October Journaling

1.    Reading the Bible with my mom. She gets frustrated very easily with it since English isn’t her first language and the names aren’t much easier in Finnish.

2.    The man who was Best Man at our wedding is turning 60 today, so the men are going go-karting; and they’re calling it an Old Man Grand Prix. Then we’re meeting at their house afterwards for a meal. We all sat around talking about our grandchildren or our aches and pains.

3.    Church Covid week 80.

4.    Chiro and massage.

5.    We’re supposed to go to H-town tomorrow to help my daughter out but two of the grandkids are sick, and we’ll see them on the weekend anyway.

6.    It’s my son-in-law’s birthday. I got him a mug that says, Living with a Finn builds character. He’s officially not an ‘outsider’ now.

7.    Prepping, cleaning, cooking, shopping, baking. Busy day.

8.    My husband took today off so we can finish as much as possible.

9.    Hosting 24 family members for Thanksgiving. We’re all double vaxxed, so should be fine. First holiday in almost two years.

10. Church Covid week 81. No evening service. So much leftovers, clean up and laundry.

11. More cleaning.

12. It’s our daughter and on-in-law’s 9^th wedding anniversary. Eye appointment for me.

13. Helping out in Hamilton. The grandkids helped me prep six boxes for Samaritan’s Purse Christmas boxes.

14. Bible study. Online course tonight.

15. My husband took today off because he’s exhausted. I am writing. Our youngest granddaughter is sick. Poor thing.

16. Missions’ week kick-off at church today.

17. Covid week 82.

18. Dental appointment.

19. Our youngest granddaughter had a nasty reaction to penicillin; fever, hives all over, swollen face and irritability. It lasted almost a week. Me and my mom got our flu shots today. Body aches.

20. Helping out in Hamilton. Our granddaughter’s rash is much better now, just on a few places now.

21. Bible study.

22. Ordered in because it’s Friday.

23. Virtual women’s ministry meeting speaking to a young female missionary in Ireland.

24. Church Covid week 83.

25. Writing day. Breakfast for dinner. Don’t judge me.

26. Pain clinic number one. Our granddaughter started walking today! At 18 months and five days old.

27. Pain clinic number two.

28. Bible study in the morning, but no class this evening because it’s reading week.

29. Taking my car in to get my winter tires on and regular fall maintenance. My husband took the day off to give me a ride, and to work on a paper for our course. Since I’m only auditing it (I took it for credit 30 years ago), I don’t have to write papers or exams. All the benefit of a course with none of the work, and also the cost is significantly lower. We went out for dinner and I was sick when we returned home, but I don’t think it’s food poisoning since my mom ate the same thing. It could be squid ink since the spaghetti was black. I’ll call for the ingredients.

30. Writing, cleaning. The grandkids saw Niagara Falls for the first time.

31. Reformation Sunday and Covid week 84. Our grandkids’ school is closing for ten days because of a few cases in the older grades. The kids tested negative as did the whole family but because this school isn’t good about enforcing masking or distancing, they are considered close contacts, so they also have to self-isolate; at least the kids do since they’re not vaccinated yet. So that means we can’t go to school this week and they can’t go trick or treating, which made them sad. But they watched movies and ate candy. They are getting used to plans having to be changed so they are developing resiliency.