Little House by the Railway Line

2010 Goals

Concrete goals

Cook and eat liver
Learn to make soft cheese
Grow potatoes
Grow and can paste tomatoes
Learn to make puff pastry
Swim 20 miles
Do an online food hygiene course
Knit a pair of socks

Less concrete goals

Work on my prayer life
Make bread more often
All yoghurt homemade
Make some progress on cardigan
Flowers and candles at home

Preserved in 2010

January: Marmalade, 7 1/2 standard jars, 4 tiny jars

Projects in Progress/ Planned

Navy and pink lap quilt
Hidden stars bed quilt
Sampler cardigan
Amish Alphabet Cross-Stitch
Knitted scrap blanket
Planned: summer blouse and skirt

Holiday Club advance planning

09:22, Friday 10 October 2008 .. Posted in Faith and Church .. 0 comments .. Link

Our church does three holiday clubs every year; a week-long one in the summer (mornings only) and one-full-day ones at Christmas and Easter, and I've always really enjoyed helping out at them. We have them for kids aged 5-11 and have between 50/60 (at Easter) and 200 (in the summer - this is really too many) children in attendance. The last few times I've actually had enough confidence to lead a group, as long as G is there to be my assistant and help me out. We generally have a middle-group (6/7/8 year olds).

I almost enjoy the planning more than the actual event, so I was rather pleased yesterday when our Assistant Minister (who also happens to work in the same office as me) arrived at work with a batch of books, some for Christmas and some for the summer, and said since he was going to be busy planning the Christmas one, I could take the summer ones home and look at them. There are two, one new testament one around a theme of "hands" (which is really a midweek club plan, and I think would be better suited to that), and one an old testament club about Elisha.

I expect to spend a lot of time over the next week reading them and trying to see how they'd work for us. (Of course, what I should be doing is planning Sunday School, which we're leading on the 19th.
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About Me

Hello! I'm Jo, I'm 27 and I live in a small house in England with my husband. I work full time in an office, and in my spare time I help out with Sunday school and the church youth group. When I have time, I enjoy reading, cookery and crafts, and a bit of gardening. We don't have any kids, but would really love to have some one day. Thanks for visiting me here!

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