An update

Sorry for being missing in action.  Allow me to present the ever popular bullet point list of what has been happening these last weeks:

• Spring cleaning and de-cluttering.  This is so good for my soul.  I think I could live with less stuff.  
• Finishing all those little projects that we started when we first got the apartment. Patching, painting, closet doors.
• Sorting through the masses of clothes that the girls own.  It is ridiculous how much they have.
• Deep and profound conversations with Hubby.  I think that we are starting to really hear each other and develop some core values for our family.
• The ever-present job of mothering 2 highly active little girls
• 3 day trip all over Alberta.  The highlight was seeing a good friend and her 4 kids!
• Work and all that involves

I promise to post more around some big changes that are coming down the pipe for our family.  Stay tuned for that post this Saturday!  Till then, for those of you who read and know what those changes are, please don't comment on them.  Just pray!

Photography

I love taking pictures. I especially love taking pictures of the girls. What I'm not good at is printing the pictures and putting them into an album. The digital age of photography is great, but I have thousands (no exaggerating here) of pictures and less than 200 in print. This year I decided to print 12 pictures each month and stick them in an album. It's April. No pictures yet.

And I'm still wary of putting pictures of the girls on this site. I think I'm being a bit over cautious, but I haven't gotten over it yet, so I'm trying to take creative shots that don't reveal all of them...which is fun. Here are some shots from a recent getaway to the Sunshine Coast.

The view from our cabin

Hubby's creation

Pookie building a rock tower

Rocks and water at Hard-to-come-by Bay

****Literally, 2 minutes after I posted this, I got a creepy comment from an unknown person! This is why I don't post pictures of the girls!!!!****

Night Hike

I just got back from an amazing night hike with some of my youth. We headed up to the North Shore's Deep Cove and ended up on this great lookout that overlooked the river and city. The best part of this hike was that it was fully organized by one of my youth.

I've been teaching my youth that we are all uniquely wired to interact, encounter and worship God. Which is why Sunday mornings in a pew don't always float some peoples' boat...you aren't wired to worship that way. Luke is wired to engage God in nature. His mom is the same way and actually inspired a doctoral thesis which turned into a book called 'What's your God language'. The first Friday night of every month has been an exploration of worshipping in different ways. We've done prayer and quiet reflections, singing, playing crazy games and sharing a feast around a table. It has been so encouraging to see these teenagers try and figure out where they encounter God and how to incorporate that into their lives. The last 2 Fridays have been run by youth that are excited to share with the others how they see God. Luke had planned the hike, found verses that he shared along the hike and just taught us how he walks and how he sees God in creation. For some inner city teenagers, that is some good stuff!

I love my job.

FYI: For those that know the saga of the Achilles...it did pretty good on the hike. Feel strong and stable.
My lungs, however, begged to be torn out of my chest and laid to rest on the side of the trail!