{"id":112,"date":"2004-10-25T20:48:09","date_gmt":"2004-10-26T01:48:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cottrillcompass.com\/?p=112"},"modified":"2007-01-05T22:48:05","modified_gmt":"2007-01-06T04:48:05","slug":"cousins","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cottrillcompass.com\/blog\/2004\/cousins.html","title":{"rendered":"Cousins"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><b>Here in Southern Ontario we&#8217;ve been able to enjoy some time with relatives, among other things.<\/b> &nbsp;During the last couple of weeks we&#8217;ve visited an Aunt and Uncle, cousins on Shari&#8217;s side, Shari&#8217;s grandma, cousins on Jim&#8217;s side, cousins on Shari&#8217;s side, more cousins on Jim&#8217;s side, cousins on Shari&#8217;s side, cousins on Jim&#8217;s side, more cousins on Jim&#8217;s side, even more cousins on Jim&#8217;s side (etc etc) and Shari&#8217;s grandparents. &nbsp;Later this week we hope to see Jim&#8217;s aunt, among other family and non-family members.<\/p>\n<p><i>Phew!<\/i> &nbsp;I didn&#8217;t realize there were so many until I wrote it all out like that! &nbsp;But we are very blessed to have such a great group of people to be related to. &nbsp;They say you can&#8217;t choose your relatives, but I think we would have been happy to choose these ones if we could. &nbsp;Of course, the problem is that with so many people to see, there simply isn&#8217;t enough time to see everyone, or to spend the time with them that you would like to.<\/p>\n<p>On the weekend I will be driving to Cochrane (about 10 hours&#8217; drive or so) to speak at the <b>First Baptist Church<\/b> there. &nbsp;I was invited when we were up there earlier this month, so we decided that I would take the trip back. &nbsp;Then we&#8217;ll be all together again back in Southern Ontario for the month of November.<\/p>\n<p>We&#8217;re all still pretty tired, but we&#8217;ve been blessed with a place to stay for a couple of weeks at a mission home belonging to the <b><a href=\"http:\/\/www.cbmicanada.org\" target=\"_blank\">Christian Blind Mission<\/a><\/b>. &nbsp;It will be nice to have a place to be semi-settled, and hopefully we can find some time to catch up on a little sleep. &nbsp;Nathanael certainly seems to do better when he has more than one night in the same place.<\/p>\n<p>We&#8217;re having some trouble getting things booked and planned for the next few weeks (after this week, which is doing nicely), but I imagine it will come together over the next few days (although I guess I&#8217;ve been saying that for a few weeks now!). &nbsp;What can I say? &nbsp;<i>Stay tuned&#8230;<\/i><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Here in Southern Ontario we&#8217;ve been able to enjoy some time with relatives, among other things. &nbsp;During the last couple of weeks we&#8217;ve visited an Aunt and Uncle, cousins on Shari&#8217;s side, Shari&#8217;s grandma, cousins on Jim&#8217;s side, cousins on Shari&#8217;s side, more cousins on Jim&#8217;s side, cousins on Shari&#8217;s side, cousins on Jim&#8217;s side, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-112","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-family","category-ministry-glimpses","has-post-title","has-post-date","has-post-category","has-post-tag","has-post-comment","has-post-author",""],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.4 - 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