Kristie Breaking Forth:

Well my darling daughter has flown the coup, left the building, exit stage left...

I'm not sure how I feel - I told Murray as we drove away that I couldn't tell if I wanted to cry or not, it was a strange emotion. I think it's just that I am so excited with her opportunity to go to WCC but sad because she is at WCC. They get all mixed up inside me and I don't know how to feel.

We had told her we would leave around 10:00 Monday am, I got up at 9:30 - she was up, dressed, packed (with everything at the backdoor) and her coat on.

Did she want us to get up? "Yeah that would be nice, you did say 10."

She packed the car while we got dressed and ate breakfast. Do you think she was anxious to go?

She is all settled in there, seems to have a nice roommate, and it sounds like her first day went okay. Not that she has told me personally. She did find time to email her sister but not me...like what is up with that????????

Things I'm thankful for...Kristie being able to attend WCC, Sarah for cleaning the house while we were gone, the opportunity to attend Breakforth, warm coats and mittens, money for groceries, hot baths and being able to spend time with my hubby on his birthday.

Heather Break(ing)Forth:

I attended Breakforth this last weekend. People had talked about the experience of worshipping and singing with thousands of other people, and they were so right. I want to bottle up those overwhelming emotions I felt and carry them with me everywhere. I talked to another first timer and we both had had the same thought - that it was a glimpse into what heaven would be like. Wow.

Here is some of the statements I heard over the weekend that are still rolling around in my head:

"Live life with gusto, 'I've come so that you could have life in abundance' - live like you have nothing to lose, nothing to hide."

"Good news, Good news, I've learned that Jesus loves...me!" This one you need the background story to understand why it chokes me up everytime I think of it.

"Don't judge a stronger brother who can resist what you cannot."

"Need to be in the world but keep your values (love, empathy, compassion)" So what are my values?

"Modern culture - a culture of knowledge, Post Modern culture - a culture of experience."
"This is the largest gap between generations. Adults - if it's true it works, Youth - if it works, it's true" - back to experiencing it.

"Being a believer isn't enough - even Satan believes in God and the bible. You need to be still/allow/feel Jesus living in you."

"Our mandate - Our job to have a loving, intimate connection with our kids and live a life with convictions." Back to this generation needing relationships and seeing the truths of the Bible working in our lives.

Learning to trust and watching love...

Well it's been a roller coaster week of emotions for me, with our Good Lord trying to teach me, yet again, about trust - in particular trusting that all will work out. "For I know the plans that I have for you." or in this case my daughter. Yet again, I didn't do a good job of trusting though I know He is still working on me - at least this time I prayed about it, telling Him I'm trying to trust Him here, I'm trying not to be so negative. He did a pretty good slap me up side the head with "SEE!!" on Tuesday. Hoping that memory will help me trust next time...baby steps.

I had a week of seeing love in my life.

Where would I be without my sisters in Christ...still deep in the negative I think. They were so supportive and encouraging, God has blessed me immensely with them.

I also got to see the love between my husband and his youngest daughter. Not that I don't see that on a regular basis but several times this week they sat together watching tv. I like this picture because they are holding hands...makes me smile.

Oh...and Kristie at last found her dress for the Winter banquet!!! It's red and she looks beautiful in it... One more week and she is off to Western!!!

What to do after a blizzard?

Well we survived the blizzard on Wednesday and our house has been nice enough to keep us busy while we stay indoors toasty warm...













The sideways picture (I have no idea why it is posting sideways) is our tub tap in the off position - a touch more than a drip... The other picture is the dish washer which no longer washes dishes. Besides keeping Murray busy trying to fix it, it keeps the girls busy washing dishes. Unfortunately when we realized it wasn't working, was when it had a full load of dishes but the girls had a snow day from school so needed to be kep busy anyway (hee hee) Today we plan on putting on the Christmas boxes away - what I can't figure out is that it's the same amount of stuff I took out of storage but it seems to be a whole lot more going back into storage and I'm not sure if I have enough storage....well I can always pile it up in Kristie's room (snicker).

For my friends from the states here is a couple of pics of the amount of snow we have around here - our house and outside my window at work...











I'm thankful for heat and warmth, warm clothes, a good neighbour that gave me a lift to work on Thursday because my car was stuck 1/2 in and 1/2 out of my driveway, and then after his work he got my car back into my driveway for me; for the safety of all my work staff during the blizzard, my children who are helping me clean up today, my sisters and of course my loving husband who looked after me when I had the flu this week....

Soccer....

She kicks, she scores!!!!

...and I was there to witness it :-)

Sunday...

He chooses Jesus as his Savior, God scores!!!

...and I was there to witness it :-)


It was a good day.

2007....

I have not posted lately for the following three reasons:

1.Still have my bad cold and laying in bed seems to be my favorite thing to do. I have managed to go to work on Thursday and Friday - which were very tiring days as I had a new clerical staff starting (so that meant I spent most of those 2 days training her while trying to catch up on my work), we were short staffed (due to one of the clerical staff being home with the flu), and lots of work sitting on my desk to get done. So by the time I came home - my bed was the only place I wanted to be. Last night was a touch better as I started to take down the Christmas decorations - hubby was nice and made supper for us and even brought it to me.

2. When I am up and actually have time to get on the computer, I spend it reading other people's blogs. Loving the new baby pictures and reading up on everyone one's Christmas.

3. Sarah... if you're looking for her, you will find her in front of the computer.

But right now everyone is still in bed (Sarah had a friend sleep over so the computer is free this morning), and I'm listening to a cd I got for Christmas, Dan Fogelberg "The Nether Lands". Nice and soothing.

Speaking of music... the one thing I noticed while I was off laying around was my taste in music seems to have changed. I found I was watching the CMT channel alot - in fact one day while ironing I found myself even "dancing" and mouthing the words...what's with that? I hated country music growing up, in my 20's I liked a few of the country singers (not sure if it was the music or whether I liked looking at the singer's themselves...) but lately I have been enjoying country music alot. So has country music changed or have I? I received a CD from a friend called Believe and Faith - a collection of country songs - loving it!! Even with this shift in taste, I still plan on trying to listen to what my youngest enjoys. I don't want to turn into a parent that asked their kids "how can you listen to that crap?" "Turn that music down!". Granted some of her stuff is loud and definitely not my "taste" but that doesn't mean it's crap or bad music - it's just different. Like my music when I was growing up was just different then what my parents listened to. Now I'm not saying that some of todays music isn't "crap", there is some stuff that I will not listen to and don't want her listening to either but some of it is okay. I think that was made apparent to me when 3 Days Grace lead singer came and talked to our clients one day this last year. Now I think their music is loud and have to admit would have been tempted to ask her to turn it off, but he talked about why he wrote some of the songs. His one song Pain comes from after he was in recovery from his substance abuse, he talked about how he was so "numb" before that now feeling anything - including pain - is better than feeling nothing. So I will continue to listen to Sarah's music and try and understand what the song is about before I judge it. Could that be my new year's resolution?