Date night...

with my hubby! 

We decided we would use our gift card to the cinema. There is a French film called "The Intouchables" and it is getting great reviews over here, so we decided to go and check it out. 

A French film with Danish subtitles, now that is culture!

The film started at 6.45pm. As soon as Kristian got home from work we left. We drove by McDonalds and got ourselves a burger. We would have loved to have had something a little bit nicer but time was tight.  We just about made it in time for the film. We arrived a few minutes before it started. 

So what did we think? We LOVED it. We were not disappointed, the reviews were right. It was a great film. (plus I got to hear French for over an hour!!!)

(By the way, I have started my French lessons. The first one was Monday morning and I have had one every morning since. They start at 6.30am  in my car and they end at 6.55am when I arrive at work!  Then they continue again at 2.30pm till I arrive home! It´s great, I am actually learning something!I just have to make sure I do it every day, otherwise I will forget everything!)

Anyway, it has been a lovely evening out with my hubby. I didn´t  get to see too much of  him yesterday. I had to leave to meet Genny before he got home from work. Then when I got home it was late, so it was great to spend time with him this evening. I love our date nights even after almost 23 years of them!

Food glorious food.....

A quick update. It´s late and I`m tired but I just wanted to type a few lines about what I did this evening,  just for the record.

Tonight I went to our local Mexican restaurant to meet up with my friend Genny. We tried to work out when we had last seen each other. (We usually meet 4 times a year, Winter, Spring, Summer and Autumn.) Well, tonight we couldn´t remember when we last had been out, we thought it might have been at the end of March last year. When I came home I checked my blog and it was actually 8th February last year!!! (Hence why I want to make a record of tonights Mexican date!)

So no wonder the night just flew by. We had soooo much to catch up on! We ate so much delicious food and had a good laugh like we usually do, and we talked sooo much!! It was one great night!

Guests.....

 ...and this time our guests were not sick and they didn´t need to cancel! Yeah!  We had Anne and her family over for the afternoon and evening 

We started the afternoon by going for a walk. The weather wasn´t the best but we enjoyed the walk.

 Leah invited Mia along too.

 It was home to cake and coffee. A while later and we made dinner together. The rest of the evening was spent eating and chatting. Later in the evening we also played a game of Bingo with silly gifts for the winners. Great fun!

Leah and Mia had a great time playing with David.

Anne also enjoyed playing with David!

    It was a great evening. We were together 9 hours and it felt like 2!! It went too quickly. Anne´s husband Peter and Kristian get on great and they actually talk more than us. I honestly don´t think they stopped talking in those 9 hours, we couldn´t get a word in with them and they weren´t too happy that they had to stop talking to play Bingo!! haha (They were worse than us women!)

(Peter and Kristian -  deep in conversation from the time they met till the time they left! 

Anne, I think, looks a bit fed up from all their talking! haha)

Every week....

......should be like this week, as I only had to work Thursday and Friday -WONDERFUL! ( You probably think that I don´t like my job, that is not the case, I love it but I also love my holidays!:-)

I have a confession to make. Already I have failed in my healthy eating lifestyle! (I know, embrassing that it has happened already!)

Day 2, 2nd January I blew it big time. Kristian was at work and I was alone home. I found an open bag of sour cream and onion crisps and the temptation was too much. I scoffed the lot!  Then I went out with the rubbish and saw a bottle of ginger ale that we had put outside to keep cold, once again I gave into temptation. Then I found a bag of sweets in the cupboard and before long they were in my tummy too.

Day 3 started good and then slowly went down hill! I started work and I actually did well until I went to visit my old lady friend after work. She had bought me a box of chocolates and she insisted that I took them home. (I wanted to leave them at her house and eat 1 each time I visited, but she was having none of that!) So I came home and stuffed myself all evening with chocolates. 

Then I went over to see Laura and she gave me a glass of caramel cream.(It tasted just like banoffee!!!) She had eaten half the glass that afternoon. She was disgusted with herself so she wanted me to have the leftovers. I didn´t want the leftovers!! I knew I couldn`t be trusted, it was too delicious, but she somehow got me to take it. Guess what I did? I went home and got out a spoon and stood eating spoonfuls of it. It was so delicious but oh so fattening!!!

Day 4 and I was determined this healthy eating thing was going to happen today!! And it did - till I got to work! My colleague had a birthday and she had ordered a huge cake for everyone! I couldn´t say NO to that! And believe me I didn´t - 3 slices throughout the day. Then home to the remaining chocolates from my old lady friend. I shared these with Laura who popped over to say Hi. We were both so fed up with our bad behaviour that we had to drown our sorrows with more chocolate!! (WHAT???!!!!)

