The Scribbles of GirltaristHan

My friend Millie Mae got baptised today woohoo and this was her cake.

Psalm 139.

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 Fahrenheit if you prefer. Either way it was very cold and I did not want to get out of my warm bed.

Well anyway I sucked it up and got on with the day. Today was the first Women’s Breakfast at RP (there may have been ones in the past but it’s the first i’ve organised!) I got to church just after 7:30am and my head chef for the morning had been there from 7 getting food bits cooking and other bits prepped – she’s amazing!

I finished laying tables and setting additional places as I laid 16 places and had meant to lay 20 places!

I moved bits from the kitchen to the worship annexe where we were eating and the butterflies had turned into small birds or something I was so nervous and excited all at the same time.

Mrs G arrived first followed by a few others and in the end there were 19 of us in total (lady 20 arrived a little late but she was there and that was the main thing). My Mum and my friends @KingFamily and her daughter came too which made it even better

We all tucked into a lovely cooked breakfast of sausage, bacon, egg, tomatoes, mushrooms, beans and toast. There was also fruit an yoghurt bits for those of us being healthy (or just inhaling the cooked breakfast!)

Following breakfast, the lovely Ruth (the pastors wife) talked to us about being women of God and being who God has created us to be. She spoke about Lydia (who is mentioned in less than one first but her actions are epic). She also quoted a verse from 1 Samuel.

The Lord does not look at the things people look at. People look at the outward appearance, but the LORD looks at the heart. (1 Samuel 16:7)

We then ploughed into the washing up. Doobs was there leading the charge lol. I stood in the kitchen trying to decide what to do first and she appeared offering her services as washing up lady – rock on!

We had all the washing up done and put away and all headed off just before 11. It was such a lovely morning albeit cold and early!

Hopefully we will have another breakfast in the future but I’m going to see if I can get a team of people together to help with the set up cooking and clearing up etc so it’s a team effort for the ladies by the ladies kind of thing.

Well first up I have a Swishing Party to plan. Bring it on.

You can find the prompt here.

100 Word Challenge: Week 30

Tommy had been winding Jack up all day and when Jack saw the opportunity to get Jack back he took it.

He picked up the book and launched it across the room. It seemed to almost travel in slow motion – or at least in Tommy’s imagination it did. But as it went across the room Jack stepped out of the path of the book and the teacher took Jack’s place.

Thud!

The book made contact with the teacher.

“TOMMY!!!!” the teacher shouted at him “COME HERE!”

“It wasn’t my fault!” Tommy tried to plead his innocent. Really, it was futile.

 

This week’s list probably should come next week given it being Valentine’s Day but I want to say thank you for all this bits now.

My “I Love Lists” list this week is a list of things that Chris did for me this week that have made me feel loved. I wasn’t well at the beginning of the week and then I had the dentist for two filings yesterday so had epic numb face for like 3 hours (it was a horrible feeling I felt like a hamster!)

Here we go:

• At some point in the weekend/week Chris fixed my blog – the scheduled post bit had been broken and I couldn’t get it to work – Chris took a look and fixed it!
• I was really not feeling getting up yesterday and clearly I was giving the vibes or something because after sending Our Sidekick off to school, Chris came and parked on my side of the bed and gave me a hug while playing on his phone – I was half asleep so it was a nice wake up call.
• Packing up the laptop while I got ready for work yesterday – I’d been lent a HP Laptop to trial and it had to be sent back yesterday so Chris packed up the power lead while I put my shoes on
• While I was putting my coat on I’d realised that I’d forgotten to pack my toothbrush and toothpaste – I was about to head for the stairs to get it and Chris had gone and reappeared a few moments later with my toothbrush.
• I left for work and Chris locked the door behind me when I left rather than me having to find my keys to the lock the door.
• Following the dentist and my numb face I’d been to my Mum’s house to organise a presentation we’re doing at her sewing group. While I was out Chris and Our Sidekick had tea. Chris saved me some and when I got in from Connect Group he reheated it for me so that I could eat it.
• Twice this week Chris has taken me to work so that he can have the car to run errands and go to meetings but add into that, on Monday when I was sent home from work he came to collect me from work and took me home
• We’d had a whole conversation about the kitchen needing a clean. Well when I got in yesterday Chris had done it and minus the tea things which needed to be dealt with he’d tidied up.

 

I am so blessed.

They are rare but sometimes they happen – if you follow me on Instagram you will have already seen these.

Christmas Jumper – AsdaCamera T-shirt (underneath) – ThreadlessBrown Pinstriped Trousers – Tesco (I think)Boots – AsdaParachute Trousers – Next (via Charity Shop)Blue Long Sleeved Shirt – SainsburysPurple T-Shirt – SainsburysCowl Scarf – TescoJeans – NextHoodie – ThreadlessCoat – TescoHat – TescoT-Shirt – I’m not entirely sure lol.

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C is for…

Cherry Ghost

Joining with Megan from The Happy Day Blog. You can see her post here.

Dear Monday, I gave in, I got up this morning and went to work – I’d been at work about ten minutes and my colleague commented how ill I looked – and I agreed with her – I felt like my brain had been turned to mush. Somehow I got through about three hours of work and then came home. Due to Chris needing the car I had to fit in with when he could get me from work and bring me home but it worked.

