Crazy January Weather

Not sure what to expect anymore. We had a great week of single minus digits and then plus 8 weather. They were able to get some of the streets cleaned thank goodness. When Matt sits in his van and I happened to be driving behind him one day, he looked like a bobble doll when mom hit those bumps!
Now it is -42 with the windchill and all night we could hear the house cracking and groaning. The previous cold snap had caused the water hose in John's toureg to burst and he finally got it back from the shop. So today he refused to take it, so worried it would do the same thing. So traded vehicles, because my Toyota is the best!
Loving today, as the kids have a day off and they are right now folding clothes and then will start on the dishwasher! So I have time to update Matt's blog.
I stayed overnight at mom's on Saturday because Matt had an MRI appt 8 am Sunday. Matt and I had a great game of trivia pursuit and I was down by 4 pies and came back to almost winning (Matt cheated!). Good thing I went with for the MRI as they did not have much help, they had one guy working the machine. It took some maneuvering but Matt has such good upper body strength that when we transfer him, he holds his body upright instead of being "floppy". I had to take Shaunie and Jonmarie too, as John was on call but they are great as long as we have fully charged their nintendo's!
Mom is tired of getting up with Matt at night to help him "pass water" that now she makes him do it himself with the catheter. It takes some skill but Matt is getting the hang of it, as the left hand refuses to work.
I had received a free gym membership to Women's Only fitness for 6 months and I gave it to mom before Christmas. She finally went the other day and really enjoyed it. She had purchased a treadmill from Sears but they sent the wrong one, and not only that half the parts were missing. When she phoned, they were going to send out a repair man and they mom would have to pay the 65 dollar charge! She was not happy at all and finally convinced them to just come pick and up and forget the whole thing!
Matt just had his hair cut and is looking not too shabby around the edges.
Hope everyone is managing the lovely weather and stay warm!