Category Archives: Day to Day

As I write this the sky is turning to a bright pink.  It promises to be as beautiful a day as yesterday was. 

Had a good sleep last night.  Leo and I watched Bridgett Jones’ Dairy and that is a pretty funny show – although not as hilarious as I was expecting after all the recommendations by friends.  The kids were out doing their own thing and Sara is off at High School provincial soccer so it was nice and quiet.  It was nice to not have to go out anywhere last night – Grace even went and picked up the DVD for us at the rental place. 

Sara called me at work yesterday – something they are not supposed to do unless it is an emergency.  Most emergencies seem to be on the order of what should I make for supper.  And this was not an emergency either.  She was just excited.  They had won their first game and against the team ranked second so she had to tell me.  Good old St Mary’s.  The underdogs who are, needless to say, extremely motivated to win this – for the first time in history!

It was a good day on another level as well.  CK asked if he could stay – keep on living at our place.  He even offered to pay us rent!  So if he plays by the rules and we can remain sure that he is doing that, he will be staying at home.  So trust will begin to build up again, I hope.  Little by little.  Battles fought and won with lots of prayer.  Thanks God.

or maybe not. 

Today brought restoration of hope.  Hope that maybe things will not turn out to be as bleak as I thought with my young adult kid.  Less worrying on my part.  It brought me a renewed sense that, yeah, God hears my prayers and in some way beyond my understanding, takes my worries on his shoulders and eases them.  A lot more peace settling on this house.

And it is good, very good to have Leo home again.  A sane voice in the cacophony.  Another adult! 

I know friends are praying too. These battles are tiring.  It is good to have friends at our side.

Today was very busy at work.  To top it off, I did not get enough sleep last night and I only had one assistant today but was booked as if I had two.  Production should look good – I came home exhausted and about an hour late. 

I am beginning to work well with my new assistant.  It is about three months now and we are getting used to reading each other’s minds.  She is picking up speed at anticipating the stuff I am going to use.  And I really appreciate her willingness to work hard.  I didn’t hear any complaints from her today even though we only got a few minutes to eat at noon and she was late going home to her family.

Other things are causing me some stress right now.  Kids!  It is time for one to take his things and move out on his own.  Maybe he will see that his choices are not good – later on.  I have to hang on to a little bit of hope for that.  And hope that he will not get hurt irreparably in the process of finding out.  Or hurt someone else.  Not sure what his dad will say when he finds out – neither of his dads know yet but I know Leo will understand and back me up.  I think his own dad will also understand but will be hurt badly.  Right now, I think this kid is the centre of his own little universe and considers other people’s needs of little value.

Sara and I had a deal.  She would do some baking for the bake sale today and she would help out at the table for a couple of hours and if she did that then I would take her to Saskatoon after for some shopping. 

I do not really like shopping.  It is tiring and it costs me a lot of money.  But… she did hold up her end of the bargain.  So we went.  Now normally, I would tell her to just find the stuff she needs here in Prince Albert, but she needed new indoor soccer cleats and she has wide feet.  To get a really good shoe we needed more choice than what was available here.  And she needed “sliding shorts” which she could not get here either. (these are spandex that they wear under the soccer shorts to help cut down on burns from sliding on the floor)

Saskatoon has a couple of nice stores that specialize in soccer gear so we went there and found just what she needed.  Eric came and met us there.  He must come in often – or made enough of an impression on the clerk that she remembered him.  She actually remembered that he had bought some good cleats to send out to some of his friends in Africa.  Those cleats were still on sale and so Sara also got some for outdoor.  Outdoor season is about finished – just provincial high school soccer finals in Yorkton this week.  She can break her new cleats in on the ice and snow maybe!

A couple dozen chocolate chip muffins

Five dozen chocolate chip cookies

Brownies – 2 pans

Big bake/craft sale for the church women’s group and the youth group tomorrow.  Haven’t baked so much since last Christmas.

Today I felt pretty rotten for a good part of the day.  I don’t usually.  But today my left shoulder blade – the trapezius I would suspect – had a knot in it all day.  Made my whole left arm feel weak at times.  Good thing I am not left handed I guess.

Anyway, I had a meeting tonight at church which I would have loved to get out of since I was feeling fairly wiped out by the time I got home.  Hard to get out of a meeting when you are the chair though. 

So I loaded up my body with ibuprofen, made supper and by meeting time, was doing just fine. 

There are some medications that are Godsends.  And then there is sleep – something which I should go and get right now.

Seems this new site may help link us all together.  Check out Saskblogs.com

You have got to forgive a lot in order to read our local newspaper.  They try hard.  And provide us with reasons to shake our heads and laugh.

Tonight on the front page:  Buisness owners give thumps up to BID idea  (BID= Business Improvement District)

I presume the error was due to a slip of the thumb!

Actually that is quite funny – I catch the thumps and spell business wrong myself.  I should have known to check, buisness, oops business, is a word I always spell wrong  – and I know it.

We had worship practice tonight.  Joining the regulars were three of the “youth”.  That was really cool – to be joined by these young people who will become the musicians in the next few years.  So we have nothing to fear – music will happen!  My eyes can now go blind, my fingers can become arthritic, my lungs can collapse; as long as I don’t go deaf I will be OK. 

I like it that one of our new bass guitarists is a young woman.  Molly the mellow musician.  I hope she keeps it up. 

Welcome Steve to the world of blogging.