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I don’t think I am a complete insomniac but I am thankful that God’s given me the ability to stay awake for exceedingly long hours on little sleep.  It certainly pays dividends when you’ve got deadlines to meet and not enough hours in the day.

I’m also thankful that I’ve got a very understanding wife who needs to go to bed early and appreciates that I often stay up late working.

It is what teamwork is all about and I’m grateful that everyone’s on the team in our house

Mmmmmmmmmm, pancakes!  Doesn’t it just bring out the Homer Simpson in you?  You can have them with anything and with everything and they always always taste great.  It doesn’t matter if you make the mixture yourself, buy a mixture or cheat, like we did, and have Aunt Bessie’s they’re all great.  Especially with ice cream and black cherry fruit pie filling.  YUM YUM YUM.

It’s no wonder I am a little on the lardie side.  Although I was restrained last night.  Just two pancakes with the pie filling and ice cream.  We all love ice cream in our house, from the yongest to the oldest and last night we were all loving it on our pancakes. 

It’s amazing how these century old traditions have turned into an event that’s main theme is food.  Pancake Day is almost in the same league as Christmas and Easter.  Obviously the fly in the ointment is Ash Wednesday because you cant eat Ash, although maybe with ice cream…….

Anyone who’s never been to a parish PCC meeting will no doubt have visions of the Vicar of Dibley TV series and to be honest you’re not far wrong.  In many ways our PCC is very much the same, although I am not going to draw parallel’s between people on the PCC and characters in the show and fortunately we don’t have to endure lemon curd and tomato ketchup cake. 

However this has to be one of most frustrating meetings that I have the pleasure of attending. If I am honest I hate going to, come away feeling exhausted and am looking forward to stepping down which hopefully will be this year.  It requires the tenacity to work out what needs doing now, next month or in 6 months time which is usually the time it takes for the PCC to make a decision and at the same time listening to what God is saying to our church and doing in our community. 

Yet all the while you are aware that it is a thankless job which you will undoubtedly upset someone along the way who would have preferred the church to be blue or doesn’t like the new seats, hymns, service, etc, etc and feels it is their right to moan about it but not their duty to be part of the PCC and help. 

Having said all that I am thankful for the hard work that each member of the PCC team puts in that keeps our church running, that keeps the message of the love of God alive and keeps our church in the center of our community and an active part of it. 

Sunday evening is usually the climax to an exhausting weekend.  By the time we’ve got there Mary and I are ready to drop so we like to spend the evening laying on the bed catching up with all the stuff we’ve DVD’d all week, and this weekend was no different.

We crashed on the bed and caught up with Desperate Housewives and Ugly Betty whilst having cheese rolls, hula hoops and a whole bar of fruit and nut between us.

What else are Sunday evenings for?

Big thanks to whoever thought of Coke Floats.

Mary was going out to have her feet reflexed so I was home alone in the morning with the girls.  For some reason Violet decided she was going to sleep all morning so Rose and I caught up with Saturday morning cartoons and then had Coke Floats.

It was a first for Rose and her eyes lit up when she tasted them.

Yummy Daddy!