Refreshing week-end away!

 

Eric and I were so blessed to enjoy 4 days away exploring Stratford, Ontario.

We stayed in a treasure of a motel owned by Christian folks which included bikes, walking trails, boats, swans and many other specials touches. 

We stopped here and there along the way; malls, Ikea, an antique warehouse, Value village, and even bowling at 5pm at night before dinner (when does that happen!).

We were blessed to spend the Lord's day in Mitchell FRC, which included a lunch invitation to a lovely family of the congregation.

Of course we also caught a play at the Stratford festival- Romeo and Juliet! (Well done!)

We are ever grateful to my parents who moved in and made this possible!

We are thankful for our marriage and times such as this to re-focus on the Lord's callings in our lives and to strive to be "intentional" in all that we do to live "beyond ordinary." 

(That's a title of a book I've recently read....a blog post for another day!)

 

 

 

 

 

 

Gideon Humour.

Today I took Gideon and Levi to the Niagara Safety Village. 

This is a 2 hour education program for children on safety.  They meet for one hour with a fireman and talk about fire safety, including a simulated "smoke" bedroom and how to safely exit.

They also meet with a police officer and discuss various other age appropriate "safety."

Outside there is a mini town with roads, working traffic lights etc.  The smaller children drive those mini cars, and older children ride bikes....following the traffic rules.

Levi and Gideon were split up into the different levels.  I was a bit sad to miss Gideon driving the cars as I was asked to go with Levi's group.  In hindsight, that was probably good.

Through quite the laughter, I was informed later of the following conversation by some fellow moms.....

 

Policeman:  When might be a good time that you need to call 911?

 

Other little kid:  When a bad guy comes and ties you up!

 

Gideon:  Naw, I could get out of a bad guy tying me up because my brother ties me up all of the time and I can get out.

 

Policeman (looking slightly concerned):  Do your parents know?

 

Gideon (totally unfazed):  Naw.

 

Later when Levi's group was finished early since his group was a lot smaller, the (same) policeman mentioned how Levi's group wasn't as talkative.

I asked him if the other group asked more question etc.  (At this point I already knew about Gideon's sharing of family "secrets")
He started laughing and proceeded to tell me about this boy that talked about brothers tying him up, and that he had like 9 kids in his family or something!

 

"Yeah....that's my son!"

 

HA!  HA!

 

 

 

 

Levi

Tomorrow this fun loving boy will be NINE!

He is such a joy to our family!

I am thankful to God for Levi Jordan.

 

Speaking of Jordan.  Today (the day before his birthday) he is spending the day in Jordan (the town).  They have an original schoolhouse where children can participate in a program and act as if they are in class during the year 1908.  

 

Levi from 1908. 

(Please excuse the flipflops!)

 

The whole class.

Levi with a couple of his friends.

The school mistress explaining the day ahead. 

She said that in 1908 they all would have been awake since 4:00 or 4:30am!

The students are ready to start their day.  Here is the boy line-up.