Week in Review - Feb. 2nd and "What is Kev doing with his life?"

Kev was home for a real vacation this week. Over Christmas, he had so many duties and interruptions that he went back to work feeling less than refreshed. He's juggling a lot, as per usual. As well as the usual "hat" (executive director of New Life Girls' Home), he announces part-time at UCB Canada 102.3, which is our local Christian Radio Station. Right now he's only on Saturday afternoons from 1-3, although he enjoyed a live morning show stint between Christmas and New Years. Anyone who is interested can tune in via the link on our sidebar.

He's directing an Easter play at our church called "Cross Purposes". Last year at this time he and the girls were right in the middle of mega-practices for the play "Jesus Christ Superstar" put on by the County Theatre Group. They had an awesome, but exhausting, time, that culminated with four sold-out performances. So this time he's giving directing a try.

Kev has also prayerfully decided to pursue ordination within the Free Methodist Church. It is a very good fit for him, but this decision has put him back in school (at least part-time). He has assigned reading ranging from huge, scholarly, dry-as-driftwood treatises to more culture current material, and I think he's (mostly) having a lot of fun with this new endeavour. (Don't mention "last assignment" and "procrastination" to him, please!)

He is the director of the worship committee at our church, Prince Edward County Free Methodist Church. And, in his "free time", he is going to Prince Edward Fitness and Aquatic Club a few mornings a week to work out. Oh, yes, and he still does contract work with his previous employer "Eagles Flight of Canada" which we are so grateful for because it allow him to work in the ministry. Most of his facilitations are in Montreal, Quebec City or the Laurentians, so he is becoming more and more fluent again en Francais (can't figure out how to do the cedille here?) Generally after a session he comes home and is either speaking in French, or has a lovely French accent for a few days :c) !

Back to our week ... we continued with school this week despite Kev's vacation, but it was school-lite. I had all three kids with an area of challenge in math (very frustrating for my eldest who tends to acquire math concepts with ease and always has done so! I told her this was good preparation should she ever decide to teach :c) !) So we spent lots of time one-on-one teaching in these areas, as well as covering the essentials.

We also did a major overhaul of the school toom (okay, truthfully, that one is still in process!), had a homeschool family skating party at the Wellington arena, swim lessons in Belleville, and last night went to the first 4H meeting of 2007. IT. STARTS. The girls have signed up for the 4H Square Dance club, which is a brand new club in the County this year. Claire is not sure what she thinks, but Alison enjoyed it. And I loved it, since they didn't have enough kids to make three full sets and some of the parents had to fill in. Having gone to University of Guelph, I did indeed learn to square dance, and in fact "almost" entered a competition once at College Royal. So skills were rusty but enthusiasm was high!

Lastly, we got quite a few niggling chores finally done; one in particular that's been driving me crazy since our first summer in this house. Our house was built sturdily, but the family who built it ran out of money by the end. Quite a few of the "final" touches either didn't get done (for example closet doors), or were done quickly and cheaply (the doors). Anyway, the doors to all the rooms had never actually been painted when we arrived. We attended to that when we painted the rooms, but didn't think to take the doors off. Each summer, the humidity builds and swells the doors because no one ever sealed the bottoms. It's worse in the basement, so for a period EVERY summer we've lived here, the girls have been unable to shut their bedroom doors. Every summer I've said "I MUST get those doors painted" and every winter I procrastinate until it's too late and the doors are sticking again.

But this year, I did it! The house is nice and dry; the wood stove has been going for a few weeks. The doors slip in perfectly. Alison and I took every door off, sealed the bottoms, painted them, and then of course, because the rest of the door then looked shabby, painted them in their entirety. It took me all day, but doesn't it feel great when you FINALLY get something like this completed?

Anyway, must head out ... I'm in process of turning a heel and would like to get it done today. My current knitting project is a pair of VERY bright pink/turquoise/purple funky socks for Claire. I'm on sock two, so the end is near.

Peace to you all!

Karen