How much excitement can one Vicar's wife have eh?? Today I got to take a trip to B&Q to choose AND purchase a brand new kitchen tap! This really is a thrill. The house that we live in, we live in because it forms part of the salary of the vicar that lives here.
I love this house and I hope that we have made it into a nice home where people feel welcome and wanted. BUT it isn't ours which means that we cannot do a lot of the things to it that we would if it were ours. The kitchen, to be honest, has seen better days, as has the bathroom. I don't mind because I'm used to it but there is something quite thrilling about being able to put our mark on it, even if it is only to choose a new kitchen tap.
I have been thinking a lot about homes this week. The guy from Cameroon who came to stay with us for a couple of weeks last March left yesterday!! I feel very bereft and it is strange not to see his stuff about the place. Oddly, the thing that I miss seeing are his towels in the bathroom. It will all take a bit of getting used to.
Lent is trolling along. I failed miserably at giving up chocolate. I blame it entirely on my hormones and that "peri-menopausal" stuff so am not accepting sheer, unadulterated weakness as the reason!!!!!!!!!! However, I have done better at the other two things I resolved to do.
1) Give up swearing. Often I am appalled at the language that trips off my tongue so easily. Often I am NOT appalled and that appalls me...if you see what I mean. I feel much better, cleaner really, for making a concerted effort. I shall endeavour to carry on.
2) To pray on my knees each night before going to sleep. I always fall asleep when I pray in bed so this has been quite a big deal for me. But it has been really worthwhile and my little girls have done it once or twice because they have seen me do it and it feels good that they are copying something like that. I shall endeavour to carry on with that too.
Well, I must go as it is nearly time to be on my knees in prayer, ie: I'm tired and need to go to bed!! Hope you are ok.
Much love,
Rachel.
Welcome
Hi! Welcome to my blog. I am brand new to this so hope you will encourage me in my new pursuit of blogging by posting a comment to help me keep going. I think this is all going to be a bit of a journey so hope you might find something that will interest you. I have long had dreams of having something in print and this seems like the best way to go about it...and it's free!!
The only writing I have ever really done is a shopping list every now and again and I always manage to lose that on route to the supermarket so it's never done me much good.
So, here's to blogging and here's to maybe making a few new friends through it.
Rachel.
The only writing I have ever really done is a shopping list every now and again and I always manage to lose that on route to the supermarket so it's never done me much good.
So, here's to blogging and here's to maybe making a few new friends through it.
Rachel.
About Me
- Rachel
- Having reached a certain age (you know, the one where life is supposed to begin) I decided that I need a new challenge and interest so thought I might have a go at blogging. This could prove interesting as I am neither organised nor a great one for writing! My faith in Jesus is the most important thing in my life and the bedrock for all I do tho I often get it all wrong. My husband is a vicar in the Church of England and I work alongside him in a Church in Norfolk, England. We moved here in April 07 and we are on a steep learning curve!! I am a hopeless administrator,have only recently learned how to send emails and loathe ironing.My short term memory is dreadful. My 4 children keep my feet firmly on the ground(they are 14, 11 and 2@8)so life in our house is pretty noisy. I like good coffee especially with friends, a good book and, much the same as most women, could not live without chocolate! I make a very good chocolate dessert, am too heavy handed to make pastry, can play the guitar but not football. Don't like cheese but love crisps.Did I mention that my short term memory is dreadful?
2 comments:
Hi Rachel
I didn't realise Che had left. has he gone back to Cameroon?
Jo xxxxxxx
I sympathize with your "can't make many changes" house situation. Somebody must make changes sometimes, though. Some friends of mine bought a former rectory, and found the most amazingly cobbled-together plumbing, wiring, and structural strangeness when they went to upgrade a bit once they had moved in.
Small world re. your houseguest from Cameroon. My mother, who lives in Florida, had a visiting priest as a houseguest and then as a sewing client (he came to the US almost without clothes, and my mother is a very skillful seamstress.)
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