November First

It's hard to wrap my mind around the fact that the next thing we celebrate around here will be Kaitlynn's 17th birthday. The grad meeting we had this past week has really made this Grade 12 thing sink in.   Now I'm finding myself listening to meditation book after meditation book in order to cope with these feelings. Fear, sadness, a bit of anger - all have me just a bit on edge. There is no escaping it, so I'm trying to deal with it in the best way I know how - breathing. That's all there really is to it. Just remembering to breath and allowing that sensation to take over my thoughts, so as not to let the worry build up in my busy mind.

Halloween was nice, we carved 21 jack o' lanterns.  That doesn't seem like much, but because they were all fairly large, it made for a good display.  We had four families visit us, Ferguson's, Vogels, Rusnaks and the Quintons for a total of 9 kids. 

Todd did me the HUGE favour of cleaning all the pumpkins up, not just from the front of the house, but the greenhouse too! That deserves a little shout-out - THANK-YOU MR. HANDSOME!