This weeky week

Hey babe.

How is Austria going?  Goodness I hope.

Here are a few notes from my life/heart this week, hope it fills you in a bit.

Sorry no good news on the present front, not arrived!  Crazy, i'm wondering if i have some thieves as neighbors perhaps?

Liv and I had a discussion about why she was going to bed early last night. i almost forget now but i recall it was something along the lines of her not doing the things I asked but doing what she felt like.  She reminded me about how i tend to give her a zillion things to do and no time to do it in and i was able to remind her how i only did that because she didn't seem to complete tasks.  It was a good conversation, one which we've had many a time, one which we will have to keep doing. We both agreed to try to get better at  our own horrid tendencies, to make life better for the other.

K was making life interesting today.  She made it more interesting last week when she announced she really didn't like skirts anymore - sad as skirts are so cool!  How can i make a 9 year old wear them!  I am thinking she is defining her fashion but i hate her to be pushed round by tom-boys.  She looks like a doll in some of the cute things we have. Anywho i took her shopping to get some cool-as hip-hop pants. oh they looked so cute on but NO, "I don't like them, they look too cute, too girlish!  I declared that they were dance pants for grunge-type moves but i knew without manipulation from me, she wasn't going to wear them!




A good conclusion to these stories:  I'm doing a parenting course - training to be a facilitator in order to have another income source.  But i have a feeling I'll learn as much for the homeland as I will about facilitating.  Need to be clear here too - I'm a thousand miles ahead of some people in the group, phew!

I have some good news - i happened to come across a recipe for sangria.  This is good news for me as it was pure accidental but delightful at the same time! Here it goes just for interest sake!


Plum (?) and rose sangria


3 C dry rose'
3 C lemonade
1/4 C rosewater (have to buy that as i don't happen to have any of that on the shelf)
crushed ice
5 mixed plums, stones removed, sliced.
Place the liquid in a large jug and mix well to combine - add crushed ice and plums to serve. Easy!




Had a prophecy from someone last week re this season being over - read over Isaiah 54 and 55 for me and then highlighted some points.  I feel like this last season (the worst season of my entire short life) is over but I'm also aware that a few things pop up, to remind me or to ground me in this new season.
Like the other day mum told me that she had seen the girls when they were with dave. He had popped in on bec and tim.  He had also preached again.  All these things are well and good for him and of course none of my business anymore. But it's interesting the feelings that arise in me, because of them.  I prayed today I'd be protected from hearing things that would cause pain even though the chick in me desperately likes to know the nosy things.
Not sure if you're understanding but thought i needed to write it down.  The picture i get is of this nice wee house and then either a big black cloud comes over it for a moment or a robber comes in, invading the once peaceful space. Or maybe a pretty balloon that gets the air popped out of it and then blown up again to be normal and nice again. It's often only for a moment but it is a weird feeling, an unbalancing one.  It tips my normal a bit. Any advice greatly appreciated.  


Ah here you go - a picture of beauty (taken on iPhone so not as good as i'd hoped!) - K wanted me to cut my brownie with heart shaped cookie cutters, thought it looked perfect on the cake stand. LOVE it!

Last pic - me holding a wee poppet my friend is fostering. Ah pure delight.  I get to feed her at church every second week, I love that!

Love you, like loads.  Love to matt, God bless you guys xx

PS good news - i've done my 4th week of running.  Only today did i feel like it was OK and that i didn't want to give up. Finally i thought!!  I notice no difference in my body but I do feel better having done exercise I must confess.  Perhaps i need to stop scoffing food!

Hey soul sister

I love that song Sez, it's a groovy one.
Here we go, a wee blog for ourselves.
No rules, post whatever you want, whenever you want, no pressure there.
Love to see your photos on here, people or places.

Let's kind of pretend it's like the old fashioned letters we used to send to each other, ask questions, make jokes, encourage, laugh etc.


I loved being with you in Jan, it felt so perfect. It was such a lovely time!  I have told people we went to Piha and most have been shocked that I let the girls swim at such a beach.  I'm a bit dumb sometimes, only realized when we were there, that it was such a famous beach (TV show - PIHA rescue!!).  


Since then I've settled into life back home, got an extra day of work with my other job so we'll be better off in a few weeks ye ha.  My office role will shorten to one day and then that will cancel off a few months later.  I'm pretty sure two days in the role I have will be better than what I was doing!  Love that. Answer to prayer too.


I've done three weeks on the old running machine, not a pretty picture. I get up at 6, read my bible (half asleep) and then jump on the treadmill.  I can hardly talk, even though it's only doing run one min, walk 2.  Bahoonas going up and down, sweat and red face-ness.  So pretty.  This week I have to do that 8 times.  It builds up each week. I'm pretty proud that I've done it for 3 weeks now.  Never thought i could get disciplined!  


Anyway back to Jan - i loved Sangria!  told everyone about it too, hoping to find someone to drink some with.  That was a cool night indeed.  You are one of my favs for sure, so 5 days with you was bliss.  I have missed you sez. you give me a greater confidence in myself and my ability. You instill hope in me many a time. You are also loads of fun!

(this snapshot is one of my fav taken with your lens. I enquired about one of those lenses, they are like a million dollars!)

(this snappy is at St Heliers beach, the girls so loved that.  I loved the day we biked, bladed and scootered to met you and Jen and Matt in Mission Bay)

Hope Londo is going well, talk soon i hope.

We are enlarged by your presence in our lives.  

Thank you Sez.  (and mattchew of course).

Love the other Sarah xx