Family Update

Just a few updates what has been happening at the Baxter household in March.

I have taken a temporary job with a Canada Post route driver for the next few months. I help him put the mail in the boxes during his trip on the rural route. I am still doing my regular shift in the office every morning; this is just something extra and is only for about 1 hour a day. It will give me a little extra horse money for the summer! :)

Daniel and Jim went to a motorcycle show today in Toronto. They were also planning on attending the Arena cross MX races in the evening (also in Toronto). Jim was hoping to ride the GO train so he wouldn't have to drive all the way downtown and find/pay for parking. They have been looking forward to this for a few months.

Julia and Leah have been busy getting ready for the next season on Pony club activities. We are part of a new branch that is starting in our area. The past couple of years we were with the branch up in Fergus and now we are looking forward to not having as much driving for the meetings. Today they were at the Quiz competition and their team won 4th place (out of 18). We are pretty excited because this is a very new and young group.

Leah bought a new pony. He is a 9 year old gelding, about 13 HH. He is supposed to be a Welsh/Hafflinger cross, but there are no papers. Leah wants to train another horse and thinks this will be a good project for her. If he is a nice pony, we may have to graduate Julia to him!

Andrew has been VERY busy working at McDonalds. During March break, he "missed out" on some of our spring cleaning because he had some long shifts there. I am concerned about his eating so many meals there. So far, though, he has done a great job of keeping up with his school work even though he works a lot. Its is testing his time management skills and he is doing great!

Hannah is keeping busy with school work and socializing. She LOVES going to our church's youth group every Friday (called Impact) and claims this is the highlight of her week. Shopping is still her other favorite activity, and she would love to have a ride to the mall at least twice a week! She has been saving her money for a camera, so she has had to limit her purchases.

Not much else is happening here. We have been having lots of sunshine and some warmer weather this past week. It has been great to see signs of spring coming!