{"id":130,"date":"2012-09-01T15:03:54","date_gmt":"2012-09-01T21:03:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/smithcrew.ca\/?p=130"},"modified":"2021-02-11T05:09:42","modified_gmt":"2021-02-11T05:09:42","slug":"hello-september","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/smithcrew.ca\/wordpress\/2012\/09\/01\/hello-september\/","title":{"rendered":"Hello September"},"content":{"rendered":"

<\/p>Well in the blink of an eye we are starting September 2012 \u2013 I\u2019m always mystified at how quickly time goes by and have asked many of my peers (read into that OLD people in my life\u2026..HI Mom, HI Dad \u2013 tee hee hee) \u201cDoes time slow down when the kids are all grown, we\u2019ve done all the major tasks in life, our jobs are routine\u201d??\u00a0 The answer always seems to be a collective NO!\u00a0 Hmmm but does it slow down when we are old \u2013 and by old I mean over 80 \u2013 when our days seems to be nothing more than getting up, shuffling to the dining room, eating, shuffling back to our respective rooms, and repeating this action for the next 2 meals that are served to us?\u00a0 Doesn\u2019t it seem then that time would stand still because nothing much is happening around us??\u00a0 I\u2019ve got a few years before I hit 80 to find out the answer to that question.\u00a0 Actually I can tell you I want to be one of those 80 year olds that does crazy stuff \u2013 you know to make my heart remember what it\u2019s like to be alive.\u00a0 Maybe I\u2019ll learn to play an instrument then \u2013 or go white water rafting.. actually I want to do that stuff way before I\u2019m 80.\n

Alas September has greeted us at the door this morning \u2013 you know fall is in the air \u2013 leaves are changing colors & dropping here. Good old frost warnings are being announced on the weather report and kids are back to school on Tuesday.\u00a0 Ah yes school \u2013 the time when parents are rejoicing and kids are sour faced.\u00a0 Not in our house this year \u2013 Cooper has told me he\u2019s ready to go back \u2013 wants to see his friends and start a new year.\u00a0 He\u2019s headed to Grade 6 \u2013 it\u2019s interesting as I can sit and reflect back remembering Grade 6 for both Colton & Chloe \u2013 it doesn\u2019t seem so long ago \u2013 the edge of the milestone to where they become teenagers.<\/p>\n

Our house is very interesting right now \u2013 Colton is preparing to start College on Tuesday \u2013 he\u2019s taking his journeyman welding. There was a time when I said a lot of prayers for Colton just to survive another day \u2013 to break free of the rough road he went down when he was a teenager and now here he is going on 7 months of living back under our roof. He\u2019s come a long way and the joy we see in his eyes shows that he is happy with all he\u2019s accomplished in these past few months.\u00a0 He\u2019s been away from school long enough to find real excitement at going back \u2013 and we\u2019re pretty happy for him.<\/p>\n

Chloe is all done \u2013 and doing back flips that she doesn\u2019t have to go back. She slogged through High School\u00a0and so far no plans to darken the door of any educational institute in the near future.\u00a0 Although she\u2019s just really wading into the whole working at a crappy job experience so we\u2019ll see how long that last. A few weeks back she was complaining that she has to work weekends all the time and doesn\u2019t get to spend it with her boyfriend\u2026.Me being Me, I quickly interjected that had she listened to her Mother \u2013 taken Office Admin at the College she could find a great office job \u2013 work Monday to Friday with weekends off\u2026.OH YES I DID!!!\u00a0 Her response was yah I guess so \u2013 although it was mumbled and rather hard to make out she said it (score one for Mommy!!).\u00a0 I know she\u2019s going to mature over the next year or two and realize that she needs more education and I\u2019ll be her number one cheerleader when that day comes.<\/p>\n

Fall 2012 brings big plans for Clark & I \u2013 we have decided to test our marriage and build a house. We\u2019ve owned a piece of land for 2 years and not really committed to doing anything with it but after much discussion we realize now is the time to shit or get off the pot.\u00a0 So we\u2019re committing ourselves to this 5 year project \u2013 most of which will be yard work as we have our house builder picked out. Thankfully this is our 2nd acreage we are developing so we\u2019ve learned from our previous mistakes and are ready to improve on some old ideas.\u00a0 The boys are extremely happy as they\u2019ll get to play on the quads, build jumps & bring home stuff to take apart & rebuild only to leave at Mom & Dad\u2019s when they move away. Chloe is still wondering about getting a horse and wanting to make sure there will be a room for her \u2013 and actually Colton wanted to make sure there was a room for him too which tells me we are doing something right when the kids don\u2019t want to leave.\u00a0 Clark, of course, is building the monster shop he\u2019s always dreamed of \u2013 or rather he\u2019s proposing it to the County and prepared to fight for every last foot of it. I\u2019m just wondering if I\u2019ll get that green house I\u2019ve always wanted \u2013 whenever I\u2019m down in Victoria at my Dad\u2019s I always go into his and dream a little dream\u2026.<\/p>\n

Clark has dubbed our new acreage \u201cPoverty Acres\u201d I\u2019m inserting the before photo \u2013 and along the way will update on my blog the progress we are making.<\/p>\n

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That\u2019s it for now \u2013 Cheers!<\/p>\n

Shannon<\/p>\n<\/body>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"