4 Sleeps to the Holidays

I have to admit, I am really looking forward to the holidays this time. It has been a really hard term. I am sure though that the holidays are just going to fly by. For the most part we will be spending them at home. Steve is busying. He is teaching a course for CQU the first week of the holidays, then hopes to go fishing with the boys for three days, and the we are all flying to Brissie. Chloe and I will be gone for 4 days, but Steve is staying on for a few extra days as he has a conference to go to.

Last Saturday we had our monthly scrapbookin get together and I shocked myself by getting almost four layouts completed. I think this is the most I have ever done. I mean it took me a whole weekend to get five layouts done at our retreat. I must admit, I had prepared a little before I went.This first layout was an inspired scraplift from a layout by Christine Middlecamp. I love her work. She is really into detail and embellishments. I was really happy with this layout. Got to use, flowers, bling and Kindy Glitz.
Great shot of the girls butts. The give me a hard time when ever I want to take their photos, so if this is the angle they give me, than this is the angle I photograph and scrap.
Just some of the group shots from our scrapbooking retreat the other weekend. Have more photos to scrap a double page and hopefully will get some more pages scrapped over the holidays.
The new look Pete - he couldn't be bothered shaving when we had our holiday at Christmas time. Had planned to take it off when he started his new job, but by the time he was ready to start, it had actually grown into a beard and he thought he would leave it. Kind of suits him.

That wonderful young daughter of mine is still bringing me home flowers. I've managed to photograph most of them, and I'm thinking it might be nice to do a layout on them all .
Speaking of flowers, these goreous orchids and
these have all come out of the garden in the last month.
Got to catch up with this lovely lady for morning tea the other week when Betty came to visit to see photos her Grand daughter had posted on Facebook. I first met Betty almost 30 years ago when we first moved to Rocky. She was one of my advertisin clients when I first started working at the Bully here. We hit it off straight away. She was always talking about her daughter in law Eleonore, and her granddaughter Catherine. It was inevitable that we would become good friends when our girls went to Pre School together. Both Eleonore and I had both heard about each other long before we met. We have now been very good friends for 24 years.

Just thought I would share some great quotes that I came accross this week.

Our only business is to love and delight ourselves in God.

Brother Lawrence

"To love God is the greatest of virtues; to be loved by God is the greatest of blessings."

"Love is the sum of all virtue, and love disposes us to good."

"The Bible tells us to love our neighbors, and also to love our enemies: probably because they are generally the same people."

"The authority by which the Christian leader leads is not power but love, not force but example, not coercion but reasoned persuasion. Leaders have power, but power is safe only in the hands of those who humble themselves to serve."

John Stott

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