Grandma Arrived

Grandma(Gary's Mom)arrived yesterday after surviving her first cross Atlantic flight. This was a hard journey for her as it was the first time she had travelled outside of the States and she also did it alone. Thank you to all who prayed for her. She is now getting to experience jet lag!! Hopefully she will adjust to English time soon as we have a busy couple of weeks planned for her.

Today we travelled to WEC Headquarters just outside London. We will be staying here for 3 nights and exploring some of the tourist attractions in the South of England. Tomorrow we will journey to Bath; Thursday will be London and Friday is a surprise for the kids.

Pictures to come.

Michelle

Cefn Lea

Wales is an absolutely beautiful country; the incredible views; the vast amount of sheep (more sheep than residents!); the peaceful atmosphere and the winding road over rolling hills (which sadly causes motion sickness!!)

We really enjoyed the 5 days we spent in mid Wales. One day we journeyed up a hill to see the views. We marveled as we took in all of God's beautiful creation, including Snowdonia which we could see 20 miles away. That was only part of the blessing of our vacation. We really enjoyed the time we spent with 66 other Christian homeschooling families. Unlike the States, not many homeschool here and of those that do few are Christians. So this week was wonderful to spend with like minded families.

One day the Moms all gathered and shared how long we had been homeschooling and how many children we had. I was delighted to hear the average number of children was 6!!! For once I felt 'normal' instead of the odd one out!!

The kids had a brilliant time too. Cefn Lea is a secluded Christian holiday resort, so knowing that all on the campus were Christians, we were able to let our children have a great deal of freedom. They left us soon after breakfast and came home for meals. They had a wonderful time playing with other kids and scootering around the hills of the campus. I have never seen so many scooters in one place. Unfortunately, most of them looked alike and Gary spent several hours (each day-Gary's bit) hunting down scooters that had been mistakenly taken by someone else.

We are so grateful to the Lord for allowing us to enjoy this week and for providing the finances for us to do so. We had committed to the holiday as the Lord really seemed to open the door for us to do so, but we weren't quite sure how we would pay for it. Then just a week later someone placed an envelope under the door with a card and some money. In the card was a note asking us to use the money to take the kids on some days out over the Summer. The amount of money in the envelope was exactly enough to pay for the holiday. God is so good.

Michelle

Changes

Where has the time gone. I can't believe it has been almost 3 weeks since I have posted anything. I will try to catch up with some posts over the next few days.

As you can see the blog is undergoing a transformation. Jill has been working on sprucing up our blog over the last week and will make a few more changes over the coming days. I hope you like the changes.

Jill has kindly donated her time to do this for us. All she asks in return is to make a donation to one of her chosen orphan charities. We gladly donated to Amazima. I really suggest you check out Katie's blog. She is a 20 year old woman who has obediently gone to Uganda and now is responsible for feeding 400 children along with the full time care of 13 girls who call her Mama. It is awesome to see the Lord work in such an incredible way through someone who was willing to be obedient to her Heavenly Father. May we all be as obedient as Katie.



Michelle