The New Pad (complete with Playpen!)

So here I am, finally, back online and broadcasting from the all new Not-So-Small-But-Still-Sweet-House (I really must come up with a catchier ‘sweet name’ for it!). It’s been a nutty few weeks (pregnancy + moving house + husband away = I need a holiday!), but we’re already feeling settled in our new home. Sweetiepie’s finally [...]

Welcome to the Sabbath…on Wednesday!

I was leading our Sweetchurch Service on Sunday, and I began by reading a prayer entitled ‘Welcome to the Sabbath’. I’ve had so many comments about it that I thought I’d post it up for you all to see: I know it seems a bit weird to be ‘welcoming the Sabbath’ on a Wednesday, but most [...]

The Week That Is…#2

It’s my BiRThdaY! X PS. The fabulous pearls that my wonderful M&M gave me today are from an equally fabulous charity called MAD International (www.madinternational.org) which sources products from the Philippines and uses its profits to support the work of a Filipino church, enabling them to reach out to the poor and needy. My pearls are [...]

After Eight

Today is my wedding anniversary! 8 years of being married to the wonderful M&M – the best friend & partner-in-life a Sweetmumma could ask for.  We celebrated in Sweetstyle - hanging out with Sweetfriends, fishing kids out of paddling pools, eating ice-cream and listening to Elvis… How romantic?!?  But it suited us perfectly. We learnt pretty quickly [...]

My new baby… HERMAN!

Meet Herman: He’s my new ‘baby’, a gift from M&M to yours truly (an adoption which took place courtesy of a Sweetfriend from the other side of the pond, via a ‘Gap Year’ fund-raising auction). A brown, smelly, sludgy baby; but a fabulous one nonetheless. Herman is a friendship cake (aka Amish cake, aka Herman [...]

FUN-damental

PeanutM&M is a character who majors in fun. If it’s not fun, he’s not interested. So, this week, when he prayed his first ever unprompted prayer, it was no surprise to find ‘fun’ as its central theme. A Peanut original that went something like this: Dear Jesus. Help me have fun at pre-school. Help me [...]

Community Chest

It seems like ages since I last wrote anything (1 whole week – the longest I’ve left between blogs ever – naughty me!), and frankly, the balmy weather isn’t much of a motivator. So, I’ve chained myself to the PC until I finish this entry at which point I shall reward myself with freezer pops [...]

Trust Exercise

So, today is a pretty momentous occasion for our family. It is…The Vote. In our Sweetchurch, big decisions are made by ALL the members of the community. A most excellent idea, of course (viva Democracy and all that), but one which demands meetings, ballots and thinking! Tonight we have one such meeting. And the subject [...]

The Not-So-Sweet Nemesis

In my last post I wrote that I had a feeling of apprehension about the day ahead, but how, rather than worrying about what might happen, I should “celebrate” the great morning I was having…  Well, I’m blooming glad I got some hard-core celebration under my belt whilst I had the chance, because by the evening life [...]