We are celebrating Joe's birthday tomorrow....it's so exciting. Many boys will descend on the house after school tomorrow and we can't wait!! Lots of fun things are planned and now it is just up to the weather to cooperate with us. That's out of our hands. Quite a wind in the forecast and unpredictable precipitation. Kind of fun too though....
I hope to make some cards tomorrow. I went to see the stamping ladies on monday and that was fun. I got at least one card made, and had no illusions that I would accomplish more than that. Mostly I go for the fellowship and the laughter. A great way to start the week. I dutifully put my things away when I got home and started a little project in the studio that I am still working on.
Ray's folks left for the sunny shores of Florida yesterday and will be away for 3 weeks or so. They came for supper on Sunday, for Joe's birthday and they joined us for Cadet Sunday combined service in the afternoon. Afterwards we went home and had some supper together. That was nice too.We had porkroast, with rosemary, mashed potatoes and baby carrots. And rolls and stuffing. Two little extras that just make it such a nice meal.
Little Lambs was this morning and I suspect there IS a storm in the air as the little people were full of beans!!! So we had a rousing game of duck duck goose in the foyer. We left a note on our downstairs room door that said "We are playing a running game upstairs. See you there!" One of the little girls went to town and decorated the sign with hearts and flowers, and boys and girls. It was so cute. The game quickly escalated into tag (The word tag would imply a light touch with one's hand to catch the other person.....our little people tags resemble more of a full body contact smash....accompanied by a You're it....and then the denial....Nooooo, you didn't catch me! I can never figure out how they get away with that....)and finally full out galloping around the fellowship hall. A great day to be a little person indoors. The funniest part was that they eventually tired themselves out competely. Red cheeks and huffing and puffing....in need of a cold drink of water.
So that's what's new and exciting around here....a few busy days coming up....I have two days of painting coming up, so I have to move my cleaning up a day too, no biggie. There's a seminar in London to attend that we are really looking forward to. And then it's hockey time again for all the gents around here. Last saturday I had to bring Ray's skates to the arena. It appears that he left them hanging on the hockey tree where we hang the equipment to dry. Our boys were not quick to let him live that down. There were several wives who stayed to watch so I did too. Joe was watching a movie at home and put himself to bed. Craig was already at the game. It was lotsa fun to sit in the stands with the ladies, under the heater and cheer . Not much jeering.... It is fun to watch the guys have fun, and poke fun at each other. Most of them don't take it too seriously.
Well it's time to warm up some of those garlicky mashed potatoes and find some veggies....TTYL
Tuesday, January 29, 2008
Friday, January 25, 2008
Happy Friday
Yeay!!!
What a fun day it's been, dear sweet people out there!!!
So fun to read your comments today. Way to go Anja!! Posting pictures is very easy...if I can figure it out...anyone can do it. Just use your digital camera and ask your resident teenager how the technology fits together. (Anja is one of my Monday morning stamping friends, and the mom of one of Joey's friends from school!) The only way I learned some basketball rules is by Ray explaining what all the whistles were for. You just have to watch it often....that's why I still know very little....
My teenager turns 15 this summer!!!! Dianna....just want to warn you. One of these days you will wake up and have a teenager of your own. If it can happen to me, it can happen to you! Joe turns 12 tomorrow. I hope my mojo returns in time for me to make a marvelous card for his birthday. My boys are no longer little lads. They are large lads. Craig almost looks me right in the eye, well two inches to go but soon I will no longer be the second tallest in the house. It was bound to happen. Joey is not far behind, always about a half a head taller than everyone else.....Maarten, his friend, is about the same height, maybe a bit taller....
Craig will be home any minute and I can't wait to see how his first Grade 9exams went and how he feels about the amount of studying he did. Perhaps it was sufficient, perhaps he will say it wasn't. He will be honest, one way or the other. I love when a mature comment tumbles out once in a while, these occurences seem to be on the increase. Ray calls them "lucid moments". When you hear in their voice that they do hear what you try to teach them. So when you tell them something for the 18th time....be sure that eventually it filters through. Persevere. It's soooo worth it.
