El and I seem to have fully recovered from our gastric flu last weekend and are feeling much better, but now El seems to have developed a sore throat and nasal drip. She’s a fighter though, so I’m sure she’ll make it through… We have her school’s fashion show at the end of this week so we’re gonna be pretty busy with that this week. We had a very busy weekend and it was thoroughly enjoyable!
Paul was out of the office the whole week on study leave so I had the days to myself and as I was preaching yesterday I spent most of my time preparing the message and an extra little message on Halloween – which was really fun to do. I’ll be sending the powerpoint to you all for your own edification – there was a lot of info that I didn’t actually know. I presented it to the Sunday school during the service as they joined us for worship – they seemed to stay focused which was awesome.
At our worship practice on Thursday evening I got our one guitarist to play electric and she really enjoyed it – which is very kiff. I’m hoping that she’ll grow in this instrument and then we’ll be able to expand our capabilities as a band. She also brought her friend along who used to play in the evening services and she was not bad at all on acoustic. Still plays some oudoos chords but she strums well – and that’s quite something for our current standards. So, next year I’ll be looking to seriously up the standard of worship – still just need two capable drummers… (hint hint mr Hopkins…)
I think the highlight of our week was our whole weekend… On Friday our grass for our back section of the house arrived so I was keen to get it laid so that it could start to take and green up a bit. El and I spent our whole afternoon at Clearwaters doing the weekly shopping vibe. On Saturday morning I got Themba to help me lay the grass and I’m glad I did that because it was actually a huge graft. In the afternoon El went to a scrap-book workshop on Saturday and I went to play PS2 with Anthony as Nadia was at the workshop with El. So we had a rocking guy’s afternoon playing racing and combat games and the ladies had fun doing chick stuff. We had supper with Nadia and Anthony that evening and by the time we got home we were absolutely FINISHED. I had an early wakeup call as I was preaching at both services and needed to be prepped and up at the church by 07h15. Both services went really well and were well attended. Several people have asked me for the notes on my sermon and for the notes of the Halloween presentation – which was very encouraging.
Our friends from Springs – Terry, her son Gavin and his fiancé Di – joined us for the service and then stayed on for a braai for lunch and we had a great afternoon with them. Gav and Di have a little daughter (we went to her 1st birthday earlier in the year) and she is growing up incredibly fast! And what a handful, when we have kids I think we’ll press the chapter skip button and go from 12 months to four years old… that’ll be a winner I think.
Shelly, our tortoise, is doing well – she’s survived the kitten playing ‘paw hockey’ with her and Honey’s attempt to eat her… She mostly stays in a box in the spare room which is where we plan to keep her until we can get a safe outside pen of sorts for her. Roo’s stitches have pretty much fallen out all by themselves and she’s become a real little terror, hiding under the bed and attacking our feet in the mornings – she’s really cute. The dogs are well, barking far too much, but not as much as Paul’s Zeke, so I guess that’s not too bad.
We wish you all a blessed week, think of us lots!
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