This Weekend

We often look at each other and wonder aloud if we'll get a weekend off anytime soon. This weekend was not one. We did take Friday night to veg and do nothing, though. Saturday, however, was packed. We got up early (you have to realize that 8:00 a.m. is early for people who don't have kids on a Saturday morning) to go get our Angel Food box. Angel Food is a really neat program we do where we pay $30 every month and get a box FULL of meat and vegetables. I couldn't get all the meat (or the variety) at a grocery store for any less. It help us supplement our grocery bills and it's not bad. If you want to check it out, go to www.angelfoodministries.org.
We brought our box of food home and unpacked it, ate breakfast and got ready to go again. This time, we headed to the church building to move furniture. As preachers' kids we are both so used to moving furniture at the church building that when help is asked for, it's ingrained in us to go. I'm thinking that probably makes our parents happy. So, we helped set up and straighten the lines of folding chairs under the huge tent in the church parking lot, decorate the lunch tables in the auditorium (I think it's hilarious that we ate inside and worshipped outside), and did other various odd jobs to get ready for today. More about today later.
The afternoon was spent quietly. I watched a movie on TV while Jeremy slept off a sinus headache he's had all week. Then, we loaded up again to head back to the church building for Trunk'n'Treat. I adore Halloween and everything that goes with it. Even though we don't have a child to take to get candy, I love being there to help out with this fun event. The costumes are always wonderful. One family of friends dressed up with just a letter across their chest. His was an E and hers and the son's were P's. He was email, she was chickpea, the boy was sweetpea. I love it. I saw Charlie Brown, several Hannah Montanas and East High cheerleaders (which amuses me as the stars of the movies aren't even cheerleaders), the inevitable Disney princesses and dinosaurs and pumpkins . . . Love it. I got to stand behind the cookies with another lady to try and keep the kids from touching every one as they made up their minds which one they wanted. Whew. We got home about 8:30.
We were back at the church building at 8:30 this morning. Normally, that would be late for us, as we tend to go to the early service starting at 8, but today was Friends' Day. It started with Bible Class at 9:30. This is the reason for the tent. Jeremy was helping park cars so were there extra early. They were hoping for 1200 people (our congregation is somewhere over 700 normally). I don't think they made it as we had set up about 1100 chairs and still had empty. Oh well. We did have a fairly good crowd, maybe 1000. Lunch was catered by Jason's Deli as one of our members is an owner of a local one. Then, we had 1:00 singing and a short message and were out by 2. We would normally stay to clean up, but Jeremy was up most the night regretting the three corn dogs he had eaten at Trunk'n'Treat, so we came home to nap. Now, I'm collecting my thoughts and anticipating the rest of the week. We have to make it through to Friday without money and that's going to be interesting. Maybe Jeremy will get a late birthday card with a few dollars to hold us over. At least the weather is fabulous! I love the chilly mornings and nights with the warm days. It almost feels like fall finally. If only it didn't make the kids twice as crazy . . .