puurrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrfect parents!

Aaron and I have today become proud parents. We have decided to call them Ollie and bandit. Bizaarly enough one is whit and one is black. It has been very strange finding out only yesterday that they were on their way, and having so little time to prepare and buy all the things we will need.

Strange names I know....but what with people going around with names like apple then this is not so bad............................................................................................................................................................
for a cat!

Yes we have 2 lovely cats who desperately needed re-homing

They are quite timid but very cute and funny

here are some pics.....click the link, its easier than putting them right on here

http://spaces.msn.com/members/allforlovessake/PersonalSpace.aspx?_c11_PhotoAlbum_spaHandler=TWljcm9zb2Z0LlNwYWNlcy5XZWIuUGFydHMuUGhvdG9BbGJ1bS5GdWxsTW9kZUNvbnRyb2xsZXI%24&_c11_PhotoAlbum_spaFolderID=cns!1pKDV9jXQL4wyJn2sda5r26A!131&_c=PhotoAlbum&owner=1&js=yes

I'll never know, how much it cost...............

Hind sight! Is that the correct term? well if not im sure you know what I mean?!

Its a funny thing...what would you change or do differently if you knew then what you know now? This could be along list for me, I wont bore you with everythin....we'd be here all night!

I have a reputation of acting in hast and repenting at leisure...as a teenager I was always on some hair brained scheme to amke my life fantastic or meet the man of my dreams (whether Ihad one or not) Oh the innocence of youth....................ahem!

I'd like to think my experiences of growing up (rather too fast in my opinion, now I'm an old lady) have shanged me and taught me to be wise in my decision making.........an attribute i rather hope the youth in our church will notice and not follow in my wayward footsteps. I suppose ypu can ead a horse to water and all that but in the end they have to make the decision to drink.

So what would I change? Well I'd ave paid more attention in Sunday school and taken my faith more seriously....its kinda like tidying your room, it seems like a chore when your young but you know it has to be done....you can see things getting messy around you but its strangely comfortable...then one day its so full of stuff you just cant function anymore.....but its so hard to make a start.....then your parents come along and give you a helping hand....and how amazing is it when its all back neat and orderly again......I let my life, faith etc get out of hand to the extent that i'm still picking up the rubbish off the floor now, years on....its impossible to be perfect, but if I knew what I'd have to go through to get just this tidy then i'd have thought twice before messing my life up in the first place IYSWIM


I'd deffo have gone to uni!! Its one of my biggest regrets....you know what i said about acting in haste? well i gave up on uni to get married at 19!! Now I know there are many out there who it worked out for but i let my heart rule my head and well I cant change it now....but getting a degree is now one of my life goals!!


However, as easy as iyt s to say 'in hind sight' I know God had a plan and purpose for my life that no matter how hard i tried to mess it up and go off course, I know that God has used that time and probably kept me more on the path than i realised.

I just want to ytake the opportunity to thank God....cos withought Him I'd be on the road to know where and possibly not writing this blog now!!!!!

Sorry to depress everyone, but having all the blessing God has given me has made me reflect on my life.......how much ive hurt God and how much I wanna give all I have to serve Him and realise what He has done for me :)

stay blessed ;)

Picture perfect!

I dont know...you look away for 5 minutes and people are changingtheir photographs left right and centre...what a good looking bunch u are tho ;)

I am sticking with mine as its the only one that makes me look vaguely human and not like a wilder beast!

No point to this...just rambling on...its what we Dudley folk do!

ta ra for now :)

A good game for geeky compuetr type peeps...plz help!

http://www.etienne.nu/imagepuz/

This ahs been driving me mad all night and i am up to stage 13!! so far i ave no idea what the solution is.....helllp me before my hair falls out and i start the rock and children point and run away from the crazy square eyed lady!!!

Gods Law

We have been following a course in home group recently on evangelism and Gods Law. I have made some notes on my understanding of what we have looked at and felt I should share it here. Its a step away from my usual lame jokes but hey, I can be spiritual sometimes! Sorry if its hard to follow these are my study notes :)

The Law

(Scriptures taken from Matthew 5 verse 17-20)

A common misconception is that Jesus came along in the New Testament to eradicate the Old Testament laws and replace them with a new scheme of living, therefor we are able to ignore all the 'outdated rules' - This as we know is incorrect. Jesus says in matthew 5 v 17 not to misunderstand why He came, He cae to fulfil the law of Moses, not abolish it.

Moses set out clearly the 10 commandments in Exodus 20 vwerse 1-17. We find it easy to keep the big, life changing,memorable commandments 0 Do not murder, Do not commit adultery, Do not steal, Honour your Mother and Father. Yet, Jesus says in Mattew 15 verse 18 that breaking even the smallest detail of Gods law and leading others in the same way (ie in our example to others, how we bring up our children etc) that you will be least in the Kingdom.

So, to re-address the 10 commandments, that Jesus is upholding as part of the law of Moses, to hate is to murder in Gods eyes, to look on another woman or man in a lustful way is to commit adultery. How many of us have taken longer on our lunch break, used work time to surf the internet or taken that tool or bit of electrical cable that work wont miss? Have you claimed too much expenses? Yes? well its all stealing! Just by going about our everyday lives, not checking our hearts, we are steeling, lying, murdering and commiting adultery.

And thats justthe 'Big' commandments! - what about honouring your father and mother? We've all donethings our parents wouldnt approve of or asked us not to do (no matter what our age) thinking we know best.

