Hello, hello..!

The last post that I wrote, although I didn’t know it at the time, was exactly one week before our beautiful baby girl, Gracie, was born. She was born on the 17 February at 13:00, weighing 3.2 kg. My labour was a bit long and had to be encouraged along quite a bit, which made it a little more complicated than I would have liked, but the hospital staff at Horovice Hospital were really brilliant, and I had a good experience there.

 This is Gracie just a few hours after being born.

Gracie is now just over 3 months old, and she is just amazing! Phil and I are having so much fun with her. The first 6-8 weeks were pretty tough sometimes, but we are getting the hang of this parenting lark and Gracie is so delightful!

 Gracie was being a bit grumpy, so we were trying to plicate her with her bunny on her head..! (Don’t know if it worked!)

I will put a few more recent photos of her here soon.

In other news, on Wednesday evening, I was called by E1 Community Church to work with them! Phil and I had been to visit the church and the area on two previous occassions, and on Wednesday the church had to decide whether they wanted to call me or not. And they unanimously decided that they did! I am so excited and really looking forward to working with the pastor, Phil (yeah, another Phil!) and the other people involved in leading the church. There are some great possibilities and also great challenges facing the church, but I am looking forward to learning, growing and contributing to the life of the church. I don’t know when I will start yet, or when Phil and I will be moving over to London, but it will be sometime in the summer.

I apologise for the long silence before this, but a baby is so demanding! I didn’t realise how much time the little things can take up! I hope to blog a bit more often now that Gracie is a little older. In the meantime, hugs and love from Phil, Gracie and I. xxx