IN 12 Weeks

I'll be home in Australia. My sister is getting married in October so I'm coming Home a little earlier to spend some time with the family. I'll be booking my flights this week...YAY.... and I plan to fly the around the 21st September. I'm so excited, I'm looking forward to lots of cuppas and chats with all my great friends New and Old.

Holidays

School is out for the Summer on Thursdays and I'm dreading it, I think it is more the fact that a Mike is going to be away for nearly half of the holidays and we aren't going anywhere for a break. I need some ideas to keep me going for 7 weeks...3 of those on my own. Please Please help from going insane...

A new record..

I have been blogging since 2006 and today I have posted more this month than I have in any year 2006 -36 posts , 2007 - 20 posts and 2008 - 40 posts. I say well done to me. Thanks Simione for the blog off.....even if I am loseing I'm blogging way more than ever!!

Markus at 5mths

As I promised Here are some pictures of Markie boy at 5mths

What can you do with 2 empty coke bottles???

We went to the Highland Festival last weekend, they had Luis Palau speaking, great family activities and band playing. We had a great time with some of Mike's students, these are the pictures of Alyssa playing along to the bands. It was so loud that you could feel it in your chest, and she found a great way to pass the time and entertain us to...Just wish I had the video camera.

Got to love that face...

Why ??

am I blogging at 4 am, I'm heading off to bed to see if I can get a few more hour sleep in before Markus is up. The Sun is already up but I'm going back to bed!!!

The News!!

Well I have been quiet over the past couple off weeks. There are two reason,

One being that I'm indexing a book for Mike which is sapping every spare (and not so spare) moment that I have, it takes about an hr to do about 8 pages.

The second being that I have been getting over the disappointment of Mike being turned down for the job in Australia. And I didn't want to post really bad and emotional posts and not very nice things about some people.

2 weeks ago we had the dreaded phone call that left our world shattered, reason that I won't post but at this stage we are not coming home .. to Zion, the promised land as Mike calls it...

At first I was very depressed.. I think I cried for 3days. I have been very angry and frustrated with how things happened. I have really questioned God as to WHY we have to go threw such an awful thing. Why when all the door seem to be opening that we get so close and then it all went pear shaped. I am still angry, but I am praying to be able to overcome it. We are continuing to pray about where God wants us. We feel so very blessed by all our great friends here who have sad that they are sorry we aren't going but I thrill that we are staying. We feel really loved and cared for. So today I will be playing catchup on post and see how many more I can do for the blog off end today.

New Book

A copy of one of Mike's new books arrived this week, it is so exciting seeing the fruit of all the hour he puts in behind that lap top. So go check out , 'Are you the one Who is to come' , you can read a little more about it on Mike's blog

Well done honey

5 Months

Markus was 5 months old this past Wednesday. This little man has brought much joy and blessing into our home. The past 5mth have been hard, with more sleepless night than I care to count (including tonight 1.11am and I'm on the net), nights and day of worry as to what to do, many tears on my side not knowing what he needs and wants. But the smile and coos and chatter make it all worth it.

What is he up to now....... well

• Can roll from tummy to back
• and back to tummy
• Is pushing forward with his feet
• almost sitting up
• has 2 teeth
• loves to chatter
• with stop crying if you take him outside
• loves talking to his sisters in the car
• is on 2 meals a day, lunch and dinner
• so far have tried, apple, pear, rice cereal, and carrot
• is now full bottle fed.. :(
• has a pretty good routine.....most of the time
• would rather talk to someone then play with a toy
• Cries when mummy comes into the room, whats with that??
• is almost out of size 3-6 clothes (size'00' for the Aussies)
• His favourite thing is his feet, don't you know they are so much fun.
• if finally enjoying bath time

I'll post a picture in the morning of Markus at 5mths.

One of those days

I had one of those days today... I managed to loose/misplace both my debit and credit cards. I dropped my debit card coming out of Tesco and some kind stranger handed it in. And my credit card well it was in Markus' car seat, why ?? who knows. But I'm glad to have found them both before I had a trolley full of groceries and without having to cancel the cards. Having dropped my card at Tesco in Inverness, I had rare chance to head into town in the evening, and because Tesco is open 24hr there was no time limit, it was really nice to just look around instead of doing a race and grab. But the best bit by far was driving home at 10.45pm seeing the sun setting behind the mountains, the sky was streaked with pink and orange, so calming and peaceful. What a great opportunity to stop and marvel at the wonder of God's beautiful creation.

