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Friday, April 16, 2010

March-ing On!


hello hello!

yes, i am very aware that this blog is overdue! oh dear! my good intentions of posting quite near the beginning of each month has slid this time, but after a quick pep-talk from my good friend patti (blogging-pro) i've grabbed the opportunity this sunny friday afternoon to fill you all in.

march was busy, hectic, exciting, and indeed just blew past us, into april! we kick started the month off with the restoring the foundation conference at our church, which had almost 100 people come out to dig deep, clean out the crap and receive healing to areas they never knew had held them back all these years. it's always exciting to see the 'a-ha!' moment in people, including ourselves, when it comes to revelation and insight as to why we hurt and act and do the things we do.

following this event, was a weekend away to visit the newest nephew in the paradis clan -marc. he was a whopping two weeks old and cute as a button!
he reminded me of a little koala, balled up and snuggling into the
arms of his parents and proud uncle! it was incredible to see this new arrival into the established family of five and how the adjustments are taking place with the other three boys, charlie, liam and john. all, may i add are proud and protective big brothers. it was indeed a blast to catch up and spend a short but sentimental time with family and meet our new nephew.

toward the end of march, the friesen team took off to vernon to visit mark and heather and their growing brood, caleb and new born connor. i personally think their is a baby-boom in british columbia right now, and no it hasn't hit the friesen household yet! another great time of r&r in the okanagan and luckily were able to celebrate marks birthday with him and meet some new albertan friends along the way. of course there was time for a pit stop in chase to see dad friesen and bridgette and gaze out over the gorgeous little shuswap lake. and yes, we scored some more moose meat! i have learned that moose meat chilli done in the slow-cooker is amazing....especially with chic peas in replacement of red kidney beans.

now the sad part of march hit us when we arrived back from our weekend away, to our cat rax, having a near-death experience brought on by his bladder. it was the day before good friday and kev and i awoke to a wailing, hissing and groaning cat that could hardly walk and kept looking for dark places to hide. i later realized this was rax's way of letting us know he was trying to die if he could just get on with it, but we came to the rescue with an emergency vet visit.
what we didn't realize was that rax's bladder was just about to burst and if we didn't consent to a catheter at that moment, it may have killed him. the life of this cat is never dull!
(rax actually now has only seven lives left). so three days later, after easter we picked up the little gaffer with a shaved bum, drugged up and with a leaky system. i spent all monday running around the house 'odor-eating' the patches of carpet rax would sit on momentarily. praise god his system got back to normal within a few days! one of the highlights of rax's recuperation was the need to be close to kev and i, to the point of sitting in kev's jeans as he went to the toilet! classy rax, very classy. bath time too was also fun!

some other highlights of march have included a surprise birthday party for our texan friend cyndi, who was indeed thoroughly surprised by all the crew piled into bernie and rusty's living room shouting at her. her son elijah's birthday party at the laserdome followed soon after and brought out the kids and big kids for a game of laser tag. hard core stuff, mind you.

amidst all the happenings kev and i have been first-home hunting with mixed feelings and results. the jury is still out on whether or not we will buy in the next few months. so 'home' is still community living at the house with pete and rob luke (fresh from oz this month). and the truth be told, we love it.

and i am excited to announce that there been a huge dent made in the transcribing of our documentary -paths of dust and hope this month, with over 90% finished, we will soon be editing this incredible footage of a story that needs to be told, if for no other reason but to honour god and his call to greg, kevin and myself to capture and share what his people in africa are doing. in fact i will be posting a separate blog for podah, shortly, giving those of you the update on what, where and why this exists at all!

has until next time, we send our love, hugs and high-fives to wherever you are on this planet earth.

k & a