It's going to happen and I am so excited. Anxious. Counting the days. Planning. Preparing. Anxious. Excited. Going crazy....
My sister and her family will be visiting us in mid-July. I plan to celebrate her July 8 birthday with her when she is here (belated will be good this year)! I have also sent invites out to family members for a reunion at our house. I could really panic and stress about how much I need to do before that day arrives but it is all going to focus on us - family! Good food, good stories, trips down memory lane, lots of picture-taking. I know it will all turn out fine. My grandparents use to throw these gatherings together. Perhaps gram did stress? I am not sure, as I was young and oblivious to the task at hand.
Well, to top off my sisters visit, my brother called from Florida and said, "Hey, when is the reunion? Okay, we'll be there!" Yipee. Kids are now jumping up and down. Uncle Fred is coming.
The icing on the cake, was an email from my mom. Telling me her plans to drive up from Florida, met her brother in North Carolina, and together they'd drive to New York.
Excited. Not one bit. Completely...what? There isn't a word or string of words that capture how I feel. I cannot tell you the last time the three of us have been together with my mom. That fact tells me it has been TOO LONG! I am sure I'll have a story to tell after the visit and reunion.
For now, I count the days, I dig out old photos and I wait. Anxiously, I wait.
Wednesday, June 30, 2010
Thursday, June 24, 2010
Luck or Lucky
Our kids are lucky. In more ways than they understand at the moment. I mean they have two parents that love each other and love them dearly. We provide for them. We spent our time with them. We take time to teach them. We listen to them. We talk with them. The list is long.
To them, lucky can mean so many different things. Insignificant to us but very important to them. Remember sitting in the yard looking for a four-leaf clover? If you found one, you were said to be lucky. So, in accordance to that, we have two lucky children. It does happen and our yard, as big as it is, has thousands of clover in it. So when one child finds a four-leaf clover and proves it to us all, that challenges the other to look and look and look.
Hey, I found one!
What are the odds of that happening? Well, it did. On the same day, within an hour of the first clover being plucked from it's green sea.
We have two four-leaf clovers carefully placed between wax-paper and slipped between the pages of two large books to be pressed. Once that was done, a question was asked. "What do we do with them now?"
Any suggestions!
To them, lucky can mean so many different things. Insignificant to us but very important to them. Remember sitting in the yard looking for a four-leaf clover? If you found one, you were said to be lucky. So, in accordance to that, we have two lucky children. It does happen and our yard, as big as it is, has thousands of clover in it. So when one child finds a four-leaf clover and proves it to us all, that challenges the other to look and look and look.
Hey, I found one!
What are the odds of that happening? Well, it did. On the same day, within an hour of the first clover being plucked from it's green sea.
We have two four-leaf clovers carefully placed between wax-paper and slipped between the pages of two large books to be pressed. Once that was done, a question was asked. "What do we do with them now?"
Any suggestions!
Thursday, June 17, 2010
I am here...
I have written snippets here and there about thoughts I wanted to think on, write about and post. None of them have made it to this blog however and I have some half-written and others just noted. Life seems to be speeding by me and every time I blink, another month has passed. I have to laugh about time and how fast it really ticks by when you are older. Not that I am feeling old or anything!
Next week is the last week of school, Monday through Thursday and only half days at that. Another year is wrapping up. We went to the middle school earlier this week to meet teachers, listen to a presentation, take a tour of the building and receive paperwork, supply lists and homework, summer homework. I am not sure our soon-to-be 5th grader was excited about that. I certainly did not see her jump for joy. Fifth grade is going to be a change for our daughter but she can handle it.
Tomorrow I will spend time with our son in his classroom as his teacher has put together a presentation. A “this is who they were in September and what they have done/learned throughout the school year” presentation. I am excited as our little big guy has learned so much and loves school. We will be visiting the local library on Saturday mornings to further develop his reading skills. He is patient and really enjoys reading so we’ll be reading a lot this summer! I also want to study US geography over the summer. I am still working on the lesson plan.
