Combine Harvester - The Wurzels
August 2004 - 3 or 4 days after meeting S

I remember husband downloading this song in the middle of the night after coming back from Eddy's Garage because he thought I would think it was funny. I think it was the same night he was going to steal the insanely large construction sign from across the street. & he was right I laughed and the song rang through my head for days. I thought (& still think) that it was brilliant that the then husband-to-be understood my sense of humor with such ease.

I drove my tractor through your hay stack last night
(ooh aah ooh aah)..../Cuz i got a brand new combine harvester/An ill give you the key/Come on now lets get together in perfect harmony/I got twenty acres/An' you got forty three/Now i got a brand new combine harvester/An' ill give you the key.


**I picked this video because the words were the clearest...I'm not sure why the video is so bizarre. :P **

I did some updating of my sidebars.

The deets -

EF Part 1 - 79% there. I am so proud of us!
UK 2010 - 11% there. Good start. A real good start! (I'm just guesstimating 4K...it could be less...or more I suppose. I have to do some actual research about the trip)
Yurt Trip in Sept - 100% saved for! Woweeeeeeeeeee!
LOC - 31%...still. I guess my mathing was off last time I updated the side bars...because even though i've made $50 in payments I'm still below what I had before by a few cents? (math is not my strength...ever!)
Christmas Fund - $30.25

I don't have side bars but I'm pleased to report that our Car Fund has $56.00 and our House Fund has $50.00. No too shabby!

2 months, 2 weeks, & 6 days until until we go for our long weekend away in the Yurt.

I desperately want to take 1 weeks holidays in October or November and drive to Calgary to visit my aunt. But, I don't know where the money for that would come from...

I can't believe that he is 4 years old already. Time has just flown by. Today we are going to see UP in 3D and then go to Nana's for cake. He is so excited that it's his Birthday. He's keeps saying, "I'm 4! I'm 4!'

Now for the picture montage....

1 or 2 days old in the hospital


3 months old with Daddy


1 year!


2.5 years old @ Christmas


3 years old @ the park


& a couple weeks ago


Happy Birthday Andrew!

Today is the day before Andrew's 4th Birthday and we are going to TinkerTown to celebrate. It's so fun going there with him because he gets SO EXCITED he can hardly contain himself. It's a wonderful day and the sun is shining and we are off to do good ol' family stuff together.

Cheers!

I haven't been posting much about money lately. We are trucking along. We continue to save. We continue to pay things off slowly. We continue to pay our utility bills (mostly) on time. We continue on. I haven't updated my sidebars in a long time....I should get on that. & I should add a ticker for our September camping trip.

We haven't started anything new. & we haven't addressed some of our issues that have been ongoing for years and years (ie. spending too much money on eating out/take out). I am stumped on how to address this. The minute we make a limit for how much we will spend on eating out...it almost seems like we work harder at spending more. If we have 'no eat out' days...we will out twice that day almost just to spite what we had set forth. We (well, I) try to recreate restaurant meals and it's always fail. We're bad for the restaurants. Bad. Bad. Bad. Breakfasts and lunches and dinners. & snacks.

I know part of the problem is that eating meals in restaurants is how we (& I) have dealt with stress. The day I peed on the stick...we went for supper. When my OCD/phobia get bad...I don't cook and we eat out. Upset about work..go out for lunch. Don't want to make a menu/grocery shop/deal with life...order in food. Sometimes the act of eating out doesn't even end up being about the food. It is about being with other people and connecting and being out and about.

Anyways...any suggestions? How have others conquered the restaurant woes?

I cannot wait

Today was a success! There was 14 children today! (12 kids and 2 babies) The adults all seemed to enjoy themselves too.

Some thoughts:

• 1 hour is too long...next month we should aim for 40-45 minutes
• Story time is a HIT....find an awesome story for next month
• Kids like to plant their seeds and then dump the mud into the flower bed and ask for more mud and seeds
• I need to learn to preside rather then babysit...
• Next month the kid that holds the banner should just stand with it at the front instead of trying to walk around with the ginourmous banner that is 3 times bigger then he is....although it was funny to see him walk into people and tables
• Andrew should not have 2 donuts right before Family Sunday service.
• We need more activities for the adults to do in the service....I don't want them just sitting there the entire time.
  

Anyways. I had a good time and the kids seemed to have had a good time. The adults too. I'm really enjoying the intergenerational worship.

I think for next month the theme is going to be "Sending Christian Greetings". We'll draw pictures, write letters, make cards (or something) to our 'sister' church in Cuba (and pray that they make it through customs) and to my aunts church in Calgary. I think it would be an excellent way to introduce the children the world 'out there' so we can move more into Mission and Service stuff.

Cheers!

Everything is finally finished and I am so pleased with my work and I am exhausted from preparing for this 'event'. It's a lot of work making a banner. I'm so glad I had Husband here to help me...because he did. A lot. He cut the felt hands out. He made the banner holder. He modeled the banner for me. He cut the paper hands out for me. He did all the computer things for me too. He scanned all the pictures I needed for the story time. He went shopping with me while I bought felt. He listened to me ask a million times, 'does it look good?' He's a good Husband. :)

I hope everything goes well and I hope my hands recover from all the stitching and cutting and gluing I did today.

Please excuse the pictures. They're not the greatest. I was using the wrong setting at first and didn't realize it. Here they are in no particular order. I'm so excited to share this with everyone!

We came back from our fake camping trip Sunday afternoon. We had a rockin' good time with our friends out there. I totally meant to take pictures...but we left the camera at home so it will all just live in our memories. lol.

I didn't want to come back...but it probably is a good thing that we did because I have come down with some kind of sickness. My throat is so sore...it feels like there's knives in it and my head is pounding.

I've been home for 2 days now and haven't left the house since we got back Sunday afternoon. I've slept about 22 of the 24 hours in the day. My big excitement has been walking down the stairs and sleeping on the couch and then going back upstairs to sleep in bed. Finally this afternoon I'm starting to feel a little better. I'm even contemplating having a shower.

It sucks that I'm this sick because there are a zillion things I need to be doing at home and I just know that my work is piling up while I'm dying on the couch.

The list of things that NEED to get done this week and I don't know how I will get them all done:

• Finish Banner. GAH. So much to do on that one still
• Make the "Hand Plant" (see picture)
• Finalize Family Sunday Service
• Plan Andrew's Birthday Party (This will be a whole other post as we have $46.15 to plan his birthday party with--and we can't even decide what to do or to invite or where to have it)
  
• Clean House (Have I mentioned that the house has not had any attention since some time last week)

& it's already Tuesday afternoon...*sigh* No rest for the wicked.