Category Archives: Day to Day

Good thing it is a short week. It was hard to go back to work today.

I guess a vacation is never long enough – until a person retires and then it could end up being too long.

I wonder….

Nope, I think that I will find plenty to do. But maybe I can work long spells of relaxation and reading into my schedule. Those will be the days!

This was one of those longest days.

I woke up tired at the usual time – 5:30.  Coffee is always the first on the agenda so I made that – good and strong this morning.

Off to Birdie’s Santa Lucia Day celebration.  That began at 7 so I was able to go and still be at work by 7:45.

Then my work began in earnest.  A busy day.  And to end it all off – some difficult extractions.  Trying to finish up cases before my Christmas break.  I didn’t leave the office till 6, an hour later than we usually close.  An hour of overtime.  An hour too late to join Leo and the kids at a nice restaurant for supper.  Cause I had orchestra  practice and I missed last week.  Dutiful me.

Got to the  place we practice and  only three of us were there.  Obviously we missed getting a message.  So we went down to the Bison for coffee.

Tonight I am tired and my hands are sore from too many too difficult extractions.

I am in Saskatoon visiting (under the guise of helping out) my son, daughter in law and grandchildren. Last night I had three grandchildren in one room at the same time. A bit overwhelming for a grandmother. And it was not as if I could get one picture of the grandchildren at once. Kieran is now at the age where he either poses in some ridiculous posture or will not allow anyone to photograph him at all. The two young ones co-operate well. They can’t get away yet.

(Ronin)

(Nea)

We are going to have a fun time all together at Christmas!

This weekend I have cleaned out stuff and taken it over to Value Village. That felt good – like I got something concrete done.

Rachelle arrived on Saturday night with Ronin and will be here for a week. It is good to have them here. Today Rachelle and Leo went to see American Gangster and I got to babysit. I don’t get to do that everyday. Maybe that is good! I think I would get tired. but for a few hours, I can handle it.

Yesterday I spoke in the morning service. There were not many people out. Some of the congregation I know went over to the armories for the Remembrance Day Service there. Our service was less geared to a military remembrance, more a remembering those in lands where there is no peace. An al bodies values our physicd the sermon was on the resurrection – more precisely on our belief as Christians in the resurrection of the body. And that belief has implications for how we treat our bodies. If God values our physical bodies, then we should perhaps treat them with both more respect, caring for them now and with less fear for what will happen to them. Most of all we don’t want to get sidetracked into the belief that our spirits are on a sort of higher spiritual plane than the rest of us. God created us in such a way that our body, soul and spirit are somehow integrated into who we really are, and he desires to reside at the core the of our beings. Our humanness seems to bring him great delight and I believe he is longing to restore us to the state he intended for us at creation.

From my sermon:
When I think about God wanting to restore us in our bodies at the resurrection, to restore us to the state he intended for us at creation and indeed to restore all of creation, I come face to face with a great mystery. Perhaps my right attitude to being human is to acknowledge that God wants to be present at each moment of my human existence.

Any way, that was the gist of it.

And I got to play a David Crowder song that I really like – Come Awake – from the CD Collision

Are we left here on our own?
Can you feel when your last breath is gone?
Night is weighing heavy now
Be quiet and wait for a voice that will say

Come awake, from sleep arise
You were dead, become alive
Wake up, wake up, open your eyes
Climb from your grave into the light
Bring us back to life
You are not the only one who feels like the only one

Night soon will be lifted, friend
Just be quiet and wait for a voice that will say
Rise, rise, to life, to life

Shine
Light will shine
Love will rise
Light will shine, shine, shine, shine
He’s shining on us now

So, all in all, it was a good weekend and a busy one. Today I mostly relaxed and did nothing of great significance. I needed a lazy day.

I just came in from the group study I am in and it feels so very cold. The wind is icey and is whistling through every little cranny it can get into around the windows in our house.

There were a few white flakes that fell today.

It is the kind of day that announces the inevitable arrival of winter.

I’ve ordered a new winter coat and I think winter may arrive before it does.

Office potluck:

• Perogies and sour cream
• Sweet and Sour meatballs
• Saurkraut and Koelbesa
• Chicken Curry  and Naan bread
• Salad – beans, olives, celery, feta, etc
• Crackers and cheeses and cold cuts
• Wings – peanut and hot wing
• Cabbage rolls
• Spring rolls
• Pita bread
• Nacho chips and layered dip dish

And for dessert – Apple pie and ice cream and a pumpkin dish to die for.

Yep.  We eat well at our office.  But it sure is hard to get back to work after all that!

Here I am, almost at the end of a busy Thanksgiving day.  Some of the kids are still hanging around the kitchen.  A baby is crying in the room downstairs.  And I think I will sleep well tonight.

We ate just about all the turkey.  There might be enough for one more sandwich.  And for the first time I almost ran out of potatoes before we all had filled our faces!  I guess that can happen when there are 19 people around the tables!  We stuffed ourselves and then had dessert.  Sara makes a mean apple pie!  And then there were the apple tarts with almonds that Annette brought plus pumpkin pie and ice cream.

It was good to all be together – except we missed Christian who was playing a gig in some God forsaken town and due to a flat tire missed the last bus to PA.  He called though and is coming home on Tuesday.  So I must go and find a smaller sort of turkey and we will feast again on a smaller sort of scale with him.

I think we met most of the boyfriends we hadn’t met before too.  Hope we didn’t scare them off.  We tried our best to get Leo to behave!

It was a fun day for the most part.  Although finding some needles under a tree in the park where the little kids are looking for sticks to throw into the river isn’t such a great thing!  Guess we need to be careful and just check out the playing spaces before the kids are allowed to scavenge sticks and pine cones and things on their own.

I  am very thankful to be a mom and a grandma with a house full of noisy kids and grandkids and friends.  God has blessed me richly!