Last Monday, as you’ll remember, we took Roo to the vet to have a lump on her neck drained. It turns out that it was a massive bruise that we think may have been caused by one of the windows that doesn’t have a proper catch – and it’s the one she always uses... So, I have a hardware visit and some handiwork to catch up on, hopefully it’ll happen before the next letter… Whilst Roo spent the day at the vet we thought it high time that Pooh have his visit to the dog parlour and so he has had his summer shave. His hair is cut on a number one so he looks really cute, they left the hair on his head so he almost looks a little like an army recruit…Tuesday saw our usual activities unfold until I got to Appleton College to teach Tyler guitar and found out that she’d forgotten all her stuff at home… so that was annoying but at least I got to head home early and spend the afternoon with El. One of her colleagues left work early – she’s going through issues at home and bringing them to work – so El had an extra 8 kids squeezed into her already tight classroom, and this lasted the WHOLE week!! That pushed her stress levels up so I was glad that I could spend the afternoon with her. They have a silly system at her school that when a staff member is off ill they split their class amongst the rest of the grade. As a result, they don’t just disrupt one class but an extra four! Sometimes El gets kids as old as grade 3 sent to her class to be babysat, whilst she’s trying to teach her unruly mob of grade ones!
On Wednesday I worked quite late up at the office on home group booklets that we were wanting to get out by the weekend. In the evening I ran our home group up at the church to try something different. We played a ball game on the grass outside our offices and about 20 mins in, managed to smash one of the windows in the hall… I suppose you can’t be called a youth group until you’ve broken a window and hung the curtains incorrectly… we still need to do the curtain thing. We had a lot of fun though and I’m looking forward to having a youth group next year. I won’t lead it… but I’ll make sure it happens!
Thursday morning was another hard slog in the office but Paul was away at a meeting so I was able to spend the morning grafting at the computer. When he got back at lunchtime, he said that he hadn’t finished on the week that I’d been working on all morning so I shelved that idea and worked on the presentation for our AGM. We were, once again, hugely blessed by the Woolworths food collection and had an hour’s workout packing the crates and the bakkie. We had a worship practice in the evening and it was a lot of fun – both El and I really enjoyed it.
Friday was a better day for El at school, even though she still had all the extra kids in her class. They’ve been busy with learner assessments so I think she was relieved to get to the end of the week! I didn’t manage to finish the AGM presentation by 13h00 so I took it home and finished it there. At about 15h00 the power went out and we thought we’d be having home group by candlelight… fortunately the power came on around 18h00. I shot up to the church office to load the AGM info onto the server and Paul’s laptop and was back in time for our group. We played just a minute – a fun debating ‘game’ that I used to take part in at school. For those of you who don’t know, you have to speak for a minute on a given topic without hesitating, deviating or repeating yourself. It may sound like a short amount of time but it is really difficult to speak about something for a minute without repeating a single word! I had chosen some Bible topics and it was interesting to see who knew what about the Bible and who didn’t. After home group Anthony and Nadia had supper with us and then we went to a late night movie with them and had coffee afterwards… so we were DEAD tired.
Saturday morning was a great lie in – although it didn’t feel like we’d had the extra sleep at all! I went up at 11:30 to meet with Anthony to setup sound for Sunday. We hired a movie, Next, which is a movie about a guy that can see 2 minutes into the future. Nicholas Cage is the lead actor and it’s surprisingly good… Paul had recommended it to us. In the evening we went through to a 21st for one of our young adults – Jeanine Els – and they had a large screen for the rugby… of course. It was a great party and they’d asked me to sing a song, which went down pretty well.
On Sunday morning Paul came knocking on my door 10 mins before I was about to go up to say that we’d left some important slides out of the presentation… the finances! So I raced up to the office and quickly copy & pasted and edited in Bryan Habana time to complete the presentation. When I loaded it onto Paul’s laptop the one slide wouldn’t work… so more stress! But God kept me calm, despite the panic around and we managed to make a plan in time to still have a sound check. The service was very long as we had a lot of business to attend to but it was well received and our time of worship was awesome. Heather and Owen took us and the Smit’s out to lunch at Clearwaters to the Meat Company - delicious. El finished her marking in the afternoon and I hired us another DVD, Perfect Stranger, which was also well worth the watch if any of you are stuck for a good option.
So that’s our passed week, hope you all have been experiencing the blessing of God in your lives.
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