Full house

Its been another busy weekend with a house filled with people.

Friday night Sara had her friend Christina staying here. She came for dinner and then we did what we always do on a Friday - watched X-factor, ate sweets and ice cream. Lovely relaxing night - just what we needed after a busy week.

Saturday Leah was having her cousin Annie come to "play". (Apparently its not called play now days, its called "being together". Help - I can feel another teenager emerging!! ) Leah is one week older than Annie and they both had a blast together. They played hairdressers, were out skateboarding, played computer, played football. I think a great day was had by all.



While Leah had her cousin Annie here, Sara had her cousin Christine here. (One friend leaves, another friend comes!) Our church had rented an ice rink all for themselves and so there was a fun ice skating night arranged for those from 13 - 30 years. (Now how depressing is that when you dont fit into that age bracket - I would have loved to have gone!! Anne and I talked today about that, next time we are going to dress up as teenagers and try and sneak along for the fun!! haha)

Kristian played taxi driver. He drove Andrew and his two friends to the church, then it was back to get Sara and Christine and drive them off too.

They said they had a great time skating, playing ice hockey and just being together.

Last night I learnt that communication is an important thing...



We had to pick the kids up again at the church around 10.30pm, so close to that time, I rang Sara to see if they had arrived at the church. (Our church is in the next town) She said that Christine and her were getting left off at the train station. What a great idea - I thought. So I rang Andrew to hear whose car he was in. I got him to ask them if he and his friends could also get left off at the train station in our town. Yes - the driver could do that. So that meant Kristian didnt have to drive to the next town to pick up the kids, even though it only takes 10 - 12 minutes. Now it would take him 2 minutes to drive down to our train station. Yes - life was good!!



So off Kristian went to get the kids. He found Andrew and his two friends and they waited 5 mintues for Sara and Christine. Finally Kristian rang her...."Where are you" he asked. "Over by the taxi´s" said Sara. Kristian told her that he was in the post office car park so they could just go over there. He waited again. After a few minutes she still hadnt turned up. He rang again. Thats when he discovered that Sara and Christine had got left off at the train station in the next town and not the train station in our town!!! So after dropping off the boys, Kristian had to drive to the next town, anyway and pick up the girls! haha



Now I really should have found out what train station they were at - I just assumed it was the one in our town and sara meant the one in the next town which is closer to us than the church. (so she was trying to save her dad a bit of driving!)



While all this was going on I was trying to prepare for today. I was to speak in our old church, so I was reading and studying and trying to get my thoughts down on paper. It all came together in the end and today we had a lovely morning at church. I think I got across what I wanted to say!



After church we had a surprise party for the two people who have led the church for the last many years. They both turned 70 and so everyone brought some food and we ate together after the service. It was really lovely. They were so surprised and delighted that we did that.



It has really been a great weekend - yet again!!