Coffee & Cupcakes

Evening readers, I do hope this finds you cosied up on the sofa with a big mug of hot chocolate, woolly pj's and slippers! Winter is definitely coming and the feeling of Christmas is begining to bear its festive head! I write however, to bring a little sunshine to a cold night and take your mind far from the rain and wind that currently batters my living room window, to a hot hot land, many miles from my own. For a reason still baffling to us both, Josh and I have decided to venture to the Philippines for 3 weeks next May/June...... with children!! Feel free to gasp at the madness of a 20 hour long journey, followed by 6 hours in a bus journey that lies before us - only then to be melted by the heat, whilst enjoying frog meat and fish stew....which contains ALL the fish!!! Kezzia is currently overly excited by the information that you can watch movies on the airplane - however I'm not sure that excitment will last, as I turn over to film number 4 of the journey... Despit

Well readers, we have recently been "enduring" the Halloween season - my least favourite time of year. A holiday which has gone from nothing to something which takes over the seasonal aisle of our supermarkets, the content of our cinemas and tv and now even the clothes decorating our shop front displays. I fail to see why so many parents seek to endorse the holiday and encourage their children to participate in it. Obviously as a Christian I disagree with celebrating all that is dark and evil and do not think it is just a silly thing for us to engage with - rather it is an incredibly dangerous season and something worth taking seriously! Whilst I don't believe in the presence of zombies or vampires, I think all that's is represented by Halloween, evil spirits, magic, spells is unfortunately a very real subject and powerful and not even worth joking about. I know and have witnessed in the lives of people the very destruction that can be caused by dabbling in such &qu