Happy Birthday to my daughter

Yvonne

Who will be

34

I guess I am at this age

not to supposed to tell her

how to run her life!!!!!

"Mom, I AM 34 YEARS OLD!!!!!!!"

This is also a sad day because they have to bring Rene to the Airport. Rene is going back to Winnipeg, she has been part of their family for almost two years.

So why don't you give Yvonne a call she will so very much appreciate it.

Love you Yvonne!

1. 

I have nothing to report today.

We had a quiet relaxing Sunday, We did go to our Grandson Hudson's Birthday party which was held in the Kildonan Park restaurant. It was a very beautiful mild day for the kids (and parents)to play on the toboggan hill.

I am still having to use at least one crutch. I sure notice it when I have been on my foot. So I continue to take it easy. Ted was running out of clean clothes so I had to do a couple loads of laundry. (No, I don't trust him with that!!)

Something controversial

The other day on my way to work Ted and I were discussing “The Creation”.

Ted said something funny. He said to me: “Do you realize that Adam was sleeping when God created Eve? For good reason, because God was not interested in Adam’s ideas.”
Ted went on to say, because if I were Adam I’d suggested to God to give the woman a bigger bladder so we would not have to stop at every washroom! Hahahah!

I mentioned to him that I have a question or two. Not to put doubt in anybody's mind, just something to think or comment about. This might be a bit long but I had to back up what I am trying to say.
Okay first question:
Cain killed Abel his brother, God said: “You will be a restless wanderer on the earth etc." Then the LORD put a mark on Cain so that no one who found him would kill him. Nobody seems to know what that mark was, must have been a heck of a mark!

And besides: Where did he ,Cain find his wife since they were mentioned as the two sons of Adam and Eve?
Furthermore:
In Genesis 6 God was very displeased with the people because every sin imaginable they did. There were giants in the land. Gen 6:4 The Nephilim (Anak’s) were on the earth in those days, when the sons of God came in to the daughters of men, and they bore children to them. Those were the mighty men who were of old, men of renown. Gen 6: 6 The LORD was sorry that He had made man on the earth, and He was grieved in His heart.
7 The LORD said, "I will blot out man whom I have created from the face of the land, from man to animals to creeping things and to birds of the sky; for I am sorry that I have made them!"

8But Noah found favor in the eyes of the LORD. We all know the story of Noah and the ark. Everything was destroyed so that meant the giants as well, yet the giants showed up later after the flood when everything had been supposedly destroyed.
Read: Deuteronomy 9:2 A people great and tall, the sons of the Anakim, whom you know and of whom you have heard it said, 'Who can stand before the sons of Anak?'

Numbers 13: 1 Then the LORD spoke to Moses saying, (2) "Send out for yourself men so that they may spy out the land of Canaan, which I am going to give to the sons of Israel.

The man came back terrified and they said: (33)"There also we saw the Nephilim (the sons of Anak are part of the Nephilim); and we became like grasshoppers in our own sight, and so we were in their sight." They were scared, very scared, they the Nephilim’s must have been a sight to behold!!

We were discussing further how the story was told from generation to generation. Some things might have been omitted or even added who knows!

Therefore as interesting or doubting this might be, I’d rather base my future on what Jesus said and to which the Holy Spirit bears witness to my heart.

So.... what do you think?

How am I doing?

Well I am still sitting here with my foot elevated. This is taking a long time. Tomorrow it will be three weeks. When I walk I use one crutch to keep pressure off as much as possible.
I called my doctor who told me that it is not unusual for it to take this long.

Hey I never had my Christmas tree up this long. yes I still turn the lights on. I wonder what my neighbours across the street are thinking, hahaha!

Ted and I are going to try taking it down this weekend, it might just be a one day affair.

Sometimes I get a bit frustrated but on the whole my attitude is: "Make the best of the situation!" I was able to finish translating my diary. I am now making corrections. I will need a professional to go over it, but that might not happen. Who would even attempt a job like that? I realize that my English grammar leaves something to be desired!

Depending on the Font I use, it is about 500 pages long.

Even though I read many things in there that I had forgotten and it amazes me how much. There are also many things I remember from my childhood and later years that are not recorded and I would like to either add those at the end, or insert them here and there. I type those in Italics

I was talking to Yvonne about what I have learned from it. I have learned that basically I am the same person. You would say that we mature over the years, not really, we are able to cover up our childish ways. That is why old (er) people when they become less functional, are sometimes hard to deal with. They are unable to "be mature". They also love to talk more about their childhood and their parents.

