Oh my, are we tired! We've had a VERY full & busy weekend. We started getting ready for our church/school auction & dinner Thursday evening. We're on a committee w/ 5 other couples. There are 2 new every year, rotating in & out. This is our first year. Thursday was getting the gym set up for the auction & setting up table in the cafeteria for the dinner. Friday morning, bright & early, got the boys on the bus & Dan took Lydie to the sitters & headed to the school to "do turkeys". We have parish members bake turkeys for our dinner (100 in total) & when they bring them back, cooked, we take the meat off the bone, separate white from dark. Lots of work.... makes me not want to eat turkey so much! Then we put covers on tables, go to gym to take donations, guys are getting stuff set up like sound system, stuff to set donations on, getting pop/beer for the auction, etc etc. Late night. Early again Saturday morning, lots to do. I've been designated to make all the signs, taking lots of donations, labeling, working out how things will work for the auction, who's going to do what. Auction starts at 7pm & goes til 10:30. We stay after cleaning up & talking about how things are going. Late night. Sunday morning, reluctantly drag myself out of bed at 6:15 & decide to soak my aching back & feet in a nice hot tub. Get out & start getting ready, Lydie was the only one at home with us, so she got to sleep in a little. I get coffee going & go to the bathroom to blowdry my hair & suddenly THE POWER GOES OUT! Dan hasn't even started to get ready & I still have to make myself look presentable, so we pack up our stuff & head to my sister's to finish getting ready. Get a call from a girl on the committee that gets our dinner ready asking to use ovens to cook dressing...... yes, the power's out at the school where they're trying to prepare for a massive turkey dinner & our auction. Hurry to get ready to get to school to help.... when we arrive their are local farmers, electricians, etc bringing in their generators & getting them wired up to get ovens running, lights going. This is what is so great about our community... everyone is so giving & come together for what matters most! Find out later that a bird flew into a substation & caused the power outage. Go figure! This is one busy day. Dinner starts serving at 10:30 & our auction starts at 11:30. Starts with grain & goes into the HUGE amount of donations that we have collected from businesses & parish members have brought in. People are having a great time & the weather is great, so it's not too hot in the gym. Amazingly, with the massive amounts of stuff we have to sell, the auction finishes at 10pm. We are wiped out, running around all day, but we still have clean up..... tons of cans & trash. We finish about 12am & have a little meeting with the bank about how things went. Overall, it went great, thinking we're up some from last year, which is amazing, with all the financial distress lately. So thankful for all the good people who are very passionate about our church & Holy Trinity schools..... everyone is so generous. THANK YOU. This morning it was hard to get up & thankfully my mom brought the kids to our house & got the kids to bed in decent time, but they are so tired from a very active weekend with friends & family. ALSO, thanks to my niece PAYTON for watching the kids over the weekend & my sister CAROL for all her help with the kids as well. Thanks MOM for all your help, I think you're probably as exhausted as we are.....love you!
In