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Sunday, February 7, 2010
Out Sick
Hello my lovelies! I have been out sick for 3 weeks now, I'm not better but I thought that I would just pop by and say a quick hello. I have had an infection from a rash and I had the check up today and they said I'm doing too much: no running, exercising, picking up my kids, picking up laundry baskets, bending, vacuuming, all I'm allowed to do is walk, stand and lay down and dust....dust? lol I thought that was funny. So I've been mostly out of commission for 3 weeks now and 3 weeks ago is when my Christmas tree was going to come down, guess what? It's still up and I want it gone!!!! But I can't do it, so I watch everyone drive by on the street and go "they must be laughing at me right now" hahaha, oh well, at least I can enjoy the pretty lights a bit longer. Through this I have been so blessed by a few friends, Carole has been awesome, she has taken Brooklynn for me several days and she organized several moms from Alexa's school to provide meals for us, what an incredible blessing!!! Thank-you so so much!!!!!!!!!!!
Friday, January 22, 2010
Books
What have you been reading lately? I am really into chick lit and like the escape so I have been devouring all of Sophie Kinsella's books even the ones that she wrote in her real name, Madeleine Wickham, Sophie Kinsella is a pen name. I have never read so much before I started last summer and I've read more books since then than I have in the last 10 years, terrible I know. lol
So the first book I read from Sophie was The Undomestic Goddess, I loved it, it was funny and kept me interested then I went on to the Shopaholic series, these were good but the main character irritated me but I pushed through them and then read Remember Me, also a great one, it is about a woman who wakes up in a hospital with amnesia. Then it was Cocktails for Three which was written in her real name but I didn't like it as much, it follows the lives of 3 friends and I found it hard to keep track of everyone. Now I just finished The Gate Crasher, this one took me a month to finish it was very hard to get through, again another irritating character and I hated the ending. In between these I have also read a few from Emily Giffin, they were also good, the first 2 I loved but then the last one I finished was another hard one to get through, I found myself being tempted to skip whole sections of the book because there was so much internal dialog from the main character, like pages of it. I find Sophie's writing style interesting she seems to write good story for about 3/4 of the book and then the last 1/4 it gets so good that you can't put it down. I'm not sure what I will read next, I have a book from Emily Giffin that I might start but Dale wants me to read a financial gurus book that he loves, I'm not into non fiction so much, I like to read to escape from reality and I think his book might be a hard read for me. lol
So the first book I read from Sophie was The Undomestic Goddess, I loved it, it was funny and kept me interested then I went on to the Shopaholic series, these were good but the main character irritated me but I pushed through them and then read Remember Me, also a great one, it is about a woman who wakes up in a hospital with amnesia. Then it was Cocktails for Three which was written in her real name but I didn't like it as much, it follows the lives of 3 friends and I found it hard to keep track of everyone. Now I just finished The Gate Crasher, this one took me a month to finish it was very hard to get through, again another irritating character and I hated the ending. In between these I have also read a few from Emily Giffin, they were also good, the first 2 I loved but then the last one I finished was another hard one to get through, I found myself being tempted to skip whole sections of the book because there was so much internal dialog from the main character, like pages of it. I find Sophie's writing style interesting she seems to write good story for about 3/4 of the book and then the last 1/4 it gets so good that you can't put it down. I'm not sure what I will read next, I have a book from Emily Giffin that I might start but Dale wants me to read a financial gurus book that he loves, I'm not into non fiction so much, I like to read to escape from reality and I think his book might be a hard read for me. lol
Thursday, January 21, 2010
Seeing Blessings In The Storm
Well today I'm going to talk about something that I think the Lord has been trying to teach both Dale and I in the last while, something that I know all of us need to learn but it has been a difficult lesson.
As a lot of you know things have been hard for us financially and it has been very stressful. It seems as though there is something new everyday that happens that's not good. Last week Dale had to get new tires on the truck (almost $1600) and that was only for 4 of them then on Friday on his way into Edmonton a set of springs (like shocks on cars) broke so on Saturday he had that fixed ($1300 something later), then on Sunday on his way home something else happened with the truck and he ended up having to leave his trailer for someone else to take home and he babied the truck home.
