Sunday, October 16th.

Life sure seems to get busy in a hurry! Hardly a blink and two weeks have gone by...The first week I had meetings to attend in Thunder Bay, so I took the opportunity of being closer to Toronto, and flew there to visit with my dad. Inge has been recovering from major abdominal surgery, and being almost 90 has put his recovery in a very slow mode. He was delighted to see me, not expecting it and being Thanksgiving and all...
The grandson is getting big, and most adorable (biased grandma). I enjoyed spending time with all the members of my family, however due to previous schedules it became a 'spend time with mom/sister/daughter/grandma (all my hats) whenever possible. So, although there was no big family get together with turkey, I was very fortunate to have precious moments with all.
Thomas now is at the fast crawling, get to the table or anything by that matter and pull himself up stage. Gone are the days of the placid baby, not having to worry about, welcome mama to the "can't leave him for an instant" days....
Our only missing member was Ricardo, keeping an eye on Moopy and viceversa, up in Wunnumin. As I got back on Monday, the first snow reported had gone, and the "Indian Summer" set in. Back to the warm, short sleeve shirts....

The second week brought some other community issues to the forefront. The boy I previously mentioned, passed on on Friday evening at the young age of fifteen (correction of previous entry). Tomorrow will be the burial, so we will close the school for the second time for a funeral. The sad part is that all this is having quite an impact on the children's behaviour, and even some security issues are beginning to emerge. Hopefully the band will deal with these, and we can get on with the matter of education.