Thanksgiving Family Feast

Evey year our church does a big Thanksgiving Dinner/potluck the Sunday before Thanksgiving. The church supplies the turkey, stuffing and gravy and everyone else brings the side dishes. For the last few years we have had an outside group come and do a some sort of performace. This year we had Taproot Theater's Improv group come and do a performance. They did a great job.

It was very entertaining, which of course is the point. :)

Gabby helped out with keeping things supplied on the food tables. And she enjoyed catching up with firends.

We are all looking forward to next year's feast.

Enjoy the pictures.

Operation Christmas Child

Today Gabby and I went shopping to fill a box for Operation Christmas Child. There is a lady at our church who has been involved for a number of years with this organization and has hosted a drop off sight at our church for the last 4 years.

For those of you who don't know what Operation Christmas Child is...it's run by Samaritan's Purse and they have people fill shoe boxes with items for children in countries around the world who have never gotten any types of gifts. They then take the gifts and deliver them so that each child in the village/area receives a box. They also insert a gospel tract in each box in the child's own language. I'll include a link to go to if you would like to learn more. http://www.samaritanspurse.org/OCC.asp

It has been a lot of fun to fill the boxes and to pray for the child/children who will receive the box. Some of the stories of things that have occurred as a result are pretty amazing.

So Gabby and I went to the dollar store so that we could fill our boxes quite full. This years box had: 2 brushes, a comb, a mirror, candy, crayons, pencils, writing tablet, bar of soap, tooth brushes, tooth paste, stuffed animal, stickers and a hat. I'm not sure what all Gabby put in hers but it was similar in content and amount of things that she stuffed in.

Tomorrow Gabby will help with the collection details as boxes are dropped off. She defintely has a servants heart which is great to see!

That's all for today. Hopefully tomorrow I can include a picture or two of the boxes that have been dropped off at the church so far.

Catch-up

Today has been a day of catch-up for all of the things that I put off or don't get to because I'm doing other things. Like...work, helping Gabby with School, grading her school work, running her to her activities, going to my exercise class, getting ready for Bible study, and spending time with friends and family. Whew!

So today consisted of: 9 loads of laundry (no I didn't put it off for several weeks. I actually did laundry last week too. It just happened that with two dog situations that created 2 loads of laundry and then a pile of hand washables that needed to be done that's how much there was this week); Working on consolidating Gabby's school work from last year to send off for her to receive credit (Yes this I did procrastinate on!); Cooked some chicken for a casserole for tomorrows dinner; then of course there were the interruptions of needs from Gabby and the dogs during the day; a prayer chain request came and I passed it along; I was able to talk with my friend Kim and then with my mom and last but not least Scott and I went and got a mocha and went and bought a new mattress cover.

I guess that is enough tasks for one day. Maybe the whole weekend :)

I much prefer the opportunities to interact with other people. Since my last post I've had the opportunity to meet with a couple of dear friends and catch up a bit with the things happening in their lives. Those are the best but it does feel good to get some of the items off of my to-do list.

Computers save us time??

Ok so I get the new computer and of course I do realize that I will need to set things up but some how it always takes much longer to do that than I think it will.

It just doesn't seem right I mean after all Computers are supposed to save us time. Right??

I went to install the office software and after 3 attempts where the computer gives me differing errors I give up and of course Scott comes in and saves the day with a work around.

Computers are supposed to save us time. Right??

So I go to set up my checking info on this and I accidentally install an old version so then I can't access the information that I had on the old computer which was in a newer version but I didn't realize that....so after a couple of hours of Scott & I being frustrated we realize that is why it isn't working and we have to uninstall the old program and start over by reinstalling the newer version.

Computers are supposed to save us time. Right?

So the other night I went to put the post about my new great nephew on and it wouldn't upload the pictures so I had to come back the next day and start all over again.

Computers are supposed to save us time. Right?

Ok so I guess you are probably getting the drift by now...I don't think this is saving me time it's eating up my time...but I'm still enjoying the fact that I can use it at any time I want and of course the fact that it is PINK :)

I'll post again when I find some more time. :)