News from Whitekirk: May 2008

Thursday, May 22, 2008

in which my faith in the American Public is restored, and what-not

Well, for all the mistakes they made along the way ("they" being American Idol voters), at least the right David won last night. My faith is restored...for now.

In other news, our dear little Monkey has had a cough for seven weeks. (yes you read that right. hey, why is this all underlined? stupid blogger.) On Tuesday we spent the evening at the clinic and came away with a tentative diagnosis of mild asthma. This is not what we wanted to hear. I know that lots of kids grow out of asthma by the time they start school, and I know that there are lots of worse things that could be wrong, but it feels like it's going to be a long haul. On the upside, he was prescribed medication and after only the first dose, he slept through the night until 6:30. This is nothing short of a miracle. The poor thing has been waking up from his cough multiple times per night. But the great thing about my Monkey is that he is always in good spirits.

And in other other news, we got new neighbours across the street. Last night our street was swarmed (I really mean swarmed) with people who had come to help them move in. My guess is that they are here straight from Germany. They had what appeared to be a shipping container filled with pallets of stuff (seriously, stop it with the underlining....) There is a very large German community in this area which is growing all the time. I'm sure their helpers were recent immigrants themselves. I'll tell you one thing, they made short work of the unloading. We weren't able to discern which people would actually be living in the house, but I saw a 7 or 8 year old boy there this evening. I will have to go over next week and introduce myself. (There, I wrote it in my blog, now I'll have to do it.)

Take care, happy weekend. We're planning our first wiener roast of the season tomorrow.

Saturday, May 10, 2008

Vive Quebec!

Bonjour! Nous avons retourner de notre voyage a Quebec. Je pense que je veut ercrir c'est poste en Francaise. Bonne idee, non? (Je suis tres desolee. La qualite de mon Francais est mal. Aussi, un tableau c'est merite mille mots. :) )

Monsieur Musique, le Singe et moi s'en aller a Quebec pour une conference de la profession de Monsieur Musique. (en 2007 nous allons a Victoria.) Il as une bonne conference. Sur vendredi, Bren, Monsieur J et le petit chevre s'en faire connaissance avec nous. Nous avons une fin de semaine tres bien. (Allez lire l'histoire de Bren ici)

mmmm. chocolat