My Father-in-law....

My wonderful Father-in-law has had some sad news. They have discovered that he has a large cancerous tumor on the pancreas which has also spread to different areas in his body.  He has decided not to have treatment. At the age of 83 and with a bad heart, he has decided to enjoy his last days on this earth without having to go through the side effects of treatment.

(Kristian´s mum and dad on their 50th wedding anniversary. Lots of laughter!)

It is sad news for us as a family yet my father-in-law is such an example to us. He is not sad or worried, or anxious. He is about to make a journey that will top all other journeys he has had. (And he has made a few good ones in his lifetime!!) He is looking forward and looking up because he knows when the time comes to leave here and make that journey, he will finally be home - really home. (Oh I get homesick for heaven sometimes!) He is a wonderful man who loves the Lord and has many years of close friendship with him and that shows!


So even though our hearts are sad at the news we have a peace too. I honestly don´t know how people live and cope with life without God. I would seriously have fallen apart by now if I didn´t have him in my life.

Want to try something different???

Then come to Denmark swimming.

Last night in the news we heard that our local swimming pool has NAKED SWIMMING, yes you read it right,  every Wednesday evening and apparently it´s a hit!!! Arrrghhhhhhh!!!!!!


Why on earth would you want to swim naked? What are these people thinking?!!! Do people really go to things like this?  Aparently they do! So every wednesday evening you can go and swim naked along with a whole bunch of other men and women! Ummmmhhhhh could make for an interesting date night with my hubby! hahaha  

Blue blood.....

Well what do you know, my husband has blue blood in him! I`m not surprised - he has always been Prince Charming in my eyes! haha


Kristian´s mum´s maiden name is Walsoe. A man in her family has spent years researching the Walsoe family tree. It turns out that Kristian´s great grandfather, Carl Edward Walsoe, is a direct descendant from some Kings of Denmark. WOW!!! 

 Below is an old photo taken in 1942 of the Walsoe clan. You can see Kristian´s mum, his grandmother and grandfather and his great grandfather Carl Edward. All rather interesting! I love things that this - makes me want to do The Robinson family tree. Wonder what things we would discover?

So it has been a productive weekend. Saturday Krisitan and I starting packing down some of our old lady friends stuff. It´s a big job but I am just trying to take one day at a time so as not to get overwhelmed by it all!

Today I had Sunday school and then it was home to relax. I just needed an afternoon off. It was lovely, I actually ended up falling asleep on the sofa. Now I feel all relaxed and ready for another busy week, although I can feel that my throat is starting to get sore! I don´t have time to be sick!! So it will be off to bed early this evening with a warm drink. 

Breathe deep......

.....and relax - it´s weekend!!


I have had a very productive week. I had a list as long as your arm of important things I had to take care off for my old lady friend. She is moving so phone calls had to be made, forms had to be filled out and bills had to be paid. I  dealt with things last week that I have never dealt with before. (Every time we moved Kristian dealt with all the form filling and phone calls, I always just packed the boxes for moving!) Good news is that we are getting things organised - slowly but surely. 


On Thursday my colleagues and I were invited home to dinner with our boss. He loves to cook and is always bumming about his food so we decided to put his food to the test. Wewere not disappointed. He is a fantastic cook. We had home made (no tin stuff here) tomato soup for starters, followed by delicious steak (medium done and it just melted in the mouth) with potatoes, a red wine sauce, loads of different root vegetables and a curly kale salad which I had never tried before. It was absolutely delicious! Then we ended the evening with pancakes and ice cream! Now I am all inspired to cook lovely food - lets see how long that lasts!!!

Everthing looking good....

When it comes to Andrew´s heart things are looking good. He was at the specialist today and got a good going over. They took scans of his heart and thankfully, it looked normal. They however want to discover why he is having these palpitations. He has now got a machine stuck to his chest to read his heart beats over the next 3 days, then in two weeks time he has to go for a EKG and see how the heart reacts to biking for a while! 

Things are not looking so good for Kristian´s dad who is doing poorly and slowly going down hill. 


