Weekend Review...
Gattina wants to know!Gattina always wants to know about our weekends, so here I am ... just to please her! Not that she needs pleasing! SHE is settled on the sandy beaches of the Red Sea... and I am NOT! Oh well...
Saturday was just a day. I piddled around the house until Dennis got home from work, then went to the grocery store and then took a walk. The weather is just so gorgeous! The trees are "getting there"... but we will not have the beauty that we had LAST autumn! Last year the trees were more gorgeous than they had been in a decade! But we do have color and it IS pretty! My yard is about half full of leaves right now...
Sunday was DELIGHTFUL! It started out with church of course! I gave the children's message at the early service - always fun! Then Sunday School - I was teaching this week. We were learning about how God provided for Abraham and Isaac when Abraham was asked to sacrifice HIS only son... you know... that is NOT a pleasant story to teach to 2nd graders! But they GOT it! We talked about how SCARED Isaac must have been! And how thankful when he heard that angels voice! And we talked about Abraham's TRUST in the Lord. So it was good! The best part was a little skit -- a puppet show - that I (as the teacher) was supposed to do with Lily - my puppet. Those little skits always go over very well when I teach them... but this time I decided I didn't FEEL like doing it... so I let the kids do it instead! THAT was a HUGE success! I doubt that I (as the teacher) will EVER have control of that puppet again! My best reader played the teacher... and my worst played Lily. (even though he's a BOY!) It really got HIM engaged in the lesson and it was GREAT!!! I assured the other 5 kids that they would each get their turn and it was great!
After the last service we had the Fall Festival. We don't get trick or treaters in my neighborhood, so I took candy to pass out to all the kids while we were walking. I had 50 bags and they all got given, so we had at LEAST 50 kids -- and their parents. We had a chili cook-off... I have no idea how mine fared - we will not get the results until church NEXT Sunday! I know it all got eaten though!!! Luz and Amanda came to the Fall Festival, and Luz enjoyed the Trunk or Treating, the games, and she got her face painted. She didn't want to eat and so ran to play on the playground while Amanda & I sat down to some chili and hot dogs LATHERED in stewed peppers and onions! OH YUM!!! I'm not much of a hot dog fan - but when you get a GOOD one - oh they can be SUCH a treat!!! The festival was over before we knew it though! Sadly, Luz did NOT get to make her Straw Buddy (we don't call them Scare Crows!) or paint her pumpkin! Ohhhhhhh well! She did get to come home with Nana and together WE made a skeleton! Out of milk containers! (not MY idea... found in a magazine!)
T'was a FUN day!
A gOOd weekend!
I hope yours was too!
Saturday was just a day. I piddled around the house until Dennis got home from work, then went to the grocery store and then took a walk. The weather is just so gorgeous! The trees are "getting there"... but we will not have the beauty that we had LAST autumn! Last year the trees were more gorgeous than they had been in a decade! But we do have color and it IS pretty! My yard is about half full of leaves right now...
Sunday was DELIGHTFUL! It started out with church of course! I gave the children's message at the early service - always fun! Then Sunday School - I was teaching this week. We were learning about how God provided for Abraham and Isaac when Abraham was asked to sacrifice HIS only son... you know... that is NOT a pleasant story to teach to 2nd graders! But they GOT it! We talked about how SCARED Isaac must have been! And how thankful when he heard that angels voice! And we talked about Abraham's TRUST in the Lord. So it was good! The best part was a little skit -- a puppet show - that I (as the teacher) was supposed to do with Lily - my puppet. Those little skits always go over very well when I teach them... but this time I decided I didn't FEEL like doing it... so I let the kids do it instead! THAT was a HUGE success! I doubt that I (as the teacher) will EVER have control of that puppet again! My best reader played the teacher... and my worst played Lily. (even though he's a BOY!) It really got HIM engaged in the lesson and it was GREAT!!! I assured the other 5 kids that they would each get their turn and it was great!
After the last service we had the Fall Festival. We don't get trick or treaters in my neighborhood, so I took candy to pass out to all the kids while we were walking. I had 50 bags and they all got given, so we had at LEAST 50 kids -- and their parents. We had a chili cook-off... I have no idea how mine fared - we will not get the results until church NEXT Sunday! I know it all got eaten though!!! Luz and Amanda came to the Fall Festival, and Luz enjoyed the Trunk or Treating, the games, and she got her face painted. She didn't want to eat and so ran to play on the playground while Amanda & I sat down to some chili and hot dogs LATHERED in stewed peppers and onions! OH YUM!!! I'm not much of a hot dog fan - but when you get a GOOD one - oh they can be SUCH a treat!!! The festival was over before we knew it though! Sadly, Luz did NOT get to make her Straw Buddy (we don't call them Scare Crows!) or paint her pumpkin! Ohhhhhhh well! She did get to come home with Nana and together WE made a skeleton! Out of milk containers! (not MY idea... found in a magazine!)
T'was a FUN day!
A gOOd weekend!
I hope yours was too!
posted by Melli at
10:34 AM
7 comment(s):
I agree about hot dogs -- they are not something I usually want, but a really good one hits the spot sometimes.
Sounds like a great weekend overall! We made a skeleton like that once!
The color has been gorgeous here. I don't know how it compares to last year and I heard some people say it wasn't going to be as good as usual -- but it has been beautiful to me.
By
Anonymous, at
10/25/2010 12:01 PM
I don't know that last year was so much better, but I'm enjoying the fall colors as if they were new every year. I love seeing Luz in her pink scrubs next to that skeleton! Too cute!
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Anonymous, at
10/25/2010 12:17 PM
Wow! what a skeleton and all made from milk containers. That's what I call recycling! Halloween is a bit of a non event here and trick or treating very rare, last year I bought chocolates just in case but then had to eat them all myself-very enjoyable...
By
Linens and Royals, at
10/25/2010 7:23 PM
You are such a good grandma! That skeleton is adorable.
By
Jerralea, at
10/25/2010 8:45 PM
Chili always makes hot dogs taste better - -but only real hot dogs. Nothing can help those rubber chicken/turkey things.
Love that skeleton. He's a cutie!
By
Charlene Amsden, at
10/26/2010 12:38 AM
Every once in a while I just crave hotdogs. Really good hotdogs!
Love Luz in her scrubs! :)
By
Maribeth, at
10/26/2010 6:36 PM
Melli you are a real artist ! what a delightful skeleton, hahaha ! out of milk containers ! One thing is for sure you never run out of ideas and creativity. It's the best skeleton I have ever seen ! He and Luz are a great Halloween couple !!
I had to buy a new Internet card ! they are crazy that it is not free, I never had that here !
By
Ingrid, at
10/27/2010 3:02 AM
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