Sheffield seems a long time ago now. We had a busy summer saying goodbye to friends - lots of evenings out! The summer was great. Kathryn turned 30 and celebrated in style with a flying lesson she'd dreamed about for most of her life.
We combined her party with our leaving party in July in Jim & Marie Willis' amazing garden/allotment.
We left our little house in Firth Park to our tenants and in September arrived in Oxford to start our new life at Wycliffe Hall.
We got the last college house and were expecting it to be in the nasty state it was in when we visited during the summer but travelling down the Lord gave Kathryn a picture/smell (?!) of the house being freshly painted and looking great and it was!
Moving in and settling down seemed easy. We realised we'd done much of our 'grieving' for Sheffield during the last year we were there, so didn't have to deal with it here. It's been pretty easy to make friends, too.
Joannah turned one on 25th October and we had a family party to celebrate. Emily will be three on 1st December and off to nursery in January, her place miraculously provided by the Lord! He's been so good to us. We've lots more to tell so watch this space ...
Been thinking about you lots, so it's great you have a blog! Looking forward to staying in touch
ReplyDeleteLove Neil, Natalie and Matthew
PS. Now you need to get Skype!
oh yes the englands hit the digital age (and the anglican church) running!
ReplyDeletebig love to you beauties from the usa kellys....
....kiss tommie finn from phil
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Hoorah - glad to see you've got a blog now...will be checking regularly for updates! Also pleased everything is going well for you guys so far - look forward to hearing more stories. Love Ben and Helen and Callum x
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ReplyDeleteGreat to read your news that you are settling in so well.
Love Zac and Sarah