Sep 22, 2010 | South Africa
Hey guys and gals! Remember the awesome worship album I told you about a few weeks ago? If you don’t, please click that link and go watch the video on youtube. It’s stellar! Well, the album launch is happening This Thursday!
These are the details:
If you are in the Cape Town area, heck, if you’re in South Africa, I think you should go! It’s gonna be lekker and I wish Hero Hubs was around so we could go together!
I think the music will be available on iTunes before too long — when I have more details, I’ll let you know!
Woot!
xCC
P.S. As I type this announcement, I am listening to the Bear snoring through the baby monitor. He has a cold and it seriously sounds like a baby pig is snorting around in his bedroom. I wish you guys were here to enjoy this. Hero Hubs has obviously been gone too long if I can appreciate snoring enough to tell you about it.
Sep 21, 2010 | South Africa, Travel..ling Tuesdays
Happy Tuesday! I’m just happy it’s one day closer to Friday! The Bear and I are surviving, with colds and sore throats… we’re really looking forward to seeing Hero Hubs Friday night! In yesterday’s biggest adventure the banana bread the Bear helped me create over-baked in the oven while I was hugging the potty for a moment in the bathroom. {I THOUGHT nausea was leaving me…but she seems to like me too much!} Between heaves I was praying the Bear wasn’t up to any dangerous mischief in my absence. When I returned to the kitchen, he was working his way through a bag of potato chips, safe and sound!
Another slice of the adventure we had with my Mom was at a game reserve near Port Elizabeth called Amakhala. We stayed in the Woodbury Lodge section of the reserve and were blessed with a great stay, good food and some awesome sightings. Except that I think something we had for lunch on the way there didn’t agree with my Mom and she was sick in bed most of our second day at the reserve…bummer! She still enjoyed a great game drive on the first day and another really good one (with the Bear in tow) on our last morning there.
Wanna see a few shots?
We spotted this big fella from Mr. Potato Head on our way to the lodge!
And we saw him again on the first game drive an hour later. He’s a teenager.
Can you see the wee monkey?
We stopped for sundowners in a lovely spot with views in every direction.
And the awesome folks at Amakhala organised a shorter, slightly later morning drive just for us so that the Bear could come along! It was an awesome unexpected gift (perhaps especially for the Bear, instead of hanging out with a babysitter at the lodge — although they were great, too!)
And he once again spotted his…zuh-zuhs!! (He is carefully listening to the ranger talking about the animals…impressive, huh?)
Further down the trail, the game ranger noticed a springbok, behaving a bit unusually — she seemed very nervous and was far away from the rest of her pals.
Then Hero Hubs spotted this little one, just beside the trail! Turns out she was trying to divert our attention away from her newborn, fresh-out-da-box baby! Probably less than 24 hours old!
That was a really special sighting! I really wanted to give this baby a blankie!
Amakhala means “many aloes” and there was one spot on the drive where we saw loads. This particular species produces these lovely red flowers!
Apparently the elephants like to knock the tops off some of the bigger aloes to eat the roots inside, so Amakhala has a lot fewer aloes than it used to…
Here’s a family photo not far from the lodge!
You know, there are just so many more trails to explore, and photos to share, I think we’re going to have to continue Amakhala next week! Will you be able to stand the anticipation for 160 something hours?? 😉
Hope your week is off to a great start! Let me know if you’re keen to link up this Travellin’ Tuesday! Happy trails!
xCC
Sep 21, 2010 | The Parenthood
To the best Mama the world has ever known:
We wish we could run your way just to say…
We hope you have a scrumdiddlyumptious day!
Cheers to the sweetest lil’ GC around…
Can’t wait till ‘together’ is where we’ll be found!
We love you today and all the year through…
dear Mama, sweet G.C., there’s no one like you!
(Tummies in and….)
Thank you so much, Mom, for being a gift, day after day! I am so, so thankful for who you are, and who you are for me!
Happy Birthday and heaps of love,
HH, CC and the Bear!
This post is linked up to Tuesdays Unwrapped. If there’s one gift I’m thankful for today and every day, it is the gift of a wonderful Mama!
Sep 20, 2010 | Baby Photos
We thought he might step up to the task of being the “man of the house” while Hero Hubs (known by the Bear as da-daaaaaaa, and that second ‘da’ needs to be growled), is away this week.
But, so far, he hasn’t taken any trash out. He hasn’t made me a latte, given me a kiss or helped with any dishes.
He has begged me to colour with him thirty times, said “Nooo!” to a gabillion suggestions, spilled my coffee on the couch and graced me with three poopy nappies during the first 18 hours HH was away.
And although I think he’s a very clever Bear and a wonderful little boy, I don’t think he’s ready to be the man of the house.
And I miss Hero Hubs.
xCC
Sep 19, 2010 | Prayers in Poetry & Prose, The Good Word
Hi Guys and Gals! I usually keep this space quiet on Sundays in hopes that you’ll turn your attentions elsewhere, but I just wanted to send a quick prayer request your way on this lovely Sunday morning. Hero Hubs took off for Zimbabwe bright and early this morning, and he’ll be there for the next five days. Samaritan’s Feet South Africa has sent 5,000 pairs of shoes to Zim which will be distributed in celebration of the International Day of Peace September 21st.
We are imagining the beauty of former enemies washing each other’s feet. We’re envisioning people being blessed with a message of hope in a country that has long been troubled with violence and injustice. We pray this will be a day without violence, a moment which will focus a nation on reconciliation and restoration. We pray that the Name of Jesus will be lifted up and given glory.
I spent time with the Lord after Hero Hubs left early this morning, and He met me with great peace. Though I’ve been nervous about HH being in Zim, and the Bear and I here on our own, He reminded me that if He can keep His children safe in a fiery furnace or a lion’s den, I don’t need to fear for HH during his travels, or the Bear and I, here in a high-security neighbourhood. Nevertheless, I’d like to ask you to pray for Hero Hubs and all that is coming together in Zimbabwe (along with the Samaritan’s Feet ambassadors visiting from the US) and for the Bear and I, here without him.
Then King Nebuchadnezzar leaped to his feet in amazement and asked his advisers, “Weren’t there three men that we tied up and threw into the fire?” They replied, “Certainly, O king.”
He said, “Look! I see four men walking around in the fire, unbound and unharmed, and the fourth looks like a son of the gods.”
Nebuchadnezzar then approached the opening of the blazing furnace and shouted, “Shadrach, Meshach and Abednego, servants of the Most High God, come out! Come here!” 
So Shadrach, Meshach and Abednego came out of the fire, and the satraps, prefects, governors and royal advisers crowded around them. They saw that the fire had not harmed their bodies, nor was a hair of their heads singed; their robes were not scorched, and there was no smell of fire on them. (Daniel 3: 24-27)
Isn’t it amazing that they didn’t even smell like fire?
God is always with us. And I am always glad about that.
xCC
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