God is good!

We had some great news yesterday - 2 things in fact, in just 1 day. Surely there's a law against that somewhere - isn't it wrong to have too much to be excited and happy about in such a short space of time, that's certainly the way people act sometimes isn't it? Or at least we often then start expecting something bad to happen as well! Why is it that good news and excitement are seen as alien and treated with suspicion? Is it because good and exciting things happen so rarely or is it more to do with our mindsets and levels of expectation? Anyway, enough of my waffling - I guess I should actually share what our news was!

Firstly, we had a message at about 8am ish from 1 of our good friends to say that his wife (also 1 of our good friends!) had given birth a couple of weeks early to a baby girl - Maisie. Mother and baby doing really well. Seems a bit surreal as we were just having dinner with them a few days ago when we were up in Liverpool, but it was great news, and it means we'll get to meet Maisie when we go back up there the week after next. Good start to the day, and cheered Lisa up in the midst of her pre-interview nervousness which leads me on to the 2nd piece of good news...

Lisa got a job that she really wanted!! A while back she'd noticed a maternity cover job advertised for a reception infants class in a nearby village school (only 2-3 miles away - no battling with Cambridge traffic). She was really impressed with the school and the headteacher and so applied. Had a phonecall on Monday to say she'd been shortlisted and could she go for an interview on Thurs. After the interview she had a call to say they were convinced that she was right for the job! She'll start in Feb. and carry on for the rest of this school year. Lisa hasn't had it easy workwise generally since we moved down here and this term especially has been quite frustrating - so this is all such a relief! Great timing as well - going into the Christmas period knowing that that is coming up.

Exciting news over, now off to find some misery again....!