Sweet Valley Who?

I was reading this morning that a new Sweet Valley High book has been released (in case that means nothing to you, think ’90210′ or ‘The OC’, but with blonde identical twins)! As a ‘youngster’ my parents used to drag take me to the library every weekend and encourage me to withdraw erudite tomes to keep [...]

As the Bishop said to the Pancake…

Well, today I get to blog about TWO of my favourite things… Pancakes… and the Archbishop of York*! I’m a huge fan of Dr John Sentamu, whose passion for sharing God’s love and seeing injustice stamped out is hugely inspiring. And he’s funny. And he plays the bongos. And he makes pancakes. I love him! So it [...]

My Name is Sweetmumma and I’m an Internetaholic

Sweetmumma has been having a few days away from the t’internet…seriously! Am I the only one who finds Twitter/Facebook/Googling-random-thoughts strangely addictive? Quite possibly – I am a bit odd! Anyway, I do tend towards the obsessive; a fact which God knows only too well and has spent far too much time (in my opinion) challenging [...]

Friday Fun with Frankincelery…

The Sweeties love Veggietales…what’s not to love?!? One of our favourite stories is ‘Where’s God When I’m S-Scared’ (God is bigger than the boogie man. He’s bigger than Godzilla or the monsters on TV…tra la la la……), in which Junior Asparagus watches a scary film and needs Bob the TomAto and Larry the Cucumber to teach [...]

The ‘Remember, Remember’ Challenge!

Well, it’s taking me a week to come up with it, but I finally have a New Year’s Resolution. Actually, it’s more of a New Life Resolution, but there is something about the start of the year that helps kick these things off… There’s a kids story I love called ‘Petunia’ (bear with me…). It’s [...]

Two Days Late

Well, they say better late than never. So, a bit behind the rest of the blogosphere, I’d like to wish you a… In my defence, our Sweet Christmas and New Year was pretty much wiped out when the pure-evil that is The Flu rampaged through my family (most of my family, anyway – somehow M&M [...]

The Wait is (almost) Over…

We’re half way through Advent. Woohoo! It’s about now that I begin to get REALLY excited about Christmas. Cue the Annual-Sort-Out-Of-The-Decorations, the weakening resolve to keep away from The Christmas Food and far too many Christmas Films & Songs…  As it gets closer to TheBigDay, the waiting seems to intensify (especially for PeanutM&M: “Is it Christmas today? [...]

Let it snow, let it snow, love the snow…

 On Sunday at our Sweetchurch we sang my most-favouritest-ever hymn: Great is Thy Faithfulness. An oldy but a goody!   Summer and winter, and springtime and harvest, Sun, moon and stars in their courses above, Join with all nature in manifold witness To Thy great faithfulness, mercy and love. I don’t know what it is about the [...]

Sweetiepie’s Second Birthday…

Aka: The Terrible Twos are upon us! So, Saturday saw our little Sweetiepie turn two. Hooray! ‘Two’ is a big milestone for a little premmie – by then they should have ‘caught up’ with all the other two-year-olds out there. Sweetie certainly seems to have done that – in fact she’s streets ahead when it [...]

WAIT…Sweetmumma needs your help!

It was the Sweetchurch Weekend not long ago – 3 days of teaching, worship and a big-fat-roast-dinner. YUM. One of the lovely people who cooked said big-fat-roast-dinner was our lovely Sweetgrandpa (he peels a good spud). And he clearly found favour in someone’s eyes as he was also made ‘Chief of Tea and Coffee’ at break [...]