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Ahhhh…

Birthday week is over for another year. It was great, but I’m exhausted. Night night, all!

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Being a coastie

Hubby and I moved to theSunshine Coast from Brisbane in late June, 1998. It’s Paradise, really, it is. I am just SOblessed to live here, to work here, to raise our kids here.
Last night we went to Happy Valley, a little place in Caloundra near Bulcock Beach. We ate fish & chips in the park near the boardwalk and watched the sun slowly set behind Mt Tibrogargan (also called ‘Crookneck’ because of it’s shape; it is the most distinctive of the Glasshouse Mountains). The kids then took a closer look at the view.

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This morning, Hubby went off- shore fishing. Easy when the boat ramp is one k from our gate. But nothing was biting, so he was home by 8, thinking about taking Miss 7 to Kings Beach pool. But plans changed, and we all ended by on the Northern tip of Bribie Island, looking west to Golden Beach. Which is where I’m blogging from right now. iPhones are wonderful things, aren’t they?!
What an awesome day. What a great place to live. I love my life!!!

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Back into it…

This morning was the first ‘staff meeting’ for Bloxham Marketing for the year. 8.30am at Caloundra MacDonalds (so the cherubs could play) and our MacBooks came out & we were back into it for the year. It was AWESOME; it felt at the start (for me at least) that it had been too long of a break, but we quickly settled into our normal rhythm & got a gajillion things planned, organised and underway. It was just SOOOO good!!! Seeing as I’m now teaching three days a week, it’s been more important than ever to get this part of my life up and happening, running like clockwork so that I don’t have to worry about it. And Jenny is absolutely the PERFECT person to entrust this all to. I must admit, I’m feeling very confident now about the direction this business is going after this morning!!!

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Family Wii time

It’s Thursday morning. It’s holidays. For the first time ever, Hubby and the 3 cherubs are playing Super Mario Kart on the Wii. Hubby keeps complaining; Miss 7 keeps winning; Miss 4 is trying her hardest; and Mr 3 keeps on getting up and walking in front of the sensor in his enthusiasm.

It’s the beginning of what’s going to be a great day!

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Epiphany

Good morning, good morning!!!

So yesterday we finished #blog12daysxmas, and as @FiFYI reminded us on twitter yesterday, it’s 12 days leading up to Epiphany. Which, according to Wikipedia,  

“traditionally falls on January 6, is a Christian feast day that celebrates the revelation of God the Son as a human being inJesus Christ. Western Christians commemorate principally (but not solely) the visitation of the Biblical Magi to the Baby Jesus, and thus Jesus’ physical manifestation to the GentilesEastern Christians commemorate the baptism of Jesus in the Jordan River, seen as his manifestation to the world as the Son of God.” 

Cool, huh? 

I’ve blogged before that I’m a Christian. I’ve also mentioned that I (try to!) blog daily in an online forum with a couple of Christian women from my church. We read a chapter or two in our Bibles, then comment about what we’ve read in the forum, discussing it and sharing how we think we can learn from it. It’s pretty amazing how much we learn from each other!

Well, this morning we were up to the book of Numbers, in the Old Testament. It can be pretty ‘dry’ reading, but I want to share here what I wrote there. (Yes, Google, I know I’ll probably be in trouble for duplicating content or something.) But, in a way, it shares an ‘Epiphany’ I had. (As in, ‘Epiphany’ the feeling, not ‘Epiphany’ the day!) Here ’tis!

