Sunday afternoon tea

When I was a kid we never ate a big meal at supper time on Sundays. We usually had a large dinner after we came home from church, so it was just something light and often times sweet. This afternoon I thought I'd carry on the tradition with my boys. I made a scone and brewed some tea and we all came to the table and enjoyed.

Wallace and John both had there tea with a little sugar and whole lot of milk, baby tea as the kids at church call it. It was nice, I'd like to do it again.

Medical Night at Olympians

A few weeks ago we had a medical night at Olympians (our kids programme at church) the boys were to dress up as either a sick/wounded person or a nurse or doctor. Wallace chose to be wounded. The purple around his eye and finger looked much more authentic in real life. John was somewhat more difficult to come up with an idea but at the last minute I thought of this 'medics' outfit, it turned out pretty well if I do say so my self. I am not very creative when it comes to costumes. They had a lot of fun and learned at little more about the wonderful body that God created for each of us.

The Boys at Work

Wallace is hard at work, and not enjoying it to be honest. He has had a great day until this, math homework ( a drill sheet of uneven division....division with remainders). Oh well, he'll be finished soon if he just sets his mind to it.

John doing his work, a floor puzzle. He can do all of his school work in a hour, and that is with breaks. Wallace some how wishes that he was five again. Oh well we all must grow up.

An update on the last week

Thank you for your thoughts and prayers.

The last couple of weeks have had there ups and downs. I don't want to sound like I am complaining because I am not, I know that life could be much more difficult than it is now and I am thankful for my blessings. The car did turn out to be a right off, which was to be expected but we thought that just maybe they would fix it. A girl from Michael's office called a dealership about an hour away from us and they just 'happened' to have an '04 Subaru Forester which is the same car as we had. It was a step down from our car, nothing major was different, and it only had 32 000 km ( 20,000 miles) compared to ours which had 140 000 km (87 000 miles) so this was a blessing. It cost us $1700 out of pocket which due to following Dave Ramsey's principles for the last 2 years we had in the bank, another huge blessing. We are truly thankful for this blessing as we were so undeserving of it.

I took John out to the tree to have a look at it, he was a little apprehensive but the holding of the breath as we drive by has almost stopped. When we brought the new one in the driveway Michael stopped and 'introduced' the tree to the car. He said, "Tree, car, car, tree, now that you have met you don't need to get any closer." The boys got a good chuckle over that and now John wants Michael to do it every time we drive in the driveway.

I have a physiotherapy appointment next Monday to have my shoulder looked at, I think by that time I will be completely better although I think my range of motion is still somewhat diminished. I have been have a great deal of pain in my lower back with a sciatic nerve flare up. I don't really think this is as a result of the accident just a longer than normal interval between chiropractor appointments. That is where I was going when the accident occurred and now he is away on 3 weeks of vacation. I went an had a therapeutic massage yesterday and will go again on Thursday to see if it will give me some relief. I know that if I lost some weight it would be better but for some reason I can seem to move that knowledge into action. You'd think the pain would be a good motivator.

So that is life as it happens.

One of the reasons I've been AWOL

I've had a lot going on in my life this last little while and haven't been in the frame of mind to blog but I will get back to it, hopefully this week. This is the latest reason that my mind is elsewhere. We are all OK although I am a little sore and won't be able to show my face at the office anytime soon due to embarrassment. My sons now know what their arguing in the back seat can lead too. Wallace feels it sharply, John on the other hand seems to be oblivious except to tell everyone we meet that mommy smashed the car along with some really good sound effects.

BTW these were taken by Michael's colleague when he came to fill out the accident report. Michael was there too, but he didn't fill out the paper work, thought it might me a conflict of interest. Notice I hit the only tree around!!!!

Annie, I will answer your e-mail shortly thank you for being patient.

My week in review

Week's Weather: Cool and bright for the most part, leaves are beautiful

Sunday Sermon: Being Thankful- a testimony service

Life Lessons: there is no sense in worry, it doesn't help

Favorite Meal: lunch at the Schweld House (a local family owned German restaurant)

Treasured Moment: watching John working neatly at his newly acquired desk (I'll have to post a picture, my batteries were dead when I tried the other day)

Budget Saver: found a beautiful flannel bedding set at the thrift store for under $10

Budget Buster: lunch at the Schweld House

Impacting News : friends announced they are coming to visit


Things I read: stuff for homeschool

Places we went: the apple orchard

Accomplishments: finished a pair of socks

Family Happenings: friends announced they are coming visit.

Challenges: getting bed by 10pm and get up by 6am

Blessings: friends announced they are coming to visit



Can you tell I'm excited about my friends coming to visit.

Field Trip- the apple orchard

On Monday we took a field trip, where else would you go in early October but to the apple orchard. I remember Wallace took a field trip to the orchard when he was in Kindergarten. I didn't get to go because all the chaperon spots were full, well for John's first trip I did get to go ;). We go to the same farm each year, they have very good apples and quite a bit of variety. They even have honeycrip which are Michael's favourite.
Here Wallace and John are in the orchard, these are little Gala trees, which appeared to be done for the season which is too bad because Wallace really likes them. By the way did I forgot to mention that Wallace's favourite food is an apple so needless to say he was in his glory. We usually have to limit him to an apple or two a day and for the past month I've been refusing to buy them because they were just gross, all dry and pulpy. For the next little while he'll be allowed to have more if he so desires.....along as his tummy can handle it.

Daddy and John picking Cortland's out of the bin, we picked 40lbs off the trees but when we got back to the entrance we realized that we need some more we were lucky that they already had some picked that we could choose from. I like Cortland's because they are yummy to eat and good to cook with too. MMMM apple crisp here we come.




We had a great time as a family, its amazing how a little trip to the orchard can consume a whole day. This orchard also had pumpkins and honey, we bought 2 pumpkins and 35lbs of honey. A successful field trip.