20th- 26th June 2011
Monday night is family night and this week I decided to invite the families I visit-teach at church over for dinner and family night. In addition to my companion Pipi and her husband Joe, we invited a young couple from Taiwan over, and one of the fantastic young adults who recently joined the church. Dinner was a little later than usual, and so after dinner we had a quick lesson and game with the kids and then put them to bed, while we waited for all guests to arrive. - It was lovely to have our home filled with people. Worth mentioning that for dessert we had purchased a pavlova - but tasted nothing like the lovely Cowells Pavlovas in New Zealand.For our lesson, we watched a recent YouTube clip for the Mormon messages entitled I am a child of God, and then discussed what it meant to us to know we are each children of God. It was very faith promoting to hear the stories and feelings of others and ourselves. Afterwards we played a game of Hedbanz (where you have to ask a series of questions in turn to find out who you are), which was a lot of fun. All in all, a very nice night with friends.
On Tuesday we had a busy day we went in the morning we went with Alysha on a school visit to the primary school to visit the school dentist. And then help walk all 64 children back to pre-primary - about a 15min walk. It was very entertaining talking with some of the children in the class - I learnt who was the smartest and how was the oldest and youngest. very cute the way the kids have worked everything out.
When we got back I took Hyrum and Gracie to Sci-Tec for a fun outing, and they totally loved it. Last time we had gone they where like whirlwinds going from one thing to another, but this time there was a huge difference, they spent lots of time at each display working out how is all works, the different displays even held Gracie attention. It was really cute watching them exploring and working out all the cause and effect for themselves.
When we arrived back at pre-primary that afternoon we had an experience with a answer to a simple prayer. Another Mum at pre-primary who I didn’t know was very distressed as she had lost her car keys somewhere in big park next to the pre-primary. She had left her two little kids at pre-primary while she had gone back to the park to try and find them. All the other Mums had gone home. I felt sorry for this Mum and I offered to take her and her kids home as i have a 7 seater car. She thanked me for my offer but said she wont be able to get in as the house keys were on the cars keys. She said she would call someone to come help who had a spare key. She then left with her two kids to look again in the park.
I put my kids in the car, and still feeling very sorry for this lady and wondering what more I could do for her, I said a prayer for her asking God to bless this Mum that she might find her keys quickly and that they may be right infront of her. I started driving home but still feeling sorry for this lady and thinking surely I could do more for her, I turned around and went back to the park to help her find them. The Mum and the kids were busy searching for the keys and were walking towards us, just as I had got my three kids out the car to come and help, the Mum walked right infront of the keys and found them. She thanked me so much for coming back to help.
The kids and I were very excited and humbled to know that God had heard and answered our prayer in the exact way we had asked. When we got back to the car Alysha said another prayer thanking God for answering our pray and helping that lady find her keys. I am so grateful to know that God does hear and answers my prayers it was such a small and simple thing but to me it was truly amazing.
On Thursday we started our 1st ever Joey Jams children’s music group at the chapel, for some reason I was so nervous about taking it. Alysha had the morning off pre-primary to come with us for a bit of moral support. I had put a lot of effort into lots of resources so I hoped it would go well. I was really surprised we had a really good turn out, with 8 other mums there and 10 children. They all seemed to enjoy it. Unfortunately Hyrum really played up in the second half, which added a bit of stress but hopefully next week he will do better as it’s pretty hard to deal with your own kids and run it at the same time. The Mums seem to enjoy talking to each other afterwards where the kids had morning tea and played with the bubbles. I guess the true test is to see if anyone comes back next week, I hope so. www.joeyjams.org
I dropped Alysha off at pre-primary then went round to Aunty Claire and Uncle Martin’s home and had a lovely lunch with them and the kids, the kids enjoy playing with all the toys that they have collected over the years. But are pretty scared of there two dogs, so as long as the dogs are out of sight it is OK. I gave Aunty Clare a Facebook lesson, so hopefully she has it all sorted now. got to love Facebook.
