Nova Scotia - Week 6: Step by Step

The morning after we returned from our road trip, we were awaken to 8 inches of freshly fallen snow. The kids considered this a waste, since it was a Sunday morning resulting in no school closures. The next day the snow continued to fall making the driveway a challenge to pass thru, but the busses still came, (they only cancel when they think it is going to snow, not when it actually is).

More power -arh, arh

Now this snow may all seem like a negative, but it wasn’t. First the fresh fallen snow is beautiful here in the Valley and often it melts in a few days. Second, it was the little push I needed to finally look at that skid steer that I have been eyeing on Kijiji for the last two months. So on Wednesday Sweis and I took the trip to Halifax to check it out, (Mary Ann wasn’t ready for another road-trip yet). On the trip we discussed and fixed all the social and spiritual ills of the Annapolis Valley – we wish – but the conversation was great. The way back took a little longer because we were pulling my new toy.

Dressed to Dance!

Tonight was a good night, both of the girls were busy. Maddy went with the Ubels to New Minas (the shopping district for the Valley) to go shopping, eat at “Timmies” and see a movie.  Jaymie, (get this) went to a school dance with a friend – so cool. So Mary Ann and I went out for supper to this little restaurant that we wanted to check out. Normally, none of these things would hardly be worth mentioning, but when you uproot your life, things like these are awesome; they are steps in a journey that make a house a home, a village a community.

As we look back from week to week, we see God’s hand in this journey. So many of these things are answers to specific prayers. There are times when I pray without really expecting God to come thru, (I am sure we all do that); but there has been times recently that I have prayed with boldness – stepping out in faith – and he has blessed us amazingly.  Praise God! - HJK

P.S - As you can see, i found another camera