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Prayer Request

Please pray for my friend Lisa who is in very critical condition after surgery complications.  Even if she lives, she faces the possiblity of brain damage.  She and her husband have a 13 year old daughter.   Please pray that she will live and recover.    Thank you.  Annie Kate  

Our New Filing Cabinet

  Today we had to go out, and since one of the thrift shops had a 50% off sale, we popped in.  There we found a two-drawer filing cabinet for $7.50!  Afterwards, we walked past similar filing cabinets in Walmart, and the girls were awed by their $53+ price tags.    When we got home, I went […]

Reading Week

  We’re still getting well, with sniffling and coughing and long nights in bed.  I don’t think it was the flu, since we had no fever…or perhaps all the vitamins and garlic helped more than we imagined.     This week is scheduled to be our annual reading week.  Sure, the children will work ahead a […]

Remembrance Day

  My parents were little children in the Netherlands during World War II, and they were freed by Canadians.  I am humbly grateful to Canadian veterans and thankful to be a citizen this great country.  As it is Remembrance Day, I want to share two verses of ‘O Canada.’  The first one is the official […]

The Week, So Far

  We’ve been scurrying around like chickens, doing one thing after another and feeling very busy.    Besides all the usual learning and home jobbies, we’ve   done a few haircuts (Miss 16 Year-Old does a great job on my hair), ironed the Lord’s Supper linens (only have to do that a few times a […]