My Blog is slowly getting popular

I now have 5 people reading :P. Welcome Zaak. I'm sure more people read my blog, but they just don't like to post comments (lurkers). Back in September I had promised a gift to the people who read and posted on my blog during the following weeks. The winners are Dee,Elena (my sis) and my mom. So you will each receive your gift when I see you. Zaak gives awards to the people who comment the most in his blog. I give gifts.

11 days left, I can't wait. I am so looking to seeing my family again.

Dee: I LOVE YOU. I was hoping you would say roti. Jeff said to tell you that it should be steak and potatoes :).

Zaak: I don't hate NB or Moncton. I just wanted to live in a more cosmopolitan place. Also I don't like the ocean. Salty water, sand, strange creatures and dangerous waves are not my idea of fun. I'm a pool, river and lake kind of girl (in that order). I don't mind a walk on the beach :).

Alysia can now read very simple words. Example: CAT, BAT, RED, GRAMPA, DOG. It would be nice if she could read her own books at night (just kidding).

Halloween is tomorrow. We will be at the church hanging out with the school kids.

Take care everyone and May God bless each and everyone of you.

An apology and explanation

Jeff read my blog (he never reads it). But he said I was very rude to the Moncton people and that if they are reading my blog that I was rude to them. I apologize to any Moncton people reading (if there are any). But I will state that I said I hated Moncton, not the people. It's like Jeff saying he hates TO, but only because it's a big city and all the things that come with a big city. He very much likes the people there. Same goes for me and Moncton. It's only the fact that I now have friends here that make living in Moncton OK. But if you are truly a friend, then you will have understood that my words were the words of a woman in shock and just needing comfort. Just look at my last two blogs :). I miss my family very much and I hope that maybe next year my aunt will be living with me for a year (no matter where I'm living).

Well now that that's out of the way, Dee I will eat anything not vegetarian :P. And if it taste like it comes from the Islands, even better. If by any chance you are now vegetarian, then yes I will also eat vegetarian ;) .

Take care people and may God bless all of you (all 4 of you reading: Dee, Elena, Felicita and Amber).

Doing X-mas shopping early

Jeff and I were doing some X-mas shopping today. Since we are leaving in two weeks, we have to get the shopping done early. It's always nice to shop for others, even better to shop for myself :).
I was telling Jeff that I am definitely more comfortable with the idea of staying in Moncton. It was just to big a shock for me when he told me. I did tell him that if this had happened my first year here It would have been even more harder to accept. But after 2 years I have made a quite a few friends in the Maritimes. I will still miss a place that has more of a mix of cultures. It's amazing how much I miss that. Now that I'm more calm, I can see all the good things in Moncton,the reasons why I said yes to coming here. We would never have moved here if I had said no way :).
I'm very social and it was not till this year that I finally feel comfortable in the Moncton Church. Everyone there is nice and welcoming, just not in the way I wish (this is where I say I miss other cultures). One good thing about staying here is that Alysia would start school in an SDA school. She would know most of the kids there, since she sees them at church.

I will quote what my friend Amber Robichaud said "We bloom were we are planted". I feel that it took me a while to bloom. I missed my friends and family in TO to much and found it hard to adapt to a very different culture (white :P). I guess I feel at peace with the idea, since I know that if we stay, it's because God wants it. When I first had to think about moving to Moncton I cried and called my mom for comfort. But I did take it to God in prayer and I knew it was the right decision. When Jeff told me that we might be staying here, I cried and wanted to call my mom again. But instead of calling I wrote in my blog (my mom reads my blog).

Jeff did promise me that if we are here for another 3 years, that I can visit my friends and family in TO once a year :). I also told him he should let me visit the friends who live in the maritimes, but not in Moncton :).

Feeling more calm

I'm resigned to the fact that I might be living in Moncton for another 3 years :(. I'm not mad at Jeff (it's not his fault). But it annoys me when he tries to tell me to look at all the good things. The way I'm feeling those good things are not good things. But I might as well get used to the awful idea now (this does not mean I'm not still upset). O well at least I will be escaping for more than 2 months.

