I’ve had cold since Thursday. I felt a little better on Saturday, then a bit worse by Sunday afternoon, and by Monday morning I felt absolutely horrible. I cannot overstate this enough: You cannot parent your children when you are unable to stand up. Mothering does not happen lying down.
But when I’m sick, I get [...]
So, get that YouTube clip playing and then imagine, if you will, the Vanderfamily driving through the back roads of southern Manitoba on a cloudy fall morning on their way to church in Winnipeg. Daniel Lanois is on the stereo. Olivia is drawing on the magna-doodle, while Luke is trying to engage his treefrog webkinz [...]
We just got back from Steinbach where we got some banking/investing set up. We had to take all three kids because we both needed to be there. The kids were fine while we were with the banker but were cranky and annoying the rest of the time.
Besides the evening Marc and I got to spend [...]
One of the nice things about choosing to go to seminary in Manitoba is that we’re getting to meet a lot of bloggers.
Actually.
If we go back five years now, you have Marc (new to the blogworld) running across Randall’s blog, which lead to Marc checking out Gateway, he and Randall going out for coffee, us [...]
I took a one week break from the gym after the first week I started. I had a really bad sore throat for about five days and I didn’t want to exercise when I felt like that. Plus, my legs were sore and achy for six days. It was crazy, the pain!
Finally yesterday morning I [...]
Now that we’re here and settled and our old house in PA is officially someone else’s, we are trying to sort out our finances. We got our last PA water bill yesterday and the last power and energy bills should be on their way soon.
Which brings me to the good thing about living in a [...]
In an attempt to break the monotony of living on a college campus, here’s how our Sundays look. As long as there is no snow on the ground, we’ve decided to do the following every Sunday:
Go to church. (We’re out the door by 9:15am to get to the 10am service in Winnipeg. We drive on [...]
In this post, I talked about driving back to Prince Albert late in the evening, arriving home from our vacation, and having to face the fact that my grandpa was dying in this city and that within weeks that city would no longer be our home. I’m not going to lie. I spent the last [...]
Today I’m going to be exceptionally lazy. Yesterday was a great, but non-stop day. In the morning a girl I’ve met here and her two daughters came over. The kids played, we made peach muffins, went for a walk, and there went the morning. In the afternoon, I invited the little boy from two doors [...]
We now live in the kind of place where your neighbours do the following:
- invite you over for supper on the day you move in because they know it’s impossible to find your way around the kitchen the first day
- bring you a plate of treats within a few hours of your arrival
- pop over [...]