Garden Tea Party

May 15th is the latest and last woman's event we will be putting on before summer.  Here is the invitation I made for it.  I am really loving using Microsoft Office 2010 -- lots of great features.

It is going to be in our "garden" so we are hoping for quick grass growing & good weather! :-)

Garden Tea Party

Lest we forget

Last year we had a ANZAC day celebration at our place, this year it kind of crept up on us.  But our mate Gav (from Australia) rang us up with a good suggestion that we come over to his place for a roast, and then a movie for ANZAC day.  So last night after the boys had an ANZAC game of cricket (at the indoor stadium built by Wayne) we headed over to Gav's house.  Gav had also invited another couple -- Altug who is from Turkey and his wife from Ukraine.  We didn't try any re-enactments, although I wanted to do so commondo rolls and pretend shooting, but my maturity got the better of me!  The roast was very tasty -- thanks Gav!  We then watched "Kokoda" and earlier in the day with a friend I had watched "The Hurt Locker." I neither understood, or really enjoyed both of these movies. But I did make a comment after watching, that maybe it is good for us to watch these types of senseless war movies once a year or so to remind us -- "lest we forget."
I think it reminds us of 2 things...
**The courage of the soldiers gone before us, and how they gave their lives for our country.  This is something we need to be reminded of, so we don't take it for granted.
**The relative peace we have in our country, and the huge amount of things we can be thankful for. The fact that I don't have to wonder if the next bullet will hit me, that I can sleep easy at night in a comfortable house beside a wonderful husband.
These things I need to be reminded of when I start to complain about "the little things".  Lest I forget the bigger picture.

Lest we forget

Stirred to do something...

As a child growing up I was fed on books & autobiographies of people in history who stood for what they believed and made a difference in their communities and the world.  For some this even included death, and I'm sure for all, it included sacrifice, because they realized that all it takes for evil to triumph is for good men to do nothing.

Today I was stirred by this video a friend passed on to me, and it raised a few questions.  I have always wanted to make a difference in my life...maybe this it? I have been given so much, how can I sit and do nothing?  Is this God's plan in us coming to Ukraine?

Stirred to do something...