Paige goes scooting today. She loved it. Here is the video link. When not blogging on mobile I'll edit this to a hyper link or embed the file but until then cut and paste in to your browser address bar.
Tuesday, 29 May 2012
Monday, 28 May 2012
Young Adults (YA) Lunch
Many months ago now I volunteered us to host a lunch for our YA from church.
Some of the reasons for these is to encourage YA to build relationship with each other, for those in the church to serve the YA group by ministering in this way and get to know the YA better. Also, it is to provide a positive environment in which to encourage YA to keep the sabbath rather than just going home to study.
While 3 soups, 2 curries, 4 lots of rice, oodles of bread, rolls, fruit and baking was a massive effort it was worth it. As a family we enjoyed having 40 YA over. They ate everything like hungry locusts. Our kids got right into it and Sam even baked a cake to help.
The touch rugby game over in the back park was awesome and a highlight for Sam, Alana & Oscar too!!
At one point I said to Ann, "now that we know what's involved we could do another one next year." Thwack, I didn't see it coming as Ann swatted me; "what do you mean next year, you signed us up for two this year!" Whoops!!
Some of the reasons for these is to encourage YA to build relationship with each other, for those in the church to serve the YA group by ministering in this way and get to know the YA better. Also, it is to provide a positive environment in which to encourage YA to keep the sabbath rather than just going home to study.
While 3 soups, 2 curries, 4 lots of rice, oodles of bread, rolls, fruit and baking was a massive effort it was worth it. As a family we enjoyed having 40 YA over. They ate everything like hungry locusts. Our kids got right into it and Sam even baked a cake to help.
The touch rugby game over in the back park was awesome and a highlight for Sam, Alana & Oscar too!!
At one point I said to Ann, "now that we know what's involved we could do another one next year." Thwack, I didn't see it coming as Ann swatted me; "what do you mean next year, you signed us up for two this year!" Whoops!!
New ladder unusable
A few weeks ago we bought a new ladder, Ann ran over the old one! One of those new fang dangled jobs that contorts into a gazillion different ladders, "all for the low, low price of ..." ok so you get the idea. Well it took so long for me to get round to opening the box that Ann decided to assemble it without me as she had given up waiting. All good as Ann was always better at flat pack furniture than me. The snag was little two year old hands stealing the bolts and "misplacing" them. We looked everywhere and in the end, despite them being a custom bolt, I went to M10 to replace them. On my way home, delighted at my prowess at finding the bolts, washers and lock nuts that, while not exactly the same, would do the job just nicely The thought did occur to me, "what's the bet we find them in the next day or two." Anyway, once home I got the folding contraptable assembled with a minimum of fuss and proudly left it up for Ann to duly admire. Instead all heard was a call to "come here." As I was in the middle of wiring in a bank of four new replacement kitchen light switches I couldn't. Instead I received the following showing what we had searched for, for days, safely stowed by Paige in the very item we were trying to assemble!!
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