so recently i ran a series of repeat blog posts about how to love your woman better and someone made a request for how to do the loving of your man better and so the beautiful val has taken the challenge and here is the first one - please check it out and respond... http://valanderson.wordpress.com/2011/02/02/how-to-love-your-man-better-just-love-him
so yesterday morning the beautiful val and i headed out to muizenberg for my super surprise birthday morning where we weere met by one of my best friends rob lloyd and his wife nicky and went for an hour's worth of blokarting on the beach which in a nutshell is like a combo between windsurfing and go-karting and a whole lotta fun. you get a three wheeler cart thing with a huge sail and armed [...]
so this morning the beautiful val and myself and a whole assortment of other people went off to polkadraai strawberry to do some strawberry picking which is the first time i have ever done that... it was immensely hot, but a lot of fun and the reVolutionary part of it being that it was a new experience and that one of the changes i want to make this year to my life (especially as half [...]
so one of my absolute highlights of the new years festival was my wife... no, but above and beyond the usual reasons for loving and liking her – two moments stand out: the first is the moment of new years when we were backstage and sitting next to slash behind a giant speaker box semi trying to avoid the whole run-around-and-hug-perfect-strangers (perfect sweaty rained upon strangers who have been partying it up since 7 hours [...]
my beautiful wife val just wrote this blog and it's been stuff that is on my mind and heart a lot these last few years and she pretty much nails it: check out her blog titled "on immoral wealth"
i love my wife [we don't have kids, but if you do have kids, that is one of the best presents you can give them - love your wife well. right now, we will have to model that for other peoples kids] and today she really outdid herself with my Christmas present. i gave her a bunch of stuff - she gave me a bunch of people. my friends. my wife gave me my friends [...]
so for the last little while the question "so when are you and the beautiful val having kids?" [and the shock, gasp, horror when we say we're not particularly planning to, ever, at the moment] has evolved into the question "so what are your plans for next year?" i've contemplated getting the answers to these questions tattoo'd onto my face but i just don't know if i can justify the expense [to anyone else] so [...]
this week the third lausanne congress for world evangelication is happening in cape town - 4200 delegates from around the world representing church leaders, academics, theologians, marketplace people as well as men, women as well as old, young - convening for a week to discuss relevant issues facing the church - things like globalisation, pluralism, multi-faith society, relevance, integrity, response to poverty, trafficking etc etc - it is an incredible time and i am so [...]
so i recently was on an orange river trip with a bunch of youth okes linked to a southern suburbs church youth group... two of the guys on the trip wore t-shirts (which i addressed with them both - one directly and one a little more indirectly cos i couldn't remember who had been wearing it) which distressed me a lot [1] cartoon picture made up of two blocks - in the first block a [...]
so i have been married for about 14 months yesterday and i still completely highly recommend it if it is to the right person - it is not always easy - it is sometimes really hard - but it is incredible and the pros definitely outbeat-up-and-leave-bleeding-behind-the-shed the cons... and i love the beautiful Val - really feel privileged and lucky and amazed that i have someone like her in my life... yay. the one thing [...]