My husband David and I returned recently from our two-week cruise to New Zealand!
I have created a list of the things that I was either glad I had included or will take next time! Hope this is helpful! Please let me know if you have any additions.
We had a delightful break with some of our family for a few days at Bendigo – check out the colour of our cabin! See some of my suggestions for what to pack when staying in a cabin!
My husband David runs his own business enterprise and his diary is kept full with appointments to do small maintenance jobs around the home for ladies (and anyone else!). He is a gentleman with many diverse skills – he built our house!
I was impressed with Tracey Spicer’s article in the Sunday Herald Sun Magazine.
Tracey is an ambassador for the Quit for Cancer campaign.
I love this quote by Annette Funicello that was on a purse that my friend Annette Martin gave me. Its exactly how I think! Its so important in life to focus on the positive and to count our blessings.
My friend Joy and I attended a short course on Image Development and one of the trainers, Colette Werden, when discussing dressing for our body shape, encouraged us to highlight our assets, rather than stress about all our bad points! What sensible advice and I found it quite liberating! Thanks Colette!
My friend Diane L sent me a thought provoking email about Who’s packing your parachute?. This reminded me about the tandem skydive I made from a perfectly good aeroplane – 10,000 feet above the reef and rainforest of Cairns back in 1999! I must say I was relieved that my instructor had safely completed over 3000 jumps and he actually repacked our chute because he wasn’t content with the way it had been prepared by someone else!
Our friends Bruce and Di made excellent choices when they gave David and I Christmas gifts of cut-out wooden words to decorate our home! David’s was ‘Create’ (because he is a Precisionist artist ). Mine was ‘harmony’ because I sing harmonies – especially in our ladies trio, Until Then, where we used to sing gospel and contemporary for all sorts of occasions.
According to Steve Messer, “Until Then is Elly De Ligt, Millie McLean and Lisa Watson, friends forever but together in song since 2005. Featuring silky harmonies underpinned by Millie’s fluid keyboard stylings, the girls share a unity that is more than merely musical.
Until Then’s repertoire combines songs chosen for their integrity, new ones, old ones and Elly’s originals, but all grounded in the truth of the gospel of Jesus Christ. The girls have seen enough of life to know what’s worth singing about, and so every Until Then appearance is about heart-to-heart sharing of truth you can build a life on.”
But until then my heart will go on singing,
Until then with joy I’ll carry on
Stuart Hamblen
Glen Treble’s recent message at church was entitled ‘A New Heart’. I’m very interested in the heart because I have an Implanted Cardioverting Defibrillator for a condition called ‘ARVD’ (Arrythmogenic Right Ventricular Dysplasia/Cardiomyopathy). I’ve also revised ‘Things you should know about the heart’ by Maxwell J Horton from Queensland … enjoy!