Day 192: No walls?

Today we finally took delivery of Exile #3 and Exile #4's main birthday present from us and my parents. We had put it off until we moved house. Originally we were thinking about a trampoline, but in the end we found a place where we could buy these small-scale bouncy castles instead. Exile #3's first words on approaching it were "Wow, that's coo-ul!" It sounded like a good thing. They both had a lot of fun on it this morning.

At lunchtime we went for a play-date at the home of some other school parents. They also invited another British friend - an 11-year ex-pat with an American husband and a six-month old baby. We had a great time - adults, children and babies alike.

Our final appointment of the day was hosting the first core-team meeting for our new church. It was a good meeting. "Church with no walls" sums up some of my feelings about it at the moment. Clearly the church has no physical walls at the moment, but also we are trying to be church for people who don't fit in at church and we are at the beginning of the process of finding out together what that will look like, which feels a bit like jumping with no walls too.

There are walls around the bouncy castle by the way - they're just made of netting.