An old favourite...

...I decided to go back and use one of my "old" backgrounds - the one with the books. Since I couldn´t find an autumn background that I liked, I thought that this "book background" summed up Autumn perfectly for me!! It´s the season for early nights with a good book!! Ahhhh contentment!!

So since it´s getting near that season I decided to practise for it. At 9.00pm I crawled into bed. At first I thought about watching a DVD but then decided against that. I opted for reading. So I got down my Bible and started reading the story about King Jehoshaphat. (2 Chronicles 20) What an amazing story. I got sooo much out of it. Here was Jehoshaphat in the middle of a crisis. Three armies had come to fight against Israel. When he heard this the first thing Jehoshaphat did was fear. But he didn´t let fear stay and rule his life. He decided to seek God.

I love verse 12 - Here Jehoshaphat prays "we do not know what to do, but our eyes are on you" He had no idea what to do about the situation but he got his eyes on God. When I have a problem in my life I need to learn to pray like this and get my eyes on God. How many times do I have my eyes on other things but not on God? How many times do I put my trust in other people, in things, but forget to trust God?

Ok I better stop....there is soooo much I could share, but just one last thing. I love the fact that Jehoshaphat appointed singers to worship and praise God. These singers were sent out at the front of the army! And God gave them the victory. He confused the enemy so that they killed each other and so when Jehoshaphat and his soliders arrived the battle was over. They didn´t even have to fight!!!

So no matter what "battle" we are going through in life right now, remember to praise God, to thank God. You don´t have to wait until you feel like it, it´s a choice. The effects of praise is amazing!!

Ok I really am signing off now. I´ll keep the rest for another time! Goodnight all:-)

new look

....yes, there is a new look on my blog but I am not sure it will stay for long. I think it´s just a bit too much!! But my favourite season is approaching so I wanted something to match the season. I think I will have to keep looking!! This just doesn´t do it for me!

Life has settled down to a busy buzz!! (can you say that???!!!)

Jeff has now gone home - our recliner really misses him!! (and so do we Jeff!) He left yesterday after church.

It was a busy Sunday, yet a good one. We had a KICK-OFF day at church. All the different organisations were there to tell about what was happening. We each had a table with home baked treats (I cheated and bought mine - ssshhhhh, no-one noticed!) and information about what we were involved in. For me it was junior club. I had made prayer cards and a poster with information about the club. There were 13 different tables set up and people went around and heard about the different areas of work within the church (while drinking coffee and munching on the different cakes.) They could also sign up to get involved. It was a really successful day. I was exhausted when I came home and slept for 1 hour before making dinner!

A day away....

...from everything!

Jeff, Kristian and I went away for the day to the beach. It was a gorgeous day!


We posed for a few pictures.

Bought some unhealthy but delicious, things to eat!

The town we were in helped many jews during the war. A while ago I had had a guided tour around the town and heard about the different places where they had hidden the jews. The jews were smuggled over to Sweden in small fishing boats. We saw one of these small boats and how the jews would have been hidden in the bottom of them. What those poor people had to go through!

We ended off at one of Kristian´s favourite places - the harbour, before heading home for pizza and a good film. It has been a really lovely day.

Still alive and kicking.....

yes, we are all still alive and kicking, even though you haven´t heard too much from us.

Jeffrey arrived on Friday evening and since then it has been all go. We were out shopping on Saturday. We went to church on Sunday. Kristian went off to a race. He was racing in a go-kart race and came home with a trophy! He ended in 4th place which he was very pleased about!.

Kristian was off work on Monday, so Jeffrey and he went into Copenhagen and went around Christiania (a special area in Copenhagen). I was hard at work while they had their "boys day out".

Today has been a bit crazy to say the least!! After work I went over to church to set things up for our junior club starting this evening. The idea was that we would have ice cream as a snack for the kids. I thought I would just check the freezer in the church to make sure there was room before going to buy the ice cream. Good job I did!! It was packed with stuff - absolutely no room for ice cream. So I had to come up with plan B - wee buns and rice crispy buns.

Suddenly my afternoon got really busy!! Between baking, making dinner and getting the last of my talk put together the couple of hours I had before Junior club started just flew by.

We had a great club!! Twelve children turned up. They were a pleasure to be with. We had fun playing games, and they listened soooo well to the Bible teaching. I am so looking forward to more Tuesday nights together with them.

Welcome to the real world....

...the real world of teaching!!

My sweet 4th grade children have turned into wee monsters over night!! haha Well not all of them - just a majority of the boys. My last two teaching classes were terrible!! but I am not about to give up - not yet!! haha All I can say is thank goodness it´s Friday, time to relax, revive and get ready for next weeks challenges!!

Tonight our friend Jeffrey arrived from Ireland. It was his son´s wedding that we attended in London a few weeks ago. Jeff will be staying with us for a week. It´s great to see him again!

Just before Jeff came this evening we had a visit from 3 people. One from Ghana, one from India, and one from The Philippines. Kristian had gone outside to throw away some rubbish. He then met these three people who seemed to be lost. It turned out that they were.

They were looking for some sort of concert hall/culture house, that was on a road that had the same name as the road where we live. They had plotted the name of the road into the computer and it had told them to go north to our town. We live about a 30 minute drive outside Copenhagen. They had taken buses and trains out to our town, then walked from the train station out to where we live. The big problem was that the road they were looking for was in Copenhagen. They had come all this way for nothing.

So Kristian went out with a couple of bags of rubbish and came back with 3 people following him. They were so lovely. It was sooo great to meet them. They were friendly and open and so appreciated Kristian inviting them in. They were thirsty and just wanted some water to drink. Kristian was heading to the airport to pick up Jeffrey so he said he would take them back into Copenhagen. That´s what he did.

Now hopefully they will get in touch again. They would love to come and visit and have dinner with us some time. They have our telephone number and they know where we live, so I hope they do contact us again. Kristian so enjoyed their company while driving into Copenhagen. As Kristian put it "They were a breath of fresh air!"
I have to agree with him. In the short time I talked to them they cheered me up big time!

Xtreme Belfast weather....

...that´s what we are having over here!! and I am loving it! :-)



Another thing that I am loving is my teaching job. I had my 3rd graders for the first time on Monday. I only had them 35 minutes as I had to go to Assembly with them,that ate into some of my teaching time. Unfortunately that´s how it will be - I wish I had them longer. They are so full of enthusiasm! They were great to teach.



I am also loving that I have a life again!! The last few weeks have been hectic with school starting. My every waking hour seemed to be spent preparing teaching material. Now I think I am getting into the routine of things and the preparation time doesn´t fill my every waking hour!

I am also loving my new Guy Penrod CD. It has been playing non stop since Saturday, especially track 13 which gets played pretty much on repeat. Kristian is cracking up!! haha

Speaking of Kristian. He came home this evening having won his 3rd medal. He was out racing and came home with a silver one this time. So he now has 2 bronze and 1 silver - he´s only missing the gold, maybe next time!!

Andrew started his new school on Monday and so far he likes it.

So that´s all the news from me. Not very exciting...but that´s life!! Having said that, today might not have been exciting but I so enjoyed it. Mainly because of the rain. While Leah was at choir I went and parked the car by the castle, just overlooking a stretch of water. It was so peaceful and I enjoyed a couple of hours sitting there thinking, praying, reading and listening to music, all the while the rain was pouring down. Like I said - XTREME BELFAST WEATHER - the kind of day I love!!