Monday, December 31, 2007

Christmas 2007


The Christmas season is a wonderful season, when we rejoice remembering our saviour’s birth. It is also a season of family gatherings. We were privileged that even all our children living far away (Bill & Rebecca, Indiana, Peter & Lauralee, South Carolina, Nick & Anita, Virginia) were able to travel home, so that we could celebrate with our family complete.


Wednesday, December 5, 2007

Family Pictures

This is a picture from Nick and Anita's wedding. Shown are all our children with their spouses and our grandchildren and also Scott, Jen's boyfriend.


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The second family picture was taken in July 2006, before Nick and Anita were married.

Monday, December 3, 2007

A Grand Holiday "Down South"

As soon as we received confirmation of the sale of our previous home, we decided to visit our children in Virginia, South Carolina and Indiana. I am still able to drive myself, and the weather was still very warm, actually unseasonably warm: 30 c for the middle of October! We took along my power wheel chair, a manual ramp (which is quite heavy) and my walker and two bipap machines and two batteries. Mary had to load the van with all this equipment, (and more), but as soon as the wheels started rolling, she could take a break and rest. We left on Tuesday October 9th, stayed overnight in Pennsylvania, and visited the historic town of Fredericksburg on Thursday.

We arrived on Thursday at Nick and Anita’s place in Suffolk, Virginia. We took three days to travel there, so that we would not be rushed. We traveled over Buffalo to Pennsylvania and that area was quite nice with fall colours. The last leg to Virginia was mostly busy highway driving with lots of traffic congestion, stop and go traffic, particularly around Washington D.C. We got there as rush hour started, and it took us quite a few hours to just get past Washington. We finally got to Nick and Anita’s, a little later than we had planned. We were very happy to see each other. Nick And Anita were married last July and we had not seen them since their wedding day. We could, for the first time, see their beautiful home. As plans are now, Nick and Anita will likely be moving this coming summer, so that he can commence studies for his Ph.D.


With Anita we visited the Botanical Gardens in Norfolk. The roses were in their prime and beautiful.





On Saturday we went to Virginia beach. We walked up and down the boulevard and due to the warm weather everyone was starting to become very hot, with the exception of myself, since I was using my power chair. Mary, of course, had to touch the water of the Atlantic ocean.




We very much enjoyed going with Nick and Anita to their church on Sunday.
We had a fantastic time staying with them!