Our Son is Home for the Weekend!

Since our children are grown and both are leading meaningful independent lives, we are true empty nesters. North America is a huge continent which means getting from west coast to the east coast can take up almost a day's time. It is really exciting for us whenever our grown children come home to visit us.

We got our son's room all clean and ready for his homecoming!

This was the weekend our elder son came home to see us! There were a few things we have to do to get ready.

The groceries and laundry were all done a couple of days ago. However, I had to give a workshop in the afternoon in the east end. After that,  I  rushed home to get the last few things ready. Motivated, we cleaned the house, dusted his room and got things looking decent and comfortable for him.

My husband told me that we should time our arrival to the airport so that we could just pick E. outside the airport terminal. Having travelled a lot and coming home on my own, I know the joy of seeing my loved ones waiting for me at the airport.  I love seeing our son coming through the customs doors and rushing up to him and giving him a warm welcome with a bear hug. Therefore, we  arrived at the Pearson Airport about fifteen minutes before the arrival time.  Though the plane landed on time, we still waited for almost an hour before E. appeared .

 It was well past 10:00pm after we picked E. up from the airport, a little too late to go out for supper. We called our favourite Thai food restaurant and ordered some take out food to enjoy.

It was no fancy dinner but we enjoyed our take out dinner at home tremendously! E. was quite happy, talkative and in good spirit this evening. He shared with us the latest happening about his job, how much fun he has at the office and how much his CEO appreciates his work.  He gave E. an excellent performance review, and off course with an increase in his salary, a whooping increase of 25%!! How about that!

Praise God for His mercy and grace! Seeing our son so happy in his work makes us very happy too!
 The global competition is pretty fierce these days and finding a job one can enjoy and getting a decent salary is not as easy as it used to be both in Canada and the U.S. We know of at least a few smart graduates who are unable to land jobs even with excellent co-op work experience and good grades.

We are thankful and grateful to God for His mighty hands and abundant blessings  on our family!

R.T.
Toronto, Ontario
June 26 weekend
2015