Ten Childhood Memories…..

Ten Childhood Memories…..as tagged by Kate

1. Thinking my 4 year old kindergarten French teacher was a monster…And when she’d talk to me, I’d yell “Monster! Monster! Monster!!!! “ (Who’d a thunk I’d be fluently bilingual today!)

2. Christmas with Grandma and Grandpa. My family and my Aunt’s family would all go over and open presents and have a BIG Turkey dinner. Grandma would have put together huge “care packages” for the four grandkids to open…I always remember the gum...and the ugly matching dresses for me and my sister.

3. The Christmas (1986?) we had a bad ice storm overnight; my dad went outside and cooked breakfast in our trailer. I remember how beautiful the trees looked encased in ice.

4. Carp Fair with my sister and my mother. We went on the spinning teacup ride and my mother puked all the way home.

5. Going up to Grandma and Grandpa’s trailer, during the summer. I remember the time I fell in the lake (pond?) and my dad had o rush in to rescue me.

6. The time my sister and a friend of ours decided to climb the pine tree in the back yard. I was the only one who was smart enough to put my hood up. I remember my mom trying to get pine gum out of my sister’s hair.

7. Moving out west the summer after grade 6. I was sad to say goodbye to all my friends, but we had a great road trip driving there. Wall Drug South Dakota was a particularly good time.

8. Spending summer with all the neighbourhood kids, our house became the central location

9. Moving back from out west, three years later, we were in a bad car accident, not a good memory, but an important one, I became an incomplete paraplegic.

10. Going to summer camp, all the friends I would make and having fun doing the arts and crafts, leading sing-alongs and performing skits.

Things are moving along…

As the title indicates, things are moving along…Tommorrow we have our third homestudy visit. We’ve done our police checks and I’ve completed my autobiography. We still have to do my dh’s autobiography (notice I said “we”, I’ve been after him for weeks, but he’s passing the buck saying I’m a better writer…he’ll feed me details and I’ll do the creative writing), we are going to do our fingerprints tomorrow afternoon and I have an appointment with our doctor the week of the 4th to discuss the medical reports.

The last homestudy visit was exhausting…it honestly felt like two hours of picking on me. Not fun. I’m hoping this weeks is better.

A week that was bad but yet was also good

Last week was rough, we had to put down our wonderful, dear, Mika. Mika was an eight year old blue weimaraner. She had many rough days in her short life, but she was the best. We “rescued” her when her original owners posted her on a board about 6 years ago. (They were having a baby and wanted rid of her!) Up until then she lead a very sad life (in a laundry room). She survived kidney failure and went on to live a happy normal life. She was a wonderful girl who was patient, loving and clever. She was my “baby”, but unfortunately she developed lymphoma, about a month ago and nothing could be done to save her. She was so special to us my husband always said that if anything ever happened to us there would be a battle as to who would take care of her as she was loved by many. We miss her terribly.

On a happier note, we started our homestudy on Friday! We had our first meeting with a different SW. She seems great, very reassuring and she seems to be a good fit with what we expect from the process. We have already scheduled our next meeting for 2 weeks from last Friday! Now we are trying to figure out all the paper work we’ll need to gather.