Countdown

So Facebook seems to be taking over the world, well the little world I live in anyway!!! Like right now I should really be packing and Im sat in front of my computer 'wasting' valuble time when I really should be packing!!! We move in a couple of days, very excited!!!

Went to Blackppol over the weekend for an Easter People planning meeting. Not sure I did much planning as such as I went along for the ride and to see Daddy Dave and Zoe but it was cool to take my mind of selfish stuff for a bit and concentrate on something else. Then yesterday we spent ALL day packing. Man, packing is stressful.........

We are Moving !!!!

Ages since Ive written in here. Realised no one reads this anyway so never mind.

Yes, Russ and I are moving!! Another huge answer to prayer really, considering what has happened and where we are moving to. Known for a good few months now that we would need to move as our current landlady wants to sell up. At first I thought it would be really cool to move a bit away from here and find a new church and cheaper council tax. But no God had different plans!! It became really obvious after IM ALIVE that God has real plans for Russ and I here as various really exciting things are happening at the mo. So yeah, just before Christmas noticed a house right opposite church was for rent. Its a gorgeous Cottage, built in 1640 (Oh yes this place has history!!) and man its gorgeous!!! We move in two weeks and very excited!!

Christmas was cool. News years went up to Newcastle. Seems ages ago now but its really not is it??

Got a really short half term this time round. The kids brighten up my day every day, trust me!! God is good!!

Listening?

Not a particularly good day today........Was getting one of the kids out of her standing frame at break today and she almost slipped as I forgot to put the standing frame braks on....then I said something stupid that I thought I was whispering to one member of staff, but obviously not as the teacher told me off in front of the class...so very embarrassed but man have I learnt my lesson!! Then at lunch time one member of staff told me that non of the senior staff would like me here.. Gee Thanks. How exactly do I take that? I tried to brush it off but it's not nice someone saying that even if they thought they were being helpful in some random way....

Just read my husbands updated blog http://www.someitguy.co.uk and I just realised how proud I am of him. God is really working in him at the moment and he's not afraid to express it.

Think I am feeling pretty low today.....dont think Im suprised considering what happened at work

New me?

In the space of 6 hours I have got a new haircit (not too impressed with it just yet as my fringe is funny) and a new phone! Wow, what an exciting life a lead.....Joke

I am now working in the senior department at school and it seems to be going well. Spent the first few days there feeling completely out of my depth as all the kids are bigger and taller than me and some seem much more confident than me, but I make a point of praying before the start of each school day that God will be with me and give me the strength the do things I know I wouldnt be able to do otherwise. Seem to spend much more time doing Music now at the school and am loving every moment of that.

Since coming home from mission I feel a lot of things have changed. Thankfully the spark that was relit in my husband regardig his faith has not gone out and he is going to start a worship leading course in the new year. He seems quite unsettles at work at the moment and I am curious to know where God is taking him really.

Hubby and I are leading the youth fellowship tomorrow night after church on 'Burning issues'. We are going to be discussiong love, sex and masturbation. Feeling quite excited about it as these topics often seem to be a bit of a Christian Taboo especially with Christian youth. Obviousl;y it is a topic we are having to deal with very sensitively as it is such a personal thing to talk about!!

I'm Alive!

Am on mission in the Isle of Man with Share Jesus. Staying in a church in Douglas which is the capital of the island. It is an amzing place, loads of green fields and open countryside. On the Sunday hubby and I were having lunch at someones house and they took us on a tour of the island and showed us a place they used to film bits of Waking Ned and Keeping Mum. Very Exciting!!!

Working with a lovely team of 10 others . Today we are off to one of the local high schools and are running some of their RE lessons. Looking forward to it.....

More changes!!

So i woke up Monday morning feeling good. I had had a lovely weekend and realised just how happy I was at the moment in my new job and with my Hubby. Monday didnt turn out quite like I would have liked when after I had finished feeding a kid at lunchtime the headmistress of the school asked me to come into her office. I suddenly felt quite apprehensive as I hadnt had much to do with her during my first half term here. She asked me how I was finding the job and I replied just how happy I was but realised I still had a lot to learn. She then said 'well then, what Im about to say may come a a shock to you', and man did my heart skip a beat!!! I thought I was going to be sacked! She then explained that she was not happy with how I was doing and that after half term I was going to be moving to the work with the senior kids. I was gobsmaked. She didnt really expand on the 'Im not happy with you' bit so I said my goodbye's and left.

I found myself very tearful and rang my hubb y straight away to tell him the good news. After the school day had finished I asked to speak to the class teacher I had been working with to ask why I was moving. I needed to know whether she had requested it or hadnt had much say in it. Much to my relief it was not her idea!!!

So I went home that night feeling a little shakey but a lot calmer. Later in the evening a friend I would consider to be one of my best friends rang and said some stuff to me that was frankly none of her business and very upsetting. So I spent so much of Monday crying it felt horrible!!!

Thankfully though the week has got considerably better. I now feel a lot calmer about working with the seniors as I have met most of the team I will be working with and they all seem lovely. Plus today the school broke up for half term!!! Woo HOO!!! Seems so strangte to have a break in the job so early as I have only been there 7 weeks but having previously only worked in office jobs with a max of 4 weeks holiday, school holidays are fantastic!!!

Plus tomorrow I am going on holiday!!!! YAY YAY YAY!! Well I suppose it's kind of a busmans holiuday really as I am going on a Share Jesus mission in the Isle of Man called IM ALIVE. I am the pastor of the youth team and am feeling quite apprehensive about my role really as I have not done this kind of thing before!! I will let you know how I get on.......

I realised the other day that this is the first job I have ever had where I have really had to work!!! And yet the irony is that Im getting paid what feels like pittance for it, whereas my last job I was not working nearly as hard but paid almost half as much again!!
Yesterday was the most shattering day at work ever, took some of the kids to swimming lesson in the school in the morning which involved heping them all to undress and get dressed and then obviously drying them down and dressing them again. Somehow in the process the boys managed to get their clothes all mixed up, resaulting in the biggest lad in the class going home is trousers that were about 4inches too short and ever so slightly too tight for him!! All the clothes were thankfully returned to the right kids this morning!!! After swimming I had to get the kids changed (again) for gym and then later took two of the more physically disabled kids to the soft play room where they have the chance to get out of their wheelchairs and play in the room with no chance of harming themselves. One of the kids has always refused for her physio to lie down or stretch her legs but yesterday in soft play she did it (with a little encouragement at first!!) and then even volutarilly did it again!! Was so proud of her!!

Thursday is my Music day. In the morning I help out with the African drumming class which is comprised of some of the older primary students and some seniors, maybe 8 kids in all. Then Thursday avo is Creative where the kids get the chance to do things like Drama, Music, Gardening or Art in mixed age groups with deifferent teachers than they might have normally. So Im in the Music group and we are helping our kids learn about Manchester and all the different cultures and religions that live in this city!

After being at the achool 6 weeks I finally got my induction folder yesterday which gave details of what to expect in the job, members of staff names and all the forms that you might need to get through the year!! A bit of bedtime reading perhaps!!???

Just found out a close friend has got cancer. Feeling very upset about this, though knowing her I know she will fight it out of her system quite quickly.