As for worshiping other gods or having idols - ok so how many of us have a Golden calf on our mantle piece? LOL aaahhh well......A god is something that we adore, something that attracts our attention, our time. Its something that basically takes our eyes and focus off God. If I were to divide up my week in to portions for each area/activityhow big would my God slice be? TV, work, exercise, spending tome with family and friends, socialising, washing the car, surfing then net, taking holudays, shopping, doing stuff at church even...do these things take priority in our lives? Yes some of these are good things even talents that God has blessed us with Himself, however, His intention wasn'tthat these would become our focus....or our gods/idols.

I trust that most of us as christians do not misuse Gods name and I am sure many of us use the Sabbath (in most cases Sunday) to spend time resting in God, focussing on Him, devoting our time (His time) to Him.

However, Matthew 5 verse 19 says @if you break even the smallest commandment and teach others to do the same@ - it isour priority to make sure that those around us know Gods laws and are followingthem. God promises us that those who follow His laws and teach them to will be great in the Kingdom of Heaven. We are not responsible for the actions of others ut we do have a

tresponsibility to believers and non-believers alike to teach Gods law and scripture correctly and to ensure that people realise the urgency of doing so.

if thats not enough to take in, making sure we follow every one of the laws, a warning then comes!! in verse 20 Jesus says tha unless we obey God better than the religious teachers of law and the pharisees then we cannot enter the kingdom of God at all!

We strive to be like Jesus, to follow the example set by Him. We pray that God will give us strength, determination and conviction. We ask Him to reveal out Hidden sin. God wants us all in Heaven. With our hearts and eyes fixed on Him and His law in our hearts God has promised us security in eternity!! Amen ;)

blonde moment!

Its alwas annoyed me that my text goes right over to the side of the page and didnt see an option to centre it (have always wondered why mine was different to all of yours) Just realised I had it on the HTML option and not the normal option to compose!! dohhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh!

another lame joke:

Several men are in the locker room of a golf club.
A cell phone on a bench rings and a man engages the hands free
speaker-function and begins to talk. Everyone else in the room stops to listen.
MAN: "Hello"

WOMAN: "Honey, it's me. Are you at the club?"

MAN: "Yes"

WOMAN: "I'm at the mall now and found this beautiful leather coat. It's
only $1,000. Is it OK if I buy it?"

MAN: "Sure, .go ahead if you like it that much."

WOMAN: "I also stopped by the Mercedes dealership and saw the new 2005
models. I saw one I really liked."

MAN: "How much?"

WOMAN: "$125,000"

MAN: "OK, but for that price I want it with all the options."

WOMAN: "Great! Oh, and one more thing. The house we wanted last year is
back on the market. They're asking $1,950,000."

MAN: "Well, then go ahead and give them an offer, but just offer
$1,900,000."

WOMAN: "OK. I'll see you later! I love you!"

MAN: "Bye, I love you, too."

The man hangs up. The other men in the locker room are looking at him
in
astonishment.

Then he smiles and asks: "Anyone know who this phone belongs to?"

The Quest of The Lazer

Ok so I had to remove that awful joke from the top of my blog, and what better way than to write e new entry.

I cant remember everything that has happened since my last blog, not least because I dont know when I last blogged. It has been Aaron's birthday and the old guy is now 26!!! (he doesnt like to be reminded of that hehe) We went to The Bullring last saturday and got him a shiny new Blackburn top. It was hard going because we only found one shop that sold them and they were all dirty, except for one wich was almost out of reach. I put on my go go gadget arms and got it down tho. Then we found that all of the shops that print the shirts will only print them if you bought it from them, except JJB who didnt have the letters! aaaaaarrrrrgggggggghhhhhhhhh so poor lil old Azz has had to settle for a plain one.

We broke up for half term this week after a training day yesterday. People always ask me exactly what goes on on a training day. Well its always different, sometimes we do training about regulations, sometimes about specific special needs , but yesterday was fun.....I did a display on natural disasters around the world and started one (to be finished after the hols) about optical illusions...yay magic eye pictures!! I realised i could do those for the first time this week yay!

Then about 10 of us went to Lazer Quest in the afternoon. That was quite fun and much opportunity fr sillyness hehe! AND i didnt come last in either game altho i was always in the bottom 3 :s however on the team gamne i didnt get shot once!!!yay for me again!

But i have come to realise I am an exclamation-mark-a-holic. I have looked thru some old posts and noticed on MSN and forums that I use an excess amount of !!!!!!!!!! dont know why i do it...its a disease!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

anywas i'm off now as its my nans birthday and i have to go and see her. See you all soon and God bless ya !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!(sorry)

OK so maybe this is the last one...caution awful joke alert!!

A frog goes into a bank and approaches the teller. He can see from her nameplate that her name is Patricia Whack. "Miss Whack, I'd like to get a $30,000 loan to take a holiday." Patty looks at the frog in disbelief and asks his name. The frog says his name is Kermit Jagger, his dad is Mick Jagger, and that it's okay, he knows the bank manager. Patty explains that he will need to secure the loan with some collateral. The frog says, "Sure. I have this," and produces a tiny porcelain elephant, about an inch tall, bright pink and perfectly formed. Very confused, Patty explains that she'll have to consult with the bank manager and disappears into a back office. She finds the manager and says, "There's a frog called Kermit Jagger out there who claims to know you and wants to borrow $30,000, and he wants to use this as collateral." She holds up the tiny pink elephant. "I mean, what in the world is this?"



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"It's a knickknack, Patty Whack. Give the frog a loan. His old man's a Rolling Stone."

(You're singing it, aren't you? Yeah, I know you are........)