October , 2010

I have begun my 2nd full week of work now. I am feeling a little more at ease now, and starting to feel like I have half a clue about what I'm doing. This mornig Adam and I carpooled to work, so I had about 1/2 an hour to kill in the parking lot before I needed to go in. The sunrise was drop-dead gorgeous! There were ever-changing layers of blue, pink, and grey all across the sky.

The kids have been at halloween parties/activities for the last 2 evenings. They should have enough sugar to power a rocket after this. . .PLUS we bought a ton of stuff for tomorrow night, which I doubt will ever leave the premises.

October 16, 2010

The nice weather continues. . .cool days (mid-50's) and cooler nights (into the high 30's / low 40's). The trees are changing and painting portions of the landscape in shades of yellow, gold, orange, red and plum. There is still plenty of green around too. Today has been exceptionally quiet here. . .Adam at work, Dax in Vancouver for the week-end and the girls are "hangin' with friends" for the day. Ron, the dogs and cats have all found little niches in which to catch 40 winks as the sunlight pours in on them through the windows.

I have been puttering here and there, I finished reading Eat Pray Love this morning. I really enjoyed it and was amazed how true the movie stayed to the book. She has a few good pearls in there that caused me to stop and ponder a bit too.

I had an hour and a half conversation with Melissa this morning (She said to say "Hi", Mom and your place falls in among her fond memories). It was really good to get caught up with her again. That's all from North of the 49th for today. . .

October 12, 2010

We had a really nice Thanksgiving here yesterday. When it was all said and done, we had 23 people here for dinner. Do the 5 dogs and 2 cats count as part of the crowd too? We ate turkey, dressing, yams, holiday potatoes, cranberry 'n' orange relish, gravy, green beans with bacon & almonds, two different green salads, brussels sprouts, multigrain buns, pumpkin pie and lemon meringue pie. . .plus the grape centerpieces, olives, pickles, crackers, cream cheese with pepper jelly that people picked at. . . .I guess you could say it was a feast!

The food was good, but not the best part. We were surrounded by family without any family drama. We swapped stories, laughs and gave Ron's family the nickle tour our our place. The Kramers were here, as were the sister missionaries. Ron's Mum and step-dad, his sister and niece, and my mom and step-dad were all here. After we all had our fill of dinner and shared what we were thankful for, some had to leave, some had a good sleep but most of us watched a movie together in our semi-comatose conditions.

Today we try to get back into our "normal" routines. . .