Don't read/watch Little Women unless you want a good cry!

Seriously.

I used to read Little Women as a teenager and I always cried when Jo refused Laurie. Then I got Good Wives and I cried even harder when Beth died. It's such a sad book I don't know why it was written for children/teenagers. I watched the film tonight for the first time and again I cried my eyes out.

The only consolation is that I don't hate Mr Bahr anymore. I've grown to see that even though he was old and eccentric he was right for Jo in every way. Maybe it was how he was cast in the film though, I'm not sure.

In honour of Valentines Day

Okay so it's not Valentine's Day, and as I've told many people in the past week, I don't really believe in Valentine's Day (it's just another way to make single people feel bad), but a friend sent me this and it's really good. It's how to do Valentine's Day God's way...

If God had a refrigerator, your picture would be on it.

If He had a wallet, your photo would be in it.

He sends you flowers every spring.

He sends you a sunrise every morning.

And a sunset every evening.

If God took vacations, He'd take His with you.

He's with you every second of every day.

He wrote His songs just for you, and created the birds to sing them.

Whenever you want to talk, He listens.

And He hears your every word.

He can live anywhere in the universe, yet He chooses your heart.

Trust me...He is crazy about you!

1 John 4.7

Life wouldn't be the same without...

my annual trip to casualty!

I've been to casualty roughly once a year since about 3rd year in high school. Now let me make it clear, I have never actually had anything serious wring with me, my most serious injury was my broken toe, the one that started it all off in 3rd year! But with various sprained ankles and suspected broken bones, I've been to casualty quite a lot.

So what was I there for this time? Well earlier on today in school I jammed my finger between my chair and my desk which was pretty painful, but later on I realised it was quite sore to bend my finger. Okay so it wasn't causing me an excessive amount of pain, but I thought if it was broken and I didn't get it sorted ... well I play the piano so I thought I'd go and get it X-rayed. Turns out it wasn't broken after all, and I can still type so it probably won't be sore for that long.

But I did learn two things from this particular casualty visit - 1. I can go to casualty on my own and 2. Hospitals aren't scary!

It tastes just like real food...

I have started making real food for dinner - not just micro meals or gravy chips or micro chips or pasta stuff (apparently it's not real food unless it has potato according to my auntie!) but tonight I made sausages and mashed potato and beans, last week I had mashed potatoes and boiled potatoes and all sorts (with meat and veg also of course)!!!