On Monday the truck was back in the shop the result of which was, there is nothing wrong ($400 something) and you need to get 4 more new tires, another almost $1600. So Dale gets back on the road on Tuesday night and he is at his work and the boss says "ok Dale you are ready to go." So Dale goes out and hops in the truck and pulls the truck away from the dock to close the doors on the trailer, well they were not finished in his trailer and one of the guys that works on the dock was IN Dale's trailer when he pulled away and hurt his foot and the other dock guy was about to drive in the trailer with the fork lift, thankfully he didn't crash! Dale felt awful and of course he's going to check from now on to make sure that they are done. After this happens Dale gets on his way and the police are pulling trucks over on the on ramp to the freeway, Dale gets pulled over and they check his log book, well he had one thing missing on it and so he gets a fine. The rest of his trip went well and he will be home sometime this morning.
Yesterday a letter comes in the mail and we are getting audited by the Ministry of Small business for our fuel tax. When you have your own trucking company and are independent you have to pay fuel tax quarterly and so they want to check everything over and make sure we've been paying all we were supposed to, they pick people at random. So I open and read the letter and I start having a tight feeling in my chest, I'm like oh my goodness I'm having a panic attack, so I just breathed and calmed down and after a bit I was ok.
So do you think this is a lot? It is for me, I've been trying to figure out why this is all happening, why is the Lord letting this happen to us? What is He trying to teach us? What has come to both Dale and I is that we NEED to be thankful in ALL situations, it is scriptural Ephesians 5:20 says You will always give thanks for everything the God the Father in the name of our Lord Jesus Christ; Psalm 34:1 says I will praise the Lord at all times, I will constantly speak his praises. So how do we do that? Well I heard one time a pastor explain it this way: if you are on the side of the road with a flat tire and you are on your way to the airport to make a flight you simply say "Thank-you Lord for this situation I'm in" it doesn't necessarily mean that you are happy about it but you are thankful.
Through all of this we have also been blessed and I think that is the Lords way of saying "I have not forgotten about you, I LOVE you" Last week we were given a free turkey and then this week I am getting a free pair of glasses which I badly needed, my prescription has changed a lot and I went and priced out glasses but they are just way out of what we can afford. These things are what I use to remind myself that we are not forgotten that through all of the frustrations and through all of the difficulties we are still being taken care of, HE will never leave us or forsake us.
As a lot of you know things have been hard for us financially and it has been very stressful. It seems as though there is something new everyday that happens that's not good. Last week Dale had to get new tires on the truck (almost $1600) and that was only for 4 of them then on Friday on his way into Edmonton a set of springs (like shocks on cars) broke so on Saturday he had that fixed ($1300 something later), then on Sunday on his way home something else happened with the truck and he ended up having to leave his trailer for someone else to take home and he babied the truck home.
On Monday the truck was back in the shop the result of which was, there is nothing wrong ($400 something) and you need to get 4 more new tires, another almost $1600. So Dale gets back on the road on Tuesday night and he is at his work and the boss says "ok Dale you are ready to go." So Dale goes out and hops in the truck and pulls the truck away from the dock to close the doors on the trailer, well they were not finished in his trailer and one of the guys that works on the dock was IN Dale's trailer when he pulled away and hurt his foot and the other dock guy was about to drive in the trailer with the fork lift, thankfully he didn't crash! Dale felt awful and of course he's going to check from now on to make sure that they are done. After this happens Dale gets on his way and the police are pulling trucks over on the on ramp to the freeway, Dale gets pulled over and they check his log book, well he had one thing missing on it and so he gets a fine. The rest of his trip went well and he will be home sometime this morning.
Yesterday a letter comes in the mail and we are getting audited by the Ministry of Small business for our fuel tax. When you have your own trucking company and are independent you have to pay fuel tax quarterly and so they want to check everything over and make sure we've been paying all we were supposed to, they pick people at random. So I open and read the letter and I start having a tight feeling in my chest, I'm like oh my goodness I'm having a panic attack, so I just breathed and calmed down and after a bit I was ok.
So do you think this is a lot? It is for me, I've been trying to figure out why this is all happening, why is the Lord letting this happen to us? What is He trying to teach us? What has come to both Dale and I is that we NEED to be thankful in ALL situations, it is scriptural Ephesians 5:20 says You will always give thanks for everything the God the Father in the name of our Lord Jesus Christ; Psalm 34:1 says I will praise the Lord at all times, I will constantly speak his praises. So how do we do that? Well I heard one time a pastor explain it this way: if you are on the side of the road with a flat tire and you are on your way to the airport to make a flight you simply say "Thank-you Lord for this situation I'm in" it doesn't necessarily mean that you are happy about it but you are thankful.
