Keeping up with The Flemings

My reason for having a blog

2006-04-12T07:54:00.001-07:00

Sorry folks....I don't up-date this much. Not much to tell....pretty ordinary life (a good one) but the real reason for this blog is so I can respond to my son's blogs, so don't be thinking I'll be keeping this up much!

Jen

My reason for having a blog

2006-04-12T07:54:00.000-07:00

Keeping up with The Flemings

2006-03-27T10:40:00.000-08:00

Keeping up with The Flemings

Hi Guys! Quick update-Monday....busy! Always busy on a Monday what with BSP and ASR's and WRA's and E-tkts etc etc.

I had a nice weekend. Saturday was a beautiful day (but not as nice as Sunday weather-wise). The ships began going through Saturday and about 4 or 5 went through. We just HAD to go in the hot-tub (of course). There is nothing like being in the hot-tub and seeing ships go by. In the evening, we went over to Joanie's and Guys to see Jill and Trevor and Raija and Kalli. Oh my but have Raija and Kalli ever grown. They are the most adorable children. Raija had Kalli laughing her head off playing peek-a-boo! It was a sight to see....lucky Joanie!!!

Sunday was frustrating (had the dizzies again) Vertigo! I had to be very careful when walking. In fact at church I couldn't even process with the choir, I had to go sit up there by myself and watch them walk in.
Spoke with Greg (he called me). Sounds like he's having a very good life up there. Doing good stuff!

Well Women's World Curling is over and I anxiously await Men's World Curling. Kelly Scott made me mad! She lost in the semi-finals (made some terrible calls and made some bad shots too). I sure hope she doesn't read my blog! I wouldn't want to hurt her feelings.....Just in case.....I like Kelly Scott and can't wait to watch her next year. (Whew)!

It's our last night of curling for this year up at Tarentaurus. I am definitely going to curl next year again, but Valerie says she won't so I'll have to go alone. My team-mates will be Linda, Cindy, and Valerie Zuke. We have lots of fun together.

I'm saving up for a treadmill. That's it! I'm tired of getting fatter and fatter and fatter. Can't walk in the winter (too cold and messy), can't walk in the spring and summer....BEARS (and lions and tigers maybe but I've never seen them)....so that's it, I'm doing it. I should have enough money saved up by mid may to buy one.

That's it for today!
Bye for now
Jen/mom

update on the flemings

2006-03-24T08:44:00.000-08:00

Hi everybody! Today is Friday! Yippeeeee! Love Fridays! Dress down day. Hot tub night! Life is grand in Jen and Ken Land! I'm going to have to learn how to post pictures. I guess I should be happy that I even know how to start a blog of my own. Some of my friends emailed me back with "I don't even know what a blog is"! I didn't know either till Joseph and Amy made a blog and I logged on to it. If you want to check out their wedding pictures go to www.joeamymac.blogspot.com and if you want to hear Joseph's daily tirades go to joemacl.blogspot.com (he's pretty darn funny) even if I do say so myself.

Ken and I are doing well. We are just a couple of dinks now. (Double Income No Kids)
Greg has flown the coop and is living in Igloolik Nunavut! He and his fiance Kristan have taken teaching positions there and are thoroughly enjoying it. Lucky kids who have them for teachers. They sent us some pictures by email yesterday and.....wow, considering there are absolutely no trees in Igloolik it's beautiful! They had a polar bear sighting just outside of the city yesterday and it was big news. Everybody was skidooing around the bear trying to see it close up but also trying to scare it away from the city. The food there is very expensive (that is if you eat poorly). The chips, cookies, pop, chocolate bars and stuff like that is very expensive. They try to promote healthy eating so that's why they charge a fortune for those kind of foods. A bag of chips or a box of sugared cereal is about $8.00 (same as cookies). A 12 pack of coca cola is $18.00. Greg and Kristan share a semi-detached home and they really like the house. I'm sure Kristan has made it look like a comfortable home. She's pretty good at doing that.

Joseph and Amy have been married for about a year and a half now. We visited them in October for Thanksgiving and Greg and Ken and I stayed with them (a one bedroom apartment). Jose and Amy gave up their beautiful bed for us and slept on an air mattress out in the living room (thanks Jose and Amy). They used a good deal of their wedding money to decorate their apartment and it really is a beautiful little apartment. She has a great sense of style. I love their choice in art. Many pictures of friends and family around too. One day Joseph took us down to the water front marina (they live in Port Credit) while Amy went out shopping to buy ingredients to make a dessert for Thanksgiving Dinner (chocolate pie mmmm). Anyway, Joseph took us to Starbucks and bought us each a very exotic sounding coffee/drink. He bought Ken an apple cidar with caramel drizzled over the cream stuff on the top. Mmmm. We had a nice visit with them. We went to the Metro Zoo for a full day (and that is still not enough time to see the awesome animals they have there). We went to Amy's mom and dad's for Thanksgiving dinner. What a feast! And everything was yummy! Her mom and dad and brother Sean are awesome people. My boys have chosen well!

We have Ken's mom overnight on Sundays and enjoy her company. She loves coming to our house. I think she likes being taken care of for a day and who can blame her. She has been looking after people all her life so why not let someone spoil you for a day a week. And I enjoy her company too! She is doing very well physically and emotionally. She misses dad of course, but is a strong person and you don't hear too many complaints from her (she's always been like that), never complains.

I guess I should go now, work is calling me.

Love Jen

Keeping up with The Flemings

2006-03-23T13:27:00.000-08:00

Okay, here is the beginning of my blog! Not much too say....yet.
Had a great day...lots of cheques to post....love doing accounting and bookkeeping (who knew)
Got some pictures today from Greg and Kristan...fantastic...no trees....none....it's actually pretty beautiful (the landscape) or lack there of. They sure are enjoying themselves up there. Both seem very happy with their decision, and why not? They're making good money, meeting great people, doing something good for the world.

Got a nice long email from Joseph too! I love emails with lots of news in them. Or even just funny musings, which Joseph definitely has the knack of doing!

Amy has to go to Florida (I can't remember which city though...duh) but she's going to an awards night (probably receive a few herself). She's a pretty good journalist and has already received many awards!

I guess this is enough for my very first blog....talk soon

Love Jen