Dinner for 2, open stockings, Jesus birthday party at Church...
...followed by a nap and family skyping, it's all good!
Happy Christmas to all, hope you're having a lovely day.
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Sunday, 25 December 2011
Happy Christmas Blogland
Journal Your Christmas Day 25!
Dinner for 2, open stockings, Jesus birthday party at Church...
...followed by a nap and family skyping, it's all good!
Happy Christmas to all, hope you're having a lovely day.
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Dinner for 2, open stockings, Jesus birthday party at Church...
...followed by a nap and family skyping, it's all good!
Happy Christmas to all, hope you're having a lovely day.
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23 & 24 jyc
Day 23
-Having already talked about stockings I'm just doing a 'this is what we did today' kind of post...Lydia came to visit, collected her from Waterloo as it was her first solo journey! Took her to the V&A which she loved and found lots of useful things for her coursework so that was good. We ate bens cookies, walked along the southbank and had a lovely time, then came home to watch Christmas movies and eat lunch!
Day 24
Mum, Dad & MH came to visit for the day which was lovely, we exchanged presents and had lunch with crackers...
...then we went to the Christmas Eve Christingle service at Church. This is the Christingle we built on stage, everyone wrote their prayers on an orange handprint and came and stuck them up. The theme was the line from o little town of Bethlehem - "the hopes and fears of all the years are met in you tonight" so all 550 people wrote down their hopes and fears to give to God. Then the magical moment happened where all the lights are turned off and the candles are lit, just beautiful!
Happy Christmas Eve everyone x
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-Having already talked about stockings I'm just doing a 'this is what we did today' kind of post...Lydia came to visit, collected her from Waterloo as it was her first solo journey! Took her to the V&A which she loved and found lots of useful things for her coursework so that was good. We ate bens cookies, walked along the southbank and had a lovely time, then came home to watch Christmas movies and eat lunch!
Day 24
Mum, Dad & MH came to visit for the day which was lovely, we exchanged presents and had lunch with crackers...
...then we went to the Christmas Eve Christingle service at Church. This is the Christingle we built on stage, everyone wrote their prayers on an orange handprint and came and stuck them up. The theme was the line from o little town of Bethlehem - "the hopes and fears of all the years are met in you tonight" so all 550 people wrote down their hopes and fears to give to God. Then the magical moment happened where all the lights are turned off and the candles are lit, just beautiful!
Happy Christmas Eve everyone x
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Thursday, 22 December 2011
JYC day 20, 21 and 22
JYC 20 -
Tales of the unexpected...
A couple of years ago we went to a pub that all my in-laws had lovely memories of. Apparently it was decorated beautifully christmassy and had a number of open fires. However the year in question we walked in and it was freezing, they would light the candle because it wasn't passed 7pm when we arrived! There were some very tacky tinselly decs hanging limply in some windows and a sparce looking tree in the foyer. Hmmmm, certainly not what we expected. Mother in law was horrified. We upped and left and drove to another more reliable venue for our Christmas dinner.
JYC 21 - Right now, White Christmas Festival at the Royal Albert Hall...
JYC 22 - list
Buy Christmas Dinner at M&S
Wrap Adams present
Print off holiday booking details
Buy Josh and Siming presents
Print photos
Tidy spare room
Pack for holiday
Tales of the unexpected...
A couple of years ago we went to a pub that all my in-laws had lovely memories of. Apparently it was decorated beautifully christmassy and had a number of open fires. However the year in question we walked in and it was freezing, they would light the candle because it wasn't passed 7pm when we arrived! There were some very tacky tinselly decs hanging limply in some windows and a sparce looking tree in the foyer. Hmmmm, certainly not what we expected. Mother in law was horrified. We upped and left and drove to another more reliable venue for our Christmas dinner.
JYC 21 - Right now, White Christmas Festival at the Royal Albert Hall...
JYC 22 - list
Buy Christmas Dinner at M&S
Wrap Adams present
Print off holiday booking details
Buy Josh and Siming presents
Print photos
Tidy spare room
Pack for holiday
Monday, 19 December 2011
JYC weekend catch up...
Day 17
The perfect gift -
This was the title of my talk for the Northside School Assembly. I had 5 presents under the tree and we were on a quest to find the perfect gift. After socks, chocolate, a bike and an iphone someone unwrapped this picture...
