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Christmas!

Was quite frankly rubbish! I spent the whole of christmas day hurling my guts up and unable to move cos my head hurt so much. Then i carried on sleeping thru boxing day... so Christmas, what Christmas?
However, i did receive some lovely gifts and still have opportunities to catch up with friends before going back to work, so it's not all bad!

Boredom strikes!

I have done all the rotas for the new year, and the teaching plans. The information packs have been sent out and the sessions for January are planned. What more is there for me to do? I have even started budgeting for the weekend away in March. Oh yes and I must find the suitable slides for the reading on January 7th. We are using the brick testament! Very amusing!
Right, back to it then...
Family Christmas outing tonight with my gran, then various services over the weekend and then it's Christmas - how did that happen?!

Pictures

Formal dinner pics here....

Formal Dinner!

It went really well. Everyone made an effort and looked lovely! We had 16 young people in formal dress at the carol service and got many comments about how good they looked. We had a lovely meal and everyone had fun! Now we are looking to the Christingle services and im doing planning for the new year! Fun fun fun!

Children's Christmas Praise

Went superbly! All the groups did really well but Holy Smoke were the stars of the show. The timing was perfect and it looked great. Well done to everyone, I am sooo proud! Now for the formal dinner. We have set up the room it looks great - so festive!

Blitz Christmas Game Show

Went really well!!
I am so so so tired now, but it was a huge hit. The kids are going to be talking about the spam game for a long time to come!!
It's time to look forward now... We have 'Children's Christmas Praise' tomorrow morning... Holy Smoke are presenting the idea of being expectant this Christmas and generally of the future. What are you expecting? Our words are: Food, Santa, Presents, Equality, Innovation, Rebellion, Space Travel, Global Warming, War, Death, JESUS! We can always hang on to the promise that God will move.
So I am looking forward with expectancy, of the Formal dinner, and another Christmas, remember - 'Love came down at Christmas'.

Cheltenham!

I have just returned from spending the weekend with Liz in Bristol. We went to Cheltenham yesterday. Was very strange! We bumped into Fred Hughes our old lecturer, ended up having coffee at his Church. We also met up with my old housemate - great to catch up. I finished my Christmas shopping too! Yay. Then we spent the evening with Jane and Peter (pretty much my adoptive family when i was at uni), and their son Tom. It was soooo lovely to chill out and hang and chat with them. I have missed them and was reminded of how much i have when i saw them yesterday.
Relationships are important and so is maintaining them - we are lucky if we can just pick up where we left off, but it doesnt always happen that way.

Testing

There is a lot going on right now, I have some huge decisions to make... I dont really know what's going to happen, it's scary.
Please pray for me - apparently I look tired, I think that's a fair assessment.
Ps on a more positive note i spent the afternoon with Julie at her new shop, check it out - Bear it in mind, on Beaulieu High street.