sneak preview of summer 2007...
I know I am getting a little ahead of myself by writing about this now, especially because winter just decided to formally enter the picture last week. However, I am too flipping excited about some things that have taken place recently not to talk about them. They are awesome!!!
This is what they are:
Over the Christmas break, while my brother and his wife were visiting us, on their way home from a trip to minnesota to visit her family, we found out that Shannon is pregnant! Yaaaaaay! No one in my famiy - despite everyone's hopes to the contrary - thought babies would be making an appearance on the Ward family scene any time in the super near future. My brother and his wife are both doctors and Colin practically lives at the hospital right now given his chief resident's position. I can imagine that the decision to have kids would have been difficult, but we are SOOOOO excited!
THEN, a few days later, my sister Amanda and her husband were over for dinner and Amanda was looking a little green around the gills. Out of the blue, while sitting in the rocking chair in our kitchen she says rather woefully "I'm so sick!!! I am tired of living a lie and making up excuses as to why I can't hang out anymore! I'm pregnant!" I thought she was joking, until I found out she wasn't...(duh). I got to be excited all over again! The best part is that Amanda and Shannon are both due in August within 4 days of eachother. Pretty awesome!!!
So that covers the latter part of the summer, but what about the former, you ask...
Friday afternoon I got a call from my oldest sister who runs a company in Toronto. We chatted for a few minutes, and then she says: "Oh, Cas, I just wanted to let you know that we definitely have a job for you this summer. When you start on May 1st, you will be assistant producing the Curiosity Film Festival." I can't tell you how excited I was/am! After the festival is over in June, I get to do more production work for the other projects Curiosity Inc will be working on. Ridiculously amazing opportunities!
So that's that - those are some things that I have to look forward to this summer. I am feeling particularly blessed these days! It helps keep things in perspective when school seems to be a little (or a lot) much, and I start to feel like the light at the end of the tunnel is a long way off...
I will enjoy the semester here, it's going to be busy as well as really great, I think...but come May 1st, Toronto might not know what hit it.
C
This is what they are:
Over the Christmas break, while my brother and his wife were visiting us, on their way home from a trip to minnesota to visit her family, we found out that Shannon is pregnant! Yaaaaaay! No one in my famiy - despite everyone's hopes to the contrary - thought babies would be making an appearance on the Ward family scene any time in the super near future. My brother and his wife are both doctors and Colin practically lives at the hospital right now given his chief resident's position. I can imagine that the decision to have kids would have been difficult, but we are SOOOOO excited!
THEN, a few days later, my sister Amanda and her husband were over for dinner and Amanda was looking a little green around the gills. Out of the blue, while sitting in the rocking chair in our kitchen she says rather woefully "I'm so sick!!! I am tired of living a lie and making up excuses as to why I can't hang out anymore! I'm pregnant!" I thought she was joking, until I found out she wasn't...(duh). I got to be excited all over again! The best part is that Amanda and Shannon are both due in August within 4 days of eachother. Pretty awesome!!!
So that covers the latter part of the summer, but what about the former, you ask...
Friday afternoon I got a call from my oldest sister who runs a company in Toronto. We chatted for a few minutes, and then she says: "Oh, Cas, I just wanted to let you know that we definitely have a job for you this summer. When you start on May 1st, you will be assistant producing the Curiosity Film Festival." I can't tell you how excited I was/am! After the festival is over in June, I get to do more production work for the other projects Curiosity Inc will be working on. Ridiculously amazing opportunities!
So that's that - those are some things that I have to look forward to this summer. I am feeling particularly blessed these days! It helps keep things in perspective when school seems to be a little (or a lot) much, and I start to feel like the light at the end of the tunnel is a long way off...
I will enjoy the semester here, it's going to be busy as well as really great, I think...but come May 1st, Toronto might not know what hit it.
C
posted by A Horse(wo)man at 10:37 AM
2 Comments:
Happy is me for the Auntie soon to be.
Congratulations. I don't know why I said that, its not like you had anything to do with the pregnancies of your siblings, (that we know of).
A little heads up for ya, I talked to Matty B. and he said that his New Years' resolution was to put a bun in the oven by the end of 2007... and he had that far away distant look in his eye, it was the eye of the tiger - which can only mean two things.
What they are is lost to me.
Where am I? Oh right, summer jobs. Sure you don't want to become a roofer?? I may have some connections.. I'll warn you that its a tough industry to crack though.
Oh yeah!
Crazy Horse!
I can't say your conversation comes as a surprise...we do go to Next, afterall...I think I may have just discovered my personal link to the pregnancies in my family. The 'Next'fluence is spreading!
As for the roofing gig, if I weren't askeered of heights, I would do it...give a whoel new meaning to the expression 'Cat on a hot tin roof'...if they still have those.
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