Blake’s got the plague, as do the children, so everyone’s home sick today (but me). Blake had to go to work to “change the tapes”, whatever that means, so he came home around 11:30am and one of the first things he said to me when he walked in the door was, “So it appears as though she defriended me too.” And then we laughed.

So, I guess this means that there probably won’t be a call or an e-mail to Blake about the situation as obviously we’re both cut off from her life for god only knows how long this time. Because do keep in mind, this isn’t the first time she’s done this. Oh no, she’s a seasoned pro at having too much truth thrown at her and then holding her breath ’til she turns blue in response. So I guess now we just have to wait it out and in the meantime, enjoy the silence.

Interestingly enough, Charlie hasn’t defriended us, which leads Blake and I to believe that he probably doesn’t know anything about what’s going on.

What I’m very curious about though, is whether or not Brooke is petty enough to not send the children Xmas gifts over this. Blake says that’s beyond his scope of imagination and I flat out don’t know, so I guess we’re both just going to wait and see.

Speaking of Xmas, since people have asked me already, Wes & Madison’s Amazon wishlist is here. Something that’s funny to me about Brooke and Xmas is that she complains that Canadian Amazon is only books (which it’s not, it’s video games and CDs too) and every time she says it, it floors me because PARDON ME FOR RAISING TWO CHILDREN WHO LOVE READING. My kids aren’t really into toys except Webkins, they’re just clutter really and they’d much prefer a video game, CD or books.

As you’ll see from the wishlist, the majority of Madison’s wants are books on sewing, knitting and crocheting. I’m not sure if I mentioned this before or not, but Judy taught Madison to sew at the end of the summer and Madison soon began making stuffed animals for her brother (Googles, to be precise, which is kind of like a platypus – Wes’ totem animal). Then my mom gave Madison some sewing stuff and then finally Blake scored her an old sewing machine at a charity auction at work and she’s been making stuffed animals and purses for her friends and just a few days ago she made herself a shirt.

Her workmanship is a little rough around the edges, things aren’t hemmed at all let alone correctly so everything frays, but she loves it and spends all her money at the fabric store in town and when she runs out of new fabric, she just pulls stuff out of our Goodwill garbage bag and upcycles it into something new.

Depending on which books get bought for her for Xmas, I’m going to get her some yarn, knitting needles (um someone’s gonna have to tell me what size/kind to get because I have no fucking clue) and crochet hooks, which I also know nothing about. If we can afford it, I was thinking we might also get her a gift certificate to Fabricland in Barrie or something.

Wes on the other hand, since learning how to read (he’s already way past what they’ll be learning in grade 1 this year, according to his teacher) he’s been all about books just like his sister was. Other than that, his big thing is video games, he’s like a video game savant, so that’s why there are many of both on the wishlist.

Anyway, it’s time to go make my eggs because Blake’s done cooking garbage in my frying pan, so I’m going to go do that. Chances are I’ll be making another post today because I’ve been very posty lately. ;o)