Welcome 2009

I'm still here, and still pregnant in case you were wondering. :) Happy New Year to you, hope you had a fun night-however you spent it. We had considered going into town to watch the fireworks last night (they were in the early evening, not midnight!) but after all that has happened we decided it was best to stay home! Plus, it didn't really go much above 30 degrees yesterday, and I didn't want to bundle us all up.

So instead, we made chicken fajitas for dinner and I made a chocolate chess pie that I never got around to making at Thanksgiving or Christmas! After dinner, we went into our back garden to launch some fireworks- they are so cheap here and you can do them wherever you want. Kind of scary actually. Marc and Cerys had gone to pick some up yesterday and we thought it would be lots of fun. Then Marc lit them and all the popping and smoke upset Bailey so the 3 of us ended up watching them from inside our conservatory! They clapped and cheered Daddy on from the inside, it was hilarious. Poor Marc, and soon another little girly will be arriving. :) They sure love their Daddy though!

I wasn't sure I would make it till midnight, but I did. Marc put a movie in and I knitted. Are we old and boring or what? We watched the BBC and Sky News ring in the new year from London and Scotland and then watched some drunk people dancing in our street outside our house for a few minutes before going to bed. They were sure partying and when a car came by and they would not let it pass, we closed the curtains in case it got ugly. Have I mentioned there is a pub down the street from us, so on the weekends and holidays we get all kinds of crazy passing by.

I look forward to 2009- lots of changes with another baby girl that will arrive soon- but fear usually finds me at the beginning of each new year and I can't help but wonder "what will happen this year?" On Beth Moore's LPM Blog, she is challenging us to memorize scripture-a lot of it- this year. I have been thinking about it for a few days and asking God to give me something I could start the year off with- in light of everything that is about to change in our lives. Beth posted the scripture she is starting with and as soon as I read it, I started crying and knew it was for me. It is the New English Translation and there is just something about the words that speak right to a certain place in my heart right now- here it is -

He is your constant source of stability; He abundantly provides safety and great wisdom; He gives all this to those who fear Him." Isaiah 33:6 NET

Very simple, yet it was just for me. So that is what I'm starting 2009 with- Thank you Jesus for being my CONSTANT source of STABILITY. I sure need it.