I spent the morning relaxing as we were having Mel’s birthday party with the family today. I made sure to eat and to drink throughout the day and did well for my food intake and managed to feel quite comfortable. That is until the afternoon while I was doing some food prep. I finished some of the preliminary prep and was sitting on the chair with Xavier just relaxing and I felt quite weak. I am not exactly sure what brought it on, so I asked Mel for some food and I had some and went to the bedroom to rest. I tried to rest but it failed as I had a lot of gas and struggled to actually sleep. I sat up and tried to manage and could not really take much of a nap so I got up and finished prepping for dinner. There was still a lot of work to do for dinner and I wanted to make sure that a lot of it was done prior to everyone coming. Not feeling well is for suckers and I managed to push through it ok and as our family came to help out and things progressed quickly. Everyone loves my parents cooking and normally they make enough for leftovers but today all of the food was gone. It is fantastic that our mothers and aunts always help out with clean up. It makes things go so well. I think that they appreciated all of the ovens we had today as we had multiple things that had to be heated up. Our oven has an awesome feature where we have a tray at the bottom of the oven that slides out. One of the dishes made a mess and overflowed spilling onto the bottom. People thought it was a big deal but Mel laughed and said that it was no problem as we could pull out the bottom and wash the bottom of the stove easily. After the oven cooled down a bit and people were eating I slid out the bottom tray and cleaned it up. It was a bit surprising how easy and quickly the mess was cleaned.
Olivier was listening to music today and he was listening to some songs and he said that it made him feel nostalgic, to when he was younger. We have always played a lot of music in the house and the nostalgic music was “Come and get your love” and “Still Waiting”. He remembered listening to these songs from when he was 3 or 4, so he said that it made him feel nostalgic. Mel and I laughed at his thoughts as it was quite unexpected to have a 10 year talk about nostalgia. Olivier spent most of the afternoon at a friends whole Xavier was recruited to help setup for the party. He was responsible for cutting up fruit and physically moving chairs and tables. Mel, Xavier and Olivier managed to move our upstairs couch downstairs today on their own. Xavier did most of the heavy lifting, with Mel at the top and Olivier helping guide things. I appreciate how the two boys are always willing to help out now and they always step up when needed. They are still trouble makers and do not always get along, but when we need them to help out with things they are generally always willing to assist.
I appreciate how well our two families have integrated with each other. My mother is going to prepare a meal for my mother in law because she likes my parents cooking. Sometime this week they will get in touch with each other and make an arrangement. It is a common occurrence where they will chat with each other and make plans of some sort, or relay information about sales. Mel’s side of the family has not learned to avoid telling my parents that they like something otherwise they will get a lot of it, but they do not mind right now.
Tomorrow we travel to North Bay for a game. We won last night and the team played well, with the other goalie getting a shut out. The referees that game benefited us a bit with the amount of penalties that the other team received. When we play in North Bay the referees tend to be a bit biased so I expect that the game might be quite a bit different tomorrow. We will see how Xavier deals with this and whether he can keep the game close enough for the team to win. He has been playing great lately and his confidence is sky high which will be good for the summer hockey. Tomorrow I need to make sure that I bring enough food and pack appropriate food for this trip. So far things have been good and I would like to continue this trend. Hopefully I will be able to write an entry prior to me leaving for the trip, otherwise it will be late when I post an entry like today.
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