Nova Scotia - Day 1&2 – Emotions on Steroids

What else can I say – the title captures most it. It has been a roller-coaster over the last couple of days. Yesterday we took Jaymie to register her at her new school. She was unable to start that day but they gave her a grand tour of the school – which left her overwhelmed and drained.

There is so much to do around here that it easy for myself to get overwhelmed with it all and I sometime find myself running in circles. But I did get to buy myself a new toy yesterday – a brand new Stihl  Chainsaw. It works great – lots of power – Arh! Arh!

Today I bought some lumber to build the first room in the basement. Great ambition, instead I ended up emptying the trailer of tools and shop supplies which Jaymie and I brought in October. In my attempts to back the trailer to the house I nearly lost it all; between the freshly fallen snow and the weight of the trailer, it almost pushed my truck into the creek beside our house – that would have been two trucks with this same load – not a good feeling.

By far the hardest thing I did so far was drop Jaymie off at the school this morning. She started crying and told me she missed her friends which broke my heart.  I’m supposed to be strong for her – but I couldn’t stop my own tears. If you know my story I think you would understand. Until these last couple weeks I never thought what I might have been like for the Father to send his son to earth for me and you. I think I have just a small taste of the pain he went thru.

On a happier note, Jaymie gave today an 8 out of 10 – thank God and thank you for your prayers - HJK