Peace Like A River


It was a wide river, mistakable for a lake or even an ocean unless you'd been wading and knew its current. Somehow I'd crossed it... Now I saw the stream regrouped below, flowing on through what might've been vineyards, pastures, orhards... It flowed between and alongside the rivers of people; from here it was no more than a silver wire winding toward the city. - Leif Enger, Peace Like A River

Monday, July 28, 2003

Another busy weekend. On Saturday morning, Hanna needed a shot, so we stopped by the clinic at Unity Hospital, where Rhonda works. I stayed outside with John and walked around with him while we waited. By all accounts, Hanna wasn't pleased about getting stabbed with a needle. She had stopped crying by the time she came out, but when she saw me, she started crying again and told me all about it.

From there, we went down to Abbot Northwestern Hospital to see Joan. Glenn was there, along with Mark and Myndi. Was nice to see all of them again, if only for a short time. Joan appeared to be doing better. She was up and around with a walker. Keple's stopped by too while we were there. Of course, all John wanted to do was go on the elevators. But, we got him to play with LeapPad for awhile, and told him we'd be going on the elevators when we left.

After they got up from their nap, I got out the pool and the slip n'slide. John just loved the slip n' slide. I had to help him slide though. I'd slide him along a ways and then let go, and he'd slide all the way to end. I think I didn't have it watered down enough at first, cuz it looks like he scraped his back in a spot on the plastic. I held Hanna by the hands and slid her all the way to the end. They laughed and laughed.

Our new neighbors were moving in on Saturday. Haven't talked to them yet though. It was very humid and hot on Saturday, so that must have been fun. It was enough for me just to mow the lawn. We'll miss Mark though. He was so nice.

On Sunday, we went to first service, and then out to Lake George. I think John remembered his scare from last week when he hit a deep spot and couldn't get his head above water, so he wasn't as eager to go out in the water. We helped him though, and played with him, and he seemed to improve a bit. There was no one there when we got there about 10, but more had arrived by noon when we left. I don't know why it wasn't packed. It was a nice warm day, summers don't last forever around here.

At home John was playing with a TweetyBird stuffed toy we have. He was pretending to play with Tweety and his trains. He brought Tweety over to the trains and said "hmm, about this one?" and give Tweety the Percy train.

In the evening I went to the church annual business meeting. I'm a deacon now. So, I'm sure that will involve some time, but I'm eager to see what the experience is like. The church also voted to separate the school from the church, starting a year from now.

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