I'm so excited!!

Well, spring is slowley on the way, and you all know what that means...... family vacation time!!!!
I am so excited about going to Ottawa, (we leave in 31 days to be exact!) We will enjoy family, food, and friendship(with a side order or guilt, and enthusiasm) I can't wait, you know how that is, you work yourself up, for weeks anticipating what you will do and who you will seem or how people will have changed, only to be exsausted, and longing for your own bed and some rest.....

I am expecting the usuall on this trip, some special time with Lee's mom and Brothers and my Nephew Jacob, as well as my two sister-in-laws, Christine, and Katherine(sorry about the long nights ahead Katherine, I know how much you hate
Jacob to be off his schedual...but it is on;y one week a year) We will get to see our friends Myrna and Morrie(who Jacinda adores) Then We will spend sometime At Wes and Arlenes. But this year I expect a bit more....I am so excited to sleep!! I know it sounds abit cheesy, but I am up at 3:30 to do papers each day with Lee, and now it does not take much to make us happy. Jared can't wait to see uncle Jason, and Auntie Chris's Wii(he's never seen one) I am looking forwrd to letting some of my new laid back attitude( no it's not a joke) shine through.

I can't wait to see everybody!!!!
Have you ever wanted to go somewhere on a trip that you think would be more beautiful then you could ever imagine? But you don't think you'll ever get there??

I have two such places they are as follows


1) Isreal, gor some explainable reasons, and some I can't explain. Lee and I both want to go, but fear we wont want to come home, It has so much culture, history, and emotion all rolled into one(sigh so beautiful....)

2) I would like to go to either Sable Island, Chinncoteague(spl?) Island to watch the wild horses, and to live there for a year(I would settle for the praries, or a moutian type place that has wild horses)

I think these places would keep me speechless so much too feel not enough words to describe it though)

Tell me about where you would like to go and why..
Love you All
Jen


Ahh precious sleep .....I can't wait....

Sorry for the delay!

Well this is going to be a dual post,


The firat part may not hold interest for some, but that is okay! Simply skip down to where you see a noticable sign that the first part is over ...........


I have to talk about This Manga series that I have been reading. It is called Fruits Basket( why that name I have no idea) But Fruba Rocks, I am totally hooked on it, almost cruelly so, as I only get to read it in bits...... It is about this young girl Torhu Honda whose parent both died, and she is not really wanted by the rest of her fanily. So these guys take her in when they find her living in a tent on their land(Tohru goes to school with some of them) The whole family that she moves in with are cursed!!! They are cursed to take on the form of the Chinese Zodiac Animals...pig, rat, sheep, dog, cat, Rabbit(my favorite character and not just becasue I am year of the rabbit either!)etc, etc. Now many of these character are at war with one another, and though they are wealthy, and handsome(albeit kinda feminine in some cases) they are very messed up. Many of these young men, are taken by young Tohru, who seems to calm them with her genuine care for them, now that they are her new family, and because she's like that kind and caring, yet not expecting anything in return. There are almost no people who are allowed to know of this curse without having their memories erased. And many parents can't stand having children cursed with this affkiction, so the children are raised by others who can handle it, and the parents have their memories erase(poor Momiji his mom rejected him(he's the bunny)) But Tohru can see past all of these to want to help and be a friend. I'm loving it!!1 What I'm not loving is Having to wait and see if Kyo Sohma( the family is all Sohma's)fall in love (kyo is doubly cursed because the cat in the chinese Zodiac was tricked by the rat(Yuki Sohma) into missing the most important feast, and after thousands of years the anger and hatred have poisioned the cat so it not only turns into a cat, but it have this horrible, side that looks like a demon, and smells of death, but Tohru, saw him and told him she still wanted to be around him, even if he had spells that turned him into the evil creature)) I want tot know but my sourses will tell me nothing!!!!
What will happen next? I will have to read, but IT ROCKS!


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Second half Of blog for everyone else

This is mainly an apology for not having written in a while, I have been working(2 jobs!) Taking classes, reading for those classes, and reading a book series, trying to spend time with my family, and trying to avoid getting sick. Lee will be switching to days soon, so My life will normalize a bit for the first time in forever. I love him so much you know, I can't imagine how i ever got so lucky, to have a man like him. He is kind, giving and gentle( and he usually gives me whatever I want if it's within his grasp. On a more serious note. I look at my marrige, and at my sisters marrige, and I see that marriges do work, they do last without fighting, and giving up. I have seen far to much of that in my life. It comes down to this. If your not planning on Forever when you get married then your not ready for marrige. It is not a connvienince thing, or something to try out. Marrige involves trust, faith , and a whole heap of humble pie, sometimes second and third helpings of it. Getting married usually ends up in children , and people need to think about that, divorce hurts kids, but so does the fighting. Find away to work things out, or you teach your those horrible relationship issues that you have. I feel horrible because I have been seeing a fair bit of relationships fail lately, and I see the pain it causes people.

I believe in Beshert,
God makes one soul and breaks it into two peices putting one half in a man, and one half in a woman. When those two peices find each other they become one and it is Beshert(mean to be)

So please look for that other part of yourself, before you get married.

Love to all
Jen

Thanks for the awesome party !!

I have to take a few minutes here to tell my husband how much I really appreciate what he did for my birthday. He rocks!!! And almost all of my friends, and family were here, and there was food and drink for everyone. It really showed me how much people care about me. Sorry it had to get cut short, but Jared was pretty sick........ Though he is better now! Hurray for that.

We'll it's that time of year, folks are getting tired of winter, and it's been over a month since the last holiday. So people are stuck inside more, and start to look more closely at the world around them, and suddenly love is in the air, not to mention every possible germ!!!!

I'm not sure what is up but this has been the worse year for sickness for my family. First me with pneumonia, then Jared with fevers, then Amanda with her cold and Asthma attack, then Lee with his pain, and now Jacinda with her cough and fever, and Lee with Fever and vomiting.

I hate being sick as much as the next person, but I have to admit, I can't recall ever having fevers like Lee and the kids have had( 103-104) They have been shivering uncontrollably, and are almost in comas while their meds wear off. I am so worn out because when they don't sleep neither do I(knock on wood that I disenfect my hands so often I won't catch it) I'm afraid to think of what might be next.

Apparently this is all over the city, and it's only a virus. Schools a have so many children out that I have heard talk about closing schools for a few days to help stop the infection. I hope the worst is over.......but What can you do?
Happily the preschool hasn't been affected really yet(Yeah!!)

Side note Fruits Basket is Awsome( for those of you who were at the Surprise party it was my gift from Ysa... thanks sis! now I have to read the rest of them lol)
Lots of love
Jen