Holiday Greetings from the Rainey Family!
We had another good year in
2012. Donovan successfully completed
grade Primay (it’s what they call Kindergarten in Nova Scotia) and started
Grade One in the fall. He played soccer
in the summer, and also participated in skating and swimming lessons. Grama and Grampa Rainey looked after Donovan
3 days/ week in July and in August he attended two weeks of “Adventure Camp”, a
day camp here in the city, which he loved.
Malcolm graduated from Blue Room 1 to Blue Room 2 in September, his last
stop before moving to “big boy school” next year – he will be attending the
same school as Donovan, which is just two blocks down our street.
Many of you know that most of
summer and early fall was consumed with a renovation project. We decided to tear out our bathroom and
kitchen to make a small powder room and much larger kitchen on the main
floor. We moved walls, windows and doors
to make it happen. A few unexpected
surprises were discovered along the way, but in the end we are very happy with
how everything turned out. Mary Ellen
did all of the painting. The boys were
very good about all the upheaval.
Luckily, we were able to
escape all the commotion for three weeks in August when we headed to
Ontario. We visited Camp Kintail and
then it was off to the farm. We had a
great time seeing all our extended family again and enjoying life on the farm. Jan left us for two weeks to go off to Europe
to deliver a seminar at Oxford and attend a conference in Nice. He also visited some family and friends in
England and Switzerland to round out the trip.
Jan had a largely successful
year at work securing some more grants and getting lots of research done. He is looking forward to starting a six-month
sabbatical in January, which means he will have no administrative or teaching
duties – he can focus on research. He
will remain in Halifax for most of it but may travel for a few weeks at a time
to Florida or the UK.
Mary Ellen is still working
three days/week with no plans to go back to full-time work. Her days at home are busy as Donovan comes
home for lunch and Malcolm is accessing increased speech language and
occupational therapy services. Malcolm
is starting to say some words which is very encouraging progress. He has really stretched up over the last year
and lost his “baby” look – he is all boy now!
Many thanks to all who
visited this year and we extend an open invitation to others to come visit us
this year. We are looking forward to another healthy, happy year in 2013 and wish
the same for all our family and friends!
Mary Ellen, Jan, Donovan and Malcolm
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