Friends

Somehow my friends on here all got deleted and I can't remember how to add them again. I clicked on add a page element but I'm not sure which selection I need to choose to add my friends. It appears to be more confusing than what it used to be.

In Loving Memory of Oma

Tomorrow (March 21) it will be 4 years since Oma passed away. I'm sure it will be a hard day, but she's in heaven now - pain free - no more strokes for her. I'm sure she's having a party up there and looking down on us from above. I'm sure it will be a sad day, but I was never that close to her, but still sad to have her gone. I love her, and miss her but never did a lot of things together. She was a great mother, and grandmother - she had 10 kids, and lots of grandchildren (LOL) and 4 great grandchildren (is whad she would of had had she still be alive today.) I never went to visit Oma while she was in the hospital. Do I regret it? Sort of yes, sort of no. You ask why do you not regret it? Well, I don't regret it because Mom told me that she didn't look the same as she always did, and that isn't what I wanted my last memory to be of her. I do regret it because well...she's my grandmother and I feel like maybe I let her down (or the family) by not going to visit her, or that maybe I didn't love her enough, which isn't true at all. The amazing thing was that all her 10 children were at the hospital the day she died in that hospital room, praying and singing "My Jesus I Love Thee". I wish I could of been there to see that precious moment. As soon as they were done singing - she had her final breath. What a memory!?! Some of the grandkids said this about Oma at her funeral:

What is an Oma?

An Oma is someone who can make a mouse out of a hankie.

An Oma is someone who visits me so she can attend Grandparents Day at my school.

An Oma is someone who sings with me.

An Oma is someone who chases me around the kitchen because I called her grandma instead of Oma.

An Oma is someone who has a pet spider on the ceiling named Frederick.

An Oma is someone who tells me stories about Frederick.

An Oma is someone who will dance with you at your Auntie Nelly’s wedding – even if it means a sore back the next day.

An Oma is someone who loves to play games with you – dominoes, yahtzee, kismet, or pass the ace.

An Oma is someone who visits you so she can help celebrate the special occasions with you like your birthday, your grad or your wedding day.

An Oma is someone who loves to knit dolls and sweaters for us.

An Oma is someone who takes you camping.

An Oma is someone who pretends to be a pirate when she is wearing a bandana.

An Oma is someone who makes you the supper you like best = spinach and potatoes.

An Oma is someone who gives you tea and chocolate when you come over after school.

An Oma is someone who laughs at all your knock-knock jokes and other funny stories.

An Oma is someone who buys you gifts that you don’t always like, but it’s okay because you know she loves you.

An Oma is someone to love, to send letters to and to pray at bedtime for.
Oma, we love you and will miss you lots.

So, I'm trying to picture my Oma being a pirate - kind of commical really if you think about, but *sighs* these are all great memories of her.

Oma, we love you and we miss you!

We sang these 2 songs at her funeral:

My Jesus I Love Thee

1. My Jesus, I love thee, I know thou art mine;

for thee all the follies of sin I resign.

My gracious Redeemer, my Savior art thou;

if ever I loved thee, my Jesus, 'tis now.

2.I love thee because thou hast first loved me,

and purchased my pardon on Calvary's tree;

I love thee for wearing the thorns on thy brow;

if ever I loved thee, my Jesus, 'tis now.

3.In mansions of glory and endless delight;

I'll ever adore thee in heaven so bright;

I'll sing with the glittering crown on my brow;

if ever I loved thee, my Jesus, 'tis now.

How Great Thou Art

O Lord my God, When I in awesome wonder,

Consider all the worlds Thy Hands have made;

I see the stars, I hear the rolling thunder,

Thy power throughout the universe displayed.

Then sings my soul, My Saviour God, to Thee,

How great Thou art, How great Thou art.

Then sings my soul, My Saviour God, to Thee,

How great Thou art, How great Thou art!

When through the woods, and forest glades I wander,

And hear the birds sing sweetly in the trees.

When I look down, from lofty mountain grandeur

And see the brook, and feel the gentle breeze.

