February 24 th

Dear Heidi,

We have had lots to talk about now you are in Mexico, and I am so pleased you have replaced your jogging shoes. You will be glad of them climbing up to the Aztec temple. I loved the photo you sent from Cancun!

As you know, we have been up to the mountains. We had just the best weather, so the boys were very lucky with three days of perfect skiing. All went well, and Pappa and I even got a short trip to Lillehammer town center in! I bought a new cardigan there, which was much admired when I went into Gaiastova, by two women who wanted to know the name of the pattern, and luckily I knew! ( it’s called a Nancy kofte) sadly, it would take me an awfully long time to knit for myself though.

Back at the ranch....L and W were not much help to the older boys clearing the snow off the roof of the cabin, they were too busy jumping off the highest point of the gable. Luckily no one was hurt, even though L did a couple of very elegant back flips!! We did eventually get most of the snow cleared, and Pappa made a lovely snow bench and table on the balcony, where we sat in the sunshine and enjoyed a glass of wine.

Saturday dawned cold, foggy and sleety, so we had a large brunch, a use it up lunch, and cleaned, packed and left before the evening crowds...or at least we tried to, but miss Bella did not want to leave just yet, so she slipped her collar between house and car and raced off full speed for a couple of kilometres, with D, very much out of his former sprinter shape, running after her! Of course miss B is hardly in her own former shape, being nearly 11 now, so I suspect she was glad to see Pappa with the car shortly afterwards...and so was D! Nevertheless we got home before darkness, and were met by two happy cats, glad to be fed indoors again and to join us on the sofa.

You will be glad to know that Norway 🇳🇴  now has 38 medals, and must surely be the Olympic Games winners overall now. But you can also be proud of the 5 medals won by the UK 🇬🇧 , where as one winner said, we don’t even have snow!

Tomorrow is laundry and packing again, as W is back off to school on Monday. Pappa is taking him and dashing home again on Tuesday. Thinking of which, he needs to order a car, so I will pop off and remind him now.

Looking forwards to hearing about your trip inland;
Love from us all, especially me! Mamma.