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Happy Feet

I am intolerably stuffed with junk food from the past 3 days. Today alone might account for about a week's worth of recommended 'moderate' consumption. I hope i can work it all off: In other words i watched Happy Feet which made me one very happy lady. I've also got a sweet-as plush toy of Mumble which funnily enough began as a present underneath the Christmas tree to the kids but as they've each got one already, it went to me. Ahh don't you just love hand-me-downs? Speaking of trees and presents and Boxing day madness, today was pure madness.

City's Myer was like a crucible filled with bargain-crazy people. We went here, there and everywhere. Highlights included Happy Feet, a cookies 'n' cream chiller thrown in, dinner with the fam and unboxing the pressies under the tree. Seeing the expressions on the kids' faces were priceless. The air was punctuated with/ kids: 'COOL look what i got!' us: 'what is it?' kids:'I dunno but it looks like- ...(trails off) hey cool look at THIS one!!' and so on in a very uneven cycle.

All in all it was a lovely day. And how thankful i am that God has given me the opportunity to talk about Him to my brother Stan yesterday. It was so unexpected how the convo began which is usually how it is when sharing thoughts about my faith. But i prayed that i could make the most of yesterday with my mum and sibs, and to have the prayer answered the way it was, felt very rewarding. My present to mum was a dual-language bible.. a beautiful and costly gift in so many more ways than one. I pray that she can learn to treasure it and be inspired to read God's Word as often as she can. My gift to Stan was a promise box filled with verses taken from the bible that are promises from God and a keyring which said "God keeps His promises". A to-the-point statement that's right on the mark. Anyway i don't want to write out every present i gave to my very big family but this year i felt that God really guided me in my choices, for which I'm very thankful. And now i think i'll stop writing because it's 40 minutes into a new day and my head is not thanking me for this.

posted by "/umin @ 7:10 PM