(This isn’t me – but it portrays exactly what I was thinking lol. It was found here)Dear Chris, this week/weekend you have shown so much love to other people including me – whether it was discussing God’s Love and the Holy Spirit with Our Sidekick on Wednesday, running a quiz at Tori’s party on Saturday (it didn’t go 100% smoothly but I know Tori’s friends all enjoyed it) and helping the group of us with the lady who slipped over near Woodside even though it made your back ache a little bit on Sunday. You have this huge heart for so many people and help where you can. I love you

Dear Snow, you arrived on Saturday during Tori’s 18th Birthday Party – my Aunt and her best friend were so excited about the snow – You know how in films they have like the young version of a person reacting to the situation then in a blink of an eye it’s switched back to the current time. That’s what it would have been like on Saturday – my aunt and her friend ran out into the snow without coats on – they ran around in circles before heading back in again. Then again I ran outside without a coat or a jumper on and wrote Tori’s name in the snow.

Dear 4pm nap, I’m not entirely sure where you came from, I heard Our Sidekick get in from school but the next thing I knew it was 5pm and Chris was heading out to his meeting. I’m sure I needed it though.

Dear Friend’s, Romans and Countrymen, let me your ears (or mouse clicking finger) please go and vote for us. If you want more information click here then follow the link. Thank you (That’s two clicks and a small bit of reading – it would make a huge difference to The Fountain (Bedford) project if you could take the time to click thank you muchlie).

Dear CJ, (you get two letters a la Today’s Letters) thank you for playing Hannah’s Taxi today – you took me to work (so that you could use the car lol) and then fitted in collecting me from work too. You then went out this evening in the cold and slushie snow to get ingredients for Our Sidekick’s Food Technology homework – technically this was my job but at 7ish when it was dealt with the idea of going out in the cold was just too much for me. Thank you lovely one.

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Trust in the Lord with all your heart and lean not on your own understanding.

Proverbs 3:5

Batten down the hatches – the snow is coming!! Well at 5pm when we went to help set up for my cousin’s 18th Birthday the snowflakes were tiny and just created a light dusting.

We’d had the meal that my Aunt had cooked with help from her friend. We’d had lovely pudding. We’d done the quiz and my cousin’s team won. We were about to eat birthday cake when something happened.

At about 10:30ish, one of the girls from the party had been heading home and something happened so she’d come back to the building – a lady had slipped over in the alleyway behind the church and couldn’t get up – they’d called an ambulance but it was so snowy that the ambulance hadn’t got through yet.

Well a bunch of us, grabbed coats jumpers and a blanket and went to offer what help we could. When the ambulance did arrive I was shivering and my hands were hurting as I hadn’t stopped for my gloves or coat, I was in a hoodie and went for it (I know bright spark!)

We were waiting for the ambulance and it was getting to the point that this lady was getting really really cold the adrenaline from hurting herself wasn’t keeping her warm. The coats and blanket etc were just soaking up the snow and not really helping. She made the call that she wanted to get into the wheelchair (her friend had been to borrow it from a neighbour in the hope that she could get the lady into the chair without assistance but the lady couldn’t put weight on her leg and her friend couldn’t take enough of her weight to get her into the chair).

I was on the handle bars leaning on the chair to make sure it didn’t over balance. Various people grabbed a hand or an arm and then did what they could to manpurve the lady into the chair, my uncle then helped me push the chair in the snow for the lady to sit herself down in once we’d got her upright.

We all kept chatting to the lady and thankfully the ambulance arrived not much later. The chap in the ambulance got us to pull the wheelchair backwards round the alley way to the ambulance. I had one side, our “honorary” uncle (he’s the youth leader at my old church and everyone called him Uncle even though only 4 of the youth group were actually his nieces/nephews!) was on the other side and Chris was on the same side as me.

The lady kept saying how lovely we were and how lucky she was that’d we’d been at the church and been able to help and things like that.

My hands were red, very sore and cold and the snow had soaked into my socks (I wasn’t really dressed for snow) but I’m glad that our team of good samaritans were there to help otherwise she’d have been sat in the snow for nearly half an hour if not a bit longer given the amount of snow and how unclear the roads were.

Thank you to the ambulance service – it took some time but they got there and the guy was lovely and friendly.

Joining up with Lauren at The Little Things We Do for today’s post.

As Lauren is getting used to being a new mummy, today’s blanks were supplied by Meg of Mr. C & Me.

1. If money wasn’t an issue, the first thing I’d cross of my life list is take the time off work to travel to Australia and New Zealand so that I can catch up with friends like Loz and Sheens and meet friends like Ruby and Branden from Sew, Cook, Create! for the first time in person. Also get to see all those places I’ve seen on the Internet and in films.

2. Ham, cheese and ketchup sandwiches is something I like that other people think is weird.

3. If my life were a movie right now, the title would be “The Blogger” yeah I know so not original then again it could be “The Deep Freeze” – its minus 3 Celsius (30ish Fahrenheit) tonight. It was like minus 6 last night at one point. (Our house is also really cold and I can’t work out if that’s just me, whether I didn’t warm up properly from earlier or if it is actually that cold in here.)

4. Three things I am looking forward to this month are catching up with my girlies from university, hosting the women’s breakfast at church (it’s my first time and I’m kinda bricking it so prayers would be appreciated!) and and celebrating my cousin’s 18th birthday.

5. My favorite song to sing in the shower is it really depends what I’m listening to at the time. So at the moment it’s Hallelujah I Love Her So or Crazy Arms by Hugh Laurie. (I am absolutely loving his album at the moment. In fact as I write this post it’s playing.)

6. If I found out that the production of Milky bar White Chocolate or Milky Way bars was ending this month, I’d go out and buy as much as I could tomorrow.

7. One thing I’ll never grow tired of is music. It’s always changing and being rewritten or tweaked. As long as there is live music I’ll be a happy chicken lol.