hideous hymns, vocal vicars and theatrical thuribles. Religious Chat Thread Number 6!

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Just back from being confirmed! It was a lovely service, not at my usual church, and quite unexpectedly a whole load of people from my church turned up, including the boy who has Downs syndrome that I support and his mother -- it was really fab to see S there.

Congratulations, niminy. I'm so glad that it was a good service, and glad that you had lots of supporters at the service. and > clink-clink < (best I can do by way of a virtual toast!).

Congratulations Niminy. So glad it was a good service.

Congratulations niminy, how wonderful :)

congratulations ninimy - you have been assimilated

Oooh congratulations niminy how amazing! :)

I'm having another meeting with my DDO tonight... prayers please :)

Praying for you, Blue, that it will go well and that the Holy Spirit will guide you.

:) meeting went really well. Talked about faith.

That's excellent! Is there any news on your job situation?

I'm seeing the bishop tomorrow afternoon -- not the one who confirmed me on Monday but t'other one. Could you please pray for me? I'm feeling very nervous.

ninimy - you don't need to be nervous!
you'll be fine. (I converse with bishops regularly total lie but i have spoken to the archbish and also bishop of dover a few times )

I sent an email to NVW asking her for coffee and stuff, and then sent her a link to a real nappy special offer.
She did reply that she'd love to come for tea and biscuits, and she's going to try for next week.
and that she's already ordered some real nappies

Yay!! That is lovely (both about the tea and the nappies).

Am making a list of more books to order when I get paid.

oooh

I bet she becomes your new BFF once she comes for a cuppa :-)

Niminy is one of these bishops Viscious Steve? My son came home from school one day and said they had an important visitor in assembly and he was called Viscious Steve. It was a few days later when I heard that a new BISHOP called Steve had been in and taken their assembly! Not quite the punk revival in Key Stage 1 that I was picturing!

Ninny good luck with the Bish.

arf @ Vicious Steve

Niminy, hope it goes well, and yes am praying for you. Blue, so pleased your chat went well!

nickel, yay! Knew NVW would want to get together with you. :) Praying it will be the start of a lovely friendship :)

So pleased as I can take dd to see 1D after all tonight. The LG have sorted out a wheelchair for me so I don't have to walk and queue etc, and a friend taking us, we are stopping for tea on the way, so despite being v short of breath I think I will be fine. :) very grateful.

Hello all! Sorry I seem to post intermittently but do lurk from time to time too.
MHD - great that you were able to go with DD. Hope you enjoyed it too!

Niminy - congrats!

Blue - praying for your meeting

Nickel - yay for NVW!

Jayne - ROFL at Viscious Steve

All good here. Big news is that DS got our 1st choice primary school which is the one affiliated with our church. It is a great school which is normally over subscribed to the extent that for the last 5yrs+ we wouldn't have got him in as we live on the edge of the catchment. Even when he was born our priest expressed concern that we wouldn't get him into the school because of where we live. We were not going to move though as we're lucky to have our "forever home".
Anyway, basically all my ramblings mean is that this is a real answer to prayer - God is Great!!

It is a time of milestones for us though. DD is doing her first full day in nursery today and I go back to work next week. DH was originally going to take a few days off next week to support with nursery runs whilst I settle back in at work. He now has to go on a week long training course in Madrid. He leaves Sun afternoon and comes back Friday evening. I am dreading it! It would be a long week even without me going back to work too. Somehow I will need to have me and both DC up and ready to leave the house at 7.30am. Eek!!

Hello everyone
Congratulations niminy! What did you wear? [shallow]
How did it go with the bishop?

Gutted that dd1 didn't get into the faith school I wanted her to go to. I know technically she didn't fulfill the criteria as we have not being going to church long enough and do not have a letter from a vicar where we used to live, but the vicar thought he could get her in as this is the first year of new more stringent requirements. It was a shock to get notification of a completely different school and it is making me quite sad.
Still at least she is part of the church and can always be a part of that anyway.
Now I am worrying about whether it would be the right thing to do to send dd2 to that school when her time comes (because by then I think we will have been going to the church long enough), even though dd1 can't go. Feel so so so sad. I know it is too soon to worry about dd2 but it is ripping me up that I must either give her something I can't give dd1; or withhold something from dd2 that she could have. Which is right?

Curryeater - I'm sorry to hear that and sorry for my joyous post on the same topic.
It may be worth seeing how DD1 gets on before making a decision about DD2? Also worth seeing where DD1 is on the waiting list for your preferred school? If high up, she may get opportunity to move if a pupil turns down a place or moves in the next year or so?
I have a couple of friends that got emails saying that their children had not been placed as yet, asking them to phone the local authority to discuss it. It's awful for them :(

SESthebrave, I feel for your friends. We are so lucky that at least dd1 got offered a place at a nice, near school.
I don't mind you being happy about your school, at all, btw - congrats!
I don't know how to find things out like where the child is on the waiting list, now is the time to find out I guess. Feeling a bit overwhelmed at the moment.

curryeater, think you can ring the LA school admissions dept for that kind of info. So sorry she didn't get in your preferred school, but like SES says it might be she gets in later due to someone moving for eg. Hard decision though re dd2, maybe it's best to say for now don't borrow trouble and see how things are when the time comes.

SES :) That's great news! Glad to see you.

Well, we had a fantastic night seeing One Direction, they put on a brilliant show. dd and her friend were made up, because we were seated on the wheelchair platform (the staff were so, so lovely) we had a much better view than where we were before which was right at the top at the back. And we were literally yards from the centre stage bit where they came and did a few songs literally in the middle of the arena - so dd was all 'Harry waved at me, swoon, scream, scream, jump up and down, oh and don't forget to scream, scream some more' she was like a mad thing. 14,000 screaming girlies. So glad I got to go and see her enjoyment, and her friend loved it too.

madhairday, you are absolutely right - definitely not time to start worrying about dd2 now.
so glad you enjoyed onedirection! I love onedirection!

sorry curryeater - it's all for the bigger purpose, though, and you'll see: the school she's been given might be a better choice :)

You can review the whole thing when DD2 gets to that age - then you'll have had time to see what the school is like, and might even prefer it .

I've already got my hearts set on our catholic primary school - mainly because it's the only school that buys books from me as a first port of call!
that we're not catholic and live on completely the opposite end of town is another matter...

on your 1D concert!

I'm worried about this whole friendship thing.

I'm sitting here talking to you lot when it should be storytime, but as usual, no one has turned up (not even my own daughter, who is with her dad!).
I have storytime at regular times, I tell people about them, and people often go "ooh, we hope to be at storytime", but no one shows.
:(
I don't even put them on for the shop, I put them on because I want to interact and make friends with real proper adults. I thought I'd made friends with some who came regularly to start with, but then they put their children into nursery on storytime day, which kind of showed me that maybe they didn't think I was a friend after all. And then I made storytimes thursday and friday too, at suggestions from some of them that they could make those times. no, only one of them has ever turned up to the alternative days.
and no one jsut comes in to see me and hang out for tea and biscuits or just a chat and play at other times. and I know they all visit each other and do other activities with each other.
Is it really too much to ask that they bring their lunches here one day?

rushing off to Ely for appt with the bishop ... this is just a thought, Uniquel, well two thoughts one is that I never went to activities alone that I'd previously gone to with my children, so perhaps the mums who came in think that it's not for them could you put on something that is specifically for adults in the shop -- a book group, perhaps? Time away from the children. My third thought is perhaps you should do something that is for you (not just the church choir) that is not the shop, and not dd. Join a secular choir maybe?

Hugs to you -- don't forget you really are unique and amazing