On Friday night, I sewed while Meri crammed her memory work with Robb. Got most of the dress done except for a couple things.
On Saturday morning, Leon and I went to go see his other Grandma. She hadn't seen Leon since his birthday. We had a really nice time and he loves their back yard!
That afternoon, I sewed more. Got almost all done except for the
handwork on the hook and eyes. Helped get supper on the table, then
back at it.
Sunday came. The BIG day! The day Meri and another
confirmant say a ton of Bible verses and sections of the Apostles Creed
along with their meanings as well as answer a lot of questions in FRONT
of the congregation from memory. She did a wonderful job of it! My confirmation,
when I was 14, had a lot more awkward pauses and kicks to my sister, who
was being confirmed with me.
Meri looked beautiful and we had a lot of photos taken afterwards. The
ice cream cake still sits in the freezer at church because it was too
soft to transport home. Who wants a lot of drippy ice cream on their
car upholstery?? Well, if I'd had a spoon with me, I'd be just fine.
Oh well. We'll pick it up tomorrow.
Sunday afternoon, my SIL and her family came back to the house with us
to load up a tv cabinet that my MIL had found for her. We sat in the
sun and visited a lot. She's great! After they left I realized I
hadn't gotten the ASG sewing group newsletter done yet and it was due to
the committee for proofing, like the day before... oops! I locked
myself in my office and got a rough draft of it done, then sent it off to
them.
That evening, Maddy wanted us to watch The Music Man with her. I'd
never seen it, even though it's based on an Iowa city not far from
here. Her college is doing that musical this next year and since she's
one of only a few Iowa kids in the entire school, she wants to be a part
of it! She should be a shoe-in! Just say something Iowish. Pronounce
boat correctly or something!
There are so many songs that I already knew in the movie.
I had no idea that's where they came from!
It's iconic!
Leon watched it with us and thoroughly enjoyed it! We only got through
about half of the movie before exhaustion hit us all. Leon asked to see
the Buick Man several times the next day and got his wish.
Monday,
Memorial Day! The day to remember all who have fought for our freedom
to speak freely, worship as we please and blog. We celebrated by getting
the house & food ready for a lunch with friends, then went out to
the local cemetary for the service. Meri's Middle school band played.
I
fiddled with the zoom on my new camera and caught, what it looked like,
her napping.
She says no, she wasn't. The sun was shining right in their faces.
Leon didn't want his toes in the grass...
Then my bestie and her hubs came over for a lunch that consisted of mainly leftovers from the confirmation lunch the day before. It was STILL GOOD! Robb jazzed a couple things up with bacon.
Bacon improves EVERYTHING, yes?
After they left and the food was put away, I napped with Leon and Maddy. ahhh... Then made the changes to the newsletter that the ladies sent me back.
I think we need a sequel to Memorial day. Just to nap more.
2 comments:
She looks pretty in her dress. Leon not wanting his toes in the grass made me giggle.
Nice work. My sister and I were dropped off for confirmation every week when we were in the 8th grade. Mom would give us each a quarter to go to the cafeteria after and wait for her while she took a college class. Sis and I filled in our registration cards with bogus names and never went to our lessons. For 12 weeks this went on and mom never suspected. Then she made us these beautiful white dresses, new shoes, prayer books white gloves. How could we tell her? The day arrives we had our hair done family is at the church. sis and I stepped into line with the others but our names were never called. Mom tip toed up to the Reverend to explain to him that he had made a mistake. He went back into the office and pulled up our bogus registration cards. We still laugh about it, Mom does not.......
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