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Highlights from last week!

Sunday, November 15th, 2009

Last Friday, even though I was watching three kids from NTM for the morning, I still managed to clean AND I made 2 pies and lemon squares in the morning before our friend, Annette, came in the afternoon for a visit. Annette arrived with some gifts for the girls and food for the adults.  She played with the girls and chatted with me while I made supper. My brother Sean arrived in time for supper.  We had chicken enchiladas with sweet potatoes in them…a new experience for Annette and Sean! :)

After supper we played Killer Bunnies with Delena (she mostly watched).  Then we played until 9 when Jason went to bed.  After that Annette and I pulled out the Christmas decorations.  We managed to get lights and garland on the banister and the tree up before going to bed.

After a pancake breakfast, Annette and I went shopping for more Christmas lights, and of course got additional goodies.

Jason has been working diligently on the crawlspace and was able to finish it Saturday night. YEAH!!! :)   He has pretty sore knees though!

Dennis and Valerie are coming overnight on Tuesday night :) YEAH!

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THE WEEK OF OCTOBER 19TH

Friday, October 23rd, 2009

Lorelei, Delena, Kieran, and ZanderWe’ve had yet another busy week here.  Monday night I (Angie) have bible study, Tuesday night is meeting at NTM, plus we had a family of 6 for supper.  Wednesday morning I attempted to get the mountain of dishes done before Kristin Dimmick arrived with her boy (15mth?) at 9:30…I got enough dishes done to get us through the day ..  Joanna Schmidt arrived at noon with Kieran and Zander.  Then the zoo broke out! :)   Kieran and Delena got a little crazy together with hugging until they’d fall over and someone got hurt!  And, of course, Lorelei had an excellent nap with just Hunter there, but an almost non-exisistent nap once all the kids were there! :)   Kristin left around 3 and then we did a photo shoot of Zander and Lorelei.  Actually Joanna did the shoot and I stood the older girls in the kitchen window to distract them!  The house was pretty much a disaster when they left, although, we did get a good amount of toys picked up first.

Yesterday I was supposed to have another friend and her daughter for lunch, but thankfully they were sick and didn’t come. I still had Delena and Zach Masse, so while Lorelei slept, I let them help me make cookies–which makes it take a LOT longer! :)

Jason had the men’s Bible Study here last night.  I went to the library really quick before it started, so Lorelei was left for a few minutes with all the guys.  I don’t think she likes crowds or maybe just all the men scared her.  Jason said she freaked right out, but she also had a bit of gas.  BUT, she was totally fine the rest of the evening in the bedroom with me.  It’s kind of weird being in your own house, but confined to one room!  Oh yes, the other reason I don’t think she likes crowds is because she was perfectly happy in the corner of the living room ALONE when all the kids were here.  I also stuck her in her crib for a bit and she stared at her star for probably 15 min.  I checked to see if she was sleeping and she wasn’t!

Delena and her jack-o-lanternToday I had Zach again, so we carved a pumpkin.  It was my first time as an adult…it’s harder than it looks! :)
That’s our week,
Angie

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LONG WEEKEND FINALLY OVER

Monday, October 19th, 2009

We have so much to be thankful for. This past Canadian Thanksgiving Weekend, God was gracious in keeping us safe while we drove from here to there, and from there to here.

It all started Friday when Angie and the girls drove to her parents for the night. While they went one way (south-west) I (jason) went the other way—to North Bay. My brother Sean picked me up Friday night and we drove the 4 hours to my Uncle Dave’s. We got in about midnight and went straight to bed. The next morning I found myself back on the road, this time bringing my grandparents SUV from North Bay to Clinton. This should have only been a 5 hour drive. Apparently I shouldn’t have ended up in Vaughan but that what happens when you don’t off the 400 till it ends. Opps.

I did manage to make it to Clinton for turkey before the 4 of us returned to Durham for quick sleep. Sunday morning I preached at Mulock Christian Fellowship and then we pounded the pavement again, this time headed for Port Colborne. We dropped in on some friends for supper before going to church at Portal Village Bible Chapel. After church we had a good friend, Rachel Brooks, and her now-fiance over for a visit.

Monday morning we packed up our things and headed to the United States of America, the Buffalo airport specifically. One of the missionaries-in-training had flown to Florida for the weekend and needed a ride back to Durham.

