January 30th, 2009

Well January has almost come to an end and lots has transpired in the first month of 2009. Jack has been my most concern and and I continue to monitor his health as my number one priority. However, yesterday with the help of Brandi, Jack has decided to get into the blogging world and now everyone can read his blog and see what interesting books he is reading (or should I say, he will be writing about whether or not you should go out and purchase the books(s))....just kidding, honey!

We had some saddness to the start of 2009 but a lot of joys as well so we shall continue to move through 2009 praying hard and working with people that suffered losses. But as well we will continue to celebrate with our loved ones that celebrated vitories or achievements and that is good as well. That's what life is all about.

On Sunday we look forward to taking Jack's granddaughter, Preslie out for lunch to celebrate her 6th birthday. This will be a new experience as Jaelyn has now deemed us old enough to have one-on-one time with her girls for their birthday's...okay Jaelyn I'm only kidding! But really, this is a stage that we have wanted to do for sometime and being the beginning of a new year, this is just the start. So we will go out for lunch and then go shopping with Preslie...what do 6 year olds want now a days? I'm sure that she will be quite happy to tell us. We both look forward to this momenteous day.

A special birthday wish to Brian who turns 50 years old tomorrow.. Brian we look forward to celebrating with you - wasn't 1959 a great year!

A Day In History Making

Today was the day that Barrack Obama took all of his long walks, swearing on the bible and then more walks, parades, lunches and 10 balls being hosted in his honour. But the best part was that Jack and I were just in Washington in September for my cousins wedding. Thank you Camille & Vicky for choosing your beautiful city of Washington, DC to host your wedding. We feel very honored for being two of only 60 people invited to your nuptuials. But another good thing was that we got to spend one week exploring this beautiful city of such rich history. Then today on tv I watched all the places that we had gone to and walked through or around (like the White House). They haven't allowed tours for sometime but we were able to take pictures through the iron fence that surrounds the White House. Watching tv with the President Elect Barrack Obama and seeing all these places really was moving and exillerating. I know that this will be the day that I never forget as to where I was and what I was doing. But I will always remember my first time of being in Washington and seeing this city of history in the making.

January 7th, 2009

Well we have survived another week and Jack is still home trying to recuperate from his illness. We still aren't 100% sure what exactly he has but he is being a real trooper about his medication. He has to drive himself to either the hospital or the home care unit at the emergency centre in South Calgary and get one small bag of intravenous antibiotics. Plus he is taking oral antibiotics...let's hope he continues to get healthy. We all take our health for granted and then when something happens we realize how vulnerable we are.
There is so much to do around the house with the all Christmas decorations to come down and be put away for another year. But tonight I had Jack help hook up my WII fit and I just loved it. I was able to do some aerobics and a few other games. My balance isn't bad but I have a long ways to go to get fit...okay I'm going to blame it on the Christmas food, chocolates, wine and all round Christmas time plus I am getting up there in age. Besides isn't January the time that everyone makes a commitment to get fit and loose weight??? I know that I do!
Okay another week almost gone by and then we have three weeks left in January (this is the count down to end winter). Let's pray that Jack gets on the mend and he is healthy for his upcoming surgery and recovery time in February.

2008 Ends and 2009 Comes in Being Sick

I am writing this from the hotel in Minneapolis, MN and it has not been a good week down here. It started out okay with us arriving here on Christmas Day with it being a stop over before going to Morris Plains, New Jersey to see my sister, family and my parents for New Years. However, Jack had other plans in mind. I gave Jack tickets to the Vikings football game (great time & great seats) and we did that, then the following day we did a tour of the plant for my work plus we managed to find a Outlet mall and do some shopping. Jack complained about not feeling well and that his legs hurt so we came back to the hotel (that was Monday). We were to fly out at 10:30 the next morning...well Jack was sick all night long (I will leave the description out). So the next day he was obviously too sick to travel and so I left him (thinking that he would improve) but that didn't happen. I enjoyed my time (as much as you can, while missing Jack & worrying)and at 2:30 am right after ringing in the New Year, I phoned the airline and changed my ticket to come back to Minneapolis on New Year's day rather than the 2nd of Jan. Jack didn't look good but I was able to get him to have some rice last night and a today some dry toast and tonight some more rice. He has been on water, gaterade and tylenol...trust me we couldn't find anything here and the hotel doesn't have much for those suffering with what we think is the flu.
Tomorrow we leave and I will be glad to hit Canadian soil and see how he manages on the flight.
We hope that everyone had a nice Christmas and we wish all our family and friends the very best for 2009 (Happy New Year).