We hear it so often now\u2014everything has changed; everything is different now. Even my Saturdays are different than before. I used to wake up a little later than on a weekday, go for my run, then go ahead with all the errands moved to the \u201cSaturday-To-Do-List.\u201d Typically, this involved a trip for groceries or to a home improvement store.<\/p>\n
Now, I wake up earlier to go for my Saturday run because the track and sidewalks are so busy with other people getting out for their walk or run. I also can\u2019t go shopping the way I used to (though the to-do list never seems to go away!).<\/p>\n
Part of my new routine on Saturdays includes delivering birthday greetings and Kinder Eggs to our middle school students who have celebrated a birthday that week. I have averaged five deliveries every Saturday.<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n There are some real perks to these birthday deliveries.<\/p>\n First, I have the opportunity to see and interact (at the appropriate physical distance, of course) with some of our students. Like all our staff members, I really miss interacting with middle school students. This weekly connection is a lot of fun.<\/p>\n Secondly, the drive is often an excuse to spend some time with my youngest daughter. We have some fantastic conversations as we travel all around Abbotsford and the surrounding areas.<\/p>\n Speaking of traveling, a typical Saturday not only involves visiting homes close to our campus, but heading out to Chilliwack, West Abbotsford, Mission, and Dewdney. I enjoy discovering \u201cnew to me\u201d neighbourhoods and impressing my daughter with my sense of direction and knowledge of street names.<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n The students whom I visit share stories of creative birthday celebrations. Drive-by parades of well wishers, a group of friends presenting a birthday dance routine on the street in front of their house, great fun with their siblings, and even a dancing dinosaur has visited a few homes (Mr. Don Kowalchuk may know something about this particular species of Tyrannosaurus Rex!).<\/p>\n My Saturday deliveries are definitely a highlight of my changed week. Perhaps I will be coming to a doorstep near you in the coming weeks!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" We hear it so often now\u2014everything has changed; everything is different now. Even my Saturdays are different than before. I used to wake up a little later than on a weekday, go for my run, then go ahead with all the errands moved to the \u201cSaturday-To-Do-List.\u201d Typically, this involved a trip for groceries or to […]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":145,"featured_media":4958,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"wds_primary_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[34,15],"tags":[],"post_folder":[],"class_list":["post-4954","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-middle-school","category-relationships"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/abbotsfordchristian.com\/insideout\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4954","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/abbotsfordchristian.com\/insideout\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/abbotsfordchristian.com\/insideout\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abbotsfordchristian.com\/insideout\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/145"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abbotsfordchristian.com\/insideout\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4954"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/abbotsfordchristian.com\/insideout\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4954\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abbotsfordchristian.com\/insideout\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4958"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/abbotsfordchristian.com\/insideout\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4954"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abbotsfordchristian.com\/insideout\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4954"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abbotsfordchristian.com\/insideout\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4954"},{"taxonomy":"post_folder","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abbotsfordchristian.com\/insideout\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/post_folder?post=4954"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}From Here to There<\/h2>\n