HeidiRenee's Minti Blog

Summer Camp - Rock Mountain

HeidiRenee — Fri, 14 Sep 2007 12:31:00 -0700

For those of you who care you can find Alinea & Jacob in this video at these place:

.47 - Jake's Bed in his tepee
1.46 - Alinea's back - putting clothes pins on counselor's shirt - right corner
2:15 - Jacob
3:51 - Jacob playing soccer (he's the white shirt w/ the ball)
4:04 - Jacob
4:11 - Jacob - yellow shirt
4:21 - Jacob - rocket launch - yellow shirt
4:30 - Alinea's next to the person launching the ball
5:48 - Alinea's knee in the pretty skirt
6:00 - Jacob reading his bible
6:13 - Alinea's hair in the back row
6:39 - Jake serves himself some bacon

It was an amazing first camp experience for both of them and it's so wonderful to have these memories captured for them here.

Happy New Year!

HeidiRenee — Tue, 02 Jan 2007 14:29:00 -0800

2007!

What a year of opportunity!

Can't wait to see what unfolds. Pray you had a wonderful holiday celebration! We sure did!

My Christmas Traditions by Alinea

HeidiRenee — Thu, 14 Dec 2006 14:55:00 -0800

My Christmas traditions go like this...

1. On Christmas Eve I open 1 present. I open pajamas or an ornament. No toys! The best for last I guess, or the best for Christmas morning.

2. On Christmas morning I wake up (I'm an early riser) probably no one is awake yet! If no one is awake I have to wait and wait and wait. Staring at the presents does not make it easier to wait!

3. Finally someone wakes up! It is my brother Jake. Then my parents wake up! Time to open presents.

4. After that my parents go to get the camera to take pictures of our faces when we see our gifts. I stick my hand in my stocking and usually there is candy, small activity books or small gifts.

5. After presents we eat breakfast and light the last candle on the Advent Wreath. My Christmas is probably not the same as yours but it is Christmas.

(Red)emption & World Aids Day

HeidiRenee — Fri, 01 Dec 2006 08:42:00 -0800

Today is World Aids Day. Does it matter? How does it affect our families?

Religion that God our Father accepts as pure and faultless is this: to look after orphans and widows in their distress and to keep oneself from being polluted by the world.

James 1:27

One of the ways we can help is to give to a project called (Red)emption that a good friend of mine is putting together.

You can read more about it here:

(Red)emption

Alinea, Jacob, Keith & I all feel that this is God's heart for the nations. Please contribute if you are able. It's only $10.00, but together we can change the world.

We are the people we've been waiting for!

Happy Halloween!

HeidiRenee — Wed, 01 Nov 2006 10:24:00 -0800

Favorite Meme

HeidiRenee — Wed, 11 Oct 2006 15:54:03 -0700

Jen tagged me for this meme:

1. What's your child's favorite book? Jacob loves Dragonology and Alinea is reading The Amazing Days Abbie Hayes series

2. What is your favorite children's book? I love juvenille fiction - too many to count. Right now we're reading George McDonald's "The Princess & the Goblins"

3. What is your child's favorite thing to eat? Jacob is a pizza man and Alinea can't seem to get enough spaghetti

4. What's your favorite thing to eat? Greek food

5. What's your child's favorite game? Jacob has been very into Battleship lately, but will play any and all games I agree to. He LOVES games. Alinea isn't as interested in them, but likes LIFE the most.

6. What's your favorite game? I am far too competitive to play games frequently. I enjoy them, but get a bit too involved sometimes. I played an amazing game at a New Year's party last year - Apples to Apples - can't find it in any stores - but it's one of the most creative games I've ever played - everyone gets to play - no right or wrong answers, if you can read, you can play. It's a lot of fun.

If you want to play consider yourself tagged!

TAC Update

HeidiRenee — Thu, 05 Oct 2006 14:16:46 -0700

Well, I asked the kids what they wanted to do for TAC today and they wanted to take a walk - so we spent it all in one chunk. it is a beautiful day here - so it was very pleasant. We forgot the camera though - but the leaves and trees are just gorgeous!

Give a mom some love!

HeidiRenee — Thu, 05 Oct 2006 10:30:04 -0700

Oh this is the funniest/saddest blog post I've read by a mom in a LONG time!

I think she needs a minti invite!

Reason #63

I'm taking the Total Attention Challenge!

HeidiRenee — Wed, 04 Oct 2006 02:16:11 -0700

Sistah Jen has sent out the challenge to be more present in our children's lives. 3 times a day, 10 minutes a day totally engage with your kids - I think if we all really did this we could change everything.

Alinea & Jacob deserve a mom who is engaged in their lives and really listening.