For those of you wondering what my schedule is like when I arrive in Toronto. Here it is.
Friday Nov 10 - Arrive in the morning, maybe visit with Jeff's cousin in the evening (not confirmed yet). We will be staying in my aunt Elsa's home.
Saturday Nov 11 - Go to Kingsview church and hopefully spend the day with our friend there (so Dee we are open to lunch and supper invitation :) ).
Sunday Nov 12 - We hope to have breakfast with friends from Willowdale church. Jeff leaves for Dallas at 5pm.
Monday to Wednesday - Alysia and I are free to visit with friends.
Thursday Nov 16, morning- Leave for Nicaragua.

When I come back from Nicaragua on Wednesday January 17, I plan to stay with Sharmilla and learn how to make roti and curry goat from her mom :) (yummm). I will leave for Moncton on Sunday January 21 at night (around 8).

Bad Day and Bad news for me.

I was having a good day until Jeff called to tell me that we are pretty much staying in Moncton for who knows how long. I have been telling myself for this whole past year that I was moving in 2007. I only came to Moncton because Jeff said that it would be 3 years max. I did not want to move here and the only thing that made it bearable the first year was that my mom and sister where here. Now I have to contemplate living here for another 3 years or longer :(. Just hearing this news made me cry. I cried the first time he even suggested moving to Moncton.

Jeff is happy, he could live here for the rest of his life. His family will be happy. I will not. I know I should just accept it (and I will later, when I have no choice). But it's so hard to be happy in a place I was looking forward to leaving. I can't even call anyone here to cry about this, because they won't understand.

I did not really cared where they moved us, as long as they moved us. But I guess Jeff's bosses like him to much and want to keep him around, so they have found other positions here in Moncton that will help him grow in his career. It's even harder to accept when just a few months ago the chances of us moving were 90% or higher.

I now what people here will tell me. That this is God's will and that I should accept it. That he wants us here, etc., etc. I DON'T WANT TO ACCEPT IT. At this moment I hate moncton.

20 Days left

I'm finally better. I will recommend Abreva to anyone with a cold sore. It really helps, but it's really expensive. The tube is smaller than a chapstick container and it costs $22 (ouch!). But you only use a little bit, so it's good for more than one use.

Alysia is still sick, but getting better. Even when she is sick she has too much energy :).

Today we are having our worship in the Free Meeting House. The first place that the Moncton SDA church met back in the 1800. After church we will be going to a friends house for lunch and to spend the rest of the Sabbath together.

Take care and May God bless you.

A picture to share

I'm Sick :(

The youth rally went great. Aaron (Jeff's brother) came and played his digital (?) drums. Song service sounded great.
When I left last Friday I had started to get sick. I lost my voice (not all the way), so I spent all weekend without being able to sing. Now that I'm back home my voice is getting better, but now my cold is worse. And to top it all of I now have a cold sore :(. O well at least I don't feel awful :).
Alysia Had a great time with her grandparents. She did not want to come home at first :).

In less than a month I will be in Toronto :). Can't wait to see everyone.

Take care everyone, and may God bless you.

Thanksgiving is almost here

Jeff and I will be going to a Youth Rally this weekend in Pugwash. Alysia will be staying with her grandparents.

This past month I organized an Avon fundraiser for the church school. It did not go as well as I would have liked (not my fault). But the school will be getting some money. Not as much as I would have hoped (people just ordered for themselves and did not go out and collect orders to raise funds :( ).

Today I will be helping plant 1000 pink tulip bulbs in support of Breast Cancer research.

Take care everyone and May God Bless each one of you.

October is Here :)

Our friends Jerry and Olivia have come and gone. We had a great time while they were here.
This past Sunday I walked 5K for the CIBC Run/Walk for the Cure. I raised $70.
This coming weekend I'm going to a Youth Rally in Pugwash, NS. Alysia will be staying with her grandmother for the weekend.
Sorry this is so short, but I have to run :). We are watching the Shawn Boonstra presentation. We have to go to church to see it.

Take care and May God bless you.