The Ark Encounter and Creation Museum Trip

 June Journaling

To Hamilton to help with the grandkids. Rainy day.

2.    Bible study in Jonah chapter two. Voting day in the provincial election.

3.    Today is the 24^th anniversary of my husband’s cancer surgery. Never tire of celebrating that. It’s also Ribfest so that’s our dinner. Planted more vegetables and herbs. Prepped my pills for the next 18 days. I take 37 pills a day. Don’t feel bad for me. When I was first sick nine years ago I was taking 90 per day. Most are supplements. Hoping they’ll help with energy levels. I say I’m better than I was but still sicker than I look.

4.    Feeling nauseous from one of my five new pills, but because they all look alike and I’ve set them up for 18 days, I can’t remove any of them, so I just have to cope. Arrggh!

5.    Busy day at church with two services and two meetings; the Pulpit committee meeting and the DVBS meeting.

6.    Chiro and massage.

7.    Pain clinic for back injections.

8.    Hamilton to help with the grandkids.

9.    Bible study, then prepping for our short trip to the U.S.

10. Our daughter is home from Ottawa for the weekend for a concert.

11. Not feeling up to the gardening party at church this morning.

12. Church and pulpit committee meeting.

13. Writing, finishing up my lesson on Jonah.

14. Writing, errands and packing.

15. Hamilton to see the grand-blessings.

16. Bible study; finished Jonah. Heading out to Kentucky around noon. We have a 12 seater van for the seven of us. They got it so I could stretch out, which I appreciate.

17. It’s my husband’s 59^th birthday. How can that be? Went to an outlet mall. We are having a bbq at a friend’s place in Kentucky. The family we met were so nice, the woman, Mary is a kindred spirit. We have so much in common with being former nurses and having autoimmune illnesses, and being believers.

18. Going to the Ark Encounter today! It was AWESOME!

19. Going to the Creation Museum. I got so much writing research done in both places. It’s a business trip.

20. Driving home.

21. Finishing up the summaries of my Bible studies on four of the Minor Prophets for Thursday.

22. My final class was postponed till the 30^th because there is a funeral at church that morning.

23. Funeral this morning for an elderly man.

24. Doing some proofreading of seminary papers.

25. Watching sermons of some of the pastoral candidates.

26. Church. Our pastor was ill so we had two guest speakers; one was from Alabama. We took him and his wife out to eat afterwards, along with the people we traveled to Kentucky with and it was so nice to get to know them. Believers have an instant connection.

27. Writing, napping, doing laundry. I finished my summaries for four of the Minor Prophets so tomorrow I will get them printed.

28. Printing. My husband took the day off to take his uncle and his wife to Niagara Falls with my mother-in-law. Her brother lives in Florida and is a pastor.

29. Prayer meeting in person.

30. My final class of the year until the fall. Summaries of four of the Minor Prophets.

Cruise booked, then canceled

 

May Journaling

1.    Church, then bringing the kids back home.

2.    Meeting friends for dinner to make plans; they will be travelling with us to Kentucky in June, to the Ark Encounter. They’ve been before.

3.    Trying to catch up with writing since the weekend was full with the grandkids here.

4.    Prayer meeting; my husband was leading the devotion. A new woman was there. I invited her to our Bible study.

5.    Cinco de Mayo, but I made Finnish food instead of Mexican. Bible study this morning.

6.    Writing, cleaning. Going out to dinner with the friends we will be travelling to the Ark Encounter with, to flesh out the details.

7.    Heading to London for family time. So much food. The kids were in the pool all day even though the water was so cold. They also went in the hot tub and sauna, and had a camp fire. They’re living their best life.

8.    Returned home and sent off our daughter back to Ottawa. No church this weekend, which kind of throws me off.

9.    Writing and sending a parcel to Uganda.

10. Cleaning lady is here; we’ve decided to have her come once a month. So exciting. Very reasonable price for all she does.

11. Going to Hamilton to see the grandkids.

12. Bible study.

13. Our Pastor announced his upcoming retirement once a replacement is found. Sad.

14. My sister turned 60 and her birthday party is this evening at a tapas restaurant with a flamenco show.

15. We’ve book a Baltic cruise for this August; going to Denmark, Germany, Poland, Lithuania, Latvia, Sweden, Estonia, and Finland. We will be in Helsinki two nights so we can see some relatives. I haven’t been back to the land of my birth for 45 years, when I was 13. Ironically, it’s Norwegian Cruise lines but it doesn’t go to Norway.

16. We booked the cruise before we looked at costs of flying and when I booked those, they cost more than the cruise, even with one of us free on points one way. We can’t justify it so we will postpone it till next summer. I’m very disappointed. We got our money back for everything except we took a hit on the cruise itself because it’s considered a cancellation so we only got back 75% because it was within 90 days of sailing. Expensive lesson to learn. I feel bad for our travel agent friend, whom we’ve inconvenienced.

17. So many mass shootings.

18. To Hamilton to help out. My newest granddaughter, who will turn two on Saturday, has incredible language skills. She understands ideas that go together: she’ll say, “I joking; funny, silly.” She speaks in seven word sentences: “I go upstairs to get it, lego.” She has two identical stuffies she sleeps with and told me they were twins. Her parents don’t know where she learned that.

19. Bible study, then highlights to cover the grey.

20. Bought a little purse and pjs for our granddaughter.

21. Grandbaby number three is two today. We bought her a little purse filled with kid’s sunglasses, lip balm, a comb and mirror.

22. Most of our cancelled trip has been reimbursed except part of the cruise.

23. I was dumb and cancelled our travel insurance instead of making a claim so I could get that money back. I am beyond dumb sometimes. What an expensive lesson.

24. Victoria Day weekend.

25. Writing.

26. Hamilton. Our two year old granddaughter can sing Twinkle, Twinkle, Little Star.

27. Bible Study. Beginning the book of Jonah; one of my favourite books of the Bible.

28. A one-day women’s retreat at church. My mom came along.

29. Church.

30. Hormone doctor appointment.