Through all of this we have also been blessed and I think that is the Lords way of saying "I have not forgotten about you, I LOVE you" Last week we were given a free turkey and then this week I am getting a free pair of glasses which I badly needed, my prescription has changed a lot and I went and priced out glasses but they are just way out of what we can afford. These things are what I use to remind myself that we are not forgotten that through all of the frustrations and through all of the difficulties we are still being taken care of, HE will never leave us or forsake us.
Friday, January 15, 2010
Pajama Day
Do you ever have those days where it seems like the perfect way to spend it would be in your pajamas and do nothing but drink tea and rest? If I had my choice I would be in them all the time but my vanity won't allow it, I look at people that are out and about in pajama pants and go "Why would one leave the house like that?" lol Anyways, today was one of those days for me, it has been a very busy week and emotional too with Dale's uncle passing and the fire and then my sister having her baby and then the ordeal with Dale possibly being in an accident and now today Dale's truck has broken down on the way to Edmonton, GREAT! So he will be stuck there for most of tomorrow while it gets fixed and so will not be home tomorrow but Sunday instead. :o( So when the alarm went off this morning I thought....uuuggghhh! Then I lay there thinking about Alexa and how she's been so tired the last few days too and she was up later last night finishing her homework because we had been at a birthday party earlier so there was no other time to do it. So I decided to let her sleep in and bring her to school late, she slept till 9:30! When she got up I asked her how she was feeling cause she had been complaining about a sore throat for a few days now but didn't want to stay home from school because she didn't want homework, lol, she said it was sore again so I just decided to let her stay home and declare today pajama day. That's not to say that we didn't get anything done, we did work in her room some and have made some progress in that tornado, hopefully soon it will be all nice and organized. I suppose I should also get around to putting my Christmas stuff away too.......lol.......I know.....some of you are horrified that I even have it up still right? lol That's ok, I just love it so much and I didn't get it up till late in comparison to when I normally put my stuff up. If you think this is late, I have even had my stuff up till the end of February one year! lol
Thursday, January 14, 2010
Ups and Downs
It has been quite the week, one filled with emotional highs and lows.
On Sunday morning I got a call from Dale's Dad, he sounded terrible, he asked for Dale but Dale was not home (he was working) and then he said he had some bad news Dale's uncle's (Dads brother) house was on fire and they couldn't find Dale's uncle. I have never heard Dale's Dad like this, he sounded so upset, it was heartbreaking. This house is in Sweden and was built by Dale's Grandfather years and years ago, it's the place where Dale's Dad grew up. The house was destroyed and the only thing left standing was the chimney and the Uncle hasn't been found. My heart just breaks for the family, how aweful.
On Monday my sister had her baby! Owen Reid, 7lbs 6oz, and very cute! She had a home birth and everything went smoothly with no complications.
On Tuesday my Mom calls me to tell me about something she heard on the news: there is a 12 semi truck accident on a highway in the interior of our Province due to freezing rain. She did not know that Dale was currently on that highway and that he should be about there and I had not heard from him yet. So I get on the phone and call someone who might have heard from Dale, he says, I'm pretty sure that he called the office in Edmonton. I'm like pretty sure????!!!! What does that mean, I need to know for sure. I then sent a message to the person in Edmonton to see if they had heard from Dale and thankfully they had so my mind was put at ease. I am not too bad about worrying about Dale on the road, I believe that the Lord is protecting him but that does not stop me sometimes from freaking out when situations like this one come up. Shortly after Dale called and let me know he was ok which I was very thankful for.
So this is my week so far, it's been busy but the emotional highs and lows have been exhausting, I am concerned about Dale, about how he's handling the death of his Uncle, I'm concerned about my sister and how she's doing with a new baby being a new mom. But ultimately I need to trust that God is in control, and that I'm not to worry. Sometimes that is easier said than done though.
On Sunday morning I got a call from Dale's Dad, he sounded terrible, he asked for Dale but Dale was not home (he was working) and then he said he had some bad news Dale's uncle's (Dads brother) house was on fire and they couldn't find Dale's uncle. I have never heard Dale's Dad like this, he sounded so upset, it was heartbreaking. This house is in Sweden and was built by Dale's Grandfather years and years ago, it's the place where Dale's Dad grew up. The house was destroyed and the only thing left standing was the chimney and the Uncle hasn't been found. My heart just breaks for the family, how aweful.
