Definately one of the most beautiful creatures on earth!

On New Years day 2007 we visited the Lion Park. It was a beautiful day out amongst my favourite wild animal.

I thought I'd post on this again as I have new friends who "wanted to see some African lions!!!!"

love and blessings fifi

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2Great books!

I am reading two very different books at the same time! The pink one on the left is by Julie-Ann Barnhill and is called Radical Forgiveness.The other is by John C. Maxwell and is called Dare to Dream....... then DO IT.

Julie-Ann Barnhill was the guest speaker at a ladies weekend I went to a couple of months ago. I have never laughed so much in my entire life. She is just so real and extremely funny! We all have hurts, regrets and failures and lack of forgiveness in our lives........ Julie makes you realise that we all mess up often! In fact she encourages you to repeat the sentence... "I am a mess of magnificent proportions!"

I mentioned that I have felt an urgency to be more responsible with my giftings and talents. The John Maxwell book is challenging me in SO many areas of my life. It is to the point and extremely motivating. The U.S President Thedore Roosevalt said..... "Far better is it to dare mighty things, to win glorious triumphs, even though checkered by failure, than to rank with those poor spirits who neither enjoy much nor suffer much, because they live in the grey twilight that knows neither victory nor defeat."

That's it for now!

love Fifi

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This weeks news headlines.

Medicine Breakthrough!
After 3 years of pleading, begging, threatening and at times having to use force, our sweet little angel took medicine orally! I would try and disguise the medicine in coke or cool drink, but her taste buds always out did me. In desperation I would give her suppositories. Okay, so I did have to negotiate with her. I asked, "Do you want medicine in the b*m or the mouth?" Now that she is getting older the latter sounds a lot more pleasant. " In da mouf Momma." Success at last!
Missing Cat. Our one year old kitty, Boots, went missing on Tuesday!We are all very heart broken.
Boy's Glands the size of golf balls!
CoolDude was probably the sickest he has ever been this week. He's now on the mend after 2 days on antibiotics.... but his glands are still huge. He has bronchitis and has to be nebulised every 4 hours.
Kissing Neighbours!
A little boy, the same age as Tanzi, lives next door. His "nanny"( nick name for caregiver) told him that TanziPanzi is his girlfriend! Hubby and I were not too impressed with the assumption that our little girl was willing to date at such a tender age! teehee. So we told her that he is just a friend. She said, "But I can kiss my friend!" So are the feelings mutal? I think I need to monitor those play times!! LOL!

The two in question!?!?!?

Have a great weekend

Love Fifi

Playing Mommy

No, I haven't been secretly hiding a pregnancy!

One of my very good friends asked if I would look after her 6 week old daughter whilst she took her mom and dad to The Lion King Production. Would I?!?!....... most certainly, I mean this is the baby that I have been praying for, for the past 3 years! The little blessings name is Sarah, and she was given to my friend the day she was born. The adoption process is not yet complete, and we have to prayerfully 'sit-out' the next month and pray that the young mother does not decide to take her back. Please keep her in your prayers. There is such a miraculous story about all the events leading up to Sarah's birth ,..... which unfortunately I'm not at liberty to divulge now.

She is beautiful, and ever so good!

TanziPanzi had great fun playing dollies!

My friend is not a lover of pink, anything girlie and especially not Barbie! So I took this pic to show her that we would satisfy her Barbie and pink needs!! Teehee!

love Fifi

Time flies!

How did we go from this.......................................

(take note of the shoes!)

to this...................

.............so quickly?

My eldest, WizzKid, is turning 12 tomorrow (25th). He is a wonderful son whom I love dearly. He is extremely thoughtful and kind. He always asks me..." How are you doing Mom?" He is a great encourager too. I often hear him talking to his younger brother and motivating him. The other day I overheard him say, "CoolDude, you told Mom that you want to be a tennis champ, well if that's what you want, we'd better go and practise!"

He loves........

• swimming league
• computors and anything to do with technology
• music, especially Hillsongs Kids and M.I.C. (a local christian band)
• his cat Dash
• Chocolate and red grape juice
• reading...... especially books by Eion colfer, Brian Jacques and Charlie Higson
• Making funny(silly!) movies with his Camcorder. (I'll post one soon)

To the left............... we have the shoe that features in the top right pic and his latest size 5!

To the right...... the computor cake I made today.

Love Fifi

We saw 3 of the BIG FIVE game!

On our recent trip away we decided to go on a Game Drive. Not expecting to see much (because it is Winter and the land is very dry!) we were pleasantly surprised! Here are pics of animals that were in photo range.We also saw Hippos, Buffalo and Water buck but they were too far away to get a decent pic!

The Rhino was a little shy and would not come out from behind the bush!

My favourite wild animals are the Big cats.... lion, cheetah and particularly the leopard, but we did not see any of them this time. After the big cats, the giraffe would take second place. He is such an awkward looking chap, but ever so graceful. This guy stopped in the middle of the road, and politely posed!

So there you have it, a little taste of Africa's beautiful wild life.

Love Fifi



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It was oh sew fun!

Go take a look at what I created with these three pieces of material........ over at Let's Get Cr8tv

love Fifi

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Wordless Wednesday!

Question time.............

This past week I have been challenged by God to use, and be more responsible with the talents He has blessed me with. At church this morning I felt the Lord elbow me in the ribs yet again about this!
Today I was reading The Purpose Driven Life by Rick Warren and I came upon this section:-

Why does God use our weaknesses? Because when He does, he gets all the glory. If somebody does something great using their own obvious strengths, people see it and say, "Well he's just good at that. Of course it will be a success!" But if somebody does something wonderful in an area that is obviously not their strength, people say,"Wow! Maybe there's hope for me! If God can do that for them, He can surely do that for me!"

Why would God give us talents and giftings, if He is wanting to use our weaknesses and our inabilities to glorify Him?
I welcome insight......................

love Fifi

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Yet again.......................

I had a friend over today, and I told her that we were selling our house. She said " Again?..... I don't know how you do it Fee, that would stress me out!"
Funny thing is even though my domestic helper and I do all the packing and unpacking, it doesn't stress me out. In the past 9 years, we have moved 7 times. In fact with most of our moves, I have looked forward to the change. But today, as I was buying flowers for the show day tomorrow, it hit me! I am going to be sad to leave our present home. Hubby and I have put so much time and love into this house. Okay, so we did buy it to do up and resell, but I never thought I would feel so sad about moving on this time!

Love and blessings
from a very pensive Fee tonight.

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