Spring Cleaning.

I have had a very productive day off. I have been doing laundry and ironing, I cleaned the kitchen and tidied rooms. And I did the thing that I haaate the most - I cleaned out the fridge. I know this is disgusting but it was so gross...I have been putting it off for weeks. That's gross. I am gross. But all is well now and I have some happy little vegetables in my fridge now. This makes me happy and I feel very proud of myself.

I did it again. I ordered food online again. This time it was a little better because I got to speak to the driver. So it was kinda like speaking to the person that checks through all your items, right? Well that is how I took it. And with all that lovely food that came, I made a lovely dinner. Roast Chicken...my faaaavourite! I made some sauteed potatoes and cauliflower cheese, add some broccoli and carrots and that is our dinner! Yum, yum, yummmm. I am just about to make a delicious, easy dessert too. You should try it.

500g frozen fruit

500g natural yogurt

2 tablespoons honey

Mix it all together and you get yourself a yummy, ice-cream-like, dessert! DO IT.

I have also been Spring-cleaning my mind...does that make sense? hmm. Let me try and explain myself. I have been reading different bibles passages and reading 2 books. One that I am reading is called Promises From God for Single Ladies - this has been just the encouragement that I have needed! The other one is called Simple Prayer - I have only just started reading this but I am hoping I can learnt a lot from this. So far it has been pretty good (all those 3 pages that I have read...I will keep you posted!) I am trying to keep my time filled with good things. There are soooo many things all around that scream at us to do the wrong thing that it makes it hard to do the right thing. Let me tell you this, I have never been happier than whe I am fully relying on the Lord and trusting in Him, losing myself in His word and doing what is right in His eyes. Of course sometimes I mess up, but the Lord continues to love me.

I have been really encouraged by this blog and I know you will be too. Especially just now. Go and check it out and find out who sweet Elsa is, and then praise the Lord! He is soooo good. 

I'm leaving you with this lovely photo of me and one of my best friends, my sister. Miss Lucy. So this was a few years ago now. But it is adorable. We were adorable. We liked to play in the dirt. I'm not sure if we would do this today still..? Who am I kidding, of course we would.

Happy Tuesday!

O Holy Night.

Merry Christmas (a little late!) I hope that everyone had a wonderful time, ate too much and smiled all day!

My day was just lovely. Every year on Christmas Eve we attend a Church Carol service at our local Church. I have to admit that it has hardly changed since I was little but it is still a joy to go to it! When we were younger, my sister, brother and I would usually be taking part in the service in some way. There are different readings and performances inbetween the different carols. It is lovely to see the different kids that participate now and see how the little kiddies that I used to watch in Sunday School have grown! It was beautiful. I always get emotional during the service because I always reflect on why we are here, and why we are celebrating.

After this my brother and I came back with our mum and spent the evening with her. Lucy came later on, she went out for a few drinks with her friend. I have to say here that it has been a joy having Fin home for Christmas. I love that boy and I love seeing how he is growing up and changing. He is a blessing. We were all sick on Christmas Eve, with colds. It was not nice. I was up late wrapping presents, making yummy truffles and cheesecake for Christmas day. So I was exhausted. I slept SO good. Could of slept all day. I woke up at 8:45am and all was still quiet in the house. I don't remember a Christmas when I have been able to sleep that late. Usually I have a sister or brother in my room whispering to see if I am awake, or doing what they need to wake me up! So I just lay there for a while enjoying the moment where I could wake up on my own. It didn't last long. Soon someone was in the bathroom, I heard the toilet flush and it was like this was an alarm telling everyone it was time to get up. I heard one door open, then another and Christmas greetings being passed around! I knew that I would be next. I didn't do a very good job of being my cheery self. I had a horrible head-ache and stuffy nose.

I finally made it to the living room where everyone was VERY excited to see what gifts they had received. I wrapped myself in a blanket and was ready to fall asleep again. But that's what little brothers are for, to wake you up even when you are not ready to! So he picked me up and threw me over his shoulder. Great. Just what I was wanting to happen. And just so you know, I am about 6ft tall and my brother is 6ft 4or5 so you imagine how ridiculous this looked. I do find it very impressive when he manages to pick me up but doesn't mean I appreicate it!

I love watching everyone open the gifts I bought for them months ago and hoped that they would love! It was successful. I will share more about my gifts in another post.

We had a yummy breakfast of cinammon scrolls! They are a favourite for all of us! Suddenly we didn't really have a lot of time and we were all running around getting ready and deciding what to wear, well that was more me...I had no idea what I was going to wear! I got there in the end though. I blame this on feeling really ill and not wanting to get out of bed in the first place!

We then headed down to my Dad's house. It was crazy to be going from one place to another, and leaving mum behind...but that is something new that I am still getting used to. Lucy and I were cooking Christmas dinner. It was delicious. Seriously. We had a fun day. Our Granny and Aunty joined us and that was precious. I love spending time with them but don't do it often enough.

Right. Onto why I'm not sharing photos in this post. My laptop is doing something funky. I have this horrible green tinge on my screen and it is driving me nuts! When I look at photos there is like this green tinge throughout the photo. Best way to describe it is that it looks like someone has gone over my screen with a green pencil and rendered it in! So when I am editing photos I really can't tell what they look like and don't want to bore you with terrible photos. I have lots of photos to share from Christmas day from the people and prezzies to the meal. I will try and post these soon. I will probably just use my mum's laptop.

I am going to leave you with a Carol that I have been listening lots this CHRISTmas time. The version I have been listening to it by Natalie Grant. She has a really beautiful Christmas album. I should of directed you to it before Christmas. Sorry. The song is a Medley of Silver Bells, Saviour Came for Me and O Holy Night. I really touches me.

Truly He taught us to love one another,

His law is love and His gospel is peace.

Chains he shall break, for the slave is our brother.

And in his name all oppression shall cease.

Sweet hymns of joy in grateful chorus raise we,

With all our hearts we praise His holy name.

Christ is the Lord! Then ever, ever praise we,

His power and glory ever more proclaim!

His power and glory ever more proclaim!