Windy and cold...
On the 17th it was cold. I didn't feel the cold, though, as we didn't go outside that day. Not even for playgroup. I looked outside and cancelled anything that involved opening the door! These are taken between 8:30AM and 9:30AM:
This is what the weather network had to say about the whole thing:
I was surprised to see that it only felt like -18. It looked a whole lot colder than that! For something pleasant, though, the Christmas cactus that I bought here (and it seemed like a heck of a deal for $9) got its first (and so far, only) open bloom that day.
In other news....
Late last week a had a conversation with our "moving guy." I say this in quotes because I've never actually seen him move anything, but he seems to be the owner/guy-in-charge of the company. If anyone really is in charge.
We covered a few things. We reviewed the fact that, no, in fact we do not have all our stuff. We discussed where our stuff might be. He informed me that the next step was for him to do a walkthrough of the airline's warehouse, then start a claim. That was pretty much it. I was left with a lot of questions: Who starts a claim? Are the pieces gone forever? Will he actually walk through the warehouse? Does he know what he's looking for? How can he miss a very large orange sled? Can we do a walkthrough after? (Well, I was thinking me, actually.... No offense, but men can never seem to find anything!)
In the same day I had the brilliant idea of contacting the company that was shipping our vehicle here and letting them know our new phone number. Four phone calls later I found out two things. One, nobody was interested in humouring me by even pretending to take our phone number. Two, our car has been sitting at a tow truck compound waiting for us to pick it up.
Tow truck guy: "Oh, it's been sitting here waiting for you to pick it up"
Me: "It's what?"
Tow truck guy: "Well, we don't drive it to you, you know"
Me: (fake laugh) "Yeah, well the ice isn't quite that frozen yet anyway"
Tow truck guy: "Huh?"
Me: (realizing he's not joking) "Um, it has to get on a plane to get to Iqaluit"
Tow truck guy: "Oh, is that what this means about (airline's name) Cargo?"
Me: "Yeah"
Tow truck guy: "We'll drop it off there first thing in the morning."
Me: "Do you need our phone number to give to them?"
Tow truck guy: "Nah."
Click
Sure enough, the airline called in the morning to say they had it and that it might arrive Saturday, but probably Monday or Tuesday. It's Tuesday night now, and unless it's hiding somewhere (you should all know that's impossible) it isn't here yet. Colour me surprised! But since they called, somebody somewhere listened to the voicemail I left. That's not something that I would usually consider possible, but it just has to be!
Back to the movers...
I called the movers today. Because I have an IQ over 10, I could tell that he hadn't even thought about us. His suggestion was that we just go ahead and file a claim for our stuff. I said, "So, we don't know where it is?" To which he replied that he didn't have it. I asked him how the walkthrough went and "do we know what we're looking for?" Boxes with the number of course. "Yeah, but the big orange sled, size of boxes, that sort of thing?" He'd have to get the file out for that.... Anyway, I explained that I really would rather have our stuff because from what I'd heard, we wouldn't get any money until our other stuff came out of storage, and I really didn't want to put out that kind of cash. And then I asked if the next step was to contact the people on our end. And he said he'd check it out some more and get back to me. Now, understand, I've heard that before. So you know how amazed I was that when we got back from checking the mail, etc, there was a message from him saying that the pieces had been found. Holy smokes! First of all, he called me. Secondly, they found the stuff! Of course, it can't be delivered until tomorrow because the van was in the shop until 5. Phew, at least some things are right with the world! So if - big if - our stuff comes tomorrow, we'll see what may actually have accidentally gone to storage and what made it here. And which arrives first, the car (remember they thought we'd be all disappointed that it wouldn't get here until WAY after our household effects?) or my pots and pans.
Family time....
One of the bonuses of not being able to go anywhere is that we get to spend a lot of time just hanging out as a family. Nobody's rushing anywhere and our biggest foray into the outside world is to check the mail or go FJ hunting.
Logan is feeling better now, and as such is much less of a mommy-suck. In fact the little stinker has developed a giggle that is definitely only for Daddy. It is the cutest thing! I am slightly jealous...
Both boys are back to sleeping through the night. Hooray! Liam still gets up before the rest of us, but is content to get his cereal and milk out of the fridge and eat, then play with his moonsand, or crawl into our bed for a cuddle. He and Daddy have gotten into the routine of doing the cereal thing together. Mommy appreciates the extra sleep and doesn't fall for that.
And I think that's about it for tonight! I got some class stuff done beforehand, but now it's time for bed. In case you're wondering why so long between posts, I usually only sit down to do this when there's extra time after the kids are sleeping. Take care out there!
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