3rd day of December…. Faith, hope and love

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This week’s lessons are short(ish) and sweet(ish). Lesson 1 – I am loved and supported in our church After an emotional evening service last Sunday evening, it was lovely to receive so many encouraging texts, messages, phone calls, and even visits and hugs! It is great to be part of such a caring church…
Yesterday afternoon we headed into Galway for a little retail therapy and then dinner. There were a lovely little toy shop full of amazing wooden and traditional toys and a wonderful spiral staircase Some great graffitti/wall art Winding bustling streets with the usual array of buskers for entertainment (oops – no photos of those). We went for…
On the 9th of December….. another nativity (a mini one this time!). We bought this little wooden one in Bellagio, on the shores of Lake Como. I love to find unusual Christmas decorations on our travels, and if it is a nativity then that’s a bonus!
So today is the day before the day we fly to Paris for our 4 day trip to the Disneyland Paris Resort. The euros have been purchased, the passports have been triple checked to ensure they have not expired, and the final packing is being done. I have decided to post my euros and passport…
It has been a week of contrasts here at our cottage near the sea there have been warm (yes, actually warm!) sunny days and wet and very damp days there has been the crazy busy of CSSM for the kids (but they wouldn’t miss it for the world) and quiet afternoons making jewellery or walking…
And so begins our 4th house swap adventure, and our first to France. You can read about previous home exchanges to Dublin, Boston and Galway previously on my blog. This time we are staying on the edge of a beautiful medieval hilltop town about 90 minutes north east of Paris. For the first time we…