Then sings my soul, My Saviour God, to Thee,

How great Thou art, How great Thou art.

Then sings my soul, My Saviour God, to Thee,

How great Thou art, How great Thou art!

And when I think, that God, His Son not sparing;

Sent Him to die, I scarce can take it in;

That on the Cross, my burden gladly bearing,

He bled and died to take away my sin.

Then sings my soul, My Saviour God, to Thee,

How great Thou art, How great Thou art.

Then sings my soul, My Saviour God, to Thee,

How great Thou art, How great Thou art!

When Christ shall come, with shout of acclamation,

And take me home, what joy shall fill my heart.

Then I shall bow, in humble adoration,

And then proclaim: "My God, how great Thou art!"

Then sings my soul, My Saviour God, to Thee,

How great Thou art, How great Thou art.

Then sings my soul, My Saviour God, to Thee,

How great Thou art, How great Thou art

Psalm 121
A song of ascents.
1 I lift up my eyes to the hills—where does my help come from?
2 My help comes from the LORD, the Maker of heaven and earth.
3 He will not let your foot slip— he who watches over you will not slumber;
4 indeed, he who watches over Israel will neither slumber nor sleep.
5 The LORD watches over you— the LORD is your shade at your right hand;
6 the sun will not harm you by day, nor the moon by night.
7 The LORD will keep you from all harm— he will watch over your life;
8 the LORD will watch over your coming and going both now and forevermore.

Life is fragile

This past saturday, I attented a funeral for a young man, some of you may even know who he is - Matthew Gensorek. He was only 22 years old, he attended Calvin Christian school. His life ended very tragiclly on the 17th of January. He had overdosed. There were alot of Calvin staff there, and lots of wet eyes. I was looking at all his friends, dressed in black, honouring a friend, and I'm sure ALL of them were crying. I was thinking to myself that I've never seen so many young men crying at one time. It's okay to cry - to grieve. To Matthew his friends were his life, his family as his father put it in the eulogy. I don't know Matthew at all but it's still sad that he's gone at such a young age. I guess God called him "home" for a reason none of us will really know or understand. His father said that "he needed another angel in Heaven".

I got to thinking how fragile our life actually is, and any one of us could get called "home" at any time.
Life is short.

Live out your dreams.

Live life to the fullest.

Tell your stories.

Be there for one another.

I am reminded of a chorus of a country song:

Life's a Dance - John Micheal Montgomery

Life's a dance you learn as you go,

Sometimes you lead,

Sometimes you follow,

Don't worry about what you don't know.

Life's a dance you learn as you go.

They played this song a few times at the funeral as well, and thought I'd share it with you all.

I Can Only Imagine - Mercy Me

"I can only imagine what it will be like, when I walk by Your side...

I can only imagine, what my eyes will see, when Your Face is before me!

I can only imagine. I can only imagine.

Surrounded by Your Glory, what will my heart feel?

Will I dance for you, Jesus? Or in awe of You, be still?

Will I stand in Your presence, or to my knees will I fall?

Will I sing 'Hallelujah!'? Will I be able to speak at all?

I can only imagine! I can only imagine!

I can only imagine, when that day comes, when I find myself standing in the Son!

I can only imagine, when all I will do, is forever, forever worship You!

I can only imagine! I can only imagine!

Surrounded by Your Glory, what will my heart feel?

Will I dance for you, Jesus? Or in awe of You, be still?

Will I stand in Your presence, or to my knees will I fall?

Will I sing 'Hallelujah!'? Will I be able to speak at all?

I can only imagine! Yeah! I can only imagine!

Surrounded by Your Glory, what will my heart feel?

Will I dance for you, Jesus? Or in awe of You, be still?

Will I stand in Your presence, or to my knees will I fall?

Will I sing 'Hallelujah!'? Will I be able to speak at all?

I can only imagine! Yeah! I can only imagine!

I can only imagine! Yeah! I can only imagine!! Only imagine!!!
I can only imagine.

I can only imagine, when all I do is forever, forever worship You!

I can only imagine."

They played this one at the funeral as well.

