A Man And His Cat

Eric and Sevens are best friends. Eric has openly admitted that he loves that cat. And Eric doesn't like cats.

Craft Sale Set Up!

This is what my table looked like on Saturday. It is a huge upgrade from my first sale! I wish I had a picture of that!

Batting Cages

We went to the batting cages a week ago for a date! Here are the pics, I can't wait to go back! We still have 23 tokens left.

Off To Camp!

This week I am going up to BCBC to cook with my mother in law. I am excited for the chance to be at camp for a week, but I have never been there to cook before. It should be interesting.

I was supposed to go up tonight, but Eloa let me stay home because Eric is coming home tonight and I haven't seen him since Thursday morning.

I still have to pack. I have been cleaning and doing laundry all day and I haven't even thought about packing yet. I wasn't sure until the last few days if I was going to camp because we were waiting for "The phonecall".

I should go water my flowers before I leave!

The Opportunity

I guess enough time has passed and in all likelihood this will not be happening that I can talk openly about it.

A week ago a very good friend called me with the craziest question. There was a 2 month old baby girl that needed a home. The mother was young, and she had found an adoptive family but it didn't work out. She really wanted to choose the family herself, so her friends were helping her look for one and one of them called my friend's mom who immediately thought of us. ( I know, the friend of a friend of a friend thing is weird) They know we are struggling to conceive and they wanted to know if we wanted to adopt her.

This was right before a soccer game. I could hardly focus on the game. I wanted to say yes, but I was nervous that Eric was going to say no. Right after the game we talked and we both agreed that yes, we would pass on our contact info to the birth-mom.

And for the last week it has been a waiting game, with no phone call. I am pretty certain that if she wanted to call, she would have by now. My hopes are pretty low that this will turn into anything exciting.

It would be a lie to say that I am not disappointed. I am of course. But this kind of stuff doesn't happen to people. You don't just get a phone call from someone asking if you want a tiny baby and then it all works out. That is just way too easy. People wait years and years in this province to adopt a baby! What makes me think I could adopt one just like that without the long wait? And I am not totally crushed she didn't call because it all just seemed too good to be true. And when something seems too good to be true it usually is.

But the thing that I am still confused about is, why? Why would God present such an incredible opportunity only for it to turn out to be nothing? Wouldn't it have been better off for me to just not know about this whole situation? Don't you think it would have been easier for me to just go on living my infertile life without knowing there was a sweet baby child in need of a family?

There are just some things we are just not meant to understand in this world.

I must admit it was fun for a day or two when I thought of the possibility of being a mother. It was fun researching products I needed and dreaming of all the dresses I was going to sew her and thinking about nursery plans.

Now that I think about it, I am a little more crushed than I lead myself to believe. I AM still hoping we will get a phone call. I AM still hoping I can be a mother soon. I AM still dreaming of that sweet baby girl, whom I have never even seen! I want to be her mommy.

Craft Sale!

I am ALMOST ready for the craft sale! I am have spent most of the evening organizing for it. I just have a few little things to get ready. It is at the Gimli Rec Center from 10-5, so if you are around come stop by and say hello!

This morning Paris and I went in a parade with our agility school. In the afternoon we did some agility demos, and people seemed to really like it! I love doing agility with my dogs. It is a lot of fun for me, and it is good mental and physical exercise for the dogs. I would love to have my own agility equipment at home to practice with! I am hope a handsome young man will build me some this summer..... hint, hint....

Alone

Eric is gone on a fishing trip, so I am all alone for the weekend.

But don't think for one second that just because I am alone that I will be bored. Tonight I entered a Partylite order and made 30 bath bombs. Tomorrow I am going in a parade and an agility show with Paris.

Saturday I have a craft show in Gimli. This is going to be a big one and I am really nervous! I ran out of ingredients too, so I hope I will have enough stuff.

Sunday I am off to BCBC to help my mother in law cook for the week.

And as for my "exciting" opportunity, I will still post about it sometime soon, but it is turning out to be not as exciting as one would hope. God sure confuses me sometimes.

Baseball Injury

I got injured in baseball tonight. (You have reason to be scared of the ball, Jennifer!!)

I got hit with a hard line drive to the outer arm. I cried. It was pretty painful. I went to the hospital, but they did not think it was broken, and neither did I.

It feels much more functional now, but I have taken some Aleve and I just finished icing it so that might be why.

I don't think it looks that swollen...

Maybe a little red.

I hope I am not too sore tomorrow.

Again...

This is going to be the day of wasted posts.

On the bright side, we have baseball tonight.

I love playing sports, I have just realized in the last year. Makes me wish I was more into them when I was a kid!

Just Ignore This Post

Still trying to work out the kinks of this blog....

Looks like I am going to have to manually redo my blog lists! :(

Change Complete

I really didn't know how much time to give this, but my need to change the address was pretty immediate and I didn't want to go private. I guess if you are a follower of my blog then nothing would change for you anyways.

