Good Busy

We have just returned from another whirl wind holiday "home". We had such fun entering in to each of the kids and grand kids lives at different times in their weekend.

We saw Mr. H. play T-ball. Most fun part was when from the sidelines Grandpa encouraged him by telling him about his good hit and running the bases. Mr. H. looked straight at Grandpa and said "Thank you Grandpa Larry". Mr. H. totally concentrates when he plays T-ball.

We also were very interested in hearing Rich's account of his missions trip to South Africa. His church sent a team there to determine how best to help serve in the AIDS-Hiv pandemic there. His insights were very fresh and things we hadn't heard or seen on news reports.

We attended Miss D. kindergarten celebration in Erin from Jr. kindergarten. She was so happy and knew the actions to all of the songs. She and her mom later showed us a dance Miss D. made up to one of their celebration songs. I think Miss D. should have danced that at the celebration. She has such dainty moves for such an active 5 year old.

We had a good visit with Jen. We also visited with our two special friends Barb and Paula who presented Ya-Ya with another award and a lovely cheque for her accomplishments this past year. Ya-Ya had a few hours with her best friend K. Lots of smiles and hugs.

On Saturday we met Jake's for a birthday brunch for Miss C. (10 years) and Miss D. (5 years). Aftewards we attended the girl's dance recital in Erin. It was totally country and western music that all the dances were based on, even the ballet numbers. Ya-Ya groaned and said "I can't get away from it!". The 3 Cousins were gorgeous and all are lovely dancers!

In the evening we attended a 50's and 60's event and roast beef dinner and auction to help raise money for the new church building in Erin. Heather was in the band and all were dressed in poodle skirts, etc. Heather does an amazing job producing all of the bands pieces and made her keyboard swing especially during "Great Balls of Fire" number!

We arrived back at our hotel in Stoney Creek after midnight and were awakened at 2 AM, with loud music coming from the next room. Grandpa had to call down to the front desk 4 times before the people turned off their music and settled down.

With 3 hours sleep, maybe, we attened The Meeting House in Hamilton where Rich was working that day. We were pleasantly surprised at the vibrant and large congregation there at the Silvercity movie theatre. In the afternoon we spent some time with Rich and Christine and H and H. They had arrived home from a camping weekend with H and H's school.

So back to reality. Loads and loads of laundry but great memories. It is a complicated world -living apart from our family. I have very torn emotions; knowing we need to live and grandpa needs to work but also we would love to live closer and be a help as we can be but that is not the life chosen for us right now in our lives.

I encourage all:

Cherish
Yesterday

Dream
Tomorrow

Live
Today!


Grandma