Sunday Afternoons.....

I love my Sunday afternoon, usually its nice and quiet with church music playing in the background. Also a good time for interesting discussions with the children. Last Sunday Jordy was dancing around to the music and told me "Mum you are a child of Heavenly Father, and so am I. Did you know that all parents and children belong to Heavenly Father. We are all children of God, even my friends and Nanna, and my cousins." And I said "Yes, I know." Then she went on to explain how we are going to live with Him again.
We have been talking alot about the plan of salvation lately. We have the pictures up in the lounge, its been up for over a year. I am glad she at 7 years old has a clear understanding of where we came from and where we are going. I have had to talk to her recently about a friend of ours who has cancer. Jordy is particularly close to my friend and she doesn't have long to live.
I sat down and talked to her how Aunty Charmaine is dying and said how she is going back to live with Jesus and Heavenly Father. Without missing a beat she says"when I die I can see her again, when I go to the spirit world, but I will miss her mummy." I am truly grateful that she has an understanding of who she is, where she came from and where she is going.

Tagged

List : 3 Joys, 3 Fears, 3 Goals, 3Current obsessions/collections, 3 Facts about yourself.Tag five people at the end of your post by leaving their names.

3 Joys
1. School holidays (get to sleep in and take it easy)
2. Summer
3. The kids and Tim even though sometimes painstaking they bring more joy

3 Fears
1. Independence taken away
2. not getting the right help for Tatiana
3. falling

3 Goals
1. to walk again
2. get passports by march next year
3. get Christmas cards posted this year

3 Obsessions
1. parking I have to get the right park to give me room to get out of the car
2. facebook, got a little addicted lately just the games though
3. money as in where it all goes

3 Facts
1. I love watching the kids play sports
2. Rugby is more interesting when you personally know all the players
3. I have learnt to settle for what I have and not be unrealistic, no dreaming too big.

I tag Ms Dan, Anson, Linda, Mum, Jen

September what a month....

This photo belongs to the blog below but this is Jordy before her surgery wearing everything Dora.

Other news from Septmber unfortunately Jackson is on the waiting list for boys high so I am currently putting things together for home schooling.

Tim, Taylor and Jackson went to the snow with the young men. They had a great time the photo's have to wait they are on our video camera disk and its playing up at the moment. We so need another still camera.

Happy, happy birthday Jordy dear, happy days will come to you all year, if I had a wish then it would be, a happy, happy birthday to you from me. Our little girl is 7 this year. She is so happily pleased with very simple things. At school they had a girls breakfast for the girls and mums, aunts, sisters or cargivers and this was on her birthday. All she wanted was to go to the breakfast. So we bought the tickets and went. She was so happy to go and quite eager to share that today was her brithday. Tatiana was also awesome. She said that she wouldn't come because she wanted Jordy to have special time with her mum for her brithday.

Last thursday the junior school had cross country. Jordy came 11th for 7 year old girls. She was so proud of herself and so were we.

Jordy-Lee has surgery

Finally after a long wait to see a doctor at ENT, I was told that Jordy would need another set of grommets. Of course this was not news to me. Poor Jordy seems to unluckily get terrible ear infections related to teething. You may ask yourself how come a 6 year old is having problems with teething, well her baby teeth are coming out. So the middle ear infections are back with a vengance. Although as she has got older they are not as horrific as what they were when she was smaller. We saw the ENT doctor three weeks ago and I was expecting a waiting time for surgery of at least 2 months. But was happily surprised to get a call 2 weeks later to say she was booked in for the following week as the doctor said it was urgent. This is Jordy-Lee's 3rd set of grommets and the hospital have decided to have audiology involved this time. She still struggles with certain sounds of letters. But has improved immensely with alot of speech therapy. As usual Jordy takes all things in stride. She is quick in recovering from things. She had the surgery in the morning and was home by lunch playing in her room straight away. No sitting around for her.

Enrolment time..

Jackson has come to that age where it is time to look at suitable high schools to attend. So we have attended information evenings. Received enrolment packs to apply for what we are hoping is a good education. We need to get the applications done as soon as possible, so we can have to best chance of getting in. We do face the problem that we are not in the zone for the two schools we are interested in. So they do a ballot and it is luck of the draw. If he doesn't get into Hamilton Boys High or Hillcrest High School, then the alternative is to Home School him for the year as we are planning to be back in Australia for Dec 2009. When we will have to go through this process all over again. The decision is hard because this is his education. So we put trust in the Lord and hope and pray. That's all we can do. It brings back memories of when we were looking for a high school for Taylor. Not as hard though because we had church college to fall back on if the other options didn't work out.

Going where many are going....

Well here I am, seeing Vic do it. I thought why not do my own blog, that way family and friends can check out the site and see what the Fankhauser family have been up to. It's sure easier than trying to email people and I usually send updates in an all for one style(same info for all). So hopefully this can also be like a diary of our lives. Not as exciting as "Days of our lives" because they have as many dramas in a week as what we have in a year. So thankyou Vic for your inspiration and I'll catch you in the blogging world.