Weather, Citizenship, Swedish School and Corned Beef

Yesterday was probably the most beautiful day of the year. The weather was a perfect 75* with a slight breeze and work "made" me take the day off to go and vote. I took Melia in to vote, but since I'm still officially Canadian, I don't think they want me voting quite yet. But, I'm very appreciative to the company for giving me the day off : )

Speaking of citizenship, I've completed my paperwork for naturalization. I haven't filed it yet, though. I don't know what I'm waiting for, but I'm 90% sure I'll follow through with it in the near future.

Anyway, being a perfect day, we did what all normal families do...got errands done.

Since Melia can't drive any more because of her failing eyesight, I need to get her to all of her places of shopping or errand running. This time, we tried dropping her off with one or more kids while I took one or more kids with me on one of my errands. It turned out pretty well as long as we swapped kids every once in a while.

We all took a much needed nap in the afternoon.

I left Melia at home with Anders while Jobe, Charlie and Lindy went with me to Swedish school. It's a school we discovered where a bunch of Swedish moms got together to keep Swedish alive for thier children and anyone else who had a Swedish speaking parent in the family.

We started late last year and the children really enjoy it. I'm helping one of the teachers teach the teenage kids who don't speak fluently at home.

Today, Jobe and Charlie (Lindy just plays there for now) went into the fluent class because their teacher wasn't able to come. I was informed that they did very well. I was more impressed when in the car I started asking them simple questions in Swedish and Charlie kicked into gear and answed all of. He really understood what I was saying in Swedish. He didn't miss a single question. Jobe gets it, but says he's tired. I don't blame him, his brain is always going a mile a minute and by the end of the day, I'm sure he wants to release energy, not use it through concentrating.

Melia had a wonderful corned beef and cabbage waiting for us when we got home. It was so good, even Lindy (our pickiest eater) ate all of it and wanted more.