Welcome to Wherever you are - Bon Jovi

Maybe we're all different

But we're still the same

We all got the blood of Eden running to our veins

I know sometimes it's hard for you to see

You cought between just who you are and who you want to be

If you feel alone and lost and need a friend

Remember every new beginning is some beginning's end

Welcome to wherever you are

This is your life, you made it this far

Welcome, you got to believe

That right here right now you're exactly where you're supposed to be

Welcome to wherever you are

When everybody's in and you're left out

And you feel drowning in a shadow of the dawn

Everyone's a miracle in their own way

Just listen to yourself not what other people say

When it seems you're lost alone and feeling down

Remember everybody's different, just take a look around

Welcome to wherever you are

This is your life, you made it this far

Welcome, you got to believe

That right here right now you're exactly where you're supposed to be

Be who you want to be, be who you are

Everyone's a hero, everyone's a star

When you want to give up and your heart's about to break

Remember that you're perfect, God's make no mistakes

Welcome to wherever you are

This is your life, you made it this far

Welcome, you got to believe

That right here right now you're exactly where you're supposed to be

Welcome to wherever you are

This is your life, you made it this far

(I say welcome) Welcome to wherever you are

The 12 Days of Winnipeg Christmas

I've been hearing this song on Hot 103 lately and I thought it was so funny, and so fitting for us Winnipeggers. I hope you get a good little chuckle out of it as I did. Merry Christmas to you all. God's blessings for a prosperious 2008!!


The Lyrics:
On the First Day of Christmas
I got this from my bro...
A Sign saying Go Jets Go!

On the Second Day of Christmas,
Winnipeg gave to me
Two rivers meeting
And a Sign saying Go Jets Go!

On the Third Day of Christmas,
My buddy gave to me
Veee Jays French Fries
Two rivers meeting
And a Sign saying Go Jets Go!

On the Fourth Day of Christmas,
minus 40 gave to me
Four stalling cars
Veee Js French Fries
Two rivers meeting
And a Sign saying Go Jets Go!

On the Fifth Day of Christmas,
my true love gave to me
Five Golden boys
Four stalling cars
Veee Js French Fries
Two rivers meeting
And a Sign saying Go Jets Go!

On the Sixth Day of Christmas,
construction season gave to me
Six massive potholes
Five Golden boys
Four stalling cars
Veee Js French Fries
Two rivers meeting
And a Sign saying Go Jets Go!

On the Seventh Day of Christmas,
Mother Nature gave to me
Seven months of winter
Six massive potholes
Five Golden boys
Four stalling cars
Veee Js French Fries
Two rivers meeting
And a Sign saying Go Jets Go!

On the Eighth Day of Christmas,
Winnipeggers gave to me
Eight Slupree titles
Seven months of winter
Six massive potholes
Five Golden boys
Four stalling cars
Veee Js French Fries
Two rivers meeting
And a Sign saying Go Jets Go!

On the Ninth Day of Christmas,
St Vital gave to me
Nine Gabes a dancing
Eight Slupree titles
Seven months of winter
Six massive potholes
Five Golden boys
Four stalling cars
Veee Js French Fries
Two rivers meeting
And a Sign saying Go Jets Go!

On the Tenth Day of Christmas,
my bombers gave to me,
Ten Grey Cup Titles
Nine Gabes a dancing
Eight Slupree titles
Seven months of winter
Six massive potholes
Five Golden boys
Four stalling cars
Veee Js French Fries
Two rivers meeting
And a Sign saying Go Jets Go!

On the Eleventh Day of Christmas,
Photo radar gave to me
Eleven Red light tickets
Ten Grey Cup Titles
Nine Gabes a dancing
Eight Slupree titles
Seven months of winter
Six Massive potholes
Five Golden boys
Four stalling cars
Veee Js French Fries
Two rivers meeting
And a Sign saying Go Jets Go!

On the Twelfth Day of Christmas,
My Baba gave to me
Twelve Cheese Perogies
Eleven red light tickets
Ten Grey Cup Titles
Nine Gabes a dancing
Eight Slupree titles
Seven months of winter
Six massive potholes
Five Golden boys
Four stalling cars
Veee Js French Fries
Two rivers meeting
And a Sign saying Go Jets Go!