...and I talked about Jesus being the perfect gift for every situation. There's nothing in life he isn't perfect for. Anyone sad, hurting or broken, anyone lost, bored or confused, anyone happy, excited or fulfilled...he fits into every part of life. Thanks God, Jesus was a great gift to the world!
I'm also going to do a page about Adam's perfect gift from childhood, his yellow and red car! Got a cute picture of him age 2 and beaming sat in it, super cute!
Day 18
Dinner -
Adam's favourite part of the day. Always has been. Always will be. Think we'll cook together this year, something that's usually banned in our kitchen because cooking at the same time is not good for our marriage(!) however it'll mainly be M&S bits so I think we'll manage to share. As long as I hold my tongue!
Also today...
...This is me dressed up as Mary with my colleague Colin the vicar dressed as a shepherd! We hosted the nativity service at St B's! It was so much fun but absolutely exhausting!
And finally -
Day 19
Letters to santa -
Having never been introduced to santa I can't say I ever wrote a letter to him but Adam did and posted it in Safeways apparently! Will let him do the journalling for this page I think!
Hope you all had a lovely festive weekend!
The perfect gift -
This was the title of my talk for the Northside School Assembly. I had 5 presents under the tree and we were on a quest to find the perfect gift. After socks, chocolate, a bike and an iphone someone unwrapped this picture...
...and I talked about Jesus being the perfect gift for every situation. There's nothing in life he isn't perfect for. Anyone sad, hurting or broken, anyone lost, bored or confused, anyone happy, excited or fulfilled...he fits into every part of life. Thanks God, Jesus was a great gift to the world!
I'm also going to do a page about Adam's perfect gift from childhood, his yellow and red car! Got a cute picture of him age 2 and beaming sat in it, super cute!
Day 18
Dinner -
Adam's favourite part of the day. Always has been. Always will be. Think we'll cook together this year, something that's usually banned in our kitchen because cooking at the same time is not good for our marriage(!) however it'll mainly be M&S bits so I think we'll manage to share. As long as I hold my tongue!
Also today...
...This is me dressed up as Mary with my colleague Colin the vicar dressed as a shepherd! We hosted the nativity service at St B's! It was so much fun but absolutely exhausting!
And finally -
Day 19
Letters to santa -
Having never been introduced to santa I can't say I ever wrote a letter to him but Adam did and posted it in Safeways apparently! Will let him do the journalling for this page I think!
Hope you all had a lovely festive weekend!
Saturday, 17 December 2011
Friday, 16 December 2011
JYC Day 15
Visitors...
This year is different. This year if people want to see us they have to come and visit! Simple as. Bit selfish probably but seriously lovely not to be driving around constantly! The one exception is going to Bath on Boxing Day to see the McPhees. Otherwise we've had S&P up last weekend, Sara's coming again on 20-22nd Dec, Lydia's arriving on the 23rd and the rest of the Grants are coming on Christmas Eve!
This year is different. This year if people want to see us they have to come and visit! Simple as. Bit selfish probably but seriously lovely not to be driving around constantly! The one exception is going to Bath on Boxing Day to see the McPhees. Otherwise we've had S&P up last weekend, Sara's coming again on 20-22nd Dec, Lydia's arriving on the 23rd and the rest of the Grants are coming on Christmas Eve!
Thursday, 15 December 2011
JYC Day 14
To-do list
It's not too long thankfully, the main thing I still have to do is get everything done at work...
-Northside School Carol Service
-Barneys Toddler group nativity
-Nativity Service Rehearsal
-Family Craft Morning
-Nativity Service
-Strawberry Vale Carols and Christingle
-Carols by Candlelight
-Christingle Rehearsal
-Christmas Morning Rehearsal
-Christingle Service
-Jesus Birthday Party Service
Then HOLIDAY!!! hurrah, hurrah, hurrah!
It's not too long thankfully, the main thing I still have to do is get everything done at work...
-Northside School Carol Service
-Barneys Toddler group nativity
-Nativity Service Rehearsal
-Family Craft Morning
-Nativity Service
-Strawberry Vale Carols and Christingle
-Carols by Candlelight
-Christingle Rehearsal
-Christmas Morning Rehearsal
-Christingle Service
-Jesus Birthday Party Service
Then HOLIDAY!!! hurrah, hurrah, hurrah!
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