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Numbers Chapters 1 and 2

The ‘census’ chapters!
These are cool. I never used to get much out of them, until I was listening to a Chuck Missler tape one day, and what he explained out of it, blew my mind.
On the surface, it’s just a bunch of numbers, right? But picture it out. And this is what you come up with.
The tabernacle’s in the centre. A rectangle. And the Levites are camped around it. Then the twelve tribes of Israel are broken up into four groups, 3 tribes to camp on the East, 3 to the West, 3 to the North and 3 to the South. Okay.
Each of these groups is to marshal under the banner, or standard, of the ‘main’ tribe for that direction. So you end up with the standards of Judah, Reuben, Ephraim and Dan. Okay – but when you realise that Jewish tradition tells us that these standards were: Judah – the lion. Reuben – the man. Ephraim – the ox, and Dan – the eagle, you realise that the Israeliites are camping, showing the picture of the ‘four living creatures’ that we read about in heaven, in [the Book of] Revelations [which we had gone through at the end of last year]!
And then we get to the actual numbers. We read that Judah, to the East, numbers 186,400. Reuben, to the South, stands at 151,450. On the West, under Ephraim, are 108,100; and then to the North, under Dan, are 157,600.
Now if you think like a rabbi, and God tells you to camp these people to the North, South, East and West of the Tabernacle, then that’s what you do. Directly to the North, South, East and West – not NorthEast, SouthWest, or anything like that.
Now imagine you’re in a helicopter. Come up across the desert, from the East. You look down, and see the Israelites camped. What do they look like? A giant cross! 186 thousand at the base, and 108 thousand at the top, 150 thousand odd on either arm, and right in the centre, the Tabernacle. And altogether they’re forming the picture that we see in Revelations – the four living creatures around the Most High.
How incredibly COOL!!!!! is that!!!
anyway, I need to go. Have an awesome day today!!!

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So – just a little bit of light reading to start your day. LOL! Here’s wishing you a truly wonderful day, dear readers!!! 

 

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Day 8 #blog12daysxmas

Today was hot. HOT HOT HOT

And I’m going to be a piker and lamely write that ‘it’s too hot to write’. 😛

LOL Sorry! See you tomorrow…

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Day 4 #blog12daysxmas

On the fourth day of Christmas, my family and me…
– left Hervey Bay just before 7am, after a night of kid-free packing and cleaning
– stopped for breakfast at Maryborough McDonalds, then another playground break at Alford Park, Gympie

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– made it home by midday, and surprised Hubby who arrived home from fishing ten minutes later
– did a load a washing, fed the kids lunch, then crashed (for over an hour Woohoo!!!)
– went shopping for more clothes detergent… and
– we’re currently tossing up whether or not fish and chips on the beach is a good idea with these clouds… and I just heard thunder…

Oh! It’s good to be home!

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Day 3 #blog12daysxmas

On the third day of Christmas, my family and me…
– had another lazy morning, after the late night last night;
– spent the afternoon at WetSide; serious free fun in Hervey Bay;

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– returned books to the Fraser Coast Library, in preparation for our departure;
– ate a hearty meal of fish and chips;
– started packing, and cleaning; and
– finished the hard slog that was Book Four of “Game of Thrones”. VERY glad that’s over! Was rather disappointed. After the hype, I was expecting something the equal of Raymond E. Feist, whose writing style I was reminded of, however the lack of a sense of direction leaves me comparing the series with Isobelle Carmody’s Obernewtyn tales. And the final ‘disclaimer’ at the end seemed apologetic and weak.
Oh well. It’s done. As is this blog post. See you on the morrow, dear readers!

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Day 2 #blog12daysxmas

This bodes well. Not. Because it’s the third day of Christmas and I’m already a day late. Whoops!
So anyway, on the second day of Christmas, my family and me…
– had a slow start. Well, it had been a latish night from the fantastic Christmas BBQ that we had been to the night before!
– hit the Boxing Day sales. Bought less than I had anticipated; but that’s okay.
– the kids played while I continued soldiering on through the ‘Game of Thrones’ series, Book Three
– enjoyed a lovely evening, dining out at a friends
– started watching the film ‘The Musketeer’ with Hubby, but the sight of Alex from Grey’s Anatomy, long haired and American accenting all over the role of D’Artagnan had me in stitches, so…
– I finished Book Three and was heartily disappointed by the beginning of Book Four in the Game of Thrones series.

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Day 1 #blog12daysxmas

On the first day of Christmas, me and my family…
– right on 6am had three cherubs exploring their Christmas stockings on our bed
– stayed in our pyjamas (well, until the doorbell rang unexpectedly LOL)
– played family games… amazingly, with no fights!
– Mr 3 blew bubbles

And it’s not yet 2pm! Later, we’re heading to a Christmas BBQ… I am SO loving holidays!

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