12 Days of Christmas

My Aunt emailed this to me and I thought it was quite interesting and gives a new meaning to this song. Enjoy!

There is one Christmas Carol that has always baffled me.What in the world do leaping lords, French hens,swimming swans, and especially the partridge who won't come outof the pear tree have to do with Christmas?

Today, I found out.From 1558 until 1829, Roman Catholics inEnglandwerenot permitted to practice their faith openly. Someoneduring that era wrote this carol as a catechism song for young Catholics.It has two levels of meaning: the surface meaningplus a hidden meaning known only to members of their church. Eachelement in the carol has a code word for a religious realitywhich the children could remember.


-The partridge in a pear tree was Jesus Christ.
-Two turtle doves were the Old and New Testaments.
-Three French hens stood for faith, hope and love.
-The four calling birds were the four gospels of Matthew, Mark, Luke & John.
-The five golden rings recalled the Torah or Law, the first five books of the Old Testament.
-The six geese a-laying stood for the six days of creation.
-Seven swans a-swimming represented the sevenfold gifts of the Holy Spirit--Prophesy, Serving, Teaching,Exhortation, Contribution, Leadership, and Mercy.
-The eight maids a-milking were the eight beatitudes.
-Nine ladies dancing were the nine fruits of the Holy Spirit--Love, Joy, Peace, Patience, Kindness, Goodness,Faithfulness, Gentleness, and Self Control.
-The ten lords a-leaping were the ten commandments.
-The eleven pipers piping stood for the eleven faithful disciples.
-The twelve drummers drumming symbolized the twelve points of belief in the Apostles' Creed.

So there is your history for today. This knowledge was shared with me and I found it interesting and enlightening and now I know how that strange song became a Christmas Carol...so pass it on if you wish.

"Merry (Twelve Days of) Christmas Everyone.....

Why Jesus is better than Santa Claus / Christmas of My Dreams

I had this sent to me, and thought it was worth sharing. Enjoy!

Why Jesus is better than Santa Claus

Santa lives at the North Pole ... JESUS is everywhere.
Santa rides in a sleigh ... JESUS rides on the wind and walks on the water.
Santa comes but once a year ... JESUS is an ever present help.
Santa fills your stockings with goodies ... JESUS supplies all your needs.
Santa comes down your chimney uninvited ... JESUS stands at your door and knocks, and then enters your heart when invited.
You have to wait in line to see Santa ... JESUS is as close as the mention of His name.
Santa lets you sit on his lap ... JESUS lets you rest in His arms.
Santa doesn't know your name, all he can say is "Hi little boy or girl, what's your name?" ... JESUS knew our name before we did. Not only does He know our name, He knows our address too. He knows our history and future and He even knows how many hairs are on our heads.
Santa has a belly like a bowl full of jelly ... JESUS has a heart full of love.
All Santa can offer is HO HO HO ... JESUS offers health, help and hope.
Santa says "You better not cry" ... JESUS says "Cast all your cares on me for I care for you." Santa's little helpers make toys ... JESUS makes new life, mends wounded hearts, repairs broken homes and builds mansions.
Santa may make you chuckle but ... JESUS gives you joy that is your strength.
While Santa puts gifts under your tree ... JESUS became our gift and died on a tree.

It's obvious there is really no comparison. We need to remember WHO Christmas is all about. We need to put Christ back in CHRISTmas, Jesus is still the reason for the season. Yes, Jesus is better, he is even better than Santa Claus. Merry CHRISTmas!!!
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I read this in a book called "A Chicken Soup for the Soul Christmas" and thought it was worth sharing.

Christmas of My Dreams

The Christmas cookies are all frosted,
the gingerbread men have purple hair,
And 'cause little hands can only reach so high,
the top half of the tree is quite bare!
But the bottom half sparkles with tinsel,
and foil stars and paper chains,
And along with the gifts the Wise Men bring
are three nickels and two cand canes.

