Well, it’s been four months since I’ve had time to write anything much. I have a little bit of time today, since I have the day off, but I’ll still be busy. I wish that I had some more time to write, but most of the time that I would have had available is now being taken up with writing minutes and such, since I took on the task of being the clerk to council at our church. It’s not too difficult of a position, but it does take away from some of your time – especially if you are the type of person who is picky on details as I tend to be, and not so much a natural writer.
On other fronts, my daughter Niamh is in Jr. Kindergarten now. She goes twice a week and is enjoying it. William is in Grade 1 now, and he seems to like it as well. He doesn’t seem to mind going every day of the week, and he seems to be flourishing this year. We bought him a bunch of “Bob Books” and he really enjoys reading them, so his reading skills are rapidly improving. He also pays much better attention when we do devotions at supper time and can usually repeat most of the details of the Bible stories that we read.
Alana just had her birthday yesterday, so I bought her “Corner Gas: Season 004″, and went out to get her ice cream from the Marble Slab Creamery. On Sunday we will celebrate her birthday with my parents, brothers and sisters in law after church.
Anyway, I should probably get to writing the minutes of last Tuesday’s meeting, as well as notes on the home visit on Monday…
November 29, 2010 at 10:37 am
Thanks for the update, it’s good to hear from you… are the wee ones excited about the holiday season? How is you and your wife’s health? How’s the weather up there, has the snow started coming yet?
December 4, 2010 at 12:34 pm
Well, the kids are both somewhat excited about Christmas, but William is more excited at the moment that “The Voyage of the Dawn Treader” is coming out in theaters next week Friday. As he would say, he gets to see it in “Digital 3D”. Should be fun. Both William and then Niamh had pink eye this past week, so William didn’t get to light the Advent candle with me last week, Niamh went up with me instead. After church, I went home and took care of him, while Alana went to my parents house for her birthday party.
Alana is doing alright, but she is tired and getting stressed out about the “peaker” plant that they are starting work on down the street. Other than that, she’s getting over a bit of a cold, but it wasn’t too bad. Hopefully she’ll allow herself to get some rest and will feel a bit better in a week or so.
The weather has been dreary as of late, but not horrible. The one nice thing about snow being on the ground is that you get a little bit more light to drive in – the downside is the snow on the road. At the moment we just have a bit of a dusting on the road, so the driving is okay so far. Mostly it’s just been cloudy and a bit rainy. We’ve only had a bit of snow on the weekends so far.
Anyway, I’m off to Orangeville to help set up for a dinner for the school, so I’d probably best be going. I’ll try to find some time to write another update soon. I hope all is going well with you and your family as well.
John