January 22 ,2011

Glenn didn't keep track of the days, so I guess that is a bit less informative. Perhaps it is time to let it go, and go by months and then years. It will be 4 years in February. Time goes by, and we have managed to find a few things to keep us occupied!
Jackie has a nice baby belly started. She is feeling good right now, the tiredness has passed, and as long as she can eat on a regular basis, she is in great spirits. It is nice to be able to enjoy the first part of pregnancy, and she appreciates it. Some of her co-workers were not so gifted. She booked us in for cleanings, as we were way over due, and gee, she wants to go for lunch with us too!
Glenn has had the opportunity to use a gait trainer at the hospital, and we are interested in having a ceiling track and trainer installed in the house. There is a fair bit of paper work involved to see if it will be covered at all by his benefit plan, so that is on my to to list. He is learning how to design web pages, and has a link to the blog on our home page. This is more than I want to know, or will ever use, but it has more than made time fly for him. He comes away with a distant look in his eye and I know he is working out a particular code that didn't go the way he wanted it.
I'm going to announce that we have booked an auction sale for June 6, 2011. We'll let the equipment go before it is worth less than nothing. It will be interesting to see if the spring is wet, as our yard is in dire need of a tonne or two of gravel! That should keep us busy until the baby arrives, which is toward the end of June. I hate to do it, but it is time to move to the next stage, whatever that may be.
Christmas in the new house was great, I thought it would cause a few more pangs, but it is set up so much better, that I just can't complain or wish for the old one back. All the kids came for dinner on Christmas day, in spite of the nasty weather we were blessed with that day. Jackie and Johnny got me out to shop on boxing day which I had sworn to never do, but the deal on a big TV was more than enough to get us motivated, although if the first one had fit in their car, I wouldn't have left home. They bought a TV and tried to load it, but couldn't, so they called me to bring the RAV, and since the children had given us gift cards toward a new TV, I took them along a bought one too. So now Glenn can read the menu on the TV screen from his chair. He has hooked up a laptop, and we have an HDMI cable, and a Wii, so we are just entertainment central.
Colin and Chelsey were stuck at home yesterday, the wind and snow actually blocked the highway right in front of our yards, so they had company from a car full who got stuck at 5:00 AM. They were in bunny hugs and were out of minutes on their cell phone. Our tractor wouldn't start, so Colin just told them to call 911, and gave them some blankets to use until help arrived. The police actually started turning people away, and the highway plow finally punched through the blockage at around 8:30 or so. There was a tow truck there, and I saw him pull out 2 different vehicles. I didn't go out that day except to shovel snow from the path to the house. It is getting pretty deep.
Well time to wrap it up, we have hunkered in for the winter, and are looking forward to longer, warmer days to sit on the new deck with coffee, and watch the world go by.

'Til next time,
Louise