Although it's true our money's tighter than ever,
our love just keeps on growing, it seems,
And I couldn't ask for anything more,
this is the Christmas of my dreams.

I used to have such great expectations
about Christmas and just how it should be,
With the picture-perfect table of goodies
and lots of presents under the tree.
Although I still love the tinsel and glitter,
the scent of pine and songs in the air,
When all's said and done, what matters most
is the Christmas love that all of us share.

Although our Christmas may not be very fancy,
like the ones you see in magazines,
I wouldn't trade it for anything
this is the Christmas of my dreams.

So let's each count our blessings,
and thank our God above,
As we celebrate this season
of the greatest gift of love.
Our Christmas may not be very fancy,
like the ones you see in magazines,
But I couldn't ask for anything more,
this is the Christmas of my dreams.

- Cheryl Kirkling

How Great are you Lord

Some people have been asking me to post another blog, and I agree, it is time I actually write another blog, I guess I'm usually on facebook and I have if not all of you then most of you there.

We sang this song Sunday morning in church and it got me thinking of how often we, or at least I take God's love for granted or how great He actually is. This song reminds me of God's amazing love and how great He is.

How Great Are You Lord
Lynn DeShazo

How great are You Lord
How great is Your mercy
How great are the things
That You have done for me
How great are You Lord
You loving kindness
Is filling my heart as I sing
How great are You Lord
How great is Your love
It reaches to the heavens
How great is the heart
That sought and rescued me

© 1999 Integrity's Hosanna! Music

You might be Dutch if....

I found this on facebook and thought it was funny(if you're Dutch that is). There's lots of "dutch groups" on facebook. Enjoy!!

YOU MIGHT BE DUTCH IF...
~ You reused plastic margarine containers long before anyone had heard of the environmental movement.
~ You have a two volume address book, Volume I: A-U & Volume II: V-Z.
~ You have never skipped church to watch the Super Bowl.
~ Your range of restaurants is restricted by the contents of a "Buy one meal, get one free" coupon book that you purchased to support missionaries in Sierra Leone.
~ Your mother's hairdo is the same at your wedding as it was at hers.
~ Your closet is divided into work clothes and Sunday clothes.
~ Your church attendance record is not disrupted by childbirth.
~ Your Sunday routine resembles: church, coffee, roast beef, jello salad, snooze, and church.
~ You have a living room but never sit in it.
~ All your cookies taste like almonds.
~ You make the bed in your hotel room.
~ You can sing "eere zij God" even though you can't speak Dutch.
~ You think that being progressive means discarding the church hymnbook in favor of Keith Green songs on the overhead.
~ You are still trying to justify owning a dishwasher.
~ You have attended worship services at a campground amphitheater.
~ You know what an afghan is.
~ You have lace on your windows but not on your underwear.
~ Your two permanent Saturday jobs are to wash the car and make sure you have enough single bills for the offerings.
~ All of your recipes are adapted to fit a 9 x 13 pan.
~ The usher never needs to ask you where you want to sit in church.
~You might be dutch if the word *shit* is a big part of your vocabualry.
~On a friends birthday u not only wish them a happy birthday but u congradulate the parents on their childs birthday.
~If the most popular flower in your garden is tulips.
~If you give your non-dutch friends druppies just to see the descusted looks on their faces.
~If you go to a school where you know someone moved there from somewhere else because they aren't related to anyone.
~ For a family reunion you would need an entire camp ground to yourselves.
~If you get chocolate letters in your christmas stalking every year... if you start studying holland in a class and end up telling things to your teacher that they didn't know about.
~If you drive all around town to save a couple bucks on groceries (when in reality you are spending that couple bucks on gas to drive around to get those deals).
~ Everyone in church passes the peppermint roll descretly during the offering right before the sermon.
~If ur house growing up was coverd with little cups, plates, and dishes that were all white with blue designs of windmills and farms.
~You might be dutch if everytime company comes over, you have to clean the WHOLE house, even the basement storage room.
~You eat oileibollen for every New Year's Day!!
~ You might be dutch if you have doilies under your lamps and every other nic-nac in your house.
~ If you don't know half of your relatives.

