As far as my children are concerned today (Dec 1st) is the first day of Advent, even though as far as I’m concerned we started Advent last Sunday. But today is when the countdown begins and we follow some general traditions. We have a card stable that waits for the inclusion of nativity characters. The [Continue]
For lent we gave up eating meat - well sort of. I just decided I wouldn’t use meat at home – if people wanted to eat meat when they were out that was fine and we did eat meat when we went on holiday for a few days . We also decided that we would [Continue]
I’m having a catch up on uploading photos so a month late here are some pics from Easter. We had the Easter tree outside church to welcome people in. In church we had a time of celebration and for some reason the kids were popping balloons. After church we headed off to Culver cliff to do [Continue]
I’ve just finished reading Rob Bell’s new(ish) book Love Wins. I found it an interesting and thought provoking read, but I believe for many it will be discarded (or possibly burned) because of issues with cognitive dissonance. OK, if you’re still with me, haven’t set fire to your computer at the very mention of Rob [Continue]
So last weekday in my diary of the week. Well it started early – I woke Ruth up at 1.35 thinking it was 7.05 and she had missed her paper round! I heard her get up at the right time for her round and got up. Finally this week I managed to get up early. [Continue]
Our Christmas days follow a fairly predictable pattern. The girls get up early and open stockings we eventually wake Jonathan up and any remaining stockings are opened in our bedroom and all gifts are displayed for everyone to see. highlights this year were Rebekah spilling her tea over my lovely and expensive (certainly by our [Continue]
We have two fabric advent calendars, one hideous shop bought Christmas tree and one very home-made looking one that I much prefer. The tree one has different bits of the Play Mobil nativity scene in it that get unwrapped and added to the scene daily. We have about 5 pockets which are empty and which [Continue]
Rebekah, Rebekah, Toby, Anna and Caleb decided to join the youth scratch choir. They had three rehearsals and then performed on the mainstage. Toby even did the male solo in Oh Happy Day. So this seems to be another Greenbelt tradition, selling off the Divine chocolate very very cheaply – it’s not all ours honestly! I made [Continue]
This years Greenbelt gave us the experience of camping in the coldest weather we have ever experienced. The temperature went down to 0 on Saturday night, Nerissa woke up on Sunday morning to ice on the tent. I think I slept for about 2 hours in total and don’t think I have ever felt so [Continue]
