After we read the story of Cain and Abel with Abi this morning:

Me

God sees everything including what you are thinking

Abi

Don't worry

The other night when Abi was in the bath, she decided to do some swimming. She went down onto all fours, and then lifted her feet up to float along the surface of the water. Like this she 'swam' lengths of the bath with her hands on the bottom.

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For a short while when we've been having our morning family devotional time together Abi has been repeating a prayer word by word after me - usually something intended to be like "Thank-you Lord for mummy and daddy" but usually when she's said 'mummy' and I say 'and' she adds 'Abi' but this morning I asked her if she wanted to pray and said 'repeat after me', and she says:

Thank you Lord for work work work > >

Amen

Just recording this so I can find it again!

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Just had the first session entitled 'What is the gospel?' looking at Romans 1:1-6. Go Paul's introduction to the letter there is a nice summary.

From God...about Jesus...for everyone

The talks were all very good and left me with lots to think about.

I was particularly struck by the talks about heaven and hell, which gave a really clear explanation of the motives for evangelism. As when we die we are faced with either eternal life or eternal punishment as the situation is very serious. The last talk was very encouraging and challenging looking at sharing our faith with friends through the bible after prayer.

I designed these for Polventon House Care Home to be given to social workers so that they had information to hand about what care is available at Polventon. One key thing to communicate was that Assisted Living is also available alongside the care home.

The business card was created first so that they could be ordered quickly from Vistaprint and have them available to give to people. Then I started work on the folder design to go with them. The folder was originally sketched out on paper before creating an initial mockup in Paint Shop Pro. If I ever find the sketch again, I'll add it to this post.

The next stage was the most tricky part of the project - choosing where to get the folders printed. This is because it would make quite a difference to creating the final artwork design due to different printing companies using different templates and styles of folders. In the end we agreed on folderprinting.co.uk.

Once we had decided on the printer I could start work on the final copy of the artwork - to be provided to the printers in PDF form. For this I used the open source desktop publishing package Scribus, which took a bit of getting used to, but is very powerful once you get used to how it is designed to be used. This allowed me to import the pdf templates for the folder and create my artwork on top.

We had a lovely holiday last week at Center Parcs - we'd booked it almost a year ago to make use of the discount they give if you rebook within 28 days of getting home so we were looking forward to it for a long time! It was so different to last time we went, as last time Abi was only tiny and not yet moving around, so we carried her around in the sling most of the time. This year she likes to walk around for herself and currently has a fascination with stairs - so every time she saw steps of any kind she would say 'up stairs' (even if she was at the top of them!) and head towards them. Also this year she was big enough to travel round in a bike trailer which after getting used to it she loved. Having bikes seemed to make everywhere seem so much closer and easier to get to.

It was a really nice relaxing week, and a few of the highlights for me were:

• Eating at the Pancake House on our first evening there, whilst watching the snow and the birds through the window.

• Taking Abi swimming and seeing how she grew in confidence with the pool and how much she enjoyed the slide in the toddler pool

• Cycling around, towing Abi behind in her trailer

• Being able to watch the wildlife from the villa window - Abi made friends with the ducks, but we also saw squirrels and coots.

"Nemo" - Abi

Abi now knows how to get her milk! First she'll use the sign for milk:

If we don't notice, she do it again with sounds and then sometimes if we're in the kitchen she'll point to her bottles followed by the fridge and the microwave (just in case we've forgotten how to!). One time she even went as far as to get the empty milk bottle out of the recycling bin and hold it up to me!