Friday afternoon

The weather is beautiful.  Sunshine all day.  We'll take it because rain they say is on the way.  Cpap machine is working beautifully.  I love it because I'm sleeping soooo well.  Not a problem at all.  Mandy Thurs. service last night.  Tonight Good Friday...tomorrow decorating and then Easter.  Seems that happens every year.  Today I went to church early and got yesterday and last night things put away and started on some Easter stuff and then covered things with black cloths, ready for a faster tomorrow.  At least that's the hope.  92 year old friend Doris is suffering from Shingles.  Poor thing.  She is miserable.  Early Supper tonight and to church by 6:15.  We're singing the last 7 words again.  That seems to happen every year as well. 

Wed.

Snow storm...Huge, Huge.  But...I got to the Doc and he got there as well.  Very good meeting and learned a whole lot of things about the sleep test.  Stopped breathing 25 times in 1 hr.  Uck...not good among a few other things.  CO2 really increases when that happens.  Then on to the resp/sleep technician who got me set up after a two hr. explanation on what the machine will do and how to use it.  Woo, woo.  Got it plugged in and ready for time to sleep.  The first night...Around 12 am...woke up and torn the darn thing off before I thought...NOT THE THING TO DO!  Slept till 5 the next morning.  Could have slept longer but I've been waking up so early for so long that I thought ...time to get up.  Last night...bed by 9:30...Early...slept till 6:45...Woo...that's a very long time but sometime during the night I unhooked the hose...Can't remember doing that for sure.  Figured that out around 2am when I discovered the machine wasn't working!   I must say that it is much easier to breath at night.  Sleep more restful I can tell already.  So happy to have some good sleep already. 

Yesterday I went to church and stripped everything down to boring...for sure.  Ready for Holy Week.
Hope all goes well for Easter decorating on Sat.   It's crunch time. 

Made two baby quilts yesterday for my two Detroit Mi. sisters both expecting babies at almost the same time.  And finished a stole for Darren C Wood.  One more to go for Brian W. but won't be finished I'm certain for this Lent.  There's another one coming next year for sure.  That's about it.  Should be in the 50's by the end of the week.  Yahoo. 

Starting Sat.

The reception for Jo and Kent was a grand success.  Kent plays with a trombone group and I never heard so many trombones play together providing entertainment at their reception.  Great music.  Doug and I arrived at 2 to get food ready for the reception.  Lots of food came in from the choir members. About 100 people were there.  Jo and Kent will be moving to Atlanta on the 3rd of April.  I  used up all the energy buttons for sure.  Home around 6:30.  Woo...then off to Paneras to get pastries for Sunday. 

Doug woke up Sun. morning and said he was tired.  Well, add me but I told him...can't give in till after church.  The everready bunny needed to keep on going and we did.  Lots of hype on the March Snowstorm coming our way and IT started around 5 in the evening.  We've been slammed again.  I think it's around 5 inches but the roads seem to be passible if there are not crazy people driving. 

The PROBLEM...Doug and I both have rescheduled Doc appointments this morning...His at 8.   Doc. Goens called at 6:30 and said he would not be in the office.  So...it's another reschedule for Doug.  Mine is with the Sleep Doc at 8:30.  and I hope that he doesn't call because I want to see him.  Now can I get there?  Hope so.   And I hope he is there as well.  Crazy weather for sure.  Pretty but crazy. 

This week...lots to do ofcourse at church.  Holy Week.  Snow...bah humbug. 

Finished up the 1% Palm Sun. stuffwhich was a bit more than 1%  Funny how that happens.  But...it's finished.  Then Monday it's tear down day.  No bells this week.  Yahoo.  Soup kitchen went well.  Next week I'm the cook and more since Diane is going to Ohio for a long weekend visiting her mother.  Choir practice was busy with lots of music.  Today I'm getting the Palms ready for Sunday and we're having a going away reception for Jo and Kent who are moving to Atlanta on Sat afternoon.  Such good long time faithful  members who both sing so well even though they are near 80 years.  So...if I set that up today tomorrow will be EASY.  I have time today.  Sometimes I think how easy life was when I was teaching.  Well, maybe that was the case.  Something go to the forgotten file.   

I survived.

The sewing machine is back home.  Happy Days are here again.  Grandchildren's
 pants are patched, church flags have been altered, and two communion cloths have been added to the stack of finished stuff.  More to do.  Funny Noah last week was standing in his usual spot by the sewing machine that wasn't and told me to sew.  I said...what's missing...He figured it out.  So...he will be here late morning and we will sew. 

Yesterday Lent got put back in the visual box at church.  And...Palm Sunday is 99% ready to go.  Was surprised at how much I got finished.  It started with a trip to the wholesale green house and I bought 3 palm pots for 35 dollars.  Bargain, bargain.  West entrance has new stuff in it as well as the sanctuary.  I need to hang 4 flags and that pretty much does it.  Woo...Next week more changes and then it's Easter.  All is ready to go.  Busy time of the church year. 

Doug managed to share his chest cold with me starting Sun. morning.  Coughing is getting a bit easier but it's been a bummer.  I'm following his body improvement plan about two days later then he so there is hope. 

Cold but the sun is shinning at this minute.  March is always a mess.

