Prompt 8

Prompt 8: Weds 22nd NovemberToday, quite simply is a day to dream What would your ideal Christmas be … would it be spent alone (except for perhaps the cat!) in a log cabin with a cup of hot chocolate & a roaring fire? Would it be filled with noise & laughter & friends & parties?Go on ... let your imagination flow ...



I'd love to be with my hubby, kiddies and my mum and her hubby.... somewhere hot like the west indies/carribean.
We'd have a yummmie spread.... delish drinks and all on the beach!!!

Prompt 5

Prompt 5: Sun 19th NovDreamsLast week we took as our theme "Preparation", this week, we're going to use "anticipation" as a theme. Christmas is about the birth of a baby & God wants us to be excited! How did you feel about a birth in the family? What were you most excited about? What did you anticipate? How did you feel? How do you think Mary felt as she anticipated the birth of Jesus?Father God, The birth of a baby is a time for rejoicing, for excitement and for celebration. Fill our hearts with joy as we anticipate once again the arrival of Your son. Help us to remember that You came to this world in the most vulnerable way - not as a king but as a tiny, innocent baby. Amen

When I had my last baby I was soooo aprehensive and anxious as I knew it would be very painful. I wanted to make sure I was prepared and that I had all my stuff ready for myself and baby.

I can just imagine how Mary must have been feeling. She was far from home... traveling.... no room anywhere and the contractions comming quick and fast.
Ontop of all that, she knew that she was carrying the saviour !! WOW!!!

Prompt 4

Prompt 4: Sat 18th NovPreparationThis week, we've been looking at Advent & how it is a period of waiting, of preparation, of anticipation. When do you start preparing for Christmas? Is it something you think about all year or only start in December? When do the children start to get excited? What sort of things do you get excited about? Lord, In this time of preparation & excitement, help us to keep our eyes focussed on You, and help us to show as much enthusiasm for the true meaning of Christmas as we do for the commercial trappings. Amen


I think about Christmas from around August times as I like to budget for bitz and also to start to figure out where we'll spend Christmas day.

At work Christmas preperations start ever so early!!

I cant wait to start practicing Christmas carrols in Choir practice.

Kali is getting more and more excited as the time gets closer. Jayz and Kylo are still too young to really know too much.

I am gonna do some cards with Kali, he chose some paper and peeloffs for his cards at a store he went to with me. it will be fun.

I get excited about family time, watching my fam open their presents and mine too!!

prompt 3

Prompt 3: Fri 17th NovPreparation
Hymn: On Jordan's Bank
[COLOR="Purple"]Still thinking of John the Baptist preparing the way for Christmas, how do YOU feel when the Christmas season starts? Does it fill you with dread (crowds, rush, cost ...) or with joy (family, presents, happiness) - is it a mixture of the two? (Focus today on the FEELINGS not the activities you do)[/COLOR]
Father, as we approach Christmas, grant us peace from the busy-iness of the world, heal the sorrows in our hearts & grant us a renewed joy at the hope that comes each year as we remember the greatest gift of all. Amen


I feel a great Joy as we get closer to Christmas!!
I have always had a hectic Christmas - as a child we would visit families and friends and it was always a time of family.

Now that I have my own family, it's fantastic to see the way the kiddies love the season.
I am going to try to keep my mind on the reason for the season and not get too stressed. Working in a store, you do get bogged down with Christmas stresses, Orders...... turkeys...... made tills.... irate customers....... But I'll just be happy in the knowledge that myt kiddies will be getting some nice things from me with my wages!!

Advent!!!

The Lovely Woozle from UKS is posting some Advent prompts for us to use. Cant wait to get started!!


Prompt 1: Weds 15th NovemberPreparationThe word 'advent' is Latin for 'a coming or arrival'. Over the coming weeks, we will take time out of our busy lives to think what Christmas is really about and what the birth of a baby over 2000 years ago means to us today. Advent is a season of preparation, just like Lent, but it is a different kind of preparation. Lent is very adult and serious, because it leads to a death; In Advent, we thank God for Christ's first coming, prepare for his final coming at the end of time, and celebrate Christ's presence among us today. As Christmas is centered in the new hope brought by a baby, it's a very child-oriented holiday. Because Advent leads us up to that baby, so is Advent.Today, take some time to think how you are going to mark this Advent season and to prepare yourself, both in spirit and by gathering your supplies to start your Advent journey.Father, in the wilderness of the Jordan you sent a messenger to prepare people's hearts for the coming of your Son. As we approach this season again, prepare our hearts and minds to receive your message anew, that we may come to a deeper understanding of this season and of You. Amen.



This prompt is an excellent begining to what I know is gonna be a fantastic time of thought, reflection and a closer understanding to Advent.

The Birth of our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ!!

Fireworks!!

Ok so it's the firework season!! I really am not a huge fan of them!! I was really scared as a child, I like the colours and it's noce to watch them from behind glass but the noise and being to close is not for me.

Jayz abs loves the whizz, bang, colour as does kylo!!

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Church was fantastic!! We had a "fireworks" evening and the Holy Spirit really showed up with great fire.
The Choir led praise and worship and we also ministerd two songs. It's been quite a while since we have sung as a choir at church and it was great!!

