April 2, 2007

• A Beautiful Beginning

  Today has been a rather disjointed day for me, but nothing could interrupt the beauty of the day.  It's around 84° outside with lots of sun.  All the rains made the ground smell glorious, as well as the new greens coming up out of the earth.  A little windy, but not enough to ruin a perfect day.

  My plan was to pull together some meals for a friend of ours who is moving to our neighborhood this week from a house he's lived in 25+ years.  I took Luci to daycare and decided to go to Wal-Mart to pick up the few things I needed and then return to cook everything.  Somehow, Jesse had told me Steve was moving April 2 but the actually move date is April 3rd.  Jesse called while I was in Wal-Mart and straightened me out on the dates.

  Steve's son, new bride and her father are helping with the move, but I figured they would enjoy some home cooked food instead of McDonald's.  I'm making meatballs w/brown gravy over beef flavored rice, chicken breasts with cream gravy over chicken flavored rice, and spaghetti with meat sauce.  I have carrots I will glaze, green beans, and some yellow corn.  I bought a package of Hawaiian bread rolls, bananas, grapes, & a variety sack of apples/oranges, two boxes of bakery cookies, and all the necessary paper goods . . . plates, paper towels, plastic cups and utensils.  I even got a 4-roll package of toilet paper - a necessary house warming gift!!!  Hopefully, that should make them feel nourished and welcome in the neighborhood.

  With a day like today, who wanted to rush home and clean carpets and cook meals???  I can do all of the cooking tomorrow morning and we will have a small amount left for our family, as well.  The carpet cleaning will wait, too.  The 3 girls tracked in muddy footprints from the yard yesterday.

  After Wal-Mart (and finding out Steve's move is tomorrow, not today), we went to a home decorating warehouse to buy greenery and flowers for a new dining room table centerpiece I'm making.  I chose creams, whites, pale green, and pale pinks (almost peachy) flowers to go in a dark ivy.  What do you call those flowers that aren't budding yet, but still greenish?  I always call them flowers that aren't ripe yet!  Anyway, I'm not usually a pastel person, so this is quite a departure for me.

  Jesse called again while we were in the parking lot and asked me to pick up the mail at our post office box.  Driving up the street to the post office, we saw our pastor in the church parking lot and stopped in for a visit with him.  I sure do like him!

  We were starving when we left the church, but went dutifully to the post office first.  Rissy, or was it Annamarie???, suggested eating at Chili's for lunch.  A huge burger sounded good and that's where we ended up, and finished our burgers with a sinfully rich dessert that we shared!  We love their "Chocolate Chip Paradise Pie" - it's to die for!

  We're home now, groceries unloaded onto the kitchen floor, and I'm ready to straighten things up, have a cup of coffee, and watch Jeopardy!

  We did nothing today but gad about spending money.  Now I'm exhausted!  I definitely don't cotton to the leisurely life!!!!

   

   

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