Birthday!

 

April Journaling

1.    April Fool’s Day: the only holiday for atheists. “The fool has said in his heart: ‘There is no God.’” (Ps. 53:1)

2.    My aunt is coming from Finland tonight for six weeks.

3.    Church. I’ve stopped counting Covid weeks.

4.    We have a cleaning lady coming today, and to stay out of her way, we are going to the Tartan House Bed and Breakfast for breakfast. Then I’m having a haircut and my eyebrows done.

5.    Wow, so impressed with the cleaners, who cleaned the blinds, the light fixtures, the walls, the cupboard fronts, and everything else. I feel like I can breathe easier. My husband is so impressed he wants them to come once a month. A writing day, catching up on my podcasts.

6.    Going to Hamilton with my mom and aunt.

7.    Bible study. Amos chapter two. So exhausted, slept poorly yesterday.

8.    The second parcel arrived in Uganda, this time it took four weeks.

9.    The young man in Uganda had most of his belongings stolen out of his home, including his phone, so I bought him another one.

10. Church.

11. Getting my car winter tires off and maintenance and detailing done. My car is soooo filthy.

12. $1700 later, my car is road worthy. Had a flat and bad brakes, too. Yikes. And it’s a 12 year old car but I want to keep it on the road for at least half a year when we’ll get my mom’s somewhat newer car back from my sister when she moves out west.

13. Taking my mom for her fourth Covid shot.

14. Good Friday service with the Spanish and Mandarin congregations joining us. So nice to hear more voices singing. Pastor J.D. preached in Spanish and Francisco translated to English. Then someone from the Spanish church handed out packages of eight croissants for everyone.

15. We went to a Japanese tepanyaki (cooking table) restaurant with my mom and aunt. Delish.

16. Writing, catching up, trying to stay ahead.

17. Easter Sunday. Christ is Risen! He is Risen, indeed!

18. Made bread in the bread machine for the first time. I’m hooked. It was easy and delicious. Why did I wait this long to start?

19. Taking my mom for bloodwork and my aunt to Costco with me.

20. My daughter is returning to work after many years. The kids are seven, five, and two. She will have someone come to their home to look after them.

21. Bible study.

22. Healthy tax refund coming.

23. In-person women’s ministry meeting.

24. Church.

25. My husband had a five day weekend, and brought his car in for detailing and tire change.

26. I’ve signed up for my highschool reunion at Thanksgiving weekend up north. They weren’t my best years but I will be going more for my sister’s sake, since she will have already moved out west and this way I can see her.

27. To H-town to help with the kids.

28. Bible study.

29. Pain clinic and grocery shopping. The grandkids are coming for the weekend.

30. It’s my birthday, 58. I see the number but I don’t feel it. I got a strawberry shortcake. My husband had a picture printed and framed of my television interview on 700 Club Canada about my book. Shared my many blessings with the kids in Uganda.

 

Summoned Firefighters

 

March Journaling

1.    Family left this morning.

2.    Still sick. Cancelled my appointments for the week.

3.    No Bible study this week because the teacher (me) is sick.

4.    Sending off the second parcel to Uganda. I went with Canada Post again in spite of the corruption on the Ugandan postal service side, because it is only $300 whereas two couriers estimates would have charged $1900!

5.    Got to leave the house to buy a baby gift and some yarn and groceries. I’m a home body. My immersion blender died after 30 years, so I bought a new one in seafoam green.

6.    Covid week 102. I guess I’ll stop recording the weeks since the restrictions are soon to be lifted, including masks at the end of March, although Covid is still around.

7.    Chiropractor appointment. Smelts for dinner. Yum. A taste of my childhood, but they were free and it was like a Biblical catch of fish, you only had to lower a giant net down into the river and you’d scoop up buckets full.

8.    My daughter with three kids is thinking of going back to work.

9.    We’re not going to Hamilton this week because my daughter is going there on the weekend and gas and the 407 are expensive, plus they’ll be coming here next week on March break.

10. Bible study. Our course in the evening.

11. Our daughter is visiting from Ottawa for the weekend.

12. Our daughter has begun eating a vegan diet for the past few months; so she’s making us a cauliflower roast for dinner.

13. Church. Out for lunch with friends. Church again.

14. The grandkids are coming for an overnight. I summoned the fire trucks to our house at suppertime. I was cooking bacon and the house got smokey. The alarm went off and because I was alone at the time, I didn’t know how to turn it off right away, then I missed the call from the security company. Then I heard the sirens and thought, oh, no, I hope that’s not for me. But it was. Oopsie.

15. Doing crafts with the grandkids.

16. A telephone consult with a haematologist for my mom. They want her to have an iron infusion for her anemia.

17. My husband is working from home for two days to work on his paper for our course. No Bible class this week because of March break. But we have our online seminary course this evening on Ephesians, Colossians, and Philemon.

18. We need to buy a new phone for my mom, she keeps getting duds. They ring or text when they feel like it.

19. Women’s meeting at church.

20. Last Sunday with Covid restrictions, God willing. Our daughter is coming from Ottawa for a concert that was rescheduled.

21. Trying to catch up with writing.

22. Errands and pain clinic. My mom got a new phone.

23. To Hamilton to see the grand-blessings.

24. Bible study, proofreading, then our course in the evening. So busy.

25. Helping set up my mom’s phone.

26. Proofreading another paper. The money covers the support of the orphans.

27. My mom is 82 today. We are going for lunch at my sister’s house.

28. Sent some money from my mom for Ukraine relief. Also gave a box of supplies like diapers to a Ukrainian church who is sending them over.

29. So busy with errands and fixing the glitches in my mom’s new phone, and getting our tax records ready for the accountant.

30. Taking my mom in to the hospital for an iron infusion for her anemia.

31. My mom’s sister is coming from Finland on Saturday for six weeks.