Day 21 Quebec

Although Lachie stirred several times, I managed to settle him quickly, but Amelia’s screaming kept me awake for hours in the middle of the night and of course her parents too! Consequently when Lachie woke at 5:45 am my first thought was “you have to be joking”. While he might have wanted his mum I managed to get him into the lounge, TV on, breakfast eaten before Sarah woke. Soon after 8 it began to snow very lightly, but it melted before hitting the ground.

The nurse came at 10 to check Amelia and Sarah. She spoke English well and bought with her several gifts made for babies via “Project Linus ”. A gorgeous rug and beanie.

Amelia is back to birth weight and doing well. She had a huge backpack and a large bag containing the scales and all the other necessary gear. A few more hurdles for Tim and Sarah to jump over as far as getting all the paperwork done and another issue re immunisation schedules. Overall Canada, and in particular Quebec, seems to offer an excellent service for new mothers/ babies.

When the nurse left I walked down to the shop to get a few fresh vegies. Although no one in the store had any idea- I found Epsom Salts in the laundry section, in a packet labelled Epsom Salts! I was fairly certain the nurse would not suggest a product that did not exist. It was warmer walking today in the light snow than yesterday. But I had to put up my umbrella to keep dry in the melting snow. According to the locals they didn't get any good snow until very late last year -26 th December. The snow today was so light, but in some places it settled on cars/ trees. Definitely not enough to build a snow man.

Back for lunch and Lachie went down for his sleep. The snow got heavier during the afternoon. When Lachie woke up we tried to get to Cosco for some requirements, but he was being uncooperative and then heavy traffic delayed us so much that Tim had to send a message to his parents. He was to pick them up at the station at 4:30. They caught a taxi back to the apartment and we met them in the corridor just as we arrived back laden with all our boxes. 

While I prepared dinner Tim’s parents filled us in on their couple of days away. Heather put Lachie to bed, while Amelia was not at all in the sleeping mood. I typed out my diary.

At 9:00 Tim took us over the road to the Joan of Arc park to see the snow falling. It was a lovely walk.

Back to hear the sound of quiet children for about five minutes before Amelia woke again!