Fog Day

Today there is no school for anyone in the family. There was much jumping for joy and planning for the day went into overdrive. Not a soul here upon my return from Little Lambs....
Yes...a real Southwestern Ontario phenomenon....no school due to heavy fog.

I sense there will be some paper crafting in my afternoon.

Joe came home yesterday and I immediately apologized for not remembering his class' chapel. He said, "Oh that's okay Mom, I didn't want you to see me in that dorky costume anyway. They changed my idea so much that it wasn't anything like it started out....." Hot chocolate was ready and waiting on the table ...all was quickly forgiven and forgotten.

We'll have to see what the rest of the day and evening brings. The church has one flooded room due the thunderstorm and heavy rain through the night. And....tonight....has freezing rain and snow in the forecast. What an interesting mixture that could turn out to be....we'll keep you posted if we keep our hydro....maybe it will be my turn to post pictures....maybe not!

Make Some Music....

Monday morning and this week got off to a great start. I know that it officially started yesterday and that was a lovely day too. We had a great message in the morning....

Since our pulpit is vacant we have been having lots of guest pastors. We are enjoying the "smorgasbord" immensely. The pastors have been very willing to preach on our theme of the week as it relates to the Discipleship program we are following in our Bible study every week. The morning's message was about how we are God's handiwork...."created in Christ Jesus to do good works, which God prepared in advance for us to do..." (Eph 2:10) The pastor challenged us to "get a life"... the life we are created to live and do the works prepared for us...
The children's message was especially illustrative....one of our youths brought in her saxophone. In and of itself, it is but a piece of metal. It's maker intended that a musician would blow air into it and make music with it. God created us to do the very same....and He breathes His Holy Spirit into to us so we can "make music". Sometimes we are so concerned and preoccupied about getting the notes right that we forget to make the music. Some of us are timid musicians and some of go at it with reckless abandon....can you imagine what that might sound like? Wow...

This all comes at such a great time as I have been wrestling with something....it's so interesting to get little nudges in church, or at home, or while listening to a song.... very interesting indeed. Coincidence??? I think not...

And it's only the beginning of the week!!!!

I must admit that I forgot about chapel this morning. Joe's class was in charge, he helped come up with the main idea and had a lead role.....and I forgot. I was making cards. I shall ask Joe to come up with a suitable penance, since I have given him a very hard time about forgetting the newspapers at school.... sigh.... The roller coaster ride that we call "motherhood"....

I made some really nice cards though and am going to go and sit and make some more.... I'll make sure to have some hot chocolate ready when Joe gets home....and hopefully the rain will hold off until the papers get delivered.....

Ahhhhhh...so quiet in here....

It is such a nice quiet moment in here today. Yesterday I was anticipating the arrival of the boys at this time. A good time was had by all. The Pizza's were very well received. The Oreo cake from the superstore was a BIG hit. .....my kind of cake....and all the boys are going to home and tell their mom's that my stove can't make cakes.....it has nothing to do with me. All the other food that comes out of the oven turns out fine, but cakes....well....I've decided that I'm just not going to put myself through that anymore. The superstore has much more success in that department, and for $9.99.....I can't make it for that. I'd rather make chocolate mousse from scratch for the same amount of time.....oooooh, now I'm having chocolatey thoughts again.

The weather was fine and no one had to sleep over. The boys live all over the place and it took an hour and a half to bring them all home. SO I was glad the weather was clear and dry. I could go 70km/hr on the gravelroads.....and there was a fair distance to go....oh, I sure hope Ray doesn't read my blog today..... It was so much fun to bring them home and listen to their chatter amongst each other, and to ask their opinions on different subjects. They're getting to be quite mature at times.... It was a good hour and a half.

Apparently the weather has not been so wonderful out East. Hope you all get power again soon! I had a nice chat with Tineke this morning and she related the fact that the kids hadn't been to school yet this week. Neat!! Glad you all have a generator. We have a tiny one that can at least keep the furnace running if something happens. That blackout a couple of years ago put Ray into survival mode. He fires it up every couple of weeks to make sure it is always ready to go. Our hot water is heated by natural gas so we always have hot water.

I finished my work at church for the week and it looks so nice and clean everywhere. It feels really good to have it all done.

Craig's exams went well and he is using his free days this week to visit with other friends who are done with their exams. They went to watch a movie in London this afternoon and had a great time.

I had lots of card ideas while I was working so I think I shall head into that part of the house for a while.....