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Back at it today after sleeping for the most part of the last 24 hours.

Now, on with life.

And today we are having supper – spaghetti, cake and ice cream – to celebrate Zakaryi’s second birthday. Grandpa and I were out together at noon shopping. It is a measure of a grandfather’s love for his grandson – he actually went shopping for him! (Leo is not in love with shopping.)

I hate being sick.  I just want to go home.

But here I am at my office to sedate the little ones that need some urgent help.

Then I am going home.

I bought some of Birdies’s Krumkaka at the Country Store and bakesale on Saturday.  I made everyone wait till I had some filling for them.  So tonight we filled them with strawberries and whipped cream and indulged ourselves.

I remember my Auntie Lily making these when I was a little girl.  My mom did not make them that I remember.  They were probably too fussy to make for a family of seven hungry mouths.

But they sure are good.

I am emerging from my Fentinyl haze.  Got more sleep today than in ages and it sure did cure the headache I woke up with.  The headache was maybe due to caffeine withdrawal.

All went well with the check-up in my nether parts.  No polyps or such.

But the bad news is that they recommend this procedure again in 5 years.  Five years to live in dread of swallowing the  nastiest liquid known to mankind – the oral Fleet.  Not sure if I can take it.  The second one I just barely kept down yesterday.

If Colon cancer wasn’t such a nasty disease in itself, I’d say it was a conspiracy against those of us who are spunky enough to make it past 50.

This morning I was sitting reflecting on the weekend.  I know I need to spend a weekend at home.  The shopping list is getting longer and I have to find time in the evening to run and pick things up to make it through till the next real shop.

But in spite of the busyness of the past few weekends – Thanksgiving, the trip to Winnipeg and this weekend to Saskatoon – they have been very good.  This weekend I spent time at Rachelle’s visiting with her, Asen and Ronin.  Breakfast with Patrick at the Broadway Roastery.  A very fruitful first meeting with my spiritual direction supervisor.  Then off to a seminar on practice transitions (I need to retire) followed by supper with Rachelle before hitting the road for PA again.

I can’t help but take note of the power love has in transforming my children’s lives.  God sneaks in there in the form they need him the most.  And before they know it they have begun a slow transformation becoming different people in the process.  Healthier people too when real love sneaks in.

I have not been removing comments here, I just didn’t know where they were.

Today I found them.  I have never moderated comments and so, in my ignorance, I had a bunch of comments waiting for me to approve.  Or not.

And I am amazed at the number of comments that were sitting there needing deleting.  Stupid spam!

Got into Winnipeg right on time this morning, picked up the rental car and made it safely to the hotel where Leo has been staying for much of this week.  He treats himself well when he travels for work.  I am always a bit stingy with myself.  But here I am in a suite with a king sized bed and it is quite lovely.  And I am hooked up to high speed which makes it even better.

Tonight I go to see Leo become a Fellow of the College of Family Physicians and then we attend a concert by Chantal Kreviazuk ( I think I mistakenly told some folks it was Christina Aguilera – which is a bit different genre of music and definitely not from Winnipeg )  So we should have a special evening together.  Fun and relaxing I hope.

After yesterday, I need some relaxation.  I was in the operating room all day.  As I was finishing up the last case there, I got a call on the phone.  A young girl had been in a skating accident – could I come back to the office and splint her teeth?  It is easier to splint teeth using orthodontic brackets than just building up a splint out of filling material.  So I headed back to the office, canceling my 4 o’clock appointment with my spiritual director.  And lo and behold, I had forgotten that my sister was also coming in.  That I had totally forgotten.  My mind seems to need less busyness in order to remember things well these days.  And by 6 pm Sara and I were on the road to Saskatoon where I had made arrangements to see a friend for coffee in the evening.   9:30 pm saw me back at Dave and Annette’s  where they and Kieran were watching Surf’s Up  on the T.V.  They fed me a piece of absolutely delicious key lime pie from the Konga Cafe.  And then I began to yawn.  Kieran and I both hit the pillow early.

I was wandering around the blogesphere and came across this story The Case of the Purloined Pin at Anotherthink. 

It made me laugh – a perverse sort of little laugh.  The real owner – I mean the original owner – must be a tad upset.

Warning – if a limb is amputated and you wish to be rejoined with it at departure time for the rest of your mortal remainders – chose a bit better storage place than a barbecue smoker!

Now if you are curious – slip over to Anotherthink’s site and have a read!

I decided to switch over to WordPress.  No, the picture in the banner is not mine but I sure do like it, especially for this time of year.  Hopefully it will change with the seasons – if I can figure out how to do that.  I guess there are a few other things to tweak a bit too.

Little by little big changes happen.