallows over the fire in the fireplace. I loved it when we would turn off all the lights and just watch the glow from the fire.
I remember us 3 kids playing fox and geese out in the snow and building snow forts in the drifts.
I remember dad coming in from doing chores with his rosy cheeks and nose, dressed up in his winter overalls. I liked to press my cheek against his. It was so cold.
I remember figure skating lessons and coming home with frozen feet. Mom and Dad were so good to us. They would put heated wheat bags in our beds to heat up our feet.
I remember our skating rink on the old dugout. We used it alot the winter of 1999-2000. In fact our family spent New Years Eve - Y2K -2000 - on the skating rink (wondering if the world was going to come to an end - just kidding).
I remember bundling up and going outside in the cold to do chores such as feeding the cows and horses hay with pitchforks. Oh, I love pitching hay to the cows with a pitch fork. We would also have to crack the ice in the water trough so that the animals could drink.
I remember us 3 kids playing in the dark after school with our snowmobile. We would take turns holding on to the back dragging our feet or holding on to a rope attached to the back trying to ski with mom's old cross country skis. We would go over jumps and around in circles and have so much fun.
I remember dad tying a rope to the back of the truck and then to some tubes and we would go tubing behind the truck on the snow.
I remember going to the foothillls behind Claresholm to "hunt" for a Christmas tree. We would have fun sledding down the ditches and riding in the back of the truck with the tree covering us. Those hotdogs, chips and hot chocolate sure tasted good by the fire Dad made after getting the tree.
I remember sleeping at Grandma Smith's house and curling up under the covers of that old fashioned bed and looking out the window at the snow covered pasture and at the beautiful moon and stars.
Just a few Summer memories thrown in...
I remember the 3 of us kids playing on the trampoline for hours at a time. It wasn't justcrack the egg either (though dad would play that with us and we would have so much fun). We would play karate, amusement park , volcano, sprinkler games.
I remember us 3 kids would love to play cars in the mud. We would make roads and towns and we would get as dirty as dad did when he was out on the tractor all day.
I remember us 3 kids sleeping on the trampoline or making our own tents or hammocks. Nathan would provide the music on his portable radio shaped as a small TV and we would fall asleep to country music like Garth Brooks and John Micheal Montgomery.
So many more memories to share but that will have to wait for another day. I loved my childhood with my family!!
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