Lavers in Canada: Spring forward!

So last night the clocks went forward so now I'm sat at 7pm and it's still bright blue skies and sunshine outside, spring is coming. This has been a very long winter and very cold, February was cold and lots of snow, yesterday and today it has been much warmer around 0 degrees but still minus teens on a night. We are still expecting more snow this week but over the next month it should melt a lot.

In February Harriet and I celebrated our birthdays by going to an all you can eat Chinese buffet!

Harriet has spent the last month doing her Stem Expo (science project), her friend Monika paired up with her for this one and for a good number of weeks we've had a papier mache cow hanging in the kitchen. They were trying to make a model to explain how milk is produced. Just before March break they had the fair at school and won 1st prize and they now have to go to regionals this Saturday and if they progress from there provincials.

Isaac is enjoying his coop placement at ET Mechanical, he is travelling round with the mechanics fixing different types of home heating systems.

Isaac and Josh played snow cricket with Richard for the Fredericton Frostival, their team won!

David and I had a night away on PEI a couple of weeks ago, I was going with work so he tagged along with me.

I was taking Josh into town for a driving lesson during a snow storm last month when I hit ice, lost control of the van, snaked down the road before doing a 360 and flipping on the side in the ditch. Once some kind passers by had righted the van we could get out unscathed. Unfortunately the van has some interesting bumps and a smashed windscreen but the garage has given it the mechanical all clear. It has made me super cautious now driving in snow.

Josh has his driving test this week and looking at the forecast it will probably be in a little snow storm.

Me and the kids have had March break off this week, the aim was to get lots of farm jobs done and to finally get round to painting Josh's room. As usual things haven't gone quite to plan and we spent all the time sorting farm issues so poor Josh still hasn't got his bedroom finished. This month we have a number of pigs due to give birth so we are hoping it warms up a bit.