B-E-AUTIFUL

It's so much easier to make your day a bit better when the sun is shining so bright. Have totally loved having such nice weather over the past couple of days - definitely lifts spirits and heavy loads to see such beautiful sights just outside. May it long continue, yes please.

Sick Day

Today has been a sick day, Joshua isn't very well bless him - but I just looked at the time and thought ...whoah where did the time go. I do that a lot. More than I should probably. Probably should do more things with my time. Probably. Anyway, he isn't very well, a nice combination of throwing up and diarrea which isn't very nice for him (or me....). He has slept quite a lot today which is very unlike him, and he wants lots and lots of long cuddles - which is nice for me seeing as that is also unlike him. So today has been a selection of sleep, nappy changing, washing, cleaning, napping and not much else really. Just one of those days I guess, hopefully he will get better soon bless him. Onto the weekend!....

My Beloved

You know when one song just seems have the right lyrics;

You're My Beloved
You're My Bride
To sing over you is My delight
Come away with Me My love

Under My mercy
Come and wait
Till we are standing face to face
I see no stain on you
My child

You're Beautiful to Me
So Beautiful to Me

I sing over you My song of peace
Cast all your care down at My feet
Come and find your rest in Me

I'll breathe My life inside of you
I'll bear you up on eagle's wings
And hide you in the shadow of My strength
I'll take you to My quiet waters
I'll restore your soul
Come rest in Me and be made whole

You're My beloved
You're My Bride
To sing over you is my delight
Come away with me my love

I recently discovered worship leader Kari Jobe's songs - she has an amazingly beautiful gift.

Shop Alarm

As I left the supermarket yesterday, my trolley set off the alarm. No this isn't a confessional post about how I wish I hadn't stole that extra tin of beans... but at that point I got that feeling where even though you know its not you and you couldn't have stolen something because you don't steal - when that sound goes off you immediatly feel completly suspicious and your mind starts wondering - what's in my bags? did I accidently put something in my bag? what about my pocket? maybe Joshua put something in and I didn't see him..? have I forgotten to pay for something? Where were my hands the whole time I was in the store? Will I be able to justify myself? What have I taken?! Arghh.....! Or is that just me?.. Well anyway, after I had walked back through the alarm and out again, and then in and then out once more for the security guards satisfaction I got his authoritarian mumble of,'ok.go, maybe it wasn't you'... I started towards my car thinking yes, maybe it wasn't me! and maybe it was the man who hurried out the same time as me, wait did he actually hurry or am I just fabricating that he hurried so that I can justify my reasonings for having him hurry out.. either way maybe HE was the one who set off the alarm and just maybe he was using me as a cover like, like they did in the Hustle when they wait for someone to leave just at the right moment and then use them to cover their exit.

Or maybe it was just me and I set it off with something that reacted to it.

Snow Day

SO! It seems we all had ourselves a bit of snow today hey? One of the first things I thought about when I woke up was - am so glad I don't work in an office anymore! I did then feel sorry for all those that were trying to travel to work on, well, what seemed any transport necessary/available - which didn't seem to be much at that (I saw a picture of a guy who tried to ski to work - that must have been one important meeting!). I do now realise that today was a bit different and we have had a lot of snow, actually don't think it has stopped all day, but there are understandably a lot of angry commuters who aren't much pleased that everything seems to fall apart when this type of weather descends upon us. I wonder if we will ever be prepared for such things, we did have the warnings forecasted weeks ago. Plus, considering the chances of snow seem to be increasing as every year passes you would hope 'we' were at least thinking about it.

On a much more positive note it did mean that Daniel had a day off - woo. We had lots of fun playing in the snow in our garden though Joshua didn't really take to it, too cold for him I guess. He much preferred looking through the window watching it fall instead of being out in it. I did attempt to make a snow man but the snow was too powdery and it wasn't much fun on my own - plus I couldn't quite feel my hands or feet at that point so decided it was time to go inside and defrost. I do love the beauty of snow, it is so magnificent when everything is covered. Hopefully everyone else had as much fun as we did in it, or enjoyed a day off at least.

I wonder what tomorrow will bring.....

Hello Kisses

I simply adore the fact whenever I get Johsua up - either in the morning or after a nap the first thing he does is give me a kiss. I don't even have to ask him for it, he just gives it me. Like a hello mummy. Its so lovely, it makes me smile inside :)

Bananaman

As I reached the banana section in the supermarket today there was a man there who seemed to be educating everyone on the value or should I say non value of the bananas that they were choosing to put in their trolley. He was proving the fact that if you were to buy the bagged 'market value' bananas for 0.73p but were to weigh them you would find that they were actually only worth 0.61p. So it would be more value for you to buy the loose bananas. I stood there not sure what to do as I had come to look for the organic fair trade selection of bananas which seemed to have sold out.doh. I then realised that I would have to decide which one to go for, I was slighlty frightened to put any of the 'market value' bananas in my trolley as banana-man seeemd to be bullying people into putting those back and opting for the loose bananas - for the sake of their banana sanity!! In the end I choose some market value bags as actually the loose bananas were all yellow and some brown or bruised - not my standard of banana I have to say. SO, where does this lead - a whole blog post for the sake of banana value in life but it was more the point that still five aisles down I could still hear him sharing his important discovery and pushing people to buy the loose bananas and not letting them decide for themselves. Though these people were letting him because although they didn't want to admit it they realised that they couldn't bring themselves to get the market value ones just for the sheer principle of them not actually being cheaper. Such dilemmas in life.