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Please and Thank You

Recently I’ve been asking God for a lot.  Like, all the time.  I ask that baby might go to sleep, that he might feed nicely in public, that he might stay asleep long enough for me to get more than 3 words into a blog post…  I ask for strength when the night has been short, for willpower to do some exercise, for calm when things are piling up.  At numerous points throughout the day I’m throwing little one-liner prayers up to God.

But there are (at least) 2 problems with this.  Continue reading “Please and Thank You”

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For the last time?

Today I have been washing up my old lego and duplo – we collected it from my parents’ attic and are getting it ready for when our son is old enough to play with it.  We’re still some way off that time, but it is exciting to think of him playing with the toys I had, and it was fun to think back on the good times my sisters and I had with them.

But as I cleaned them, I also had a more sombre thought – I suspect my parents didn’t realise that the last time we packed away those toys was indeed the last time.  Continue reading “For the last time?”

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Why I chose to baptise my son

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A few weeks ago I experienced the great joy of attending our son’s baptism service.  As you’ve probably guessed if you’ve read any of my other blog posts, God is a pretty big part of my life, and so getting our son baptised was a bit of a no-brainer.  However, as hubby and I talked about it together, and attended our baptism preparation classes, we had the opportunity to think a little more on why it was so important to us that we had him baptised.  And since my little one is currently snoozing away peacefully (after a week of refusing to nap he seems to be catching up on his sleep a bit, at last!) I thought I’d try to put down on paper, or rather screen, some of the reasons… Continue reading “Why I chose to baptise my son”