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Saturday, March 29, 2003 < you can now buy fishpie online!!! posted by Ant | 4:46 PM | Thursday, March 27, 2003 Tuesday was such a good day at work. It was tiring, but not in the tense way that Monday was. I was very busy seeing children but I loved it, and it was great to be able to get a proper lunchtime and EVEN a coffee break (some advantages to being at work!). It did feel like I hadn't been away, and was strange thinking that all the kids I saw when I was last at work would be a whole year older and would have changed so much, whereas to me it felt like it was only the other day I was seeing them. Then, Wednesday was a really nice day and felt more enjoyable with Ben because I'd had time away from him, so that was really cool. He's still got horrendous diarrhoea but is sleeping through to a more reasonable hour than 5am. Forgot to say that on Tuesday, ant was looking after Ben all day and that was the day that began at 5am with a bath for Ben cos there was poo everywhere - it was pretty grim! Considering I've had a number of early starts, and being back at work, and being 6 weeks pregnant, I really do feel pretty OK. Hurrrah. Thank you God. I felt a bit sick this morning in a morning sickness kind of way, but prayed against it (figuring that God didn't want me to have that just as much as any other illness) and did feel better; so stay away horrid sickiness. Ummmmm, not much else. We speculatively had our house valued today and the guy reckoned it would sell for £155,000ish, so now God needs to provide us a marvellous 4-bedroomed house in S6. It is all quite scary cos I love this house and the area and it feels comfortable and safe but, as I've probably already said, we're going to need a bigger house pretty soon, and it would be cool to be near our community and near to Philadelphia. Oh, it is all quite hard. I've totally got to leave it in God's hands. I've asked him to provide a house very soon if it's right cos I don't want to move whilst heavily pregnant or with a new born. If you see any appropriate houses, please let us know! OK, going to go. This is my break time whilst Ben's having his sleep. Loadsa love to the guys in Austin. We miss you x posted by Caroline | 12:40 PM | i'm excited! we'll have ONLINE ORDERING OF FISHPIE by the end of the week ;) thanks loads to our neill fer that pointer posted by Ant | 9:28 AM | Monday, March 24, 2003 Hi, I'm not going to be writing my usual long blatherings cos I am so so shattered. Today was my first day back at work and it really has taken a lot out of me. It wasn't a bad day at all; I didn't cry once, it went pretty quickly, I wasn't bored. It generally felt bizarre though; kind of normal, but kind of completely abnormal. The hardest thing was that I had a place of sadness inside me all day cos of leaving Ben; it did feel like I'd left a part of me behind (sigh). I'm hoping that it all normalises soon. Please pray for this. Also please pray for me tomorrow cos I'm actually seeing children and thinking "aaahhhh, what am I going to do with them?". Also, definitely pray for Ant cos he's got Ben for the whole day. Laura had Ben today and she was (and is) fantastic, a real gift from God for us. Anyway, I'm going to go and pray for my community in the states, especially Cathers who has burnt her hand. Missing you all, love Caroline xxx posted by Caroline | 8:51 PM | have you ever wondered how much you get inside? well now you won't have to worry about it any more! (thanks to lee for this) posted by Ant | 11:20 AM | Sunday, March 23, 2003 BUY FISHPIE EVERYONE!!! i'll be making no profit as all profit will be going to a very good cause (probably the building fund). get your wallets out quick and don't look back - for £8 you can't go wrong! ;D and... i'm gonna stop downloading movies off the internet. just been round to the stoneys and mark was saying he wouldn't come round when us blokes watch films if it's been downloaded (pirated) as he's been convicted about it. he also sees mp3s as a threat to his career and his record sales. now this seems fair enough but i download music (mp3s) so i can listen to an album/artist and see if i like it, if i do then i'll buy the cd - now this is NOT legal BUT i don't have a deal with it and the artists and record companies wouldn't either - the thing is i wouldn't have heard the artist otherwise and they wouldn't have made a profit off me so everyone wins. this, however, is not usually the case as people just want music they like free rather than paying for it. i'm not personally convicted about stopping downloading tunes because i am going to be using this wonderful feature of society to