and we're off to the cottage after work..............will be gone for the long weekend. have a great Canada Day! and remember it's Bailey and Benson's first birthday and their moms are going away without them.............awwwwwwwww but we'll be back. Maggie is going to hang out with her friend Moses. So she doesn't care either.

Well She Looks Pretty

all shiny and clean, windows windexed, coat all glistening, vacuumed, shiny dash, wheels glowing in the garage......

too bad it doesn't start.

ya, that's right.

dead car.

stay tuned.

I Got My Car Back

Yesterday the call finally came that my car was ready. For the past week and a half they've been calling and saying "it's almost ready, when we.............". Thankfully I was home for lunch when they called or it would've been next week before I could've picked it up.

I raced down there after work and with 10 minutes to spare before closing time burst in the door and said " you got my car?" They didn't think I was coming any more so it was waaaaaaaaay back in the locked parking lot and they weren't sure if Lot Boy had gone home for the day but they would see what they could do.

In the meantime I had to go and take the rental car/van back and guess what? It only cost the Insurance Co. $1200 for me to use it? What a bargain!

My car? Cost $4812 to fix plus the $1200 for the rental........can you do the math? That's more than $6000! And guess what? My car isn't worth that much! If they were to give me $6000 I'd laugh all the way to the bank, cuz I'd be lucky and extremely lucky to get $4000 for it.

Some things in life I just don't understand.

Scripture Memorization

I grew up in a very conservative Christian home. Lots of going to church, no movies, no dancing, no playing cards, no television, no no no. Lots of family times, Bible reading and a LOT of Scripture memorization. We actually had family Bible drills. My brother John always won, the big lug.

I was great at memorizing Scripture...I have tons of it tucked away in the deep recesses of my brain and at times can bring them out actually at the right moment. Sometimes they just stay tucked away and later I think....hmmmm, could've used that one!

When I can't sleep at night I play a game I've played since childhood I call ABC Scripture. You get the idea...As the deer panteth for the water so my soul longs for thee oh God, Be still and know that I am God, Create in me a clean heart...and so on until I fall asleep. Sometimes if I get through the whole alphabet on Scripture I play ABC Hymns...

Last night I couldn't sleep so I went to my usually foolproof way of going to sleep. HOWEVER things took a turn downhill when all I could think of was the song from the Addams family...

They're crazy and they're kooky
They're altogether oooky..........

Not good~no wonder I had such a crummy sleep!

Tim and Faith

Last night was the most excellent concert I've ever been to! Tim McGraw and Faith Hill put on the most amazing show! It's huge. Lots and lots of instrumentalists, back up singers, the whole works.

Both artists got really involved with the sold out crowd at GM Place. We had really good seats and had we brought a camera (now that would've required some thinking) we COULD have gotten some great shots.

It was a wonderful night out with good friends - big night out for these girls. Whew! I can't believe we used to stay up that late all the time and still function in the morning! Both Chris and I needed to take today off to recuperate.

A Celebration of Joy

A Memorial service will be held for Joy on

Saturday, June 23rd,

at Trinity Baptist Church,

49th and Granville

(1450 West 49th Avenue), at 2 o'clock,

where we will celebrate the life of a remarkable lady,

Joy Gregory.

In Memory of a Dear Friend

Yesterday my friend Joy Gregory passed away from cancer. She has been the Pastor of Joy Fellowship, a church to people with disabilities for more than 25 years and has made this her life's work. All over the world other Joy Fellowships have been birthed because of the work in Vancouver. I met Joy in 1982 and she was a source of inspiration in working with people with disabilities. She always saw the potential in people when others could only see their disability.

Joy Fellowship is a church like none other. It's a church FOR people with disabilities and their families and friends. You might see a worship team of at least 10 people, all playing various instruments or singing loudly and boisterously. There's never a shortage of volunteers at JF, it's something they relish, the opportunity to serve the Lord.

Friends of JF know the best part of attending their service is the alter call. They all raise their hands at the end of the service (there are often more than 100 in attendance) and sing "Here I Am Lord". I've never experienced anything like it anywhere. Their love for the Lord is awesome.