With the end of school, we will be going on vacation. We will travel north to Portland, Ontario. We have vacationed there twice in the past and really love the area. Lots of boating, fishing, shopping and fun! We plan to visit the Forfar cheese factory, the Hershey factory and we have a day trip planned here and there – walking around small towns and enjoying the food and shops. Most important is the family time and relaxing. We’ll be on vacation so we can do what we want to and when we want to.
After vacation, the kids will be busy with their summer program held at the elementary school. They had fun last year at this program so we decided to let them participate again this year.
The week after we return from vacation, we will have visitors! My sister and her family will be visiting us in mid-July from Texas. Yeah! They finally get to meet our kids and spend some time being tourist in our area. There is a lot to be taken care of before they arrive. It’ll get me motivated to scrub out the refrigerator and the oven as well as some other cleaning I should already have done. We also decided to host a family gathering at our home – an impromptu family reunion. Invites have been mailed so I anxiously head home each night hoping to have lots of voice messages on the phone. I cannot remember the last time we all got together. Obviously it has been too long! I’ll have my camera charged and ready to go and we’ll think of some neat things to do, I’ll pull out old photos and just enjoy the gathering. There is nothing like family. I hope we have a great turnout.
And is it really June? The weather has been wet, wet and gray lately. Although the sun is trying to poke through the clouds, it is still cool. Our garden, although very wet, seems to be doing well. Once I can get in there to weed, I’ll have to write an update. We moved our garden this year to a new spot in our field. We could not have made that happen without our very kind neighbor as he plowed and tilled the area. After getting the fence up and raking, picking rocks and pounding stakes, I managed to get it planted. I am hoping we’ll have a great growing season. I want to can/freeze all that I can. We have freezers to fill and money to save!
Next week is the last week of school, Monday through Thursday and only half days at that. Another year is wrapping up. We went to the middle school earlier this week to meet teachers, listen to a presentation, take a tour of the building and receive paperwork, supply lists and homework, summer homework. I am not sure our soon-to-be 5th grader was excited about that. I certainly did not see her jump for joy. Fifth grade is going to be a change for our daughter but she can handle it.
Tomorrow I will spend time with our son in his classroom as his teacher has put together a presentation. A “this is who they were in September and what they have done/learned throughout the school year” presentation. I am excited as our little big guy has learned so much and loves school. We will be visiting the local library on Saturday mornings to further develop his reading skills. He is patient and really enjoys reading so we’ll be reading a lot this summer! I also want to study US geography over the summer. I am still working on the lesson plan.
With the end of school, we will be going on vacation. We will travel north to Portland, Ontario. We have vacationed there twice in the past and really love the area. Lots of boating, fishing, shopping and fun! We plan to visit the Forfar cheese factory, the Hershey factory and we have a day trip planned here and there – walking around small towns and enjoying the food and shops. Most important is the family time and relaxing. We’ll be on vacation so we can do what we want to and when we want to.
After vacation, the kids will be busy with their summer program held at the elementary school. They had fun last year at this program so we decided to let them participate again this year.
The week after we return from vacation, we will have visitors! My sister and her family will be visiting us in mid-July from Texas. Yeah! They finally get to meet our kids and spend some time being tourist in our area. There is a lot to be taken care of before they arrive. It’ll get me motivated to scrub out the refrigerator and the oven as well as some other cleaning I should already have done. We also decided to host a family gathering at our home – an impromptu family reunion. Invites have been mailed so I anxiously head home each night hoping to have lots of voice messages on the phone. I cannot remember the last time we all got together. Obviously it has been too long! I’ll have my camera charged and ready to go and we’ll think of some neat things to do, I’ll pull out old photos and just enjoy the gathering. There is nothing like family. I hope we have a great turnout.
And is it really June? The weather has been wet, wet and gray lately. Although the sun is trying to poke through the clouds, it is still cool. Our garden, although very wet, seems to be doing well. Once I can get in there to weed, I’ll have to write an update. We moved our garden this year to a new spot in our field. We could not have made that happen without our very kind neighbor as he plowed and tilled the area. After getting the fence up and raking, picking rocks and pounding stakes, I managed to get it planted. I am hoping we’ll have a great growing season. I want to can/freeze all that I can. We have freezers to fill and money to save!
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