leviticus 23 and the feast of trumpets

²³ Then the LORD spoke to Moses, saying, ²⁴ “Speak to the children of Israel, saying: ‘In the seventh month, on the first day of the month, you shall have a sabbath-rest, a memorial of blowing of trumpets, a holy convocation.  (taken from Bible.com)

On the first day of the seventh month on my calendar here is CANADA DAY.  I didn't spend it as event filled as I thought I would this year (was going to go to a local city to participate in the events for the children) but it was still a good day. I packed up the kids and we spent it at my parent's trailer. There was swimming and playing. I had purchased a few Canadian flags earlier and the children all enjoyed waving them around and playing with them. We even had strawberry shortcake (a lovely birthday cake/dessert in Canadian colours: red & white) for dessert from supper. There were no fireworks or parades but in all honesty I was fine with that...my sons have a few years before they need to stay up to watch fireworks...maybe once they understand the concept of sleeping in the next day.  There were no trumpets (maybe next year) but I did spent time throughout the day thanking Jesus for my family and the time I get to spend with them. My niece is here for a couple of weeks. We stayed up last night making Canada Day sugar cookies. It was nice to be able to spent that time with her.

CO is LOVING having her around. She is learning to have patience with him :). It is easy for her as an only child to forget that he is only 3 and he may ask her questions more than once.

I unfortunately forgot my camera and may just dress the boys up in thier Canada t-shirts I bought them and take a photo of them pretending it is Canada Day :)
The pool at the trailer is nice and J spent the first 20 minutes mad to be in the water (even though he LOVES water) and the next 40 minutes loving splashing and being thrown into the air and landing in the water. I am hoping that he enjoys next week at the cottage pool and grows to love swimming as much as his brother. CO is close to being a swimmer. He can swim for short distances with no help. If the weather this upcoming week is nice, I hope to be in the pool daily and help him improve these skills even more.  I have an inflatable boat for J at the cottage so hopefully he will allow one of the big kids to play with him in the water so I can do some 1:1 swimming with CO. I will be at the cottage next week with a 1, 3, 8, 10, 12 & 12 year old. I will be the only adult most of the week so please feel free to pray :) My cousin is going to lend a hand but she is puppy sitting up the road at another cottage so I am not sure how much of a help she will be free to be.

I dropped J off at respite this evening and went home to pack for the upcoming week. I am hoping that on Sunday I am able to get home quickly from work, attach the trailer, load up the back of the truck and the trailer and pick up the three kids and be at the cottage before bedtime. I don't know how realistic this is as I am not off work until 3:30, J's bedtime is 7, I'll need to feed the kids supper and the cottage is an hour away...but I am willing to give it a try. I could wait until the morning but I wanted the kids to be able to attend the program next week and it starts bright and early Monday morning :)