I received a dozen or so letters from my deceased brothers' wife written by my parents after my brother Dirk and his family immigrated to Canada in the 52's. The sorrow they felt is heart wrenching. All my old(er) sibblings would like copies. Why, they love to go back somehow and rekindle whatever they have lost. I talked to my 80 year old brother in Holland and he spoke very emotionally about our Mother. That is not something a 40 year old would do, or am I wrong?

This is an observation I have made in my life in dealing with old(er) people. I do hope my kids will take kindly to me, hahaha!

Tomorrow I am going to the Hospital for a CT Scan, it is that time again. Last week I had the blood-work done. Next week the 31st (on my Birthday) We get the results from our Oncologist Dr. Harris.

Well this is all my news for the day.

Snailskis

Apparently many people I talked to did not click on the link to the Snailskis site I mentioned in my previous blog.
You really have to have a look there, so once more click on HERE
Do not miss going into their bedroom where they are getting ready to watch some "very scary" movies (a few seconds long). It is very very funny. (Shaw internet should pay me a commission for advertising hahaha!)

Another day

How is my ouwie? I am able to stand on it with my crutches. My foot has turned, or part of it, into blue/purple up to my toes. I keep the tension bandage on when I am up. I have becoming quite a pro on those crutches (and to Ted's dismay) in making demands. I can only give him one request at the time.
So when he is making coffee I better not talk about the "poor" plants needing water! Or talk about the things we need from the store or...........

I lost it yesterday morning. I woke up at 5:00am and I was trying to sleep because I did not want to wake Ted. He is a terrible sleeper. Sometimes he stays awake till the early hours into the morning. As I was lying there I thought of something. I could make my coffee and toast no problem. If I could put the coffee in a travel mug with a tight lid and my toast on a plastic plate with plastic wrap around it I might be able to do it on my own, that is it, make two trips to the sun room, why did I not think about that earlier?

Made the coffee and toast, so far so good, was able to find the mug. Put the freshly made coffee in it, put my toast on the plate and promised my toast I'd pick it up in a minute or five.
Trying to manoeuvre the coffee mug with the "tight lid" and my crutches was not as successfully as I had anticipated. I was just about to enter the living room with it's light carpet, you guested it, bang on the floor my coffee went. I cried out "shit" not once, but three or four times. Ted came to the kitchen half a sleep, thought I had fallen. I was so frustrated that I began to cry. Now I had to clean the carpet as well. So much for my bright ideas.

Today I have an appointment at Walmart to have my eyes checked. I am going to try to make that. At Walmart they have wheelchairs. I am just about ready to get out of the house. Even though I have not been bored at all.

I have a laptop from work and it allows me to dial in to do the necessary things. It is also T4 time and have to get ready for that. Debbie FedEx-ed a box full with files and mail that I have to work myself through. I am doing fine that way. My foot is elevated when I am sitting. It has been over a week now. I did not think a sprained ankle/foot would take this long though.

My ouwie cont.

Here I am still sitting in the sun room. My foot has not all that much improved. Moving around with the crutches scares me because I feel not very stable. I have never ever in my live had a sprained body part, so I have no idea how long this immobility is going to last. definitely not my thing, and in the "Snailkis world" I fit right in because they don't like fast, it is not in their vocabulary. You have to live in Manitoba to understand that one, because we have an commercial by Shaw Internet, which we find very entertaining .To know more about them GO HERE, make sure you visit their bedroom where they are about to watch a "scary movie". You can even play a game where "fast" is not the aim.

As I was saying right now I am not the fastest kid on the block. Ted is still catering to me. I have lots of time. I have been translating my diary. Right now I am at March 30, 1960, and I arrived in Canada on April 20, 1960. So I am coming to a close. I did write a lot those days, page after page. I had a lot on my mind. I guess it was not easy being me, hahaha!

Once in a while this sitting around is getting to me. I actually went downstairs, took my crutches threw them down and I followed them on my bum. Did a load of laundry and felt very proud of my self. So now how do I get upstairs? Had not thought about that! How did my grandchildren do it before they could walk? That is it, on their knees, unlike them I had to pull my self up as well.
Once I was upstairs I felt I had run a Marathon. Now this all happened when Ted had gone to the store.
I made a repeat performance to put the stuff in the dryer where it still is.
I have watched a couple of good movies, for the rest I am sure to gain weight, which I am sure my doctor (unlike me)will be happy about.

Storms

Got them? Why? The following reading might give some light!

Getting on with my ouwie

I woke up this morning at 5:00 am. Yes I am a morning person. I love it. I thought I'll take my crutches and hobble over to the kitchen to make coffee. "How hard can that be!"
Wait a minute, how am I getting the coffee to the sun room where my favorite spot with the laptop is? What a bummer. In the meantime because of all my groaning while maneuvering the crutches, Ted had woken up so I asked him could he please make me some coffee? "Of course sweetheart." He said. That just makes me realize how would a person do it if you live alone? Holie molie! No wonder God said in the beginning: "Man (woman) should not be alone." He got THAT right!

