T2 - Week Four

This week I enjoyed working with 4 other Capernwray students to programme and run Snac – the Sunday night service for the community. It all seemed to fall into place quite quickly and the team worked really well together. I started off the most enthusiastic member dragging the others along but by the actual night the tides had turned. I was lacking energy and desire to be there but the rest of the team were now excited and I was glad to have them there. We presented a really effective skit and we all got to talk- my bit was on surrendering to God and how that is a good thing. That we don’t surrender out of defeat but out of trust. The whole night went smoothly and lots of people enjoyed it.
The Lectures were hosted by Jerry Benjamin – an American Christian Jew – and he spoke at great length and in great detail about ‘Revelation’. I Loved it! He focused on Christ throughout this book and clearly explained lots of bits I never understood before and gave me a great ‘over all’ view of how this book fits into the Bible. My brain (and writing hand!) got a thorough workout!
Friday night we invited 2 of the students around for dinner, then Garth left so we could have some girl-time chatting and I taught them how to knit and make teddy bears and after they left their was still enough time to have my dear Linda around for our normal Friday night of 'Monk' - It was great and I showed off my crochet blanket I finally finshed!

Saturday though, I took one of the students who got engaged at the beginning of the year, wedding dress shopping. We took 3 other students too and travelled to Canberra, since these Canadians hadn’t visited there yet. I was such a great day and we decided that Taralyn looked fabulous in every dress! She could even get away with wearing the really wild dresses – what a hassle to be beautiful! I was glad to be a part of this special day but when I look back on it, it must have seemed quite weird to the rest of the world to see four 19 year old girls walking around with me.... I decided I could probably get away with looking like the mother of the bride! Oh well!
School for the boys involved their NAPLAN test – stupid government tests designed to rank your child’s academic abilities against every other child of the same age in to the state. Really, who cares as long as my babies are doing their best!!!! Garth wants to know where they will hold the ‘Battle Royale’ to rank your child’s physical abilities – boy, would ours kick butt then!
Garth’s routine is established: Mondays – Playgroup; Tuesday – Firewood and girls go to Ma and Puppa’s for some much needed grandparent spoiling; Wednesday – is fondly named ‘Garth’s weekend’ as the girls go to Libby’s for the morning, involving lots of friends and playing!; Thursday – catch up on house work that has been ignored from the first 3 days of the week and Friday – is shopping and preparation for the weekend! What a man... could I get any better!
(This week we forked out hundreds of dollars on immunisations for my trip to India...Scary!)