Happy New Year for 2012

May 2012 be a positive year for you all with joy to share with all around you, peace to calm stormy waters, love which deepens and matures, strength to get through the inevitable hard days, and the right friends at the right time to support you. God bless each and every one of you.

The Girard Family missed out on the 'Good Health' side of the New Year, with all of us ill - some respiratory infection. 

 We are still in the world record breaking longest house move of all time!! Here is a photo of the consultation regarding the future wallpaper of the dining/living room. We had ripped off the former paper which was rose and grey - very bourgeois, but not in keeping with the very strong floor colour, and a little used up by the previous occupants. So I was feeling the pressure to find something elegant, of good quality, easy to put on the walls (time is passing and it's a huge room with 3m high ceilings!!), and reasonably neutral so any pastoral family could fit their furniture in! There is a lovely rose around the hanging light and elegant cornices to match.

From L-R: Nathalie, Evelyne, Sil Ruddle who spent Christmas with us, me

We are very grateful to some members of our church who have spent hours helping us. And Sil, SIM missionary studying French before going out to serve in Benin, spent a number of days helping us as well. Hopefully, it was a welcome change for her being physical more than intellectual work! 

I cancelled most of December's rendez-vous to be available to help, and Pascal juggled work, visits and renovating until he became ill a few days ago. January is the same - no RDVs, just getting our stuff over to the new house as we finish the rooms. No kitchen until probably the end of February - it's ordered and delivered 8th Feb. We are installing it ourselves. It will be like a giant jigsaw puzzle!