So here I am for an other day of resting. I am absolutely unable to stand on my right foot.
I also am beginning to notice a lot of other sore places on my body. I really tumbled down like Humpty dumpty and made a great fall.

Well at least I have something to blog about.

I also miss the kids very much and I understand Yvonne has a hard time being back "home" in Ottawa. We had such a wonderful time being together and me looking after the girls. They are such a delight to have around. It was stressful for Ted, I could tell the Parkinson would flare up, that is the shaking. Aila walked over to him and held his hand while saying: "Is that better Opa?" Did you know that a touch or an embrace is very important and helpful with Parkinson's?

This is all for today.

Ouwie

We spend a few hours in the Hospital and after some six X rays the doctor on staff told me the good news, no broken bones, but some of the ligaments were badly stretched. So I continue by keeping my foot elevated and let the yellow pages, I mean Ted do the walking.

I have no pain to speak of that way but I am not able to stand on it. So it was quite a challenge getting from the house with several steps to the car and afterwards coming back.

The Doctor told me to give it a week to 10 days.

Ouch!

Yesterday Yvonne, Jason and the girls left. We were about to leave for the Airport when Yvonne unsuccessfully tried to print a few coloring pages. Here the girls have their own activity box and I had cleaned that away the night before (less painful for me once they were gone). I climbed on a chair to get it and the chair gave way and me and the box came tumbling down, ouch, ouch ouch! I was unable to stand up as I had hurt my ankle in the process. Yvonne tried to assist me but I could not stand on it. Therefore they had to leave without me. How badly I felt because saying goodbye in the Airport when they go through the customs, to me that is real closure. Now they left and I sat there with my sore ankle. that was really difficult for me.

It is now 48 hours later and we are deciding whether we should go to the Hospital, sit there for a long time. I don't even know I am able to get to our car. This is what I call a bummer.
I am supposed to go to the office today, which of course is not going to happy. Luckily I had taken a lot of work home so I was able to be busy yesterday and that was one way to keep my mind occupied.

I miss the kids very much . Every morning the girls would come and cuddle with me as I was always up before anybody else. Following that we would turn on the Christmas trees. They had to clap and I would magically make the lights go on. I told them that our trees really respond to little girls! Than it was off to the kitchen to have a breakfast of their choice.

Well this is it, I will have lots of time on my hand and poor Ted will be again very busy! I can't afford to sit here because I have a lot of cleaning up to do and laundry.

Anneka 7

Hudson 6

Samantha 6

Evan 5

Aila 4

Eliana 18 months

Alyssa 13 months

2008

We have to get used to using '2008'.

As I am having my quiet time this morning, (I woke up at 6:00am) I read about "Leaving a legacy".
Ted and I were saying to each other yesterday, the Lord granted us another year-end to celebrate. We don't know what this year will bring as far as our health is concerned. I am going to have all my cancer tests done in the next month. But ONE thing is for sure I am certainly NOT afraid to die. I do not like pain though, hahaha! I am a real baby. Yet when the time comes I guess we receive the grace from God.

So if we are not afraid to die, why are we so happy to celebrate another year?

I am now speaking for myself. I want to be here for my husband in the first place. Then I want to be here for my children. I lost my Mom at a young age and that is no fun.
I want to be here for my grandchildren. I want them to know me. With me it is: "What you see is what you get, and you get what you see!"

Yesterday Jason said: "With her around who needs alcohol!"
I love to have fun and am able to laugh about my own silly Dutch/English mixed up remarks!

But.... what I want most of all, I want to leave a legacy. I want my children and grand children to remember that I have a "personal relationship" with Jesus Christ. No I don't have religion, that is not good enough. I want to live what I preach, do I make a mistake there is no problem saying: "Hey, I am sorry!" Jesus is my hero, He is the One I look up to. He sets me free from all bitterness, He sets me free, period. I take what He said 2000 years ago very serious.

So as we enter the new year, I want to say: " Thank you Lord for allowing me another year, therefore another chance to have my grandchildren from the oldest to the youngest, know me a little better. That they might know they have an Oma who loves them and who loves the Lord. They are my highest priority, (beside my husband and I better add this!)

Anneka 7
Hudson 6 soon to be 7
Samantha 6
Evan 5
Aila 4
Eliana 1-1/2
and Alyssa 1 (They are all about nine months apart.)

Oma loves you!