Hi everyone.
Kim's quest for November has been to write a 50,000 word novel, start to finish, within the month. She's been taking part in NaNoWriMo (www.nanowrimo.org) and did in fact finish the job on November 27. She's exhilarated, exhausted and excited.
My writing quest for November was to do a good job on the report cards that we produce for every student. I have the luxury of sharing a classroom with my teaching partner, Grace. Grace does the major part of the work, but I still had hours of pondering and preparing my part of those report cards for those kidlets and their families. As teachers we do wonder sometimes about how valuable these reports are, and especially WHO those reports are for: student, parent or us as educators? Interesting. Anyway I am finished, and actually just got home from the last of the parent/teacher interviews. It was lovely to meet with the parents of all my students and see a bit of the home side of their lives. I love my class.
Tomorrow I am off to Saskatoon to spend a few days with Mom. Her first oncology appointment is on Monday, so we'll be there to hear what impact the cancer has had on her body, and what the next few months may look like. Steve will fly to Saskatoon just for the appointment, and head home again right after. He'll hopefully be able to translate all the technical information we're given. (Thanks to WestJet for having a seat sale just at the right time for this weekend!)
We're grateful as well to Steve's parents who will be staying with the kids, to my friend Joyce for bringing chili, and to our kids for being so flexible.
Most of all we are grateful to see God working in our lives every day. He is faithful in the small things: writing a novel in a month, plowing through important report cards, providing affordable plane fares. He will be faithful in the big things as well.
