Legally Blonde

I’m with Miss Guided having a complete flop and time out – why is it I have to go far far away from my boys, my home etc before I can proper relax?! bit contrary, charging my batteries up for weddingness, homebuilding, future stuff etc by going away from them…?

well, chatting about faith, communities, grown-up-future-ness, Jacqui’s new job, Torchwood, doing her Christmas present puzzle (Dr Who, many pieces, difficult!), looking at where the different bits fit together, in isolation but also in the bigger picture…

One of the things I haven’t said here yet is that I’m involved in Service Planning again Someone in Church did say that if I hadn’t done so well at the Crib Service, I wouldn’t have been asked to do another… but I’m hardly going to try to do badly am I (and I was HUGELY helped by a Very Good Friend from a Long Time Ago)?! Well, this weekend is Candlemas, and a Children’s Sunday, and I’ve been co-opted. We’re doing a Christingle service (I know it’s usually Christmassy but it can be anywhere in Advent or up to Candlemas, so we just get in

I’m doing a christingle made of children (not literally lighting them!) and the talky bit, and we’ve chosen light sort of hymns… it’s interesting and lovely but a bit weird bieng Involved again… I think I’m grateful and feel called but also it’s Hard Work and Dai starts minding how long I spend at the computer… but has offered to come!

Maybe coming away from it all has given me distance and perspective, and made me in a funny way more prepared for the busyness and business coming up in the next couple of months. I think it’s all good so leaving them will help me come closer to them long term? what do people think??

On the train coming up here, I had a good couple of hours of nothingness, which is so unusual but also refresshing – I felt a real sense of presence, and listened. Almost as though I’m on retreat

ok, back to Dr Who now … back in Swansea Friday pm talk to you then !

Michael’s car boot that was going to be today didn’t happen in January, and probably won’t til March. The provisional date depends on enough of us being here and able to commit to a weekend on which to run it!! some are working away, some are getting married, all are snowed under the madness… If you have any floggable stuff you want to contribute to the cause, please please please drop it into Windsor st sometime before the first w/e in March! the brilliant girlies at ORS are organising, I’m just publicising and collecting etc. but Pleeeaase

I seem to be doing weekly blogs at the moment … 7 weeks today and counting

2nd dress fitting yesterday, with new shoes and everything, for pinning the hem etc, oh excitingness, D still convinced i’m wearing red, one of the pairs of new shoes I’ve been leaving lying around the house and breaking in is brilliant red silk… also spoken to friendly printer and putting the invitation lily on the front of the menu (which we can’t yet finalise because the wine supplier at the venue is changing!), and the vicar to sort out the order of Service…

replies are starting to come in it’s sooooon now

aaargh wedding stuff! bought rings and shoes, invitations printed, written, posted designing menus and orders of service, have second dress fitting booked, and hunting down thank you presents … all going well but it’s scarily, excitingly soon! Desperately trying to sort out the house as well. I’m not always all there at the moment!

for K, a friend who is in a serious state after having his eye removed this afternoon, and his family

comfort and heal all those who suffer in body, mind or spirit
may the power of your healing spirit be at work in them

wrap him and his family up in your love and compassion

is that all?

still, we’ve nearly finished making the invitations and they will be written, addressed and posted later this week – that really will feel like a milestone and a step on the way – excitement! then I can take one to the printer for menu and order of service design.

found a few pairs of shoes, need to work out which will be both comfy and glamorous enough and work with the dress, then go back for a hem fitting.

confirmed timings with band, and going to cardiff on a ring hunt on day off this friday

still to worry about: rings, reconfirm with photographer (list of essential posed pics!), put icing-on-the-cake lady in touch with my amazing-cake-making mummy. clean house!! get more sleep!!!

Sorted: Dress, flowers, food, nearly drink.

Still to chase: Shoes! passport, finalise and reconfirm things with all suppliers.

getting there!

We heard the first reading of our Banns this morning, and my parents were here to hear it

Sorry for the long delay – has it really been four months? eek.

Three-year-old Theology
(driving in Swansea, in an area where people seem to compete for the most plastic on the front of the house)
My Mummy?
Yes, my Benjamin?
That house has Christmas lights, Farmer Christmas (sic) and the Snowman, but where’s their Baby Jesus?

(Crib Service, 5 o’clock Christmas Eve)
Leader: Does anyone know whose birthday it is tomorrow?
(simultaneously)
Benjamin: Luke’s!
Luke: Benjamin’s!
Leader: Who else?
most children: Baby Jesus!
another child, to Benjamin: was Jesus really born on your birthday?!

(6 o’clock on Christmas morning)
(urgent whisper) My Mummy, my mummy, has Farmer Christmas brought us Baby Jesus yet?
(sleepy growl) No, not yet, not for at least another hour!