That evening I took Gracie and myself to go see a naturopath / iridologist. He looked into both our eyes and told me that Gracie’s nervous system was very poor and her calcium levels low. We talked about her eczema and bowel problems and he suggested the need for Gracie to be wheat-free and see if that improves her. She is also now taking a calcium spray and some other homeopathy drops. He told me that I also had a poor nervous system - running at about 50% which will cause tiredness, low energy and nauseousness, which I have been experiencing. He also told me some other things which seemed to be spot on, pretty amazing really. So I am also taking some homeopathy drops and other mineral tablets, and we will see if things improve. It ended up being pretty expensive but hopefully worth it in the end. It will definately be an interesting journey being wheat free, but thanks to Karen (my sister inlaw) we have some amazing recipes, i don’t think it will be too hard, just making sure I plan ahead. http://www.perth-naturopath.com/
On Friday afternoon we experimented once again with another playdate for Alysha and her friend Elise from Pre-primary. Her mother and younger sister Katie came along to our house also, I had spent the day tiding and baking so we had some yummy home-made wheat-free afternoon tea. The playdate when so well with all four children playing so lovely together, it was such a huge change from when we went to their house. Not only did Alysha have so much fun but Hyrum loved having someone to play with too. We will definitely have to do it again sometime.
For our Saturday adventure, we took the kids to Cheeky Monkeys indoor play area. It was a little different to where we gone a few weeks previously for Aysha’s friend’s birthday. A bit older and a bit grungier - but that didn’t matter to the kids. They absolutely loved it. Hyrum & Gracie liked playing in the cars on the circular racing track. Alysha loved the play house and she even made Grant and I come inside it to play with her. They also loved the little roller coasters. It is just so nice to see the kids enjoying themselves. Grant was thinking that he wouldn’t mind owning a kids playground they seem like so much fun.
In the afternoon, we went for a walk (scooter / trike ride) and explored down by the Swan river.They have wonderful walks right along the river. It was very pretty, and picturesque. The kids had a great time exploring and meeting the ducks. It was a lovely Day.
Sunday was a super busy day for me, we had soup day after church and I was asked to make a big pot of soup to bring along with two other ladies. Well I decided that being kiwi i would have to make a big pot of kumara soup. Well, it was a big success with 8 - 9 litres of soup disappearing very fast and lots of people saying it was so lovely. I also received a calling at church to be a primary assistant teacher. They only have three primary classes with a max of 5 children in each class, and I will be assigned to one of the classes to help if needed or relieve if the teacher is away. I thought that was a very easy calling, but I am happy to be doing something.
Alysha came home from church with theses drawing, I was really impress at how much detail she had done. One is a picture of our family, note- eye and hair colour and the other is Jonah in the Whale. I was very impress with her art work, well done Alysha.
In the evening we had a stake RS (womens) fireside, and I was assigned to form a committee and do some of the catering - we were asked to do Sensational Sandwiches and create a theme to decorate the table. I had three other ladies help me, and we did a ‘high tea’ theme, with four different types of sandwiches - Cucumber and Watercress Tea Sandwich, Club Sandwiches, Chicken Sandwiches, Vietnamese Rolls. It ended up looking amazing as lots of ladies in our ward loaned us there 3 or 2 tier cake stands - the sandwiches disappeared very fast - there is definitely some truth to the importance of presentation. The fireside itself was very uplifting and motivating talking about our Divine role as daughters of God, as mother and wives. There always so much more we can do to help and bless the lives of others and prepare ourselves and our families for the future.
Until next time....
This weeks Funnies
Alysha (miss 5) came home from pre-primary today and said “Mum why did you tidy the house today - where you trying to surprise me?, Thank you for surprising me! “ - too funny, she must love a tidy house.
Sometimes Alysha talks in a really loud voice, and tonight I said to her “Alysha, do you have a quiet voice in there” and she said “I do have a quiet voice, but it keeps getting stuck in my bottom.” lol
I was helping Hyrum (mr 3) get dressed the other morning and I noticed a bruise on his leg, I said to him “oh Hyrum that bruise looks really sore what happened?”, and he said “ that bruise is what keeps making me fall over sideways.” - you never know what they will say.
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