Time change = tired.

Saturday night Ellie and Josie spent the night at my Mom and Dad's house. so Kyle and I could attend the school auction, then go out for dinner. I didn't realize it until after the plans were made, but Saturday night was Daylight Saving Time and we would be changing the clocks back. Silently, Kyle and cheered – instead of getting up an hour early with the kids, not only could we gain an extra hour of sleep, but with Ellie and Josie at my parent's...we even got to sleep in. I should not have been so smug.

It's a good thing we enjoyed our lazy Sunday morning, because not only did Josie come into our room at 4:40am this morning, ready for pancakes, but she also has a cold. Ellie wandered in about 45 minutes later, in the same condition.

Oh well. Work is slow today, our agenda includes snuggling, reading books, playing games and making chicken noodle soup. Oh...and going to bed early!

Wine Dinner Series

I am very excited to announce my new pet project. It will be a monthly dinner series featuring some of the most exciting and inspiring wines from all over the world. Our private room was designed with this dinner series in mind, to intimately host up to 12 diners. Our first dinner is a great one and features wines made in beautiful and bountiful, Tasmania. Kreglinger Wine Estates have a long history of producing some of the finest sparkling wines outside of champagne and also have many other projects including the illustrious Ninth Island and Pipers Brook Vineyards which are becoming reknowned for making extraordinary Pinot Noir. Our first dinner is next Thursday October 8, 2009. I have only a handful of spots left so please let me know soon if you would like me to reserve a place for you or call the restaurant directly to make a booking. Below is the menu and the wines we will be featuring. I can't wait and hope to meet some of you there. All the best and cheers!

Coming back with my tail between my legs...

Hello!

Due to popular demand I'm back...

By popular demand I mean the lovely Rachel Maynard who was very sweet and said she liked reading my little blogs...

Anyway, so here I am. So last time I wrote I think I was saying about leaving Sheffield/finding work. So Sheffield is been and done and life at home is well in the swing of things. Now I have a job too - oh yes! And I am an administrator! Yes, us little people who are stashed away by the computers who hold your very lives together... so treat administrators with respect, people! So that's quite exciting. My team who I work with are lovely and quite often conversation turns either to the plain perverse or the absolutely hilarious, so it's always interesting! Some of my colleagues I have known since childhood which is pretty cool.

In other news, I recently celebrated a wedding. My friend Louise got married to the lovely Sam and are now whisked away enjoying their honeymoon. So that meant I headed back to Aberystwyth. All has changed in that little town including Andy Herrick the vicar at my old home church St Mike's leaving and "J-D" arriving as the curate. It made me realise that even the things you think will always stay the same do in fact change.

So anyway, there's my first post for months and months. I'm sure there'll be more to come

Loveage to y'all xxxxxxxxxx

Thankfulness ...

I often wonder if we experience thankfulness. I do not think I do often enough. I am pretty sure that many of life's wonders pass me by while I am in worry, self pity, envy or self doubt. It is hard to be thankful...really.

What has happened just today that made me thankful. When the whole congregation sang the Lord's Prayer and I felt tears in my eyes I knew that was a thankful moment, but it was only a moment and alas I became self conscious, what is my eye make up was running down my face? Later in the day I was thankful that my grand babies were sitting on the couch with me watching National Geographic. But again my mind swiftly moved to worry that nature's violence might be too much.

I want to be thankful...I am well aware that I have food, a bed, family, health, and relative comfort in life. I am able to read, share my thoughts and freely worship my God. I have so much every day to be grateful for .... why then do I not spend more time saying thank you? This will be my quest for the next days...to ponder, to say thank you and to find the attitude of gratefulness.