What a weekend! I was hoping for a lot of time to hole myself up in my (home) office and work on the paper & workshop that I have to present on Friday at our Literature conference at CU. That didn’t really happen. I did get some work done (not much), but I have lots left to do.
Friday evening, before 5:00, we found out that the father of a friend from small group was in a car accident, and they were going out to see him. There was damage to his neck, but they didn’t know how serious. This family also lost their 19 year old daughter/sister in January in a car accident, so this was a particularly hard hit. On top of that, they were supposed to host small group on Sunday night, so that meant we had to do a mad scramble to switch the place
and snack assignments and let everyone know that we’d be meeting at our house.
On Friday night, we also found out that we were going to have to make a trip out to the farm on Saturday, which we were not really planning to make until that moment. And all of this was before I even got home. So instead of working, we went out for supper and wandered the mall on Friday night. I needed to relax and get out of the house.
So Saturday morning, I worked on my stuff for a bit. Eric listened to Weird Al songs on YouTube and then worked outside for a bit. Then we left for the farm about 1:30. Eric dropped me off at a Home & Garden Party that his Grandma was hosting and then went on home. I got a ride home with his mom and other grandma who were also there. We joined the family for supper at the farm before heading back. It was nice to chat and play with Ryan’s new kitten (it’s called an Ocicat – pronounced Aw-si-cat – and it looks like a spotted wild cat; they’re supposed to be the most “dog-like” of cats). We got home about 10.
Sunday was church, then supper, then a bit of relaxing. Then I made a quick grocery trip for snacks for small group and cleaned the house a bit (vacuumed and such). I spent a couple of minutes planning/making reservations for a small vacation we’re going to take next weekend before going back to my work on the conference stuff. At 6:00, I stopped to start getting things ready for small group which we then hosted. Karen & Erik were last to leave and then we went to bed.
Karen and Erik are in your small group? That’s great! I love it when my sister and I get to do things together, but it doesn’t happen often enough.
With all your talk about working on your conference presentations, you are making me feel guilty about the training sessions I have to put on this weekend for all our Sunday School staff…I should really get cracking on the final details of that.
Did you just go to the farm for the Home and Garden party or was there another reason to go there? It sounds lijke you were even busier than I was…and it was Homecoming weekend!!
Did you get anything nice at the Home and Garden Party?
Glad you got some relaxing time in the midst of all the work and driving!!