Posted in Church, Vicar's wife job description, tagged bereavement, Children, CRB forms, drug dealers, Express and Star, Harvest festival, Kids, parish, Vicar's wife, Vicar's wife job description on 20 October, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
It’s been another interesting day here in the parish, so I thought I’d share a few snippets of what I got up to:
School harvest festival service in church. I was down for refreshments for the parents afterwards (tea, coffee and some home baking). My duties expanded to child care (the Engineer’s been a bit poorly [...]
Posted in Fun, Kids, tagged Children, Fun, Kids, story, story telling, tale, talking papaya on 3 August, 2009 | 1 Comment »
The Queen has learnt a story off by heart at school this term (just like her brother). Her Year 3 class had been studying Australia and the oral story-telling tradition of the Aborigine people. And so they learnt to tell a story, with actions. I’m not sure this story is Australian, though.
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Posted in Kids, tagged 1 Timothy 4v12, Bible, bible memory, bible memory songs, bible memory verse, Children, Kids, kinetic typography, Seeds Family Worship, Vicarage on 13 July, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
I had a wonderful time on my conference last week, thanks for asking. But I need to catch up on the laundry whilst I compose a blog post or two. There’s lots of Vicarage news and I might even manage to share a few gems that I picked up from the saints I met up [...]
Posted in Fun, Kids, tagged Black Country, Children, Fun, Kids, Maurice Sendak, Vicarage, Where the Wild Things Are on 1 July, 2009 | 11 Comments »
Where the Wild Things Are by Maurice Sendak is one of our favourite books to read at bedtime in the Vicarage. My mum read it to me when I was young and our children enjoy it just as much as I did. Recently the Joker came home from school and recited the whole story off [...]
Posted in Family, Fun, Kids, tagged Children, frog, Fun, Kids, poem, poetry, Vicarage on 22 June, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
The Joker wrote a poem on Saturday. After a busy morning at the Church Working party, polishing pillars and clearing tree trimmings, we’d returned to the Vicarage. The Engineer and the Joker were showing an inclination to spend the entire afternoon slouched in front of the box. I declared the next few hours to be [...]
Posted in Garden, Kids, Vicarage, vicar, tagged Children, garden, Kids, quiz, Vicar's wife, Vicarage on 16 June, 2009 | 2 Comments »
More blooms are appearing in the Vicarage Garden. Since this blog got tweeted yesterday, lots of new people have been visiting the Vicarage and I’m hoping that some of them are gardeners.
So, after success with the last identify-a-flower game, here are some more mysterious plants that I’d love to know the names of. Once they [...]
Posted in Church, Faith, Family, Kids, tagged bible memory, bible memory verse, Children, Kids, kinetic typography, Philippians, Philippians 4v6-7, Seeds Family Worship on 12 June, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
A few weeks ago I posted up the kinetic typography YouTube clip of Psalm 55v22 from Seeds Family Worship.
A couple of nights ago I came across another one they’ve done, of Philippians 4v6-7. ‘Do not be anxious…’ A good verse to hold onto, especially when feeling rather overwhelmed by the pace of Vicarage life…
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Posted in Family, Kids, tagged Children, dentist, elephants, fillings, Kids, teeth, toothbrush, toothbrushing, toothpaste, Vicar's wife on 12 May, 2009 | 2 Comments »
I am a bad mother. It’s true. The Queen and the Joker both have fillings.
Every parent knows that brushing the children’s teeth is an excruciating experience for everyone. I loathe it and confess to having been a slacker (hence the fillings). My inner city dentist, used to the bad diets of local children, told me [...]
Posted in Playground rhymes, tagged Children, Coca cola, Playground rhymes, Wolverhampton on 11 May, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
My kids have a strange but great selection of playground rhymes so I thought I’d share a few with you. They’ve learnt some new ones since we moved, but this is a Wolverhampton one.
So here are the Queen and the Joker reciting ‘Coca cola’ (lyrics below):
Coca cola, coca cola.
Alley alley pussy [...]
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