Ethical Living #1 - Bath Box

This is Anwen in her 'Bath Box' which she loves. It's a small part of our effort to look after the environment. We know its not necessary for Wenie to have a bath everyday but its a key part of her routine as she loves splashing about, its more about play than it is about getting clean - well most days anyway! The only time she has a regular bath now is if she is sharing it with a friend :o)

The move to live ethically has been influenced by realising that God wants us to love the planet just as he wants us to love others (its all interrelated). See Genesis 2.15 Ecotheology, Living Generously, Christian Ecology.

For a while we have recycled, composted, bought fairtrade, used washable nappies and bought most things second hand (this one is more to do with being cheap-skates than living ethically but now our charity shop shopping and second hand purchasing seems even more worthwhile). We hope to make more small steps toward ethical living in the future - we will try to blog about these as we do, so watch this space...

Nelly

We now have Nel with us (Bec's youngest sister) all the way from Madagascar. She has come back permanently and was job hunting. Within a few days of being in the country she has got a job at Scargill House conference centre and community.
We are so proud of her and it is a real answer to prayer. She starts their next Tuesday! We went away just the two of us this weekend to Whitby (last time away before the move and the new baby). We had a lovely time and visited the seat where I proposed to Bec over seven years ago (see below) in front of St Mary's Church at the top of the 199 steps. We spent a lot of time in Sanders Yard cafe - great cakes n coffee.

2

Anwen turned 2 on 1st May.

(Above is the cake that Bec made - all by herself she'll have you know!)
We had a party on Saturday, we played pass the parcel (twice!) made our own party hats and ate lots of yummy food. It was busy and noisy but really good fun - even if we did have to crash out and rest all afternoon to recover!

We look more excited than Anwen!

It was great to have our family and friends there for the party and the bank holiday weekend - thanks guys for helping out at the party, you were all fab!!

Yum, Yum (& Yum)

This is Ethan and Jasmine, two of Wenies special friends, all born a week apart, they've spent lots of time together over the past 2 years - so much so that we now have photographic evidence of Wenie pinching food from Jasmines plate (you can see above that shes trying to look casual but its obvious which direction her hands come from!) Sorry Jasmine!

Wenie was spoilt rotten with lots of lovely cards and pressies, thank you so much everyone!! xxx