A weekend at home.

I am a little nervous about posting my first "blog", especially after the wonderful posts from Pa who has a beautiful way with words and crafts them with wisdom, insight and inspiration. But he is Pa and I am Ma... so here goes:
It is cold and snowy here now ( always safe to talk about the weather!). That reminds me of the conversation I had on Saturday with Katieanne about snow tires! Actually it was not really a conversation but a laughasation. Nothing terribly funny either but I always laugh when I hear her or am near her and it is good. Speaking of being near someone I had a very cool experience at the gathering of Artists at Aaron and Bobbie's place on Friday night. (It was an awesome meeting by the way and I was blown away by the passion and giftedness of those present, so proud and amazed at them all that I could have wept... and did a little bit!) But back to the "cool experience": I felt your presence Trisha Wheeler! It was as if you were actually sitting there with us all and I could feel your joy and that you were excited about what God was doing and were generally just cheering everybody on. It was truly amazing! Thanks for your prayers.
So that was Friday night. On Saturday I went to a garden centre with Bobbie and we had so much fun picking out Pointsettias and some other gifts (because we are well into the Christmas shopping and hoping to be well out of it by this week~!). Anyway I got a HUGE pink Pointsettia and it is so beautiful!
Saturday night Pa and I went to see "Pride and Prejudice". He is so great being willing to see that type of movie with me. I loved it. We saw the trailer for Chronicles of Narnia and I am so excited to see that movie. I reread all the books in anticipation so I am ready!
Sunday was fun too. Aaron and Bobbie came for lunch and stayed also for supper. (Pa's pancakes Yum... actually pancakes are not my favourite supper but I would choose having them cooked for me over cooking something myself any time. And as pancakes go, Pa makes the best! Andy you will taste them for yourself on Christmas morning! )
Another highlight of the weekend was decorating gingerbread men with Bobbie. Actually they were decorated with icing but Bobbie helped me! She is so creative I do about 10 in the time it takes her to do one but hers are awesome. I will eat some for you all!
I have to bake a couple more things soon so we can send some to Geordie and Stef. I will sure miss having them around for Christmas. First Christmas ever without Geord. WAAAAA!
I must get to bed now although I may not have to get up early for my morning run. My cut off temperature is minus 25 and it is supposed to be minus 29 with the wind chill!