Cloud White

Yesterday I had the fun of painting the playroom, soon to be office, in Greenbriar Beige. It's soooo cool!! All the window frames and casing and trim had their primer covered in Cloud White. I missed one piece of trim and then I am done.

Today it was church cleaning day. The first thing I had to do was to shovel the snow that has fallen in the night. It was good and cold, but the kind of cold that is totally exhilarating. The snow was the soft, fluffy kind that is just such fun and so easy to shovel, and everything looks so clean when you are done....just like the other day. But what stands out is the beautiful sunrise that I got to watch. The sky lit up in all colours of pink, peach, purple and orange. The GOD of the universe cares for me and I love His sense of humour because the only way for me to ever see the sun come up is for it come up at a decent time! Meaning....sometime after 8...I am not much of a crack of dawn person... ( I would see it if it came up at 7:30 too, but I could enjoy it's full splendour by being outside in it today.)

I got the church done in good time and in the afternoon I went to clean at Pastor Koole's and then I picked Craig up to go and see Joe's basketball game at school!!! It was such fun. Joe and his friend Maarten made the practice team, not the game team and they were really excited that they got called up to play. Woohooo. They played really well and the game ended in a tie, 28-28. I guess our school beat that team really soundly last time they played, and the coach gave some players the day off and called the younger boys up, who managed to hold the other team to a tie. I thought that was so neat. It is a much more fun game to watch when one team is always within one basket of the other team. It's nice for the other team too because it's so discouraging to lose by a ton of points!

Craig had a study day today and has an exam day tomorrow. Then Monday is a study day and Tuesday is another exam day. Then he will be done with finals for the first semester. At the basketball game I found that it is quite common for there to be a lack of urgency for studying in the student....the only sense of urgency is the one felt by the parent witnessing multitudes of studybreaks. Apparently it was good that I was out of the house working all day:):) He called me at church and asked if he could warm up some chili for us to have for lunch, ready to eat by the time I got there. That was a big treat!!

It is such fun to read the possible names for the new room. I was thinking of that sleeping on the beach feeling but wouldn't want people to track the sand out of the room. :):) Before it becomes a full fledged guestroom it will be Joe's room while our Korean exchange student sleeps upstairs in Joe's. Joe feels like this is a dream come true, and cannot wait for it to become a reality!!! A great feature for potential guests is the queen sized bed that will occupy the room....so if the prospect of your feet dangling off the edge of the double bed upstairs has been the major deterrent for your visit to the DeBoer's .....you needn't resist any longer!!! Book now...to get the week of your choice!!

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