Our weekend

Here is just a quick re-cap of what we did last weekend. (Just as much for my memory as for your interest)

Saturday morning we had to go to church. We are trying to make a Christmas CD to sell to raise money for Dei Gratia. Daddy got elected to do all the taping. We are taping groups, solos, instruments, etc. of people in our church. We are hoping that our church family will be interested enough to buy them. Anyways. We only had a piano solo to tape Saturday morning and they were done in 30 minutes. Very nice.

We then went home and got a lot done around the house. Daddy mowed grass and weed eated. We all helped to stain another section of fence (only 11 sections left!), pulled weeds in the front, swept, baths, PlayStation, and then I cleaned up all the grass that got tracked in all day. Later that night, we went to some friends house and she asked what we had done that day. By the time we stopped listing everything, she said "wow you did get a lot done."

Saturday night there was a night NASCAR race. We went to some friends house for the guys to watch the race and the girls to sit and talk. The kids always enjoy going cuz they get to play outside on their big driveway. We took their bikes and they had a great time. She always fixes dinner and monitors the kids for us. It's always a lot of fun. But it was another late night.

The Bride to Be

The other day I was sorting through some tulle' that I've had since my wedding. We use tulle' for Dei Gratia and I wanted to see what I had--if we could use it. (We can)

In the midst of it all.......

........K wanted me to make her a dress. She wanted me to make her look like "that person, ya know with the white on her head, and a white dress." Oh you mean a Bride? "Yeah, her." So here is my creation. I made her shoes too. And I found my veil (just tulle' surged around the edges).

So here is the beautiful bride 30 YEARS TOO EARLY!

Dei Gratia

The Dei Gratia team that I am the leader of, met this morning. For those of you that aren't familiar with Dei Gratia, let me explain. My pastor's twin brother's wife (did you get that?) had breast cancer a few years back. After all her chemo, she started a ministry to encourage other women that are going through cancer treatments. Dei Gratia means "by the grace of God." There are severeal teams at our church that participate in this ministry. One team makes beautiful bracelets that are wrapped up to be given to these women. One team makes soft fleece hats and one team makes beautiful canvas bags for all of the items to go in. My team is in charge of assembling all these items and placing them in the bags to then be distributed (another team) to local chemo and radiation centers. Each bag has a hat, a bracelet, a pink Bible, a tract written by the founder, candy, and donated notions (stationery, bath beads, finger nail polish, lotions, etc). I love my team! The actual people that show up may be different each time, but all are hard workers. We have a lot to do each time but have a great time doing it. For more info, check out www.deigratia.us

After Dei Gratia, we ran errands and met Daddy for lunch. We haven't done that in a long time. Errands took awhile. We left this morning before 9 and didn't get back until almost 3. But the kiddies were good and I got everything done that I needed to. C watched some of his school while we were driving around and did more once we got home. Due to Dei Gratia, he is only doing 1/2 day today. Oh the joys of homeschooling!