On Monday my sister had her baby! Owen Reid, 7lbs 6oz, and very cute! She had a home birth and everything went smoothly with no complications.
On Tuesday my Mom calls me to tell me about something she heard on the news: there is a 12 semi truck accident on a highway in the interior of our Province due to freezing rain. She did not know that Dale was currently on that highway and that he should be about there and I had not heard from him yet. So I get on the phone and call someone who might have heard from Dale, he says, I'm pretty sure that he called the office in Edmonton. I'm like pretty sure????!!!! What does that mean, I need to know for sure. I then sent a message to the person in Edmonton to see if they had heard from Dale and thankfully they had so my mind was put at ease. I am not too bad about worrying about Dale on the road, I believe that the Lord is protecting him but that does not stop me sometimes from freaking out when situations like this one come up. Shortly after Dale called and let me know he was ok which I was very thankful for.
So this is my week so far, it's been busy but the emotional highs and lows have been exhausting, I am concerned about Dale, about how he's handling the death of his Uncle, I'm concerned about my sister and how she's doing with a new baby being a new mom. But ultimately I need to trust that God is in control, and that I'm not to worry. Sometimes that is easier said than done though.
Friday, January 8, 2010
Happy Friday!
Happy Friday everyone! I am so happy the weekend is here, time to relax, sleep in and take it easy!
Yesterday I went to the dentist to have a couple of cavities filled and the dentist told me that the pain is not from the cavities but from my bite and she wondered if I have tension headaches at all, I get them regularly. She said that these are related, which I found interesting. I guess what I do when I'm stressed is I clench my teeth which is causing the pain in my mouth and I have bruising in my gums because of it then that clenching in turn is causing my headaches. So she suggested a thing that will correct my bite and prevent me from clenching my teeth, she made it right then and there, it's a plastic thing that is formed just for me to fit over my two front teeth and I am supposed to wear it when I'm sleeping, when I'm stressed and when I'm driving but she recommended wearing it most of the time. When I am wearing it I can't close my teeth, my bottom front teeth touch it and that's it, my jaw gets sore after wearing it for a while but on a positive note my teeth have not been hurting. So if you see me and I look like I've got a white candy stuck on my front teeth that would be my new bite corrector, please don't laugh, I also talk with a lisp when wearing it. lol
Yesterday I went to the dentist to have a couple of cavities filled and the dentist told me that the pain is not from the cavities but from my bite and she wondered if I have tension headaches at all, I get them regularly. She said that these are related, which I found interesting. I guess what I do when I'm stressed is I clench my teeth which is causing the pain in my mouth and I have bruising in my gums because of it then that clenching in turn is causing my headaches. So she suggested a thing that will correct my bite and prevent me from clenching my teeth, she made it right then and there, it's a plastic thing that is formed just for me to fit over my two front teeth and I am supposed to wear it when I'm sleeping, when I'm stressed and when I'm driving but she recommended wearing it most of the time. When I am wearing it I can't close my teeth, my bottom front teeth touch it and that's it, my jaw gets sore after wearing it for a while but on a positive note my teeth have not been hurting. So if you see me and I look like I've got a white candy stuck on my front teeth that would be my new bite corrector, please don't laugh, I also talk with a lisp when wearing it. lol
Wednesday, January 6, 2010
The Dentist
Today I took Brooklynn to the dentist, she needed to have a cavity filled. Normally I would go to the pediatric dentist but being that we don't have dental coverage I chose to try an acquaintance of my Dad's who is a dentist and save a little bit of money. What an absolute disaster. I spent most of the afternoon there and left with nothing being fixed in Brooklynn's mouth. They don't have the TV's in the ceilings to distract the kids from what's going on and they don't have the laughing gas either. The dentist had told me to give Brooklynn some gravol and Tylenol before we came which I did but it did not make a difference. B was great up till the part when the needle went in, then she started crying and it went downhill from there until she was freaking out. I was rather frustrated with the dentist because she was saying to me that B was making a decision to not cooperate and that if I wanted to take her to the bathroom to discipline her that would be fine, I'm like seriously? She's freaking out because she's scared not because she's being disobedient! She made several comments along that line and I was rather unimpressed with her thoughts on the the situation. When I was going to leave I jokingly said to her that when I came I promised not to act like that and she said if you did I would spank you! She was joking, but I didn't think it was very funny because this is how she thought I should deal with Brooklynn in the matter. I will not be bringing either of my kids there again and let me just say, it is worth the money to go to the pediatric dentist!
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