Just watched...

Australia, I really liked it !!!

Vote against Same Sex marriage in Australia

Friends please go to this site and vote against, we as a Christian body need to have our voice heard.

Catch up...Sports Days

We had Lexy's school sports last Monday and Alyssa's on the Wednesday. I think that things like this are to see just how competitive the parents are, because the kids have a blast sitting with their friends talking and playing to their hearts content.
On Monday the weather was good (if 14c and windy is good) so they could have if outside. Lys, Markus and I went down to watch. Lexy did really well , she took a 2 1st and a 2nds. And not to forget all the participation stickers.
On Wednesday it was a rotten day it was really windy and wet, so they crammed us all in the hall for the nursery sport, this was for the 3 and 4 yr old so not so many people. Mike was able to get the morning off work and join us. Alyssa had a blast and she tells me that she won EVERY race because she got a sticker for every race, she took a a 1st, 2 2nds and a 3rd. Mike talk me into doing the parents race this year. We had to go about 20 meters with bean bag on our heads and holding an egg and spoon. I raced well if i say so myself, taking 2nd. Yay to me. Mike did the dads race and took 1st, but I have been told that he cheated by holding the egg. I couldn't see so I don't know, but that could be right!
Here are a fews Picture of the days, I have video too if I can ever work out how to put it on you tube!!

Go Lexy... forgot to take my camera to school so was only able to get the after shots


Well done!

Markus Slept threw and good part of Alyssa's sports

Lyss and her friend A doing the buddy race...apparently the 3 leg race is too dangerous to do now!

The Monkey race, I love this Picture, Alyssa is the one just over the finish line with the black leggings on, love the legs mid air!

Run baby, run

Look at us!!!

Wow so grown up!!

lightest day of 2009....

...... today we had 18hr 4min of daylight, now you don't get that in Australia. It's 10.45pm now and it's still twilight outside.

first food!!

With a baby in the house there doesn't seem to go a week without a first and this weeks choice is FOOD!!!!

Waiting for a new experience!!! YYYAAAYYY!!!
In his bumbo...isn't he cute.

"What this stuff mum??"

"Do you really want me to put that in my month mum?"

The Staff..

On Saturday night we went to a concert night to celebrate the end of year for HTC. And on the night Hector the principle of the college wrote a poem about the staff, really funny, particularly the verse about Mike so I have go myself a copy and here you go.... now try doing it with a strong Scottish accent!!

Now, on the staff, we also have
Our own ‘banana bender’;
Some words that would describe him – NOT!
Are ‘quiet’, ‘shy’ and ‘tender’.

He used to be an N. T. guy,
But now things are confusing.
Last week he bought a Hebrew book
- Staff find it quite amusing.

It seems that in that land below
The one they call ‘down under’
The N. T. comes before the old
It really makes you wonder.

He used to be a Baptist too
But now he’s with the Sprinklers;
That Aussie call has turned his soul
And taken off his blinkers...

Big thank Hector!!

The Teeth.

I thought since people like my folks don't get to see the small milestone I thought I'd get a picture of Markus' new teeth...Well I tried and I tried and ....

AND I TRIED

AND I TIRED

AND I TIRED

AND HERE WE HAVE 2 LITTLE PEARLY WHITES!!!

Tummy Sleeper

Marky Boy..as he has become known.. has become a tummy sleeper. Quite by fluke really, he has learnt to roll from back to front but as yet not from front to back. So he rolls and he just has to stay there. Here he is at his late afternoon nap today...... Ain't he just so cute and soooo loveable??? and not to mention big??

Why??

I fail to see why we are paying 101.9pence a litre for petrol??? I'm gob smacked to say the least. It cost me £44 ($89 AUD) to fill our little 4 cylinder car today.

Pod casts??

I'm after some pod casts and sermons to put on my shuffle ........ Any suggestions??