What a day!

Friday not feeling great so took the day off to catch up on some sleep and maybe get a head start on some marking. Good idea hey! Wrong!!!! Stephen had a car accident I was woken up with the phone call, went straight out to the crash site, in my pj's, spent 90 minutes by the side of the road. Came home got changed into some clothes, went to emergency, waited 2 hours and finally got home around 2 o'clock by which time the arthritis in my neck was killing me so I had to have a lie down with some pain killers. Amount of marking done 'zero'. Amount of actual sleep 'zero'. Next time remind me not to take a day off. Please!!!!

Exhausted

It doesn't take much of late to make me feel exhausted. Just thinking about marking all those essays and assessments is making me yaaawwn! Making sure I get plenty of sleep, down time and keep up to date with things sometimes means taking time out of my busy schedule. It's too late once you've crashed and burned so take a leaf out of my book and be kind to yourself.
I am so proud of my grandson, got up on his feet this morning and then sat up by himself this afternoon. He is only 6.5 months and soooo active. Look out Alyce and Ben this one is not going to wait for training wheels.
I miss him already. Maybe I need a quick flight to Adelaide on the holidays??? mmm now that's got me thinking!!

Ooooowww

When your body is complaining with every move you make
And your legs feel like buckling with every step you take
Then the only thing to do is turn your eyes to God

When you're tired and your sore
And your body says enough I need to sleep some more
Then the only thing you can do is to cry out to God

When you're whingy and you're cranky and nothing's going right
And you're tossing and you're turning and are awake half the night
Then your one and only option is to turn your face to God

Father please help me, I've so much I need to do
And I know the only one to call upon is YOU!

Thankyou Jesus xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx

We're just like kids sometimes

Reading facebook tonight I saw Alyce's comment about Jonathan wanting to play with the electric cords. No matter how many times she says 'NO' he keeps going back to them. Isn't that just like us, sometimes no matter how many times we tell ourselves we won't do something because it's not Christlike, we do it again and then regret it. Really need to find some discipline in reacting to students taunting. I am getting better buy boy some of them just get me to bite every time. Please God I need some help!!!!
Hopefully Alyce will have more success with Jonathan.

Back home at last

Well it's good to be home. After my whirlwind trip to Brisbane and the Sunny Coast, I feel both refreshed and tired but definitely on a high. I was able to visit with Jethro and Anna for 2 days and had a great time, sitting drinking chocolate and chai by an open fire, both at home and at an amazing venue. I helped Anna with a uni assignment which made me feel good.
The conference was just what I needed, plenty of wonderful spiritual imput, amazing worship and a lot of practical elements as well. The theme was 'In His Presence' and it gave us a lot of food for thought. Spending time with the 'girls' from Generations was also great, getting to know them better and sharing experiences with them.
Visiting 'Citipointe' was also a great experience - wow it's huge but so well set out. I loved the smaller 5pm service and the message was so down to earth and practical "developing a generous lifestyle' I have lots of great inspiration.
So all in all a wonderful time and a great moral boost for the next few weeks which are going to be flat out doing report cards at school.
Thanks God for a wonderful trip. Can't wait to put things I learned into practice.