May 9, 2019

Hello to all. Once again, it’s time to sit down and get this sent off. I have had a very busy day and really should go to bed but Kelly isn’t home yet so I will wait for him. My day started off very normal but about 2:00 ish I thought I smelled smoke that wasn’t someone burning trash. It was very windy so I was concerned about a grass fire because It’s quite dry. I looked around outside and couldn’t see anything so I went in inside to get something and wondered if I should go check on the elderly couple that lives across the road. I was just leaving and my pager went off saying there was a fire on our road and I knew right away it was the neighbors. I quick loaded up the kids and grabbed a shovel and went over there and sure enough right behind there house was a good size grass fire. The wind was taking it right for a bush and their house. The man has had some medical problems in the past so I was concerned about him because it was hot out and he had been working for a while. I got him out of the smoke because he was really coughing and went back to trying to do what I could. All in all, everyone was fine. The Fire department got there really quick and it missed the house. It wasn’t Kelly department that came out but we got it out with the department and some friends and family.  Well back to April. Miss Heidi started Kindergarten. She went 3 days a week for 5 weeks. She was very excited to wake in the morning much to soon before she needed too! I think she took a bologna sandwich most every day for lunch and I couldn’t convince her of anything else.  Each child took turns taking a snack everyday and different days where assigned colors so the snack could match that color as well as their clothes. There where 4 students in total in her class. We are now done with that and she can’t wait to go to grade 1 in the fall. So, April 1 was her first day of school. The 2^nd we ran to town for groceries and Heidi and Nigel started swim lessons in Beaverlodge. The 3^rd was school again and I had a Dr appointment in Beaverlodge. The 4^th was school and swim.   The 8^th was school and I made Easter buns. The 9^th was swim. The 10^th was school and Heidi and Nigel had dentist appointments in Grande Prairie. No cavities!!! They bush twice a day because cavities are expensive up here. The 11^th was school and Myra sells fabric and was having an open house with a few other ladies who sell things here so I went there before picking Heidi up from school. We also had swim. The nice thing about swim this time was that Kelly could come on his way home from work. Sometimes he picked up Margo and just came home. The 12^th was Judy Toews’ funeral in Spirit River. Her and her husband and family are really good friends and maybe relation? of the Melvin Isaac family.   Kelly and I went to GP for the night for our anniversary. Margo came with us as our babysitter got sick. It was fun being with just her. We have been married 8 years! So hard to believe! The 13^th we came home after going to the home show for a bit. Trying to get ideas because we want to build house in the future. The 14^th we went to folks for supper and I was just getting ready to eat when Nigel came to me with a tummy ache and I could see on his face something wasn’t right. We rushed to the bathroom and I was glad we had. We ate quick and brought him home. He had a small fever but was fine the next day. The 15^th was school and I cleaned house. The 16^th was swim and we had supper in BL right after. The 17^th was school and Nigel, Margo, and I ran and got groceries and had lunch with Kelly. The 18^th was school I cleaned and we had swim. The 19^th was Good Friday and we always have church in the morning here. We had a small Isaac deal at school for lunch. I made sweet potatoes. I say small it was about 50 people and that’s a very very small portion of Kelly’s Isaac family. The 21^st Kelly got a fire call just before church started so off we went leaving the older two with folks. I was gonna come back to church but it was a really short call. We went to folks for dinner. The 22^nd was school. The 23^rd was swim. The 24^th was school. The 25^th was school I cleaned and had the last swim. Neither of them past so they and both in the same class again. The 26^th we ran to town. I can’t remember what for. Maybe a few groceries for company. The 27^th I made my food for company. We had church cleaning and just I went and Kelly came for supper with the kiddos. The 28^th we had folks, Mark’s, and Duane’s for dinner. We did hamburgers on the green egg. The 29^th was school and my day for bookwork. Well that’s all for this time. Heidi can sound out 3 letter words and can spell them as well. She knows the days of the week and her left and right hand. She seemed to do super well in school so we will see how the next few years go. Nigel had to learn to play without Heidi and got frustrated that Margo didn’t play with him. Margo is talking all the time we can understand almost all of it.  She loves talking to Nana but Papa is her favorite. She was telling me every time she needed the bathroom; I would take her and she would go but now that it’s nice outside she doesn’t care any more because she is outside. That’s ok with me I don’t want to push her. Till next time……..