What's new this week?

We've been enjoying Oma and Opa's visit this week. Oma has been mending, and fixing curtains for us. We've had a mixture of quite warm weather and then today is quite brisk. Brrr.

Chris and I had a big weekend with an experiment with cafe worship at St Stephen's on Sunday and the Girls' Brigade parade at Trinity. I think it went mostly well, the technology worked all right, the girls seemed happy. We are off to Dunedin for three days for Pastor's Conference, that will be challenging and thought provoking, and a good time to meet people, catch up, network, and be inspired!

Everyone seems to have had a bit of a cold over the last week, must be something to do with the change in the temperatures.

We bought Shadow a rubber chew toy this week; she demolished it in under ten minutes. The kids soft toys have a longer life span in her jaws than something purpose built for the dog. What does that tell you?

Janine's Stage Challenge production came second in Christchurch. It took Janine most of the week to catch up but she reckons it was worth it. Katarina made cup cakes yesterday for the first time, which went well and she was so delighted she might actually try it again! She hasn't been much of a baker so this might be the start of a new interest for her. She has been sewing a bit, which is certainly something her mother can't really help with.

The soccer players are losing at the moment; the other club has been practising for 2 months and it shows! Hopefully they will burn out or lose interest about mid season, but it is pretty dis-heartening to be faced with big losses week after week. The kids have forgotten all about positional play sadly. Still, lots to work towards!