We've been home alone all week, while Ray was on an audit in Windsor. The whole schedule changes. I have to be the first one up in the morning. That has actually been kind of nice. It gives you a whole hour more in your day. (Peculiar eh?...how getting up an hour earlier makes your day an hour longer....) Lovely sunrise again this morning.... Sent the boys off to their buses and headed off to work. Cleaned. Gave someone a ride. Came home. Cleaned the potties. Got my eyebrows done....Ray's coming home today you know! And I should go and have a shower. Joe's at a birthday party. Craig has movie night at youth group tonight....I imagine we will go and do some groceries. A lovely....non eventful evening.
Hope your weekend with your loved ones is great...
I am going to PEI for the last week of February. Arriving the 24th and leaving the 1st of March....a little whirlwind visit....but it will be such fun. I am looking forward to it. There are a multitude of details that have to be taken care of before I go BUT... one thing at a time.
What a fun day it's been, dear sweet people out there!!!
So fun to read your comments today. Way to go Anja!! Posting pictures is very easy...if I can figure it out...anyone can do it. Just use your digital camera and ask your resident teenager how the technology fits together. (Anja is one of my Monday morning stamping friends, and the mom of one of Joey's friends from school!) The only way I learned some basketball rules is by Ray explaining what all the whistles were for. You just have to watch it often....that's why I still know very little....
My teenager turns 15 this summer!!!! Dianna....just want to warn you. One of these days you will wake up and have a teenager of your own. If it can happen to me, it can happen to you! Joe turns 12 tomorrow. I hope my mojo returns in time for me to make a marvelous card for his birthday. My boys are no longer little lads. They are large lads. Craig almost looks me right in the eye, well two inches to go but soon I will no longer be the second tallest in the house. It was bound to happen. Joey is not far behind, always about a half a head taller than everyone else.....Maarten, his friend, is about the same height, maybe a bit taller....
Craig will be home any minute and I can't wait to see how his first Grade 9exams went and how he feels about the amount of studying he did. Perhaps it was sufficient, perhaps he will say it wasn't. He will be honest, one way or the other. I love when a mature comment tumbles out once in a while, these occurences seem to be on the increase. Ray calls them "lucid moments". When you hear in their voice that they do hear what you try to teach them. So when you tell them something for the 18th time....be sure that eventually it filters through. Persevere. It's soooo worth it.
We've been home alone all week, while Ray was on an audit in Windsor. The whole schedule changes. I have to be the first one up in the morning. That has actually been kind of nice. It gives you a whole hour more in your day. (Peculiar eh?...how getting up an hour earlier makes your day an hour longer....) Lovely sunrise again this morning.... Sent the boys off to their buses and headed off to work. Cleaned. Gave someone a ride. Came home. Cleaned the potties. Got my eyebrows done....Ray's coming home today you know! And I should go and have a shower. Joe's at a birthday party. Craig has movie night at youth group tonight....I imagine we will go and do some groceries. A lovely....non eventful evening.
Hope your weekend with your loved ones is great...
I am going to PEI for the last week of February. Arriving the 24th and leaving the 1st of March....a little whirlwind visit....but it will be such fun. I am looking forward to it. There are a multitude of details that have to be taken care of before I go BUT... one thing at a time.
Thursday, January 24, 2008
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!!
For all those faithful readers who have been unable to leave comments..... I think if you click on the dark blue bar at the top of the blog on the "create blog" section.....you can create a blogger account and should be able to leave a comment. Your next step could be to create you own blog, but you don't HAVE to....It's just like a hotmail account and I think you have to leave an email address, but I have never had any spam generated by giving my address there. So...don't lurk any longer...join the fun and see if we can't talk YOU into blogging too!
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!!
For all those faithful readers who have been unable to leave comments..... I think if you click on the dark blue bar at the top of the blog on the "create blog" section.....you can create a blogger account and should be able to leave a comment. Your next step could be to create you own blog, but you don't HAVE to....It's just like a hotmail account and I think you have to leave an email address, but I have never had any spam generated by giving my address there. So...don't lurk any longer...join the fun and see if we can't talk YOU into blogging too!
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