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Giving Thanks

October 9, 2007

We celebrated Thanksgiving this past weekend. And I just wanted to show some of the things I am thankful for.
I am thankful that my Dad’s brother was able to make a trip accross from Montréal to meet his newest great neice. The reality is that they won’t be driving for much longer, at least not long trips. So it was wonderful that they were able to come. We will have to start making more trips to Montréal again like we used to.
I am thankful that J, despite being pretty much a vegetarian, was so excited for Thanksgiving supper he was at the table way before anybody arrived.
I am thankful that Hubby was able to run his half-marathon, in under two hours, without feeling like he ran a full-marathon. And for the beautiful day he had to run it.
I am thankful for J and Apple, who keep us going everyday and don’t let us stop for a minute. They are the sunshine in our lives and make parenthood so much easier than it really is.
I am Thankful that I was able to make a turkey dinner, despite my neice and nephew being so sick that my brother-in-law had to stay home with them. My Sister made it solo with the veggies. We had a nice, quiet dinner together. Which brings me to the fact that I am so thankful I have three Sister’s. Even though they are far away from home, they were thought of, talked about and missed terribly.

I hope you all had a wonderful Thanksgiving weekend.

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Four Weeks

October 5, 2007

Or one month old. Little Apple has been here for a month and it seems like she has been here forever. J is slowly getting used to her being around. Hubby is helping out with J a bit more and I feel like I should be my old self and wonder why I am not. Duh, because it has only been four weeks!

For some reason I thought I was back on my feet so much faster with J, but I do remember thinking, when he was six weeks old, that there would be no way I could go back to work if I lived in the US. Not that I went back to work after J was born but, at least I had a full year to decide.

All you wonderful comments about me getting around have helped keep me going. And truth be told is that if I didn’t have to walk J to school and pick him up, I probobly wouldn’t be going out at all. now if I could only find the magical solution to fitting in my old jeans before the cool weather arrives all would be perfect.

p.s. I still visit all of you but cannot always comment due to baby in my arms 🙂

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Lunch with Grandpa

October 3, 2007

My Dad, bless his heart, will be 70 in a couple of weeks and is still going strong at work. He was hit with a triple whammy this past couple of weeks. My eldest Sister went back to Regina. Then, my Mom went to Regina to watch her three kids while she went to Las Vegas with her hubby to a conference (which I would have been doing last week with my Hubby had we not just had Apple, next year) apparently at my suggestion. And of course youngest Sister left last weekend.

When youngest Sister left, she left more than just the house. She was his extra ‘man’ on the job for the last two months. So this week he has had to work extra to make up for her leaving. We keep inviting him to dinner, but with the great weather he has been working until 8 or 9 at night, much past our suppertime.

To make up for all this aloneness (if that is even a word) today, J and I decided to take lunch to him. We picked up some Harvey’s (hambergers, “a beautiful thing”) burgers and fries, chicken strips and onion rings for J and headed out to his job. We offered to bring his other partner some Harvey’s too, but he opted for his home-cooked lunch by his wife. Since my Dad had made his own sandwich today (a shock to all of us) he was more than happy to opt for the burgers.

J, Apple and I arrived with lunch in tow and had a great visit. If only we could do this everyday, it would help pass his day at work and ours too for that matter. Hopefully this will be his last winter on the job and he can officially retire next summer. Somehow, I doubt he will ever officially retire, but when he asked J if he was going to work for Grandpa one day, like his Mom did, J replied “no thanks Grandpa, I won’t make a good worker”. I laughed and said, “Dad if you are still working in another five or more years, there will be more to worry about than giving J a job.”

Cheers Grandpa, hope you enjoyed your visit at lunch today!

*photo of Dad with Baby Neice, from Regina the morning they left.

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