Ooo Baby, Baby

Well, a big THANK YOU to all those people who’ve contacted us with their ‘congrats’ on Sweetkid#3. We really do appreciate it. And to answer all who’ve asked, we’re due mid December (I’m about 17 weeks). Our initial due date was Christmas Day, which was extra weird as I found out I was pregnant on [...]

MarshmallowMania

I’m going through a bit of a marshmallow phase at the moment. Don’t know why. I’m faddy. Anyway, my extensive research into the ‘what can you do with marshmallows’ department (watch it, no cheekiness perleeease) has revealed marshmallow kebabs, guns, chicks, dippers, crispy-cakes, bingo, teeth, wreaths, cookie-monsters, snowmen and, of course, s’mores! Or you could just [...]

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 [...]

Pat on the Back

I thought maybe I should start this post with an apology for being a lax and disorganised blogger… …but then I remembered that I do parent two under-5′s (one of whom is cheerfully embracing every aspect of the ‘terrible twos’ cliché); and I can’t remember when I last had a full night’s sleep; and I have spent the [...]

Friday Fun (on Saturday…)

My family love, Love, LOVE nutella… who the heck doesn’t? So I was joyful-joyful to stumble across the ‘World Nutella Day’ site with just-about-a-billion nutella influenced recipes (click on the pic below to check them out). W.N.D was February 5th by the way, I just missed it but still wanted to play tribute to the chocolatey-nutty-goodness. Better late than never, [...]

A Wonky View

After a couple of weeks of restraint, I finally succumbed to temptation and…cut Sweetiepie’s hair! What do you think? No more the straggly mullet, now she’s blessed with a cute almost-bob (and she does like it, despite the evidence of this photo…and we do brush it, despite the evidence of this photo…and it doesn’t always [...]

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 [...]

Quote Unquote

I spend a fair amount of time hanging around our church waiting for M&M – he’s a man much in demand! A few months ago as I loitered outside his office, I decided to ditch my usual pass-the-time routine (tutting, drumming fingers, sighing loudly etc) and wandered into our Sweetchurch library. As I leafed through [...]

It’s been a doozy…I think?

Well, last week was a real doozy (I’m not really sure what a ‘doozy’ is, but I’ve always wanted to use the word and it feels kinda good!). It all started with PeanutM&M returning from Pre-school with a drawing of a dinosaur, a ‘Beware Nits’ letter & a stomach virus, which, being a generous boy, [...]

In The Words of That Great Theologian…

One of my all time favourite ‘Heroes of the Faith’ stories is of the eminent (some have even said ‘Greatest ’) 20th Century theologian, Karl Barth. And it goes a little something like this: When asked if he could sum up his life’s work and his own theology in just a few words Barth thought [...]