Nick and I both out of bed at 7 am...why, we couldn't be sure as it was still dark. I think just a case of being wide awake and ready to start the day. Still had a rather late start to actually getting out of the house on an expedition to the Warehouse, what with producing duty rosters and bulletins for tomorrow and mucking about with music. We've been buying some tunes from Indelible Grace's hymn collection - they've taken the solid old theologically-rich hymns with unsingable music and rewritten the music, giving them a deliciously contemporary twist while keeping the beautiful truths - if you want to know more, go
here and select the Indelible Grace version of
O Help my Unbelief - one of our favourites - and
here for the free sheet music and guitar chords for many revised hymns. Onto the Warehouse then where half of Timaru had gathered for some Easter shopping - the parking lot was so full we had to park across the road in Repco's parking! Caleb pooled his birthday monies and bought a nerf gun for Aaron and a big Lego collection for himself, which we all had fun building around the diningroom table.
At 3 pm they biked up to the Phillipsies to play with Jayden and Dinnay. At 5 pm Nick and I took the left-overs of yesterday's soup (which was most of the pot still - I had made a BIG batch) for a cazh (that's teenage-speak for casual, I believe) tea of soup and home-made bread (Grant tried to get holes in the dough for some reason and was excited to find a little one). Erinmarie and Dannica have gone off to a youth camp on the North Island so it was just the eight of us...perfect number to all jump in the van and get ice-creams from Burger King. Lots of laughter and brain freezes all round...back to their place for several cups of tea and some serious and not so serious conversation.
Home shortly after 9 pm, at which time we engaged in a Skype conversation with some SA family who were visiting my parents. Much hilarity ensued with both sides pulling faces and being utterly silly...managed to get some actual catching up done thanks to Heidi's sane two-minute summary!
At 3 pm they biked up to the Phillipsies to play with Jayden and Dinnay. At 5 pm Nick and I took the left-overs of yesterday's soup (which was most of the pot still - I had made a BIG batch) for a cazh (that's teenage-speak for casual, I believe) tea of soup and home-made bread (Grant tried to get holes in the dough for some reason and was excited to find a little one). Erinmarie and Dannica have gone off to a youth camp on the North Island so it was just the eight of us...perfect number to all jump in the van and get ice-creams from Burger King. Lots of laughter and brain freezes all round...back to their place for several cups of tea and some serious and not so serious conversation. 
Home shortly after 9 pm, at which time we engaged in a Skype conversation with some SA family who were visiting my parents. Much hilarity ensued with both sides pulling faces and being utterly silly...managed to get some actual catching up done thanks to Heidi's sane two-minute summary!
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