Rememberance Day Weekend

Saturday a lady and her husband came down and bought the old china cabinet, then a couple of guys came down to look at the rototiller...but didn't buy it.

Sunday... Went to church...such a powerful message!  Afterwards we were invited to lunch at our friends D&A's along with another couple.  On the way home we drove past the new Encorp recycling center they opened a few minutes from our house...it's going to be sooo handy!!!

Monday.. Watched the Remembrance day services on TV then did more packing and cleaning.  Later our son and grandson came down for awhile.  That kid is so much like his Dad was at that age, it's scary!!!!  Just goes to prove the apple doesn't fall far from the tree.  M was told to pick up the Lego so they could go.  He asked his Dad for help.  Dad said he didn't take it out so M was to pick it up himself.  He started to but in less than a minute he came back and said, "Grandma, you helped me get the Lego out.  Can you help me put it away?"  His dad told him that was a nice try but no, I hadn't played with it!  As they were leaving I showed them some cars B had when he was little, that I found in the back of a cupboard and asked M if he'd like them.  His dad say he could take them but only if he agreed to play with then outside.  You've never seen a 4 year old close the box and run out to the car with it so fast!!!  Then, he made his dad put the box on the seat beside his car seat...he wasn't going to have his box of trucks on the floor or heaven forbid in the back of the car!!!!

Lots going on

Sunday our daughter and son-in-law invited us out to their place for a ham dinner.  Our son-in-law makes a wonderful ham and he even made pumpkin pies out of their Jack-o-lantern for dessert...then he gave us one to take home and enjoy.  Thanks...it was yummy!!!  What more can you ask...a great dinner and a visit???  It was great to catch up on what the grandkids have been doing in school, band and all the other things they're involved in.

This cold weather has taken its toll on all my zucchinis, so thought I'd better have another marathon baking session today before they all went bad and I'd have to throw them out, but I felt weird not packing or de-junking so went in my sewing room and packed another box of stuff!!!  It was only one box but I feel better knowing that one more box is packed!!!!

Birthday Wishes

Our eldest daughter's birthday is today.  She has a week's vacation so yesterday she stopped in and I made her lunch and gave her the little white shoes she wore when she was baptized and a triple frame with some pictures of her when she was less than a year old.  I figured if I gave them to her now I wouldn't have to pack them...method in my madness!!!

Still busy packing and de-junking.  Tackling my sewing room the past several days...got a feeling this is going to take a lot longer than I'd planned.  Took 4 bags of stuff to church with me on Sunday.  One lady got small pieces of flannelette...she pieces then together and makes baby jackets for the hospital in Cameroon.  Another lady got material for making bandages, someone else got the large pieces of flannelette for making baby blankets and another friend got felt pieces to use for storytelling with her young children's group here.  It's so good to know that my "treasures" are going to be useful!!

I still have several zucchini from the garden so grated a bunch up and made a double batch of chocolate, chocolate chip zucchini cake and a double batch of pineapple zucchini cake.  Today I wrapped and froze most of it, but did keep some out to enjoy!!  It's good to keep busy!!!!

Feeling Bad

The day after we got home from our time away I got an email from our church's prayer chain.  Apparently our friend's adult son was touching up the paint on his house when he fell off the ladder and sustained a very bad brain injury.  The next day my husband went to his Men's Prayer Group and found out that the son was disconnected from life support and passed away.  Our hearts go out to the family in this time of loss.  When things like this happen it makes us realize just how precious life is and how quickly our lives can change!  We must to remember to live each day to the fullest and to tell our loved ones how much we care for them often!  Love and blessings to all our family and friends!!!!!

Happy Thanksgiving

Hope everyone had a wonderful Thanksgiving.  We've got so many things to be thankful for!

We managed to get away in our trailer for several nights.  Our daughter, son-in-law and grandkids were camped in a park close to the one we were in so we got together with them and combined meals on two nights.  We also went to a ukulele concert our grand daughter R was playing in and attended the same church service on Sunday with them.

After dinner on Sunday the youngest girl and the boys went to bed and the rest of us sat around the table and talked.   I told a couple of stories of things that had happened when the kids were growing up or when we were camping.  As we went to leave grandson W (who was supposed to be asleep) called out, "Goodnight Grandma and Papa.  Thanks for telling good stories, Grandma!!"

Leap of Faith

The offer we have on the new house will expire the end of October so we've been thinking it is too perfect a house to lose so maybe we should go ahead and get the financing and buy it....BUT what happens if we don't sell our house????  Would it be any worse than owning recreational property???  We were planning on doing a river cruise to celebrate our special anniversary next year...couldn't we use the money we would have spent on a cruise and use that to finance the house payments for several months instead???  Anyway, we bit the bullet and had the house inspection done and put a down payment on it...NOW it's considered SOLD to us!!!!  Yikes...but we have faith that we were led to that house for a reason and if it's truly meant to be, our house will sell.  We've still got lots of time because closing date isn't until the end of January 2014 and we'll be moving in during the month of Feb.

Open House

Our realtor booked an open house for today so we've been busy all week taking stuff to re-cycling, getting a charity come and get stuff and taking a load of metals in to sell, re-organizing boxes so the house won't look "messy", washing and waxing floors & windows etc.  We pooped ourselves out completely but finally the house does look pretty good, so come in people and see, fall in love with our home and buy it!!!  Unfortunately it was a beautiful, sunny fall day and I guess no one wanted to go looking at houses....absolutely no one came!!!!  What a disappointment!!!

Our daughter, son-in-law and grand kids came later to deliver tickets for R's ukulele concert, plus I had found some jewellery I no longer want and thought the girls might like.  We'd planned on getting pizza or Chinese food for supper.  Son-in-law suggested that instead of getting take-out, we should go out, then I wouldn't have dishes to do!  Good idea!!!  I'm too tired to do dishes anyway, so off we went.  The food was very tasty and we had such a good time.  Because there were 8 of us we had to take two cars.  On the way home hubby and I discussed whether we should stop and get some doughnuts but thought everyone would be too full.  When we pulled into the driveway he mentioned it and next thing I know the guys took off and came back with a dozen doughnuts!