madi’s place

We’re in the fortunate position in that in our small town we’re hosting two of the World Cup Soccer teams namely Denmark and France. These teams couldn’t be anymore different. The French team are very security conscious and have a permanent police presence to their hotel. The Danish don’t. We’re in the lucky position in [...]

Hi all my friends.  I’m back.  I feel very bad about not updating my blog over the last few months.  Life has just been a little busy in my life.  We’ve been busy building a new house that has taken up quite a bit of time.  While building we’ve been renting and had to move [...]

One advertisement that I can remember as a child was the Nestle Nesquik ad. “Have a Nesquik and blame it on the bunny”.
How true is this not in our daily lives. Everything we do we blame on something or someone else. Shifting the blame, is the easiest thing in the world. I was involved in [...]

Have you ever had a close look at the word “relationship”. It exists out of two sub-words namely – “relation” (which according to the dictonary means the way in which two or more people are connected) and “ship” (which is a big floating vessel).
When we are in a relationship there was something that connected us [...]

We can learn a lot from our children, especially about faith and using our imaginations. My mother always told me as a child, that if I can imagine it I can do it. The funny thing is, as a child I always imagined that I was a teacher. I used to line my dolls up [...]