You can read about it here:

Total Attention Challenge

I'm in - how 'bout you?

MMMMMMM Minti!

HeidiRenee — Wed, 27 Sep 2006 10:27:00 -0700

I have found a wonderful family site full of advice, interaction and fun. Just for families. You can get and give advice, get to know other families in your area and really create an online community of support. And don't we know we can all use a bit of support!

You can find it here:

Minti.com

Okay, it's Jen's fault if I get nothing done around the house!

HeidiRenee — Wed, 27 Sep 2006 08:59:30 -0700

Jen Lemen is one of my favorite bloggers/women/people - I just couldn't stand the thought that she was writing somewhere I couldn't see! There is no RSS feed for Minti blogs!

We'll see how this goes - like I need another reason to be online and not doing all of the other things in life I'm supposed to be doing!

Alinea

HeidiRenee — Sun, 27 Aug 2006 14:51:00 -0700

When I was pregnant with our daughter Keith and I had many disagreements about what we should name her. During our eigth month of pregnancy I was reading the Dragon King series by Stephen Lawhead and came across his beautiful, noble queen with the long red hair named Alinea - I fell in love with it immediately. It suits her beautifully and the other day she asked me what it meant. I had forgotten so today I searched for the answer again.

I had written Stephen Lawhead years ago asking if he had the meaning of her name and this was the answer from his website:

Q: We named our daugher after Queen Alinea. Can you give me a meaning to the name, or any history you may have on it?

Q: I am now pregnant and knew from the first time I read the name 'Queen Alinea' this would be the name of my daughter. I am hoping you can tell me what Alinea means, as it will mean very much to me and my daughter when one day she is able to read the series.

A: Most of the names in the DRAGON KING books are medieval names, or older forms of common modern names. The name "Alinea" is a very old name of Germanic origin derived from the popular 12th Century "Adeline," which derives in turn from the old word "athal" which means: noble. It was a name given not only to women of royal birth, but women of sterling character.

Happy Canada Day, eh

HeidiRenee — Tue, 04 Jul 2006 05:06:00 -0700

How to Get Rid of Fruit Flies - WikiHow

HeidiRenee — Mon, 19 Jun 2006 12:01:00 -0700

Here's a wiki How-To I wrote that might help this time of year:

How to Get Rid of Fruit Flies - WikiHow

Field Trip!

HeidiRenee — Mon, 19 Jun 2006 11:11:00 -0700

Moving, Moving, Moving

HeidiRenee — Wed, 07 Jun 2006 06:08:00 -0700

It's been far too long since I've updated here - but we've been SO busy getting ready for a more permanent living space. We officially move on Saturday into our new home. It's the top 2 floors of a large home and will be really good space for us. We've had access to it for the past couple of weeks and have gotten it move in ready. Alinea's room is bright green - we call it electric celery - and we're using a couple shades of pink and lots of butterflies to decorate. It's really come together beautifully. She is giddy every time she walks in there. I am so thrilled we've been able to fulfill this promise to them and give them the bedrooms they have dreamed about.

Jacob's room is a castle theme - we're having to make more of his things, so some of it will have to wait until we're moved in - but he's got a throne, and dragons, shields and swords - and he's very excited to have a space that is fit 'for a king'! (well, at least a prince or knight!)

We've done lots of painting and prep work for the move and now there are just a couple of tiny things to tie up and then the work of getting the stuff 'here' to 'there' - it's just 11 addresses down the street and I joked with friends that if I had access to four shopping carts we'd each be wheeling them down the street! The kids are so relieved we didn't! HA!

I'll post pictures as soon as we get furniture in.

Please pray if you think of us - we do the big move on Saturday. I'm on my second round of antibiotics for bronchitis and I'd really like to be returned to full health soon! Thanks a lot!

Squirt!

HeidiRenee — Sun, 28 May 2006 14:50:00 -0700

Ali & Jake cool off with a squirt gun fight

It was a good friday

HeidiRenee — Sat, 15 Apr 2006 12:04:00 -0700

Grieving and loss was such a big part of this past year for us that forcing ourselves to be sad on such a beautiful day seemed wrong. So we decided to celebrate life instead. We think God will understand.

We headed to one of our new favorite places St. Andrews by the Sea to beach comb and fly kites. We also got there right at high tide and watched it receed to expose the starfish and anenome(s?) on the wharf - it was a Good Friday indeed!

I have never thought of juggling as beautiful before

HeidiRenee — Sat, 08 Apr 2006 05:51:00 -0700

Beach Combing on Jasper Beach

HeidiRenee — Tue, 04 Apr 2006 15:26:00 -0700