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Since 24th of December we have been in Ottawa visiting with Eileen’s family.  What a great blessing it has been being able to spend the holidays together.  For a full week we all camped out at Eileen’s sisters house, they graciously added our family and the grandma to the mix of their daily life, We all had a lot of fun!!

On our first Sunday in Canada the kids were all very excited when we had to stop on our way to church to let the Moose cross the road!!

 We are now back at Grandma’s for the rest of our visit.  There has been a lot of snow and many chances to be out skating, toboganing and playing in the snow.  Thankfully we have only had one trip to the emergency room and that was not because of a winter accident!!  Eden had unfortunatly stepped on some glass and we were just unable to get it all out of her foot ourselves… even through we had thought that we did.

Eileen was also able to spend time alone with her mother and grandmother visiting her great aunt in her new home. 

Aaron took all the kids toboganing today while Eileen went to a friends knitting club…

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Well, we are already in the throws of yet another school holiday!!!  We are having a great time and thankful for these continual breaks in the regular schedule.

On Monday we went to Whipsnade Zoo (compliments of AirMiles).  It was great to get out into some open space where the kids could run around and play and not have the normal concerns of cars, noise and such!!  Some friends of ours came with us whose twins were turning 3 the next day so that was a special treat to share something special with them for their birthday!!

Wednesday we will be having our first ICE HOCKEY lesson, the kids have been doing street hockey with a group on Saturday mornings but, ice hockey is just not common here.  We were very excited to find a hockey skills class starting relativly near to us.  The kids have all skated before and can do some competently and they all enjoy playing hockey….. but, they are not used to doing the two together!!  It should be fun to watch.  I will put pictures up on the website once we have them.

The kids are actually just enjoying being around the house and not having to rush out to school.  Yesterday they spent 2 hours playing in their room and then Nathan and Eden spent another 2 hours painting!!  We now have many beautiful materpieces around the house!

Blessings

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WOW…. can you imagine…. Caleb is now 10!  Yesterday, we had a family party with a meal of Calebs choice…. Pizza and Fries!  We had a lot of fun and he enjoyed playing with his new toys.  I think a top hit of the day was the Guiness Book of World Records book that he recieved. Aaron randomly kept throwing out new facts that he was learning from the book, like, there is a man in the USA who can balance a 64KG refridgerator on his TEETH!!!  yes i said TEETH!!  obviously it was a very interesting day.

If you would like to see fun photo’s of the day please check out the photo page.

 Caleb will be going to the Museum of Natural History (one of his favorites) on Satruday for his birthday party.  We will post more pics after the party!!

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Well, this week found a lot of new routines……

Caleb has started at Christ Church CE Junior School.  He is in year 4 and he says that the kids are nice and the teacher is kind so has enjoyed his first week.  He seems to also be very excited that he gets to wear a tie and blazar each day.

 Nathan and Eden are both in St Saviors CE Infant School.  It is only a couple of minutes away from Caleb’s school and they both started their week knowing people that were in there classes so that has made for a real easy transition.

We are really pleased to have the kids at the new school and are very excited to see what will happen in their time at the school.  We have had the opportunity to meet each of the teachers and are impressed with how caring and informative they each are.

We have also chosen to bike to school each day which means 40 minutes each way (twice for Eileen as she doesn’t stay at school).  We figure it is good excercise and cheaper then the car and parking.  We have done it all week and really enjoyed it… actually surprised to find how much easier some things are without a car.

We will post some new picks of the kids in their new uniforms on the website soon. ( We are having a bit of trouble with that side of the program so please be patient with us).

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Well, this week all of the kinds in our area (and most of the UK) have the week off of school.  This is great because to be honest with you, i am just tired of taking them to school and they are tired of going so a week off is just perfect!!!

When we return after our week off the kids will be starting with new schools.  Caleb will be attending Christ Church C of E junior school and Eden & Nathan will both be joining St.Saviors C of E infant school.  Oh…  for those who don’t know C of E is Church of England.   We are really excited for them as they are also and feel that this move is a great opportunity for them. 

Please pray for all three of them that they can adjust quickly into their new classes, we are already thankfull that each of them already knows people in the class so they are not going in blind!!

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Well, this weekend was full of lots of fun things… the kids and I (Eileen) had the opportunity to go to the church to help with the kids event.  It was lots of fun.  Caleb, Eden and Nathan all enjoyed being there and participating, Caleb and Eden even had the opportunity to help in some of the workshops and with lots of cleaning up at the end!!

 We are all looking forward to the next event in April

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Hey Everyone,

Well, this week has been a long one so far as Caleb has come down with a pretty bad earache…. as i am sure all of you who have children know, they always come on late Friday night when all the Dr’s are gone for the weekend.  We kept him all dosed with medicine and waiting till Monday morning and took him to the local GP’s and were shocked to hear it was only a bit of wax.  That night he was again up all night with pain and a fever so we decided to take him the the hospital to have someone look at him.  They quickly decided it was an ear infection and even let Aaron see it (not a pretty picture first thing in the morning).  So we now have medicine and are hoping to get back to a normal nights sleep tonight!!!  and maybe even get him back to school tomorrow!!!

Blessings

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Each day I am asked…. How long till Christmas Eve!!!  I keep saying well Christmas is on the 25th and today is…. so that make …. number of days.  And they always respond, The 25th I thougth Grandma was coming on Christmas EVE!!!    ( I thought it was only the grandma who counted the sleeps!!)

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Well, i just wanted to let you know that the reason for the long delay between our entries is that our internet is not working properly…. I am hoping it will be up and running in the next couple of days…

Thanks for your patience.

Eileen

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Oh my!!!  So i was sitting here thinking it would be good to do our weekly update and was thinking through my week and I think the title says it all!!  There have been so many bugs going around that we have all taken turns with them.  Even today almost 2 weeks after our fist bit of this bug Caleb is home from school as he was up in the night with it!!  Aaron has been away which has made it a bit harder but, thankfully Caleb has stepped up and helped with the younger two allowing me to rest when needed also! 

Aaron will be flying home today, so we will get to see him tomorrow!  Please pray for his safe travels!

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