Joy will be missed by so many people, she touched so many lives.

I took this from the Joy Fellowship website, in memory of Joy:

Saturday, June 9, 2007
Dear praying friends,
Joy Gregory's pilgrimage has come to an end. She has been in the Palliative Care Ward of V.G.H. for more than a week. This morning it was agreed that she needed to be given a sedative to see her through these last very tough days. Before that had happened, late this afternoon, Jesus came for her, and she was ushered into heaven and the celebration there has begun. Her mother, Elizabeth, was by her side at the end as were four of her faithful "stretcher bearers." Thank you, Heavenly Father, for giving us Joy.
God has been very present. A staff from one of the Bethesda Group Homes arrived with a resident who is in a wheel chair several days ago. Joy perked up and welcomed him most lovingly and God was close. A friend from college days has been up twice in the past few days. Your prayers for Elizabeth are being answered. She has been so brave.
How precious are the prayers of the saints at a time like this! God bless you for your faithfulness in prayer.
Love, Ruby

Interesting

Interesting Year 1981

1. Prince Charles got married
2 Liverpool crowned soccer Champions of Europe
3. Australia lost the Ashes tournament.
4. Pope Died

Interesting Year 2005
1. Prince Charles got married
2 Liverpool crowned soccer Champions of Europe
3. Australia lost the Ashes tournament
4. Pope DiedLesson Learned

The next time Charles gets married...someone warn the Pope

Still Waiting.......

For My Other Blog Reader

Seven Random Things About Me..........

1. I love the colour yellow. Always have. It gives me a life just seeing it and makes my day sunny. No really, it does.

2. I love to dream about living in a tropical place again. Did it before, can I do it again? I hope so.

3. I love summer more than any other season. Sunshine rules!

4. I have more grey t-shirts than anybody else I know, well, maybe not Chris, but close!

5. I like being Dutch. I love Holland!

6. I like driving around all day picking up people and getting paid for it.

7. I like going to the beach and writing things in the sand.

I don't know 7 people to tag............sorry Barbarino.

You Might Be a Dutchman If.....

I came across a great website and saw this little article that pretty well summed up my childhood. So, in honour of my blogger friend Val who married a Dutchman ........ (feel free to steal it Val, you know you wanna)

You might be a Dutchman if...

You finish the food on your plate in a restaurant even though it is burnt or otherwise unfit for human consumption;

You reused plastic margarine containers long before anyone had heard of the environmental movement;

You have a two volume address book, Volume I: A-U Volume II: V-Z

You have never skipped church to watch the Superbowl;

Your main contribution to gender equality was the switch from King to Wilhelmina brand peppermints;

Your range of restaurants is restricted by the contents of a "Buy one meal, get one free" coupon book that you purchased to support missionaries in Sierra Leone;

You wipe the last of the butter out of the container with your bun;

Your closet is divided into work clothes and Sunday clothes;

Your church attendance record is not disrupted by childbirth;

Your Sunday routine resembles: church, coffee, roast beef, jello salad, snooze, and church;

You have a living room but never sit in it;

All your cookies taste like almonds;

You make the bed in your hotel room;

The last tip you left at a restaurant! was: "Don't wear so much makeup" and "A little quicker with the coffee next time";

You have always been to church on New Year's Eve;

You can sing "eere zij God" even though you can't speak Dutch;

You think that being progressive means discarding the church hymnbook in favor of Keith Green songs on the overhead;

Seeing raised hands during worship causes you to look around for a stick up man;

You are still trying to justify owning a dishwasher;

At your wedding everyone is swaying but no one is dancing;

You have attended worship services at a campground amphitheater;

You know what an afghan is;

You have lace on your windows but not on your underwear;

Your two permanent Saturday jobs are to wash the car and make sure you have enough single bills for the offerings;

All of your recipes are adapted to fit a 9 x 13 pan;

You can't imagine a funeral reception without ham buns;

The usher never needs to ask you where you want to sit;

You consider ketchup a spice.