Nov. 28.

Wonderful day of work at church yesterday.  All is ready for the hanging on Thurs.  Sounds bad but it's really good.  My friends will be on the ladders!  Yahoo.  I know better although I still think I could climb.  Andrew, Noah and Kat came yesterday to church to work with me for a few hours.  What fun and such good help.  Nativities are everywhere on the window ledges in the chapel.  It's always a lot of fun getting that all together.  Angels are in the east hall and of course in the sanctuary.  So one good day of work getting ready will make Thurs. a breeze.  Today the Mamlins head back to Kenya.  I've unloaded the back seats in the van.  We need lots of room for trunks.  I think there will be either 8 or 9 at this point.  So happy we can do this for them.  And it's one last visit with SEM on the way to the airport...Doug rides with Joe in the SUV they rent for the month.  Thursday the crew is coming at 10 that will allow me to prepare food for the soup kitchen until I move to the decorating work.  Choir Thurs. eve. Fri. morning another visit to the dentist...then kids...then get ready for the Forum sale. Next week NO pressure! 

November 26th.

Home again after a long car trip starting at 4:30 am at the Georgia monastery east of Atlanta and ending at home  at 2:30 pm!  One stop for gas.  I got in the car and stayed there the whole trip.  Woo...Atlanta was a breeze at that hour...Nashville was not so much...but at all times the traffic kept moving.  Unloaded the car and at 5 pm...all back where things should be.  Not movin' very fast at this point.  Just soaking in all the going on that happen during the long weekend.  Now the busy keeps on being busy starting tomorrow.  Off to church to begin the Advent decorating projects.  It's all in the preparation since the big guns are coming on Thurs. to finish the work.  Lots of stuff to pull out and hang and it all should be quite stunning.. We'll be taking the Mamlin's to the airport for their trip back to Kenya on Wed.  This time should be one of the last times.  They are moving back to Indy in March.  But have promised to return to Kenya for a long visit in 2020.  Trunks are packed.  Thurs. will be soup kitchen...Friday...the kids come and then at 4 it's off to the Forum to get ready for a Christmas sale day Fri. evening and all day Sat.  My teeth continue to look their best although there still is a bit of soreness in my mouth from time to time.  Black and blue chin continues.  Grr. I'm determined to not repeat the events of the past week.  Once in a lifetime is one to many. 

Monday evening.

My goodness...Lots of stuff is happening.  The Umoja dinner was wonderful.  200 people...20 huge tables...great food and lots of money raised for the children of western Kenya.  The place looked stunning with great table decorations.  Woo...lots of work for a great cause.  I've slowly been collecting stuff for our Georgia trip.  Tomorrow morning is the exit hour from Carmel.  So...car needs to get packed.  Clothes are in the suit case.  And we hope to be on the road by 10.  Today was a very eventful day.  Way to eventful.  First thing...couldn't find my phone.  Eric called it and found it in the closet in a pr. of pants.  Then I  lost the coffee cup in the dark bedroom.  That happens often and then while getting the suitcase from the garage...I did a horrible face plant on the cement.  Twisted an ankle.  Woo...that was horrible.  And resulted in two chipped front teeth.  But...I now call my dentist Jesus the miracle worker.  He fixed both of them and one would never know they had been chipped.  I am blessed.  I was a basket case.  But...also another thing about the face plant...I have a lip that is still leaking after 8 hrs.  What a heck of a day!  Just was a little shaken by all of that.   It's been a three fall time this month.  Must be getting a little off center.  Then there was an afternoon visit with my regular doc.  That had been scheduled for 9 months and I got a tetanus shot that was recommended by my dentist.  I had Doug drive me everywhere!!!   So the rest of the day has been pretty tame.  Thank goodness.  Being slow is not a bad thing.  So tomorrow morning we'll pack the car and be on a two day trip to Conyers, Georgia to be with family arriving back in Indy next Monday.  Book reading and knitting will keep me busy in the car.  Maybe a nap will be worked in as well. 

Tuesday...

It's been a while.  And I've been here all the time.  We're continuing to get ready for winter.  Leaves need to be raked or mulched.  Noah and I had a blast with leaves last Fri.  Woo...it was a dirty blast but we did have lots of fun.  More leaves need to get to the garden.  We were to have snow over night but that didn't happen.  It's just a bit cooler.  I'm doing lots of sewing and getting ready for another sale in Dec.  And Advent is just around the corner.  I have the church youth group help with getting a bunch of stuff from the attic storage to the first floor storage area that we will use in decorating the sanctuary,  chapel and west entrance the last week of Nov.  And I also decided on the menu and grocery shopping lists for Georgia Thanksgiving weekend.  Woo...those are two big jobs that I don't need to do a ton of thinking about for at least a while.  Tomorrow is a dentist visit as well as lunch with my teacher friends.  Thursday Soup Kitchen and hair cut and choir and Friday...the kidos.  Sat. another trip to church getting ready for the Umoja Thanksgiving dinner on Sunday.  I'm doing the table decorating for that event.  And then Mon.  check up with the doctor and then getting everything together for the trip to Georgia on Wed.  Woo...Sometimes I feel like I'm coming and going at the same time.  I guess it's a good thing to keep my brain working.  I'm back at the Y again.  I have had some hip pain issues but I think they are on the mend.  That's a very good thing.  So...NOW...I need to keep my eyes on the calendar and try to stay on track. 

Fall

I think it's gone before it ever started.  I'm thinking fall.  Woo...lots of rain, cold breezes and the birds might be eating us out of the house.  They need all the energy they can get.  Bread and Bowl today.  The crowd was small.  So, lots of left over food to throw away.  Rain and the first of the month just doesn't bring folks to eat.  Stopped in to see friend Cythia Dickerson after B and B today.  Had lunch this week with my teacher friends.  Tonight is choir.  Treated just a few Holloween friends.  It was a slim to nothing group of gremlins.  Our neighborhood is aging and a lot of families do Trunk or Treat.  That's about it for now.