It's like having a kid!

So the biggest thing happening in our lives right now is, shallow as it is, our dog. We've had him for a week now (I can't believe that it's only been seven days!) On Saturday we were gone to the city for a few hours and he found his barking voice...we're in the middle of training him that barking is dumb and wakes up neighbours. He was such a quiet dog before...what happened??? Enough about dog talk though, cause really, unless you have seen him, there's not much interesting that I can tell you on a blog.

My mom and dad are coming down to visit this week. My dad has meetings out here in Southern Manitoba every few months, so mom comes along since there are no kids at home to get ready for school and they visit their two girls in Manitoba! It's always great to see them and hear about things back home and show them how we're real grown-ups, living all by ourselves in the real world. They are bringing the piano down that they bought when I was working towards my grade 8 level in piano. No one plays it in Hudson Bay anymore, so I'm "inheriting" it. I'm pretty excited. I haven't really played any piano since my second year of Bible school and even then it wasn't too much. I'm kicking myself now that I didn't make more of an effort to keep up with practice. I just hate people hearing me play when I'm not practiced. And playing in the common room in our apartment or in the church would have pretty much guaranteed an audience! So now I get to practice in the privacy of my own home! Nathan will get to start playing again too, so we're both pretty excited!

Youth is starting this week. We're playing games and having a barbecue in the park here in town. It should be fun, but I'm trying to take a deep breath right now because I don't see much room to breathe for the rest of the month. It's actually insane how busy the ten winter months get when you're involved in youth ministry. Summer was a nice break from evening plans, but now we're gearing up to go again! Woohoo!