the long walk

So today decided to take a walk to our local surestart center where the health visitors do a baby clinic! My friend Jess and her boy Noah joined us! As we both purchased new strollers we thought wed test them out rather than drive! Jess has purchased the cosatto swift lite super stroller and me with my mothercare lolly pop stroller! 

 Aston school had a teachers training day so he had yet another day off! He was on his scooter! We got to the clinic at 3:04 four mins late! They had packed up and gone! After a 45 min walk which we only thought was 20 min walk in the cold we headed for the local coffee shop! Quick tea, cappuccino and biscuits we headed to the train station our intentions to get the train which we were 30 seconds to late for! Not a good day! So we had to walk even further home! It was so cold Aston had left his gloves in the cafe! he was so cold he was crying most the way home! but we got home eventually wasted day but hey all in all it was exercise! lol

Also started monday club! just cracked HTML thingys and tabs! take that to the husband (the computer whizz of the two of us!) 

Roll on the summer!

us in the cafe! 

Womens Speed Coffee

Today we held a women collective speed coffee morning! the idea is similar to speed dating but rather than look for a lover you were looking for a friend! one of the more important things involved was cake! i got there early and there was so much cake! we have some talented bakers in our church community  although my baking was not required maybe my husband had told them about my previous failures in the baking department! these have involved burnt cake, hard biscuits you name it! i keep on blaming the oven!

we had about 30 women attend which was awesome! plenty of tea and cake! conversations were had! i also ate two yes two slices of chocolate cake! was nice to have a break from the kids and sit and talk with out fussing over Aston and Amelie! i am sure my husband enjoyed not having me over his shoulder whilst playing with the kids! he did  say he stood on Amelie s hand but that's not too bad!

Anyway back to women collective, the tables looked awesome my friend who got married last year had loads of country chic accessories left from her wedding so we decorated the tables with these! all in all was a successful morning hopefully some new friendships made or even new support networks for some women! our next event is community action in our local area! exciting!  Womens collective ministry is new to our church after my friend Chelser saw a missing gap and prayed into it and heard whispers from god! a year later in November 2012 we were having our first ever womens collective weekend away! its amazing to have a group dedicated to empowering and supporting the women of our church community!