She's The Smart One

Chris is the smart one in the family. Not only does she have a charming personality and is a whole lot of fun to live with but she's really, really smart. Academically she doesn't do well on paper and I know her grades were never that good but that's just because she freaks out on exams and doesn't spell check.

Anyways................Chris is starting a night course at Vancouver School of Theology this semester. It's a long ways for her to go after working all day and then taking in a 3 hour lecture. She'll have lots and lots of questions and opinions for her professor, I don't think he knows what he's in for yet.

I'm really proud of her for going for it. Just watching her go through all the hoops just to take a Master's level course, well, I get tired just watching. She starts tonight so for the next several Tuesday nights she'll go there after work and then come home really late.

You know Chris is an only child right? Well, when we were on our cruise we found her long lost brother. Hence the photo.

She's the smart one.

I'm the funny one.

Chris and the Cottage

This is where Chris is this week. She went up on Canada Day with Maggie. Needless to say, it's a little quiet around here! On her way up she was informed that Hwy 1 was closed because of a forest fire so she went a round-about route which turned out to be a good one. I'm just glad she got there safely.


To own a place that we call 'the cottage' was really Chris's dream and in 2005 we made it happen. It's quiet and peaceful (except when her mom's around) and somewhere we like to go and hang out.

There's lots and lots of work that's already been and more still to come but we're seeing the results.


I'm not getting up there as much this summer because of a) working Friday evenings and b) no more vacation time so in the meantime I'm missing Chris and Maggie.