Crossing the border into the States was quick—only 3 cars in front of us. When we came back we also had a quick passage, but noticed that the traffic now entering into the US was backuped up over the Peace Bridge. Thank you Lord for allowing us to get through without that wait!

We had never been to the Buffalo airport before, and were picturing something like Toronto, or Frankfurt, or Munich, or Geneva. What we found was pleasently smaller. First of all we parked in the “Preferred Long Term Parking.” I thought I saw something about stays of 2-hours or less being free. But then got thinking how it was “Long Term.” Then as we were leaving I noticed a section called “Short Term” and how there was “No Free Parking Available.” With my Mastercard in hand, I was prepared to pay through the nose to get my car out, only to find out it was FREE!

My longweekend didn’t end at the end of the holiday-Monday. Tuesday morning before any of my girls were up I was headed off on a 2-hour drive to London with a friend for his doctor’s appointment. We waited for a couple of hours, and then headed the 2 hours home.

In the end it was an amazing weekend spent with family and friends. Maybe next year we will host the party instead!

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Angie’s trig student, Ruth, graduates

Saturday, May 30th, 2009

Angie`s trig student, Ruth, graduates from highschool

This last winter Angie had her debut as a high school teacher. She had an amazing class—a class of one.

Ruth Dyck graduated from Angie’s grade 12 trig class with a grade of 93%.

May 22nd we all joined Ruth in celebrating her graduation from highschool. Not only was she the top of her class, but she was the valedictorian. The fact she was the only one in class doesn’t take away from her straight A’s for the last couple of years.

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Angie’s New Ministry

Sunday, December 7th, 2008

Angie and Ruth Dyck, her grade 12 Trigonometry student

Since the 17th of November, I have taken on the role of teacher at NTMC Academy.  It’s a good starting spot for my teaching career as I’m only teaching one class to one student.  Ruth Dyck is a highschool student at the Academy on campus in her last year.  Ruth knew my background in Science so she asked if I would teach her trigonometry.  That’s definitely not what I pictured I would be teaching when I went to teacher’s college, but I figured since I’ve taken University math courses, I can hopefully teach highschool math! :)

Thankfully Ruth is a great student!  I’ve forgotten some of the geometry skills that the textbook assumes I should know, so Ruth reminds me of the old things and I teach her the new things.

One twist to teaching is that the newest edition of the textbook has just been released and we have a copy.  The is great except for the fact that the answer key is back-ordered!  We have test and quiz answer keys, but no answers for textbook questions.  Right now we bank on the fact that if I get it right and Ruth gets it right, we must be right.  I can also look for similar questions in the old textbook, so that helps too.  Please pray that it comes quickly so we can actually know for sure we’re on the right track!

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Married for 2 whole years

Friday, May 9th, 2008

The tropical flowers that Jason bought me.

It’s hard to believe that much time has passed already. We celebrated on Monday night by going to a Focus on the Family marriage seminar called “After Happily Ever After”. A couple, named Gary and Barb Rosberg, shared some of what they’ve learned after 30 + years of marriage. (They’ve also written numerous books on the subject!) We went with a few couples from church and met up with my parents and a few others from my home church. It was a great date night!
On Tuesday Jason surprised me with a huge bouquet of tropical flowers and my favourite meal for supper — French Toast! YUM!
Thanks for a great day Jason!

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Ladies Retreat

Saturday, April 19th, 2008

2nd year ladies: staff and students

This past weekend (April 11-13) the second year ladies and staff headed out for our 2nd annual ladies retreat at the Taylor Residence. The Taylors are a family that let us use their spacious home for the weekend. We did most of our own cooking, but splurged and bought Chinese take-out for Saturday night.

Basically we spent the weekend doing whatever we wanted as long as it was relaxing for us! We watched movies, played games, made cards, went shopping, swimming and lots more. We had hoped for nice weather like we had last year, but it poured all day Saturday. Our spirits weren’t dampened one bit though as we found lots to amuse ourselves indoors.

There were only 10 of us to go in total (our whole class), so we all were able to have our own beds! What a luxury!

On Sunday we had our own little church service on the theme of “Joy”. To end the weekend off, we watched a DVD with Chonda Pierce, a comedienne. Not only did she get us laughing, but she had a great message on how our father, the King of the Universe sees us as Princesses!

I think everyone had a great, relaxing weekend. Thank you to the Taylor family for being so generous!

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