January 1st Wednesday of the month

Well I wanted to update the last month first but I started and well I just don't have the time or energy for that post but figured I should post what we were up to today.  

Kids slept in but both woke up in great moods.  We had breakfast while we started making our history timeline books.  I bought a book of really big watercolour paper and we cut the paper to size and made some accordion style books to use for our timeline.  Both nathan and Genevieve are quite excited for this and really enjoying it so far, except the gluing, we are gluing multiple sheets together with contact cement, man that stuff is stinky!   At first I got them to do this part but the glue was drying to quick so I glued the books together.  But the used the contact cenent to glue pictures on their timeline.  

We tried out a couple different size books and nathan and Gigi both went for the larger size books.  We will make book ends for these with bookend cardboard and cover them with fabric.  That way you can keep it folded like a book, flip through the pages or unfold to see it all payed out.  We may make a few of these books for different time periods.  

Genevieve was super excited it was watercolour paper, she started right away by painting some important events and decorating her book. 

Nathan working on his, as he was writing a title on his first page I had to bite my tongue as I was going to tell him to take his time and make sure it was neat.  I realized before I said it he really was trying hard and doing his best.  Instead of painting nathan searched the internet for pictures that worked with his timeline.  His first event was the Big Bang, it was funny when he looked it up as he looked up the Big Bang theory images and all he got was the tv show, he said u think there is a tv show called the Big Bang.  We do have timeline pieces from homeschool in the woods that we will use later, but nathan looked at them and was a little confused how both dinosaurs, the earth and people are all 5000 years old.  We had a discussion on what young earth creation is.  

Nathan's work, I wish his poor hands did not hurt and he could get out on this timeline what I know he would like to write about the Big Bang.  Gigi asked what was there before the big bang.  Nathan said well it was probably black as black is the absence of colour, the absence of anything, white is light, and something else, it sounded better when he said it.  

I love the details on Gigi's!  She is really taking to this and writing notes and different events.  You would think she has done a project like this before!   

We worked on these books for about 3 hours, until we had to get ready for hockey.  

Hockey was a great game!

After hockey we went straight to Abbotsford and I dropped nathan and Gigi off at their grandparents, and they took Gigi to cheer.  I picked up two other moms in Abbotsford and we headed to children's hospital for the first ever meeting for connective tissue disorders.  We had a great drive in, I have met the two moms I drove in with before so we had a good time.  The meeting was facilitated by the heart clinic by a nurse that I have met a few times at the heart clinic, she studies connective tissue disorders.  She had given me her business card a long time ago and two years ago when nathan was in emergency because we thought he may be having strokes I called her and told her what was happening.  She came down to the ER, talked to me and the neurologists.  She could not offer any expertise, as she says she learns more from us patients than she can offer, but it was so wonderful to have her there.  She came and visited nathan and I almost everyday and made sure our needs were being met, she was like our advocate.  

We discussed at the meeting the need to get the children together in a meeting like this, we may in future months bring the kids and let them have their own meeting.  Also setting up some fun dates for the kids.  Most of the parents agreed that their children wanted to know and meet others going through the same thing.  

Leslie also told us of a brand new collagen disorder clinic that has just opened in Vancouver.  We will have acess to mental Heath, pain management, cardiology, ophthalmology, orthopedics, genetics, all in one clinic.  I am going to ask my GP for a referal, so I can get another opinion on my hip, and maybe it would be nice to see the cardiologist at the same time, although I really do like my cardiologist.