I really am trying much harder with my singing and am pushing myself more and more.
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Songs of the Moment:

1-2 victory check (Tye Tribett and G.A.)
who else but God ( " " " " )
Days of Ellijah (Donnie McClurkin)

WOOOWWWWW!!!

On Thursday, I was "Introduced" to the most dynamic, awesome choir I've seen for a long time!!

Tye Tribbett and GA!!



They are abs fantastic!! They have enlightened a fire in me and I just want to continue my singing even more!! I want to stop holding back and give it my all!!

My cuz and I are desperately longing for the DVD to come into the store!! It's sold out everywhere so she ordered it for us. It should be here on Friday and I cant wait.

I was privaliged to have been loaned a copy for a couple of days and I had the dvd on all night.

I miss it and cant wait till i get mine.

What a weekend!!

I've had such a fantastic weekend!! Very hectic but great.
It started from thursday all the way thru to Sunday evening.

Thurs after choir practice, I had a real bondin experience with two close friends and my cuz. I was still on a high the next two days.

Friday was my good friend Sophie's B'day meal and we had a brill time dancing in the winebar.

Saturday was the day of a concert that my church mum put on, I was a co-ordinator with my cuz and we worked hard but had fun too. I had great enjoyment playing around... erm make that testing out LOLOL the walkie talkies. Before we got started.
The concert was fantastic and the artists were awesome. God was deff in the house and a young lady gave her heart to Him!!

Sunday was fantastic. It was youth service in the evening, I had a programme to run with but I just couldnt go through with it!! The Holy Spirit had other ideas and I just had to praise Him. The whole church was praising and our visiting Bishop prayed and ministered to the congregration and the young people too.
The theme was Comming back to your first love and without even a scripture read or a topic given God had us all exactly on track!!

Such a long time!!

Haven't posted in such a loooong time!! I have been so busy and work is a stress!! I am quite frustrated there and am being victimised a bit. I think i will complain to reginal personel actually as I've had about enough!!

Kylo has sniffles again, bless him and is quite clingy. he had a horible couple of nights and I hope he has a good sleep tonight.

Happy 1st Birthday Kylo!!

I cannot believe it!! A year has gone by sooooooooo quickly.
Kylo's b'day was last week and he had a great day.

He was so happy. He was smiling and clapping and dancing when we sang "Happy Birthday" to him.

He's such a lovely baby. so soft natured and funny. He's great company.

My Little baba's THREE!!!

WOWWW!! cant believe it really. I am so behind that I missed posting the news!! He still is my baby and now he's three. He had a great day out last week. We went to a fun park and he enjoyed the rides and the stalls. His big bro loved it too and he went on the dogems with daddy and also with a friend he made (it's amazing how kids make friends!!) Jayz was soooooo excited and he was running around. He went on the trampolines and loved it sooooo much I was so happy just looking at his happy face.
He loved the areoplane ride, not surprising really as he loves planes, he loved going up high and looking down at us smilling and waving everytime he came round to where we were standing.
He also loved the round about swings.
We played a few games on the stalls and won prizes for each child. A scooby doo toy for jayz, a street fighter gameboy advance game for kali and a big looney toons ball for kylo.
Kylo loved watching his brothers and was so excited. He wanted to go on the rides too!! LOL.

Being there made me even more determined to shift more weight, Kali wanted me to go on the rides with him but i was too afraid incase i couldn't fit or if people would laff at me on the rides. this time next year we'll go back and I'll go on the rides with him!!

It was a fantastic day and I think I'll take them back before Kali goes back to school as they enjoyed it so much. I have taken some time off at work so I can spend some time with my "coco puff" before school starts back.

EXPOMANIA!!!

Went to an expo today and spent obcene amount of money, in a small amount of time and considering it wasn't that big a show... am thorougly ashamed with myself... pleased with me bitz tho LOL!!

Met Sarah in person, she's such a sweetie, her family are so great!! made an atc on her stand and had a good natter, and got some yummy paper, atc kit and doodlebug kits too!!

cleared some bitz from the lovely Orlando he had some fab alpha stamps at half price so i got two packs.... well it would be rude not too haaaaaa!! got a few other stuff and also some brads i wanted!!

Visited a stall where the holders came all the way from US, great stuff and will be visiting their site.

I also came across a fab company i met at ally pally, I am designing some cards for them and i lost their details so am well pleased they were there. Picked up some cute girly stamps.

I got a few more bitz from the various stalls and a pack of pay-per-box card. The lovely chap didn't take card so he offered to let me send a cheque to him, what a sweetie.

My feet are aching but my back pack is full!!

Stupid Bank!!

Why did I think this time would be any different. I've been sitting here wondering why the money hasn't gone in! Got a letter this morning saying i didn't send some signed something or another. And that i needed to call.
I called to find out they were talking about as I had signed the form, guy tells me it's some credit thingy, I ask him what page as they sent me back my agreement, he then put me on hold, came back and still didn't know. I told him nothing else was sent out... on hold again, he then comes back... "sorry it wasn't sent out before, nor was it sent out this time!!"

bahhhhh!! he printed another one off so it should be here probably monday!!

