another random post

It's been a busy few days again, but I have a few moments this Monday evening to just sit down and blog a bit.

Of course, the biggest thing was the birth I attended late last week. But I won't blog about the birth, until I've written the birth story down for the Mom and Dad. So you'll have to wait for an amazing birth story! And it was truly an amazing story. And it was just so providential how things worked out timing - wise. I had to work Tuesday all day, teach that evening, work Wednesday morning, go to a piano recital Wednesday evening, work all day Thursday .......and finally, thursday night, she went into labour, having her baby early Friday morning (like 1 am!) - freeing me to do the errands I needed to do on Friday! So far, I've attended over 40 births, and the timing has always worked out. So, I have two or three more births coming up this year, and I'm praying that God will nicely work things out as He always has in the past!

Work went well last week. I'm enjoying the challenge, and feel that it's working out well for all of us. I asked the kids last week how they felt things were going, and how they were with me working a few days a week, and all of them were positive about it.

Today I had Alanna make spaghetti sauce - and it went well! Of course, it helped that the beef was already cooked up. :-) But still, small steps are good I think!

Hard to believe that it's the last week of school already. Alanna writes two final exams tomorrow - Socials and Math, and then she's completed her first year of highschool! Hard to believe -- I know, I say that alot. But it IS hard to believe!

But then again ......Martin and I will be attending his 20th year Highschool reunion next weekend! 20 YEARS! Yikes. That means, I've been out of HS for 19 years. Out longer than I was in. Now I feel old.

I miss my parents. Seems silly, but I'll admit it. When you're used to having them live 5 minutes away, when you're used to just popping by for a minute, or picking up the phone and sharing some news, then when they're on the other side of the country for an extended period of time, missing them seems ....normal! They've been gone since the end of April. They are having a grand old time in the Maritimes right now and I'm very happy for them! But -- I still miss them. :-)

I'm a sucker for advertising. As I sit here on my couch blogging, the TV is on ....and there's some McDonalds commercial. Guess what I want? A cheeseburger. Okay - moving on .....

I had to take Braden and Danielle in to the doc's today --- their allergies are really acting up. I was running out of eye drops and nose inhalers ........ and yikes - the bill! $75 for two meds! Highway robbery. Hopefully we'll get some of that back. Anyone else having a tough time with allergies this season? I mentioned that sometimes Ethan has a dry cough, and wondered if that was allergies too. Dr H thought it likely was as allergies are genetic. That irks me a bit ... Martin doesn't have allergies, and I only just recently as an adult got some type of hayfever allergies, but even then, it's not consistent. So where did the kids get their allergies from? The culprits have to be my siblings Leona and James! Thanks guys! :-) (just kidding).

Anyways - hopefully I'll have a birth story to blog soon ..........'till then! Adios!