A trip to the Seaside (in the fog and wind!)

It's great to be a mummy.

A Mummy to my very funny kids. A Godmother to a very grown up , nearly 10 year old , Lucy. A Godmother to my niece, Ellie-May and my nephew, Sam. I also have two great mothers. A mother who gave birth to me and has nurtured me and put up with me as I grew up and am still growing up, and a mother who took me into her family and treats me like her own.
Today has been a lovely Mothering Sunday, the first when my daughter can come bounding into the bedroom with cards shouting," Happy Mummy's Day, Mummy." So, so, so great.

And a great Husband who organised all the nice things for me today. x x

Peppa Pig

Emily loves television despite poor attempts at limiting it. She can be very fickle about her favourite programmes; but the two that rock her world at the moment, and have done for quite some time, are Little Einsteins and Peppa Pig.

Today we (stupidly) queued for one hour so that she could meet and have her picture taken with Peppa Pig. The things we do for our children! (But Jamie did remind me of my excitement when I met Mickey Mouse at Disney Land California. I was the only person in the queue who didn't have a small child in tow!)

Joel is well, he seems to be loving his food, especially his potatoes, a good Irish boy! Today he was anointed with oil in church for healing, as it says in James chapter 5. Jamie and I were reminded again that Joel is upheld and we are upheld in a community of prayer, a community of people who we know and don't know, who we have met and never met. A group of people spanning the globe who is praying for our son and whose prayers are being answered.

Thanks be to God.

Photos from the past couple of weeks.

With our Godson and nephew, Sam.

Building sandcastles on a cold February day at Belfast Lough.
At the park with Ellie-May.
In the Walkie at Granny at Granda's.

With Sam on his dedication day.
At the National Railway Museum, waiting for the carousel
On the Carousel but Emily refused to go on the horses so we ended up in the carriage!A rare shot of the 4 of us.

Cheese!
Joel is sitting up by himself (apart from when he lunges for toys!)

That's all folks... for now.