Then my dad collapsed yesterday in church and is now in The Royal. It seems that he needed blood again. He got two units of blood on Thursday and had to get another load yesterday. He is still in hospital and is in good spirits, just tired. 


As for me, I am getting slowly on top of things. I wrote a list of "Things to do" yesterday afternoon and managed to get 7 of the 11 things ticked off the list! Whoopieeeee! I am feeling good. I also managed to get one of the Bible verses made and sent away. Now I am about to start number 2! This week things don´t seem so overwhelming:-) 

Words of a song have been going around my head today. It´s an old country & western gospel song called "Sheltered in the arms of God". I remember hearing my dad´s choir sing it when I was a kid. I loved the words even back then.


The words of the chorus say: 
So let the storms rage high and dark clouds rise,
They wont worry me,
cause I´m sheltered safe within the arms of God.
He walks with me, and not a word can harm me,   
For I´m sheltered in the arms of the God.

That´s how I feel - sheltered in Gods arms even when the storms of life rage about me. I feel safe!! Such a wonderful feeling of security! 


Ok I found the song on youtube sung by the good old Gaithers....

Overwhelmed.....

Well at times during this past week I did feel a bit overwhelmed! There is a lot happening in my life at the moment and there just doesn´t seem to be enough hours in a day.


Last Sunday we spent the afternoon with Kristian´s mum and dad. His dad isn´t during so well and is going for some tests this week at the hospital. It was really lovely to get to spend the afternoon with them.

A few years ago when I worked for CEF here in Denmark, I had the job of creating illustrated Bible verses, songs, quizzes and idea packs for the kids club. We made a lot of material back then, enough to fill a 5 year plan. 



Last week CEF asked me if I would be interested in making a few more new Bible verses for them. I said yes, I enjoy being creative and thought it would be fun.


The plan was to make a few last weekend and a few this weekend, unfortunately nothing ever goes as planned, especially when working with technology.


 I got myself a disc drive for my wee laptop so I could read the discs they would send me with loads of clipart on them. However when the discs arrived I couldn´t open any of the clipart. Arrrrgh!!!!


 I searched the web and eventually found a way to open the files but this took a few evenings of downloading different things and trying different things. 


I was starting to fell overwhelmed! How would I make all these verses, be a wife and mother, cook and clean,  look after a full time job and visit my old lady friend! On top of that I was feeling so tired.  Arrghhh - life was starting to feel overwhelming! Then I remembered  Isaiah 40,31 "They that wait upon the Lord shall renew their strength, they shall mount up with wings like eagles, they shall run and not be weary, they shall walk and not faint!"  I needed to wait on the Lord - phew everything was ok again!


Finally I got the clip art open. Hopefully tomorrow I will get a few Bible verses made.


I got a new colleague this week. Her name is Rock `n`Roll Rita.

The kids in our 4th- 6th grades are doing a project to raise money for Cambodia. They have to help clean around the house, then they get friends and family to sponsor them for doing it. Rock `n` Roll Rita arrived at the assembly to give the kids some cleaning tips. Such fun!


My old lady friend said yes to an apartment in the nursing home so we will have to move for her over the next few weeks. I think she is going to be very happy there.

Leah has been sick with a throat infection. It started on Wednesday and by Friday it was a lot worse. I had to leave work early on Friday to take her to the doctors. They checked her over and discovered it was just a virus and so there was no medicine for her. Just TLC, a warm bed, hot drinks and panodil. 


Jette, Filip and the children were meant to come Friday evening for a cosy evening with us. We would make dinner together and watch X-factor but since Leah was not well we had to cancel. I was really looking forward to playing with Josephine and Jonathan again. I had even bought a McDonalds cash register and food (on sale going really cheap) so we could play lets pretend! haha Ah well there will be another Friday evening some time soon!


Today I was at a meeting in the church for all who work with the children or youth. We started at 10am by eating brunch together, then there was a session of teaching and group work. It was a really good day. It ended at 2pm and I headed into town. The weather was beautiful, a real spring day. I parked at the castle and wandered up through the castle grounds to the town. I wandered around the shops for a while before heading home.