Friday evening

Thursday was a good bread and bowl day.  Adults worked like crazy and everything came together at the right time.  I helped Ellen Daniels Howell set up a wonderful display of pictures for Umoja in the west entrance at church.  The Easter missions offering will help  fund the Umoja project in western Kenya  as well as a program in the Congo.  Sounds like African Missions Sunday coming up.  Then Doug and I went around the church once again taking pictures of more visual arts stuff.  Home for a bit and then back for choir.  This morning I went to Muffins with Moms and I guess...Grandmothers at Andrew's school.  Then home to  repacked a trunk that is going to Eldoret on Monday.  And then to church to meet a lady from Columbus Ohio who wanted to look at our visual arts items. After she left I got the flag banners ready for Palm Sunday and decorated the processional crosses we will use at Easter and I hope during Eastertide.  Later this afternoon we delivered the trunk to it's carrier.  Home for supper and an evening of basketball on my chair with my feet up and a cup of Tea !  Tomorrow...nothing much planned.  Still missing my sewing machine.  Things are stacking up.  Time to sew.  If it's warm enough I'll probably work outside.  Time to rake. 

Wonderful day

Today was show time with Doris and it was a very special day.  Anna B played old, old hymns.  Doris talked for an hr. none stop about the 8 banners that were hung.  And a bunch of North folks ate a very, very long lunch with Doris.  Talk, talk, talk.  It was a great morning.  Doug and I packed up all the banners and poles and standards and headed back to church with them.  All is back where they belong.  I worked a bit on the Palm Sun. processional.  Darren answered some questions and I started to really, really think what Palm Sun. is going to look like.  I really want to take down Lent.  It's over after the 17th so next week I'll be in the thick of things again.  It's an exciting time of the church year.  Now I'm vegging out watching the news and remembering good times today.  It's been a very good day. 

Monday evening

Do you remember how it felt after a 24hr. flight with no sleep.  How about staying up all night with no sleep in 24 hrs.  That's been the feeling today.  Just thick headed and sleepy, sleepy.  Just two more weeks till I see the doc and then at some point a cpap machine and GOOD sleep.  Might try some sleeping pills in the meantime.  Well, today we moved banner poles to the Forum again and I have 8 banners in the car to deliver in the morning.  It's show time. 
Went to the eye doc this afternoon for the yearly check up.  All is well with a secondary cataract growing but it's very slow.  Doc thought it could be taken care of next year.  Happens sometime.  That's the least of my worries at this point. 

Watched a terrific IU game but made me so nervous that I missed the last minutes when the win happened.  But there will be more games.  Noah was here this morning.  Lots of fun. 

Friday afternoon

Not to much happening.  I did visit North Church member Emily Robbins who is in the hospital today.  Taught her how to knit and pearl.    She is a Ball State Jr. having some issues with a spinal fluided leak.  Poor kid.  Big headaches which Morphine helps. She has been flat on her back for weeks.   Friend Marilyn S. starts cemo today.  Friend Kathy continues with radiation.  Cancer STINKS!  Yesterday was B and Bowl which was pretty easy for a change.  Last night choir practice.  Hope to eat at S and S tonight.  To tired to cook.  Getting parts together for the next Tues banner presentation that Doris will do at the Forum.  I hope this is the last one for a while.  Monday we will move the banner poles and stands to the Forum.  Tuesday morning we will be out of the gate with stuff around 9 am. 

Rescheduled

Well, the sleep doc has been rescheduled...first date they gave me when rescheduling was April 24th.  Uck...So I got on the cancellation list...and now it's March 25th.  Wish it were sooner but I'll live with it...I hope.  I'm beginning to drag! 

Bell Sat. was a hoot.  We worked our bells almost to death.  I was ready to leave at 4:30 and came straight home.  Rest of the bunch went out for supper.  Not me.  I needed to get my feet up! 
Yesterday I spent three hrs. with D. Douglas planning the next banner program she is giving at the Forum.  Had lunch with her.  Great, great food.  Took my sewing machine in to get it's yearly check up and then stopped at the quilt shop to get my Grandmother's Flower Garden quilt.  It looks great.  Woo...Now it's binding time but I can put that off for about two weeks until the sewing machine comes back.  Lucky me for sure. 

It's a gray day with the promise of a snow storm sometime soon.  Can't remember if it's tonight or tomorrow night.  Am I worried...NO.  They talk about 5 inches.  But the rest of the week should be warm so it's shouldn't say for long. 

Noah was here again this morning.  Such an entertainer!  Love having him.  He noticed that Grandpa was no longer in the kitchen reading the paper but in the computer room so he thought that I could get him a pop tart.  Funny boy.  I did and he loved it. 

Saturday Morning

I'll be on the road soon to have a fun day at Central Christian Church in Anderson, In.  Our bell choir is spending a day with another bell choir playing bells ALL day long with a program around 4 pm.  We'll be working but will be fun.  It's a gray day of travel but no snow. 

Today is Eli's third birthday.  Books are on the way but this grandma is just not very good about dates even when the calendar is right in front of me.  So...books will come early next week I hope.  

Lack of sleep continues to be noticable.  I made an appointment with the sleep doc but double booked so I will need to change that date.  Such a bummer when that happens.  Yesterday I spent much of the day at church working on the catalogue for banners.  Did a lot of typing and the book continues to grow and be more complete as time goes along.  The light is at the end of the tunnel but the tunnel is very long.  At some point it will be finished.  Patty numbered the banners yesterday and now I need to add numbers to the book.  At some point Doris will look at the book and decide if she wants to add more descriptions to banners not well documented.  Don't want to overwhelm her.  She is busy with preparations for her second...last lecture.  Could there be a third...last lecture.  Maybe. 

Got a call that Grandmothers Flower Garden quilt has been quilted.  Woo...will pick that up next week and then it's adding the binding.  The sewing machine goes to it's annual checkup on Monday.  So...no motor going for about a week.