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We arrived in Camrose on Saturday night after a 13.5 hour drive (including about 45min worth of pee breaks). We have often done the trip in two days so I think that spoiled us. I was so excited when we got to Jasper, then saw the kilometre sign to Edmonton, 386km, and Camrose is about an hour from Edmonton - stil 5 hrs to go. When we got home we were tired but started unpacking. We took way too much stuff to Abbotsford - we were there for three months but that isn't really that long. Both Lance and I do not like clutter and prefer a tidy house. The idea of "a place for everything and everything in its place" is very important to Lance. While I prefer a tidy house it is way more important to Lance to get everything into its appropriate place quickly. He made a special effort to be relaxed about the unpacking - when he's really driven about organizing I get flustered as he hands me stacks of my papers or points to piles of my stuff and asks me to put it away (I'm usually doing something else and then feel forced into joining his organizing rampage). All said unpacking and reorganizing our home has gone quite well. I would also like to announce that the last load of laundary is in the washer and tomorrow I will be all caught up - if you can ever really be caught up with laundary.
Both Lance and I are working on school work from the course(s) we took. Lance has four papers to complete this week before he can focus on his job for CLBI that recommences next week. You can pray for him as he struggles to get these papers done when he'd rather be doing almost anything else. I have two small papers to do and lots of loose ends to wrap up this week for my new job (internship director). I sometimes get overwhelmed with all the organizing I need to do. You can pray for me about this. thanks.
We've had a chance to see Lance's family, and our friends Pete and Jenna and Brent and Jena - these people are so special to us it is so good to be near them again. Brent and Jena came over tonight and we just talked and talked. I love our friends.
I've been really trying to eat well lately - since I have hypoglycemia I need to be careful about the amounts and types of carbs I eat (excercise is important for me too, but I haven't got around to focussing on that yet) Anyways, since I do most of the grocery shopping and cooking/baking Lance gets swept up into my health freakyness. I try to make good tasting meals that are also good for us. I like this challenge. When we have guests I like to keep that fact that the meal is very nutritious a secret until after they comment on how tasty it is - then I surprise them with the facts - "It's good for you too". This is especially the case with desserts. In order for me to be allowed to eat a dessert it needs to be sugar-free. When we have guests over I'll make a fruit crisp or pie without sugar. I like to surprise people with the fact that it's sugar-free after they've enjoyed it. This is where Lance and I differ. I would prefer not to mention that a meal is really healthy or sugar-free because I think that will set people up for not liking it. Lance thinks the opposite and likes to mention the healthiness (aka this might taste funny to you) or sugar-freeness before they try it - he thinks they'll give the food more grace if they know its not normal food. I think the food all tastes great and therefore doesn't need "grace". Lance and I have discussed this and he's going to try to refrain from what I think of as sabotaging guests' possible enjoyment of healthy food by warning them ahead of time. I'm grateful for his effort in this area.
Lance is in bed and I'm really tired. I'm outta here.
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