SIM training

Last week we attended training with our mission agency SIM. To be honest before we went we didn't know a huge amount about SIM apart from a standard statement of faith and core values. They had been recommended to us by someone whose opinion we respected so we had applied to them and somehow ended up on this training week at the end of a lengthy application process.

(not so) expert guide to punting

 If you don't know what punting is you should come and visit us. If you have never punted you should come and visit us. 

Cambridge

We live just outside Cambridge in the UK and so when Natalie came to visit on her way back from the Ship we took a little tour of some of it. Cambridge is a beautiful city and Tommy gets to cycle down past these sights on the way to work each day...

lego and other things

I was thinking there must be a million things to blog about the boys - so much has happened since we got back. The boys are settled in school, Tom has started football training and been in a school play. That was quite strange for us - there are 3 classes of 30 children just in his year group! That really made us miss the ship too - the kids mixing with children of different ages, Academy productions, that you knew your kids' teachers...anyway...that wasn't really the point of this. Josh has settled into school too - his a much smaller school and I admit the one I much prefer going to. He has started swimming lessons and I am not sure made much progress yet, but loves his opportunities to be a little fish. Tom has been given a bike so we went for our first family cycle to the park today. There is still a bit of snow on the ground, but much of it has gone now. Josh needs to practice more with his bike as his school are running a session to help them ride without the stabilisers/training wheels soon. We are getting used to him on the tag-along with us though and haven't 'almost fallen off' lately!

snow

 concentrating

creating