Mar 31 2008
The Future is Friendly
The next 3 months seem to be holding a lot of promise.
In about 2 weeks, I finally get to see the neurosurgeon about my back. At this point, I’m fairly sure that surgery is going to be in the future for me. It’s not exactly what I want, but in a way, I’m looking forward to whatever it takes to make the pain go away..
In early May, my youngest brother, Andrew, is coming out from New Brunswick for a visit. He’s bringing along his girlfriend of three years now, so it will be nice to finally meet her. Last summer, Andrew came out to visit for about a week, we did a few tourist-type things and he got to spend some time getting to know our daughters some more. This year, he’s going to take Martha around Vancouver and visit with us only a couple of the days that he’s here.
In mid-June, Colleen and I will be going to Chicago! That weekend, she has a conference to attend for work, but I’m tagging along for the fun of it. We’ll probably spend a couple extra days so that we have some time together on a vacation. I was there about 10-12 years ago with my friend Mark (the memories of conversations of sporks and alarm clocks!), but I was on the outskirts, not the downtown core.
Around the same time that we return from our trip, Mark and his family will be in town with his family. They are going to be RV’ing across Canada and staying in town for 6-7 days. I’ve known him for almost 20 years, so I’m sure that they’ll be plenty of stories we’ll be recounting (and our wives will probably not want to hear them again), but I’m looking forward to having our families spend some time together. I remember Mark and I having a conversation many years ago about how we would never own a mini-van. Now, I have two, and I believe Mark still has one.
I think that’s all that is in the works between now and the end of June. I really like it when family and friends visit. I also am excited that Colleen and I get to go on a vacation without the kids. The last vacation that we took was in 1998.. 