Smyth an Islander? Something is wrong with that picture.

Wow, this is the saddest day in the life of the Edmonton Oilers and their faithful fans. They traded away Ryan Smyth to the New York Islanders for Ryan O'Marray, Robert Nilsson and a 2007 first round pick. Who are those players? I've never even heard of them before?? *sighs* Life must go on.......Go Oilers Go!!!!!!

Here are the pictures that were supposed to be in my last blog. Enjoy!

Uncle John, Opa, Gramma, Uncle Wally, Auntie Shirley, and Mom

Matt and I

All the Grandkids on the Buikema side (minus Robyn, James and Kyle)

Gramma, Jacob Vroom and Opa

Carter Ethan DeHaan

Alyssa, Me, Matt, and Uncle John

Alyssa and I

Mom and I

Matt reading
Gramma, Jacob, and Carter

Mom, Auntie Shirley at Christmas Dinner.

Sara, Myself, and Amanda at the Cabin for New Year's '06

Christmas

I was going to post some pictures on here, but for some strange reason it won't allow me. Not sure if it's because I got the new version through google now or not. It shouldn't but I appologize. I do have them posted in my xanga though if you wish to check them out. My account is: http://www.xanga.com/tamara_noelle

interesting....

They had these in the Rona flyer a while ago and I thought they were rediculous looking. What's your thought??

Pictures

Matt, Myself and Bonita on the Cedar Bog trail at Birds Hill Park











Carrie and I


Me, Ken, Debby, Katie, Lorne, Bonita, Naomi, and Leanne hanging out at Sara's last month when Naomi came 'home' for a short visit.


Sara and Shawna @ a Bomber game. YES THEY ARE ON THE FIELD!!







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Lorne, Sara, Naomi, Ken, Debby, Katie, Sabine, Leanne, Shawna hangin out at Sara'


Bonita, Debby, Naomi, Leanne, Katie, and Lorne


Here are some pictures of my friends. I have a bunch more but for some reason they won't seem to load up. I don't know if you can only do so many per post or what. Oh well! Hope you enjoy them anyways!

Life

Well, I know I haven't posted in awhile. Not really sure on what to write in here most of the time but I figured I'd post anyways. So Sara, here you go, another post by moi!

A lot has happened since I last posted. In fact, I don't even remember when I last posted. So to recap my life from the past couple of months.

-moved from North Kildonan to Wolsley (July)
-sister got married in Chicago (August)
- switched locations of my job from the Manitoba Clinic Kiosk back to Churchill High *grumbles* (September)
-Brother went off to Regent College. MISS YOU MATT!!!! (September)
- Went to a real hockey game in Winnipeg (September) Edmonton - 5 Phoenix - 0. Was great to see a real game with friends, was a great atmosphere: doing the wave, chanting "GO JETS GO" . The only downfall was some rowdies from a few sections over from us had to be escorted out by the police.
- Went to the Boonstra corn-maze last night with about 72 youth from church. Was a blast other t han being hit in the head with a cob of corn. At least I don't have a goose-egg from it.
- Excited because the Ever-famous- Naomi is coming home for 2 days. YEAH!!!!
- think I'm getting a head cold.
- Going to a Bomber game next weekend. Go Blue Bo!
- Hoping to get tranfered to a different location within the company I work for [Food Systems Management]
Alpha started up at church last week Tuesday. YEAH. So exciting.
-went shopping today with Bonita. :-)
Had the house to myself for 3 weeks

Well that's all the randomness I can think of that has been going on in my life lately. Hope you enjoy this post, and Sara, I will try and post on here more often.

Love to all who read this. My lovely family and friends.

