Well things are finally over - the girls course - what an achievement. that seemed like the most intense amount of work ever! Not stress but exciting work. The Princess and Pirate party over - intense amount of stress - probably. Loved it though. Bit scary the thought of cramming 20 small children and their parents into one fairly small house on a rainy day in July but I prayed for sunshine and there was just enough to make it brill and my beautiful little children loved it - so so did I!
The girls course finished excellently -I think. The final session together was just perfect and our very last minute ideas of how to empower the and pull together all the decisions they'd made and the choices the'd made for themselves. It was purely inspired- can't get better than that! To top rthe whole course off - we managed to afford it. Of course we'd missed things off the budget in the beginning - there are always oversites- but amazingly we seemed to come under budget in some other areas so we really managed. Thank you God for your provision! There are things we are still in need of and this course has certainly consolidated our occasional discussions of needing a van!
One properly exciting blessing is that God properly blessed Rachel as she went to Leeds for the day shhopping - obviously God does want us to shop sometimes! In Top Shop she casually mentioned to the shop assistant as she picked up a flier for the style consultant that something like that would be great for the Girls course she was running. My experience of Top Shop assistants has never been the friendliest but this one took all her details and the next moring the stylist must have called Rachel twice before she'd even arrived at work. Basically we've managed to secure that the last session of every course... - which basically we'd earmarked as a treat of some sort - but had pretty much run out of inspiration -it really needed to be special but we'd have to do it every course so a big event would be too draining on out time and resources realistically -...as a trip over the the big style advisors room in York where we will have supplied them with a few details of each girl on the course so that they canhave things ready on arrival for each of the girls. 3/4 style advisors so that each of the girls will get their own consultancy and be introduced to things they may not have ever thought of but will suit their own shape and colouring and taking into account the styles they are into. The sylist Rachel has been talking to is desperately keen to work with us, has a heart for community work and basically has a huge thing about being individuals. She said that she hates the culture that just because Kate Moss wears something we all go out and buy it and really wants these girls to understand what can suit them and appreciate the ways they are all different - This just sounds fantastic! What is more they are happy to work with us as regularly as we want and will provide goody bags for all the girls and refreshments and this is all free of charge and no obligation to buy from the store. We are just totally amazed. We'd actually asked Top Shop earlier on whilst writing the course whether there was any way of supporting us but they had said no - God's timing - so important - and having the guts as Rachel did just to ask a really simple question that I would have never bothered to ask as I would just have assumed there would be nothing in it. Makes you wonder what else we miss out on by just not thinking to ask!
So hopefully we can get all the girls together really soon to take them over to York - we know they will love it and it will be great to spend that time with them at the end of the course where we don't have to worry about any planning and can just enjoy the time we can spend having fun - and of course we are praying that we can join in and get goody bags too - surely there are some blessings for working 2 years for free!
The girls course finished excellently -I think. The final session together was just perfect and our very last minute ideas of how to empower the and pull together all the decisions they'd made and the choices the'd made for themselves. It was purely inspired- can't get better than that! To top rthe whole course off - we managed to afford it. Of course we'd missed things off the budget in the beginning - there are always oversites- but amazingly we seemed to come under budget in some other areas so we really managed. Thank you God for your provision! There are things we are still in need of and this course has certainly consolidated our occasional discussions of needing a van!
One properly exciting blessing is that God properly blessed Rachel as she went to Leeds for the day shhopping - obviously God does want us to shop sometimes! In Top Shop she casually mentioned to the shop assistant as she picked up a flier for the style consultant that something like that would be great for the Girls course she was running. My experience of Top Shop assistants has never been the friendliest but this one took all her details and the next moring the stylist must have called Rachel twice before she'd even arrived at work. Basically we've managed to secure that the last session of every course... - which basically we'd earmarked as a treat of some sort - but had pretty much run out of inspiration -it really needed to be special but we'd have to do it every course so a big event would be too draining on out time and resources realistically -...as a trip over the the big style advisors room in York where we will have supplied them with a few details of each girl on the course so that they canhave things ready on arrival for each of the girls. 3/4 style advisors so that each of the girls will get their own consultancy and be introduced to things they may not have ever thought of but will suit their own shape and colouring and taking into account the styles they are into. The sylist Rachel has been talking to is desperately keen to work with us, has a heart for community work and basically has a huge thing about being individuals. She said that she hates the culture that just because Kate Moss wears something we all go out and buy it and really wants these girls to understand what can suit them and appreciate the ways they are all different - This just sounds fantastic! What is more they are happy to work with us as regularly as we want and will provide goody bags for all the girls and refreshments and this is all free of charge and no obligation to buy from the store. We are just totally amazed. We'd actually asked Top Shop earlier on whilst writing the course whether there was any way of supporting us but they had said no - God's timing - so important - and having the guts as Rachel did just to ask a really simple question that I would have never bothered to ask as I would just have assumed there would be nothing in it. Makes you wonder what else we miss out on by just not thinking to ask!
So hopefully we can get all the girls together really soon to take them over to York - we know they will love it and it will be great to spend that time with them at the end of the course where we don't have to worry about any planning and can just enjoy the time we can spend having fun - and of course we are praying that we can join in and get goody bags too - surely there are some blessings for working 2 years for free!
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