Being A Christian

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Blogmas: Day Two

Here’s Blogmas! Technically I think it’s supposed to be Vlogmas but in the CRAZEE that is coming over the next few days the idea of trying to film and edit without Jaxon creating havoc just makes me a bit more... Continue reading →
Halloween

Halloween or Not?

Growing up Halloween was one of those things that just passed without much notice being given to it. My folks would make a sign to the affect of “you knock and we ignore you” in the hope of deterring Trick... Continue reading →

40 Acts (Part 3 – Day 6)

I decided that this year would also be the one when I actively tried to take part in 40acts. I get the emails sent to me each Lent but often for one reason or another I don’t manage to do it.... Continue reading →

40 Acts (Part 2 – Day 5)

Day Five: Quiche? I decided that this year would also be the one when I actively tried to take part in 40acts. I get the emails sent to me each Lent but often for one reason or another I don’t... Continue reading →

BEDN: PremDAC15

Blog Every Day in November is a blogging challenge for you to write and publish a blog post every day for the entire month of November. It’s as simple as that. You can find the prompts here. PremDAC15 Today, I... Continue reading →

Book Review – His Endless Love

Another book I read while on holiday was His Endless Love by Samantha Sali. In comparison to the other two books that I read while on holiday this was very different (I read the rest of The Boatman by Jonathan... Continue reading →

What’s Next by Kayla…

We have our own “only God” kind of story when it comes to how Our Sidekick came to be living with us four years ago. I am blessed to be sharing the “why?” part of Kayla’s story today, she’ll also... Continue reading →

Adoption by Kayla…

We have our own “only God” kind of story when it comes to how Our Sidekick came to be living with us four years ago. I am blessed to be sharing the “why?” part of Kayla’s story today, she’ll also... Continue reading →

Why I Don’t Celebrate Halloween

Source Earlier this week there was a discussion on one of the local parenting groups on Facebook regarding when children are going out to Trick or Treat. I commented that if the children knocked on my door there would either... Continue reading →

AtoZ Challenge: F is for…Films

F is for….FilmsThis weekend was a unexpected mass film weekend. On Sunday evening, Chris and I went to see Noah at the cinema then this evening we went to see Divergent. As you may have heard, Noah has had it’s... Continue reading →

New Years Eve – 5am ish

It’s unusual that people see this early on NYE. Normally they are expecting to stay up late and see the following morning in. Well why am I up, well a combination of things, it’s either the cold making me breathe... Continue reading →

the pre-30 list

Each birthday I write a list of goals that I want to achieve by the next birthday, this originally started with 101 in 1001 days a couple of years ago that never really happened – I wrote the list but... Continue reading →

ten: epic review

  I’m sure this is the kind of post that you’d write at the end of the year but it’s taken me this long to get my head around blogging again given how unproductive December was! Favourite Songs (in no... Continue reading →

341: A Journey of Faith: Part Five

Catch the other parts here: Intro, Part One, Part Two, Part Three and Part Four. Like all students my age, August brought with it the results that would affect the next few years of my life, would I drag my A Level results... Continue reading →

324: A Journey of Faith: Part Four

You might want to start with the Intro, Part One, Part Two and Part Three first. The bullying was always part of my life for most of upper school, either because of what had happened previously or because of me... Continue reading →

317: A Journey of Faith: Part Three

You might want to start with the Intro, Part One and Part Two first. On Part Two I realised that I had kind of jumped a section. Me becoming a Christian happened in 1995 but actually something else happened before... Continue reading →

303: This Weekend I…

Joining with Sar from [Life of Love] and Syndal from Synfully Delicious. This Weekend I….went to St Albans, My Dad collected me from work on Friday and we grabbed some food. Our Sidekick and I went to Christ Church and... Continue reading →

299: A Journey of Faith: Where?

At CNMAC12 I went to the final seminar of the day – it was a bit of a challenge to decide which seminar I wanted to go to but I ended up at James‘s “Participant Driven Session”, yep that was... Continue reading →

293: Bonus Post @ #CNMAC12

During today’s conference, Dr Bex Lewis (from BigBible) and some other people were writing a talk as the day went on. As part of this there were various different Word Clouds and also a graph showing who sent the most... Continue reading →

276: Review – September

>  Books Flash and Bones by Kathy Reichs (started in August finished in September) Films The Best Exotic Marigold Hotel Did You Hear About The Morgans? Hope Springs Untouchable Hop Albums Babel by Mumford and Sons Our Version of Events... Continue reading →

269: Romans 8:1

Last week was bad, it started Monday with one message, then by Wednesday it was a splattering of text messages, by Friday I’d left it and was getting on with what I had to do, by Saturday morning I was... Continue reading →

264: Be Happy!

So true right now. So many thoughts running through my head and trying to remember to hand the stresses over to God and not worry about things. He’s got it in hand and he’s got a plan, the new job... Continue reading →

241: Liebster Blogger Award

The Liebster Blog Award is given to bloggers by bloggers. It is a way to acknowledge each other and say “you’re doing a great job”. It is for blogs with 200 or less followers, so it’s also a great way... Continue reading →

205: Life According to Instagram

Partially Inspired by Freckled Italian. 1. Me and Bex were at The Fountain for the work evening on Saturday and we made an accidental yummy creation. Bex had made a white hot chocolate and there was some left over so... Continue reading →

200: I Think We Were on Plan Z

Today didn’t exactly go to plan. It started with Our Sidekick coming in and saying that he still didn’t feel great could he go back to bed rather than going to school. Well I had to be a meany Foster... Continue reading →

098: Review: March

March Books Read Dead Until Dark by Charlaine Harris (Sookie Stackhouse Book 1) Heat Wave by Richard Castle Interrupted by Rachel Coker The Half-Stitched Amish Quilting Club by Wanda E. Brunstetter Films Watched The Hunger Games Month in Bullets My blog... Continue reading →

042: Breakfast Anyone?

So today had an early start and those of you who know me in person know that I don’t particularly like early mornings. You add in cold temperatures and I like them even less! Yes that’s -12 Celsius! That’s 10... Continue reading →

014: Saturday and A Party

Today was always going to be a pretty busy day. I’d planned to be all organised and get some clothes thrown into bin bags to take to the charity shop (then again Mummy Steph is encouraging a swishing party so... Continue reading →

Song: I Am Amazing

This has been popping up on my Facebook and Twitter feeds today – I had to share it. Have a good day. Me and @Noahsapprentice (Aka James) discussed the title as well. What do you think of the title? What... Continue reading →

Randoms – Prayer Time

I’m on of those people who pray in funny places – so on the loo or in the car on the way to and from work. (The loo is a random place I know but there’s like zero distraction –... Continue reading →

Car Journey

I have a thing. I love driving. I prefer it over being a passenger like 90% of the time -maybe it depends on who’s driving. CJ is so cautious I think it puts me on edge as a passenger. He... Continue reading →