It's That time again

Yeah. I think it's that time again. About time I posted again. I was mentioning at my friend, Sara's place awhile ago that I rarely get comments on this thing and she had mentioned to me that I hardly ever post on here, so Sara, I'm posting again. Except you're in Holland now, but you'll have a nice surprise when you get home next week, yes, a post from me. Please don't fall off your chair/couch or anything like that. As most of you know by now that we (as a family) have now moved. Yes, we moved out of North Kildonan and into Wolsely. Heck I don't even know how to spell that word right. Anyways, I was out of a computer for awhile, but as you see we have it back now. It's sunday afternoon. Went to church this morning and had a missionary from Nigeria preach, it was a very good sermon. Robyn, my sister is in town this week, and we had a Bridal Shower for her yesterday, that was a lot of fun, lots of family came, and a few friends of the family as well. Matthew, and Dad weren't home for the wonderful occasion, they sure missed out I tell you. Robyn got many beautiful gifts, and as most of you know that she's getting married in *looks at calendar* a week and a bit, on the 26th of August in Chicago. I'm quite looking forward to it. She's not having a wedding party, and it's an outdoor wedding, so we need good weather. Please keep us in your prayers, as we'll be driving down on the 23rd (the previous wednesday). I think this post has a lot of ramblings on it, and not much structure to it, but I hope you can still follow it without getting lost, or thinking that I'm jumping from one subject into the next.
I tried to post pictures and to add some links onto my site, and it didn't work, so I think I need some expertise to help me out with that.

Think that's all my ramblings for now. Take care and until we meet again. So long.

-Me

Chicken Soup

Mom found this in her bedroom drawer as she was packing some stuff away for our upcoming move. I think I wrote this in Kindergarten and it made me laugh, and I hope it makes you laugh too.

Chicken Soup

Cut the noodles. Then you put them in the soup.
Put in: 4 carrots, celery, and 10 meat. Put it on the stove.

Only in Canada - Canadian Eh?

While cleaning out my room to prepare for our move coming up in the next month, I found this and I thought I'd share it with you.

Only in Canada - Canadian Eh?

Only in Canada...can a pizza get to your house faster than an ambulance.

Only in Canada...are there handicap parking places in front of a skating rink.

Only in Canada...do drugstores make the sick walk all the way to the back of the store to get their prescriptions while healthy people can buy cigarettes at the front.

Only in Canada...do people order double cheeseburgers, large fries, and a diet coke.

Only in Canada...do banks leave both doors open and then chain the pens to the counter.

Only in Canada...do we leave cars worth thousands of dollars in the driveway and put our useless junk in the garage.

Only in Canada...do we use answering machines to screen calls and then have call waiting so we don't miss a call from someone we don't want to talk to in the first place.

Only in Canada...do we buy hotdogs in packages of 12 and buns in packs of 8.

Only in Canada...do we use the word 'politics' to describe the process so well: 'Poli' in Latin meaning 'many' and 'tics' meaning 'blood sucking creatures'.

Only in Canada...do they have drive-up ATM machines with Braille lettering.

Well it's me again! I thought that I should post again, about what, I'm not too sure yet. Life is well...life. I'm alive and kicking I guess you could say. I've been working and just hanging out with my awesome church friends. :-) I went on my first EVER canoe trip a few weekends ago and it was a blast. We had a bad storm on the day we were about to leave, we had to wait on the island a bit longer than we had planned too, but God kept us all safe and we all got to our destination fine with maybe only bug bites. Those darned pesky black flies I tell you. I should be getting my pictures back tomorrow so if I can figure out how to post them on here, I shall do that for you all to see.
Last night I watched the Oilers game. :-( They started out so well, but faltered. I still hope that they can pull it off, and to top it all off, they lost Rollie for the rest of the series. I am not going to be a fair weather fan though and give up on them, as easy as that might be, I still want them to win it all and bring the cup back to Canada, where it rightfully belongs :-)
Oh my, if you want to see something hillarious, put a nylon (pantyhoses) on your head, and take it off slowly, it makes your face go all weird. *points to Liza, Shauna, and Amanda* :P.

Think that's all my ramblings for now. God bless you all and until I write again "so long farewell"..... oh we must watch that movie soon!!

Tamara

Little Ole Me

Just a quick post to say that I started a blog, yet again. I had one up before but deleted that one. I hope to write more later.
Love you all. God bless

Tamara