Anyway I am determined Monday is going to be a better day!!! Next week everything is going to be perfect!!! (Well just let me think that for the time being!)

Another quick update......

I have been listening to the song below this evening and just been thinking about the words. I think it´s an appropriate song to start the year with. Just to take the time to say to God that He really is the reason that I live. Even though so many other things in life try to take my focus and attention, He is the reason that I  live. All the other things do not give me the peace and joy that He gives. And I love that no matter what happens - through the tears and joy - I can trust in Him. Who knows what tears or joys will come in 2013 but it is just great to know God is there and I can trust Him through everything.

Today Kristian´s mum and her friend Ellen were meant to come for coffee and cake. Unfortunately Ellen got sick so they had to cancel. 

That meant we had yet another day to relax. I got some washing done, I got a menu plan started for my healthy eating lifestyle and I actually started it. Boy it has been hard! I have craved food all day, especially chocolate, crisps and fizzy drinks! I have only drunk water all day and I have had such a sore head since late afternoon. It´s withdrawal symptoms. 

I took some time this afternoon to go out and train on Andrews row machine. It nearly killed me and I only did 10 minutes!! Funny thing was Laura walked passed the garage as I was training and she looked in, she got such a shock seeing me on the row machine, usually it is Andrew out training! 

We then spent the evening watching films. Kristian got a film at Christmas that we hadn´t seen called "RED". It was good, typical Bruce Willis film with lots of action, fighting and shooting. 

Then I settled down to watch a movie Leah got called "We bought a Zoo" - what a sweet movie. I really enjoyed it and shed a few tears. 

Kristian starts back to work tomorrow and I have only one more day at home but only 6 weeks until the next holiday:-)

5 Years old today....

...is my blog. I started my blog 1st January 2008 and I suppose I didn´t really believe it would last too long. My reason for starting was to keep a sort of journal or diary of my life. A place to record what we had been up to as a family, a place to record thoughts and dreams. 

 Every year (for as long as I can remember) at the start of January I would try to keep a journal but because it was always handwritten it never lasted long - I hate to write but LOVE to type. So way back in January 2008 when I started this blog I wondered if it would last. 

Was hating to write really the reason I never kept up with my journal, maybe I wasn´t really the type to keep a journal?!  Well now I know that I do enjoy keeping a journal and all along it was the writing that kept me from it. I love to sit down in the evenings and type about my day or week. It is really wonderful to have a record of the things we have done over the last 5 years. 

Sometimes I pick a date out and say to Kristian "What do you think we were doing in the month of April 2010? "  He has no idea and I always try to guess. (Usually I guess wrong) Then we go in and check out the blog! Usually we have done something that I have long ago forgot about, a walk by a lake or a trip out for an ice cream, then all the memories come flooding back. I can highly recommend it. 

So even if no one visits and no one reads this blog, I don´t mind. It´s my record of my life. Who knows maybe in the year 2089 someone will discover it and enjoy following my life, way back in the good old days!

Happy New Year:-

Another new year with new goals and dreams. Must admit I have been getting a bit worried lately. A few years back after seeing the film "The Bucket List"  I made a bucket list, you know the list of things you want to do before you die (kick the bucket). Well not so long ago I looked at this list and I realised that alot of my wishes have now been ticked!! What does that mean?? Am I going to kick the bucket soon? haha Hope not - although the thought of going home to heaven is rather appealing! Maybe it means I just need to make a longer list! haha I`ll go with the last one!

So 2013 is here. My first goal is to get back into shape. In 2008 I achieved that. I lost 16kg within 4 months! I kept the weight off for a while but over the last 2 years I have put 10kg back on! 

So today starts a new life style for me. No more unhealthy eating, lots more exercise and hopefully in a few months time I will be 10kg lighter.

Last night we had a lovely quiet new year together here at home.We are not big "New Year Party" people. I love to be home and think about the old year and make plans for the new. Kristian and I had planned a bit of a date night at home.Leah was going to a party at the church and we thought Andrew  was going out with some friends. However Andrew decided he would rather spend New Year at home. (He is like us - not a big party person!) So it ended up just being us 3.

I made some nice food.....

 A starter that was so big it nearly filled us up! It was delicious. Smoked salmon wraps with cream cheese, dild and avacado. A tuna mousse and a delicious prawn salad.:-) Rather yummie!

 The evening was spent being together. It was lovely.

Just before midnight we logged unto Skype and got in touch with my dad. He was able to toast the New Year in with us via video call. It was nearly as good as him being here with us.