Last Saturday, all of our family, minus the lively grandchildren, all got to sit at one table and enjoy my nephew's wedding. The Groom looked so handsome. She looked so beautiful!
Got to dance with my beloved - Hey Ya by Outkast and a family wedding favourite Rah Rah Rasputin (I don't even know the real name, never mind the spelling) by Boney M! Such fun!
All of my nieces and their partners, looked so good! So happy, so lively!
They say a picture is worth a 1,000 words and this one of my Sister, the mother of the groom and her son, attests to that. She was so happy, her face was beaming all night long.
Uncles from Ontario with their wives came out to see their nephew married.
My Mother Laura, was the classiest lady there so beautiful in her blue dress. My dad loved her in blue. Each time one of her grandchildren marries, she writes a for them, theirs was titled Heavenly Bliss. When she passed the Head Table, all of the wedding party hi-fived and cheered her, she was and is, our resident rock star!
The gifts were generous and wonderful, and now the happy couple is off on a honeymoon.
Sadly the next morning we received word that an old and dear friend, Bobby Poole in California was recently diagnosed with stage 4 pancreatic cancer. That just breaks my heart. We are sending you our love Bobby and Tricia.
On Sunday morning, we headed to church for our pastor's last Sunday with us. He and his beloved are full of huge and wonderful plans. They are as he said: going off the grid. We will miss them terribly, but can't wait to get to their remote new home in the Springtime.
On Monday and Tuesday, I worked on Worship planning. Trying to find pastors to fill in until we can find a permanent one, organizing the order of service, now that's a lot of work! One week down, how many more to go before we find a new pastor?
On Wednesday, my beloved and I had dinner with our Bishop and then onto church for a joint meeting of Council and the Call Committee.
On Thursday, we went shopping for fun gifts and practical gifts for the goodbye dinner for our Pastor. We had such fun finding the right things, survival items, such as duct tape, thermal blankets, toe warmers and waterproof matches. Also a hand cranking radio. I'm betting they tried it out today if their power was out!
On Thursday night, my beloved packed up the last of the We Care Kits, the boxes were taped and marked and awaiting pickup on Friday morning. Yea, I got my office back!
On Friday, lunch with my handsome brother and sister-in-law and our mother. If my beloved was typing this he would have said with my beautiful sister and brother-in-law. You see my brother married my beloved's sister. That's why I feel like my beautiful nieces are just like my very own daughters! I felt so bad that Cathy and her brood of 5 were all home that day on a proD day. Had I only known, we would have gone over to lend a hand!
On Saturday, made lazy cabbage rolls, went for a walk, completed the plans for the goodbye dinner. Got to church, helped set up the hall with tables, candles and flowers, etc. I am sure that anyone who has ever participated in a church pot-luck will tell you that: one, there is always way too much food; two, it's hard to single out one dish over the other, because all were so delicious, and three; the dessert table rivals and rivaled the dessert table at my nephew's wedding banquet! My beloved did such a great job MC'ing. I was and am so proud of him! Loris and Terry really liked the fun gifts, the tributes, the entertainment and I am sure once they got home, and looked in the envelope, they would be pleased with the cash gift from our congregation. More than that though, I hope they thought they were sent off in style, and that they are well loved and are going to be greatly missed.
On Sunday, off to church for our first worship without our Pastor. As we couldn't find a Supply Pastor, a young man in our congregation led us in worship. This fine young man, should skip pre-law and UBC and head straight to the seminary. The Bishop has his name!
Today, we travelled to Ladner to see our Grandaughter Abby, and her parents. What a great day, it was so good to visit with them. Visits had been non-existent since April went back to work. I miss our weekly visits to Ladner! Sadly at first, our little Copper-Top made shy with us because it's been too long since we played together. Thankfully by the time we left she was literally eating out my hand, playing games and smiling at us and playing coy.
While our power flickered and went out for a very short spurt, my sister and my mother didn't fare as well. My sister, an electrologist had to cancel almost a whole day of appointments, that hurts the pocketbook. While I was on the telephone with my mom just a short while ago, she was lamenting that Dancing with the Stars was coming on and she was going to miss it! Would you believe, two seconds later, on came her lights! Yippee Mom, Yippee Madeleine!
All in all, a very busy week - it's a good thing I'm retired is all I can say!
Wishing each and everyone a good week. Try and put your feet up once in a while, I know I am! Well, I promise I'm going to try.
