Upcoming ordination

I feel obligated to update here, but after the sad event a day ago or so I find it hard to write much. Sad for us, glorious for him, need to remind myself of this. This world is not our home, but our journey to our eternal home. We will miss Rev. Cartwright. I still have (although packed away, somewhere in Scotland or perhaps its on a boat now I'm not sure) a picture of him and his wife, and a short letter he wrote to our Amelia. I will have to read it to her again, and remind her of him. Life is so short. I have this time now in Chesley, and I need to be making use of it. My Oma is turning 90 this year (November) and we know that not many people even make it to 90. So, I need to be seeing her or having her come here more often! I grew up (20 yrs!) with my Oma living in the granny flat connected to the house.

Tomorrow (very early in the morning for us here in Canada/USA), Jett is to be ordained/inducted Lord willing. A solemn and joyous occasion. Much prayer is needed for the one who is to undertake the solemn duties of the ministry. Pray without ceasing.

All three children have colds. I don't think I have it yet, but I have had allergies for weeks now so who knows what is a cold and what isn't!

Here is Amelia stuck looking at another book.This was taken before Owen made a good mess of the containers...but thought he looked soo cute in this sleeper! I think its been awhile since my children have had a one suited sleeper!

This is a project I worked on using scraps of material from our wedding quilt. I've been promising Amelia a butterfly/flower pillow case especially since Aaron has a train pillowcase. Yes, it is not perfect, please don't look too closely... :)
I need to have visitors over, but I'm not sure who wants to be around children that are full of the cold (thankfully it isn't a bad cold - no fever).

Get-togethers, projects, and painting.

I'm waiting on coffee to finish before I eat a homemade cinnamon roll (I can't be making these too often...lol!) soo, I thought I would post a few pictures of the Kuiper get-together/Reunion thingy, and a few others of the kids, and projects.

And as always, blogger doesn't know a thing about order (maybe I should write them) here is my kids painting and the easel they are borrowing from Aunt Jackie (they love her...it is a good thing we are 3 hours away or else I think my kids would be forever spoiled).At Jackie's house, we enjoyed a lovely pulled-pork on buns and tons of salads, cookies, chips, fresh veggies & dip and of course a lovely Dutch cake that I didn't photograph (but it was good). On top of this all, was seeing loved ones again, Jett and I only made it because we were able to sleep overnight at Jackie's and we could leave around 3, Jett could study in the morning for awhile which helped for the Sabbath...but we both agreed that it is very hard to do "Saturday get-togethers" for us. A lot of people I know don't know what this is like because they aren't a pastor/minister or elder in a church, anyways....

This is a pic of Uncle Kees and Oma. Interestingly in the photo he was showing her a copy of an advertisement of the "Volendam" (sp). Oma sailed on this boat to Canada.

Uncle Kees again, with Jackie.

Rebecca's sweet daughter Angela. (Care you must come and see her! She is a doll!)

Jay & Roxanne's chihuahua and Owen.

Oma and her daughter Bertha (who was surprised and happy that Oma came all the way down).

Uncle Dave and Jay

I know, I did a pretty bad job of taking photo's...missing a lot of people and kids. Sorry! :(

Ooh, green fabric with polka dots...what could this be for?
Oh Mom, your machine is still wonderful...works so well. No, this is not an apron well...actually it is kind of an apron of sorts because it is used as a cover up/nursing cover. Mrs Stephanie taught me how to do this a couple of yers back and well, that one is sitting in Perth ready to be shipped to NZ...soo, here I am making another (can always use a spare right?). in 1 hour or less (I had some issues with a safety pin) you can have a lovely cover...easy, no measuring (well, just get a metre/yard of fabric), cut straight and sew straight (obviously) and buy some "D" rings.
And onwards...I need to see what I can send along with Jett for Tuesday. I doubt it will be much, that man just has too much stuff or er, likes to have his books with him, but love him just the same. :)

why I'm not blogging lately...

...is because, well, I don't feel like it. :) Can you blame me? I'm sitting here wondering what my three youngsters are doing in the other room (mess maybe...they are kind of quiet). My husband is upstairs probably preparing for the Sabbath and/or preparing for the ordination/induction that hopefully will be Sept 23rd (yes, soon!) This means, he is also leaving very soon and for a very long time, so if I don't feel like blogging I think you can see why.

That is the main news here, his departure and the upcoming ordination/induction. The next news is Amy has started kindergarten and it is way too easy for her, I'm hoping we can get through a whole lot (without forcing it much) before December. Aaron is being potty trained and that is going not too badly especially considering Amelia's training was awful (and we aren't through yet). Oh I'm 25 weeks pregnant and the weight is affecting things, like moving fast etc but other than that everything is going well. And Owen has a craze over cars/trucks.... how many can you fit under your chin? Well, so far I think he can fit about 6-7 little cars/trucks in his hands and under his chin...he has to sleep with them too, we are trying to limit that to 2 cars because falling asleep on them must be so uncomfy. I'm waking up just before 5 every morning and hardly falling back asleep....so the mornings are a bit er, groggy. :)

Can't remember if I posted this photo...but this is my two year old in mid air jumping from table to little loveseat... he is very active :)

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