cunningly promote LOFTER>> but i can see that the film thing is getting out of hand so i've stopped some of the downloads i've got going. i'm not very happy about the fact that when a film comes out here in the uk it's usually been released on dvd in the states - this sucks but i'm not going to use it as an excuse any more - i'll just have to wait a year to see them. gutted. there are things that i will still be downloading and here they are: • tv series (some usa only and some from uk tv) as i don't have time to schedule in tv watching/videoing so downloading is a convenient way of watching this stuff • foreign/independant films which you can't get hold of here • films i will be buying for definate in the future (eg. the two towers) so now i've got some rules i better be keeping them - watch me closely!!! posted by Ant | 6:11 PM | Friday, March 21, 2003 the album fishpie has finally been released!!! check out the score by clicking on the pic to the left... *phew* i'm so glad that's done - it's taken years ;) posted by Ant | 12:40 PM | the next exciting installment of our fantastic stick-man cartoon... posted by Ant | 10:40 AM | Thursday, March 20, 2003 oh boy - things are soooo much better today. God's also just given us £500 out of the blue - praise him (that's a well needed car-fixing £500 as well)! i've just been reading matt's rant about the war and i tend to agree with his finishing statement. all this underinformed pro-peace tripe is getting on my nerves (that's not saying i'm not pro-peace, we're just underinformed) and all i want to see is God's will fulfulled in this situation. Tony Blair is, in my opinion, the best PM we've had for as long as i can remember and i trust him - he's also under the authority of God (whether he knows it or not (and as are all world leaders)) so the guy has my vote. if you do want a more informed statement then read matt's blog posted by Ant | 11:52 AM | Wednesday, March 19, 2003 GREAT NEWS! Caroline's just had her scan for the possible ectopic pregnancy and EVERYTHING IS FINE!!!! HALLELUIAH!!!! praise the lord - he's fixed it - Caroline and the new baby are healed. God's amazing worship every 6 steps :) posted by Ant | 11:20 AM | caroline's been throwing up all night etc. - she's really ill so we're going in to hospital this morning rather than tomorrow morning. prayer was fantastic yesterday - please keep it coming today. posted by Ant | 8:51 AM | Tuesday, March 18, 2003 i people. having read my last two posts (did you?) this seems crazy but.... Caroline went to the doctors about the pregnancy and he was worried because there are signs that the pregnancy could be ectopic. if so it'll naturally miscarry or caroline would need surgery. this is only a possibility but we're going for a scan on thursday morning to find out more. we're praying that it's not ectopic or that if it is, God will move the foetus to the womb supernaturally. please pray for us (again). Ant, Caroline and Ben posted by Ant | 6:14 PM | well things aren't getting better, they're getting worse. ben's being violently sick still and i've just found out that the car's head gasket (or however it's spelt) is screwed because of the overheating on the M1 and we also need to replace the radiator. parts alone will be £300+ and today i've been invoicing clients for work and thought we weren't going to be overdrawn for a few weeks but now it looks like we won't even get out of it. we really need God to help us - seems like we're on the right path with all this moving house stuff though due to all the crazy things going wrong. please pray. thanks. posted by Ant | 6:13 PM | we're writing to ask for prayer. it feels like we're under attack at the moment. please pray specifically for protection for ben coz he got really sick and had severe vomiting yeseterday. also a couple of days ago we were talking about moving house down to S6 area while we were driving down the M1 and suddenly the temperature went funny and the bonnet started steaming - strange timing huh? anyway we really need the car fixed so that needs prayer as caroline's going back to work next week. caroline and i are feel pretty down on the whole and i'm finding it really hard to get up in the mornings at 7 - please pray that i can adjust easily to this time schedule as i'm an evening person and it's really tough. and last but not least please pray that God'll get us a smashing big house! posted by Ant | 7:57 AM | Saturday, March 15, 2003 Hello you crazy cats. Hope you're all doing well. Obviously you've all heard the news about us being pregnant. As Ant said, bit of a shock but I'm feeling better and better about it all the time. God's been amazing this week and incredibly