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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!

I had an e-mail from British Gas today telling me that my bill is now ready to view online on their website. We use their paperless billing to reduce the junk that comes through the front door, but last time I went to their website (probably about 3 months ago when I got the previous bill) they'd move to a new 'improved' site:

However, their website now only allows me to see one of my 2 accounts (2 - I thought I only had one as a dual-fuel customer!) So if I want to manage my Gas and Electricity online I have to use 2 seperate e-mail addresses. I've phoned them up twice to ask about this and neither time could they tell me when it will be fixed. At least this time they said I could have the paper bills for free until it's sorted. Aparently each of the accounts is related to a unique customer id which is used by the website, so I guess to them I'm 2 seperate people, sharing a name, house, and dual-fuel discount. What an odd system!

Today we took Abi to get her first real shoes - we'd originally tried to go yesterday, but were too close to the closing time for Clarks so they could just measure her, but there wasn't time to sell us any shoes (huh?). Today we managed to get there in plenty of time, had her measured again and then had to choose the shoes - we ended up with these lovely ones (which Abi really likes):

Then tonight as she was going to bed, Abi found a glove in her bed (like you do ;)) and stood up, tried to put it on, winged a bit, handed it to me and held out her hand. I put the glove on, she was happy, laid down and went to sleep!!

//flv_ricky('video_swim','abi-swim');

I know this video has been on Laura's facebook for a while, but I wanted it here too as it's sooo cute!

Abi has been doing so well with her swimming and it's lots of fun taking her. Last week, she had her first solo underwater swim - which meant she swam between the instructor and me underwater. (It was only a very short distance, but amazing!) Tomorrow is her last session of the current term, which seems to have flown by, but we're now booked onto the next term so it'll only be a weeks gap in between.

This morning just as I was leaving for work, Abi decided that she wanted to follow me as she often does and came crawling after me towards the front door and peered round it as I opened it and then continued to go through the doorway. At this point Laura picked her up and stood her on the floor a little way back from the doorway. She took a step to the side!! I know it's only a little step but it was a big moment for us and we're very pleased with her!