I can still google my name and get this blog though....

It also seems like I have lost both my blog lists. Which is really sucky...

Address Change - UPDATED

I will be changing my blog address because I want it to be a bit harder for people to find me. I don't like that you can see my blog when you google my name! I am hoping to change it to lintcd.blogspot.com, but it might be something else. But once I change it you won't be able to find me at this one.

**Update** - the new address will be www.diaryofacrazyperson.com . You should be able to search that name in Google, but I am hoping to make it that you can't search it by my name! Everything should be finished by the end of the day. I hope that makes sense.

Pool Party!

I had a hard time falling asleep last night, and I woke up bright and early this morning! I got to work relatively early for once. It is kinda nice.

After work we went to a friend's place for a pool party. He dates my friend/coworker, and he lives right across the street from where I work! It was a nice warm day and I love swimming. I probably spent at least an hour in the pool! Or maybe it just felt that long. It was fun. Towards the end a random guy named Jason wandered into the yard to hang out. He was super friendly and must have known a few other people there. How bizarre!

Tomorrow night I am hoping to get some bath bombs made for my craft sale this weekend!

Great Sunday!

Another great day off with my love. We went to church in the morning together, something we don't often get to do because he is either at work or we are away.

Right after we headed to the city to the batting cages. We each did three rounds, which was a lot of fun, but there was quit a line up for the slow pitch and it started drizzling. So we headed to home run sports because I needed a baseball glove. The one I have now is close to 15 years old, and your hand turns black when you wear it!

We got there 20 minutes too late, home run sports was already closed. So we went to Sportschek instead. I wanted to spend $50 on a glove, but I could not find anything nice in that price range. So Eric convinced me to get the $100 glove because it was very nice. So I did. We also got a ball, so I assumed the total was going to be around $120. Then the cashier announced it was $72, and she must have seen the shocked look on my face because she told me the glove was on sale for $60! I was pretty happy! That is more like what I wanted to spend. I love getting surprise deals!

We went to Montana's for supper, then headed to our soccer game. We brutally lost, but it was fun anyways!

Right before the soccer game, we were presented with a very exciting opportunity! But that is a whole nother post for another day. I need some sleep!

Weekend Together

It is not often that Eric and I have a weekend off together. And if we do, it is usually because we are going some where for youth or a family event.

But this weekend is one of the rare ones that we have at home. It is so nice to be home together, with no plans. We got a lot done around the house, and we had lots of time to relax. Eric did a deep clean of the bathroom, and I vacuumed and made a Strawberry Limeade batch of bubble bars.

In the evening we went for a bike ride with the Setters, then had a bonfire at our place with friends.

Tomorrow after church we are planning on going to the city for a date. We are hoping to find some batting cages, and we might do a bit of shopping. Then in the evening we have SOCCER!!! I really hope this game isn't cancelled like most of the rest of them!

Congrats Kiddo!

Our little sister graduated today. She looked lovely! Her dress was perfect.

I know this is posted a day late, but I had some issues trying to upload this onto blogger!

I Sure Hope This Is A Joke

Baseball!

Tonight was our first slo pitch game of the season! We lost, but it was a lot of fun. I am excited to have a team this year.

They made me play first base, which was really nerve wracking, but I did alright. I caught the ball a lot more than I thought I could. I am really looking forward to playing some more, I like our team and I am pumped to hang out with them!


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Sooo.....

...we got a MacBook Pro. Got, not bought. It was a birthday gift for Eric and I from some wonderful, generous people who would rather remain nameless.

I am so thankful. So humbled. SO EXCITED.

I love it. I still have a lot of learning to do, and we still need to transfer all of our files onto it. I am pretty pumped to have a laptop again. It is going to be very nice to be able to take our work with us. Well not just our work, but our fun too!

In other news, not that anything is as exciting as getting a MacBook in my life right now, I started running again yesterday. It feels great. I rad for 20 minutes yesterday and 30 minutes today. I am hoping to get to bed soon so I can get up in the morning and run.

I have also added pics and stuff to posts below. And a few posts were late, even though I wrote them on the day they were supposed to because of technical difficulties!

When I got back to my driveway Maeve took off into the farmyard next door, chasing a coyote. I saw it, too! I yelled at her to come back, and when she came running back the coyote was chasing her! Kinda scary. Makes me nervous to go running, but I know my dogs will keep me safe!

Father's Day Meal

This is the meal Eric and I made for his parents for Fathers/Mothers Day:

Pork tenderloin marinating in lime juice, beer/ 7 up, cilantro and chilli powder:

The pork almost cooked on the BBQ:

Roasted potatoes and carrots:

Sangria! The perfect treat on a hot day!

Salad with Balsamic Honey dressing:

And for dessert, homemade carrot cake with pecans smothered in a fluffy, sweet cream cheese frosting!