gracious about sorting situations out. It's times like this that I get a glimpse of how concerned he is with the little details that matter to me. I was really quite scared about telling my parents cos I thought they'd say it was too soon and how I should have concentrated on my career and I thought they'd be very negative, but they were great - slightly taken aback, but then so were we! So that was amazing. Then my manager asked me to go round to her house on Friday morning to sign some stuff for going back to work, and I was wondering whether it was a God-given opportunity to tell them I was pregnant; I asked God about it and my church guys prayed for me and I decided I'd tell them (I was pretty worried about their reaction) but similarly it was absolutely fine. So that was brilliant. And now I feel everything's in the light and it's lifted such a weight of worry from me and I can feel joy beginning to trickle in more and more. We've just come back from York and had a bit of an experience on the journey home. We're starting to think about moving house. I love our house, but we're thinking that we're going to need a bigger house soon (what with all these babies!) and I can't see us EVER affording a bigger house than this in this area, so we're praying about going down to the Philadelphia area. Anyway, we were talking about this in the car and asking God to give us a passion for the area and we were worrying about Ben growing up in a rougher area than here and would he get bullied etc etc, and I said that if we moved there we'd bound to be under attack, and then a couple of minutes after I said that the temperature light started flashing and the temperature gauge shot up and the bonnet started smoking! We were on the M1 at the time so Ant pulled over onto the hard shoulder and I got out with Ben cos I was scared the car was going to blow up (slightly dramatic I know!) and we called the breakdown and got home at 9pmish and Ben was fine. It just made me feel that we are on the right lines about the house thing, and reminded me of the devil's horrible cowardly ways. Please pray for protection for us as a family and also about the house thing and please look out for any 4/5 bedroom houses in Walkley/Hillsborough. OK, I'm going to bed. This was supposed to be my lovely stay in and chill night and go to bed early. Did feel it was important to blog though. Also just want to say how fantastic Hannah Stoney is. And want to wish the beautiful Bea a happy birthday for tomorrow. posted by Caroline | 10:16 PM | Friday, March 14, 2003 now don't complain because this time we have a good reason for not thinking even remotely about blogging for the last few days... WE'RE PREGNANT!!! (up the duff, bun in the oven, knocked up, in the pudding club, in trouble, etc.) how cool is that?! not exactly expected (but we are DEFINITELY going to change our contraception method). encouragement is very welcome at present ;) Amen. here's a celebratory movie for your enjoyment. next instalment very soon! posted by Ant | 10:11 PM | Wednesday, March 12, 2003 well i know i haven't been blogging much still. i'm sorry peeps. BUT... i've finished fishpie (the album)! yep, it's been ages in the making and this web site was originally here for the promotion of the album before it became our family home. watch out for some promo stuff in the design soon. there's the whole album and then there's a massive multimedia show as it's an enhanced cd! you'll find loads of videos and pictures on there (but it will only run on pcs and not macs). i'm getting the on-cd printing sorted next week and they'll be for sale. i'm selling them for £8 (bargain!) if you want one - preorders are being taken now ;) oh - i nearly forgot... all profits from this album will go to God and not to my pocket! posted by Ant | 9:55 AM | Friday, March 07, 2003 OH NO! could this happen if america lose the war?! (i know it's political but i don't mean to take liberties) 
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Tuesday, March 04, 2003 the boys came round tonight. we had pancakes. our community's fantastic - need i say more? 
also this pic of jamoir from the antcam is truly primal - i had to keep it... 
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Monday, March 03, 2003 new ben pics - these are class and there's even an extra special big arty photo! enjoy ;) posted by Ant | 8:46 PM | i've been getting an amazing response - i feel really loved - thanks y'all! i've put a weather girl (most like caroline i could find) on the left had side for all you lovely people out there. enjoy the sunshine (while it lasts)! posted by Ant | 3:07 PM | |
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