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Thursday, 31 December 2009
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Roundup #5 Random
One evening the boys begged to have calf fries for supper. Yes, yes, my dears. Would you like to make supper tonight? They were happy to dig in.
They were very happy with their supper.Yes, well.
Leeeeona, I hear you smacking your lips!
Finally, on Tuesday Francesca had an eye doctor appointment in the city so we gathered up the SILs and a cousin and had us a fine day of roaming the snow caked streets.
Let it snow! And Mardel had GREAT sales on their bargain books.Think I'll send the children to school for a week so I can enjoy...
She's cold, but her eyes have stayed the same since her last exam. A blessing as she's gobbling down Kindergarten and I was concerned.
That wraps up our December.
This evening we have to run down a bull who is roaming the countryside, then spend the rest of the year with friends.
Faith, hope, love and joy to each of you.
** So we're not staying with friends for the next 363 days. I did all these posts several days ago and wanted to space them out.
And sadly the bull is missing again.
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Roundup #4 Trans Siberian Orchestra
Several weeks ago Freeman and I went to this concert with some of our very fine young friends.
I'm still trying to adjust my perception of the Trans Siberian Orchestra.Truthfully, I was expecting a more traditional classical sound but that's what you get when you wait to check out a group until after you've gone to hear them. This was Not the community choir.They have amazing talent and endurance. Energy is overflowing. The thing was that I didn't do much research and did not realize this was way beyond your average orchestral music. Mozart and Tchaikovsky would have had heart attacks to hear their music so revamped.
It felt a little like the one and only time I was carded and embarrassed the daylights out of Judith over a tiny bottle of nasty tasting red wine. Who am I and what am I doing here? Even hopelessly prim little girls stretch their brains once in awhile. And the headache I was fighting all day was gone by the end of the concert.
We sat at IHOP for over an hour waiting on our food and ferried ourslves home in various degrees of exhaustion.
We have a wide range of ages in this group, we've watched some of these grow from children to teenagers and now they're fine young adults. We are proud of them and blessed to experience their friendships.
Thank you, Bonnie for asking us to go along!
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Roundup #3
My mother is a woman of endurance.
She keeps going in spite of pain, weariness or heart aches.
She laughs and is patient and gentle with her grandchildren. She lets them have coffee beacause ginger snaps and coffee just go together.
Mom helps with farmwork and sews dresses for her grandaughters.
She puts her arms around the unlovely and lets them know she does love them.
Several of the women from church got together for tea to celebrate her birthday which she almost missed. We were also having a cookie exchange so she called to tell me she'd be late because she had to help dad load some cattle.
Her daughter who had kind of expected such a glitch told her she had to come or she'd be letting down said daughter. We did get her there!
Seventy is looking very good!
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Coffee Break
A couple hours to sit and talk around a pleasant table is just what we needed.
Glenda,Emily,Loretta,Martha,Margaret,Merlene.
Thank you,Loretta for having us over.
A couple of us received these pretty flowers with encouragement notes tied to the bouquets.
The friendships of women are great stabilizers in our sometimes uncertain lives.
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Roundup #2
Breakfast over,cattle checked,children taken to Grandma's house.
Next up is Christmas with my family. This was Christmas Eve when we had the wild snowstorm/blizzard.
Snow dazed family.
Grandpa and Chizum.
Relaxing with aunty.
This goes to....
Baby's first Christmas...
come on son, open your present!
I'm a normal child- the paper is more fun than the book even if it has crinkly pages.
Shannon is the pleased owner of a trunk made by her Grandpa!
After the day is done it's snuggle time with Grandma under the new blanket.
Even though it was late when we went home, the snow had to be played in while it was here.
Tunnelling through.
This is so much fun!
Cold noses, warm hearts.
The door that had to be shovelled out. We could use a good hard rain to wash off the windows because I'm not planning to tackle them until spring.
Time for quiche and big girl talk.
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