Brian Mcknight!!

Soooooo..... been singing the delectable Brian Mcknight's Back at One tune all week so thought I'd put it up here .......

..... dont mind me if i swoon

Forgot to say.....

..... In all the excitement of my missing bag and going back to work, i completely forgot to say I'm on a Design Team!!

or did I?? Who know's with me LOL.

I am well chuffed and Sarah is such a poppet!!

My first task was to design some cards for her for the Islington show!! The kit she sent was fabby!! It really challenged me as there were bits in there I haven't or wouldn't have thought of usually using. I'll be going to the show and how odd woll it be to see the cards up??!! I hope her customers like them, I want to make Sarah proud as she has only recently started out and she has some great stuff on her site.

I was sooooo scared and anxious that I wouldn't be up to scratch but I talked with some great forum pals over at scrapitude and they put me at ease.

You can check out her kewl stuff here

soon to be out of my overdraft!!!

soooo.... Finaly getting out of my overdraft, Had a review of my account after an embarrasing phone call where I bawled down the phone to a customer care manager after a rude so and so wound me up and then hung up on me!!

I felt like such a goon for crying on the phone, the poor bloke said he'd phone back later lololol. He called me back the next day and gave me some brill advice. He also told me i should try to get a consilidation(sp) loan, I told him i'd been turned down before but he said that was prob for a personal loan and that I should make sure they knew what type I wanted.

Lovely lady called me today(monday) and I was declined!! She said she'd call me back after she had a look at some figures. She came back with good news!! I could have it and also get some money to spend - I had been afraid that if they only lent me a small amount, I wouldn't be able to have access to the money that had just gone in.
She said the only way I'd have it waas if I agreed for my overdraft to be taken away, at first I didn't want that as I have used it as a crutch for so long, butr thinking about it I think it's for the best, this way i can make sure i dont get in this mess again.
I can always apply for one at a later date.

Paper work will come in next couple of days, sooooo.... pray it all goes through I feel much better already. I need to get ontop of my finaces.

Had good day at work although some customers really wound me up!!

Got to work early as I wanted to have a meal and rest but we were so short staffed, work mate begged me to start early!!

Well meant to be in bed already.... got alot on tomo.

My Bag...My Life!!

I cant believe how have my bag lost can affect me soooo much!!

I had all my bits in there and it's frustrating to have to cancel cards and all that stuff but all the private stuff, the stuff that you carry around all the time, gone.... riffled thru... makes me quite sad.

I had pics and videos on my phone of my lovely kiddies and dh and i just hate the thought of someone looking thru them.

I have called the phone insurance people and they've told me i need to get a loss number or something another from the police.

I called the bank about my chequebook and told them i had written a cheque on the thursday/friday and to cancell cheques after that date, the stupid so and so's decided to return a cheque and now the company have charged me £25!! I'm not happy and will be onto the bank tomorow!!


Right.... deff going to bed now!!

Kirk Franklin!!

Put new video on. Thought i'd put Kirk Franklin on. I love gospel music and He has a great style.


Went Choir practice earlier. Was quite good. I am really trying to excell with my singing. I have become much more confident since I started singing on Praise and Worship it seem s odd to think that I am a worship leader. I hope that I am doing a good job and that God will be pleased with what he hears.

I no longer shy away from the mic but do hold back at times, I'm working on that part heee heee.

must go to bed earlier today as I have kali's assembly tomorow morning. It's the jungle book so I'm told!!

Back To Work!!!

Cannot believe a whole year(+) has gone by so quickly!!

I went back to work on Monday and have to say it went much better than I had expected.

It is quite nice to be out of the house and getting some adult convo again!!

The store has changed sooo much and lots of staff, including the store manager and a few of the section managers have gone.

It feels alittle odd to be back and people keep asking me if i'm new!!

I am gonna treat myself to a bit of stash when my pay packet comes but not too much as I have loads of house bits to get.

It's funny how the till is just so easy to get back into, it's sad but I still remember lots of the codes of by heart hahahaha!!

Kali doesn't want me to go to work and wishes I could be home, jayz cries so much when I go "I come??" he asks and then wails when I say no, I ca hear him crying as I walk away - breaks my heart. Ky just watches me go sadly. When I get back he gets all excited and reaches out for me. He has a mega feed and falls asleep, bless him!!.

Sniiflles!!

Two baba's have both got the sniffles and I've been up all day and night with them!! Poor loves have runny noses and eyes and look so sorrowful.

Hoping they get better very quickly as I go back to work on Monday..... scary going back. In one way I can't wait to be going out of the house, mingling with adults and seeing a diff environment. In another way I'm gonna miss my lil baby soooo much, not only him tho the other two too. It will be nice to have my own wages again tho. The last 6 months have been really hard on us as we have been trying to get by on hubby's wage.
Praise God for providing for us, if it weren't for him, we'd be far worse I can tell ya!!

I have "Met" some Christians on UKS and am soooo happy. We are discussing faith/praise booking which I am sooo hyped about.

Anyway, I'm a little achy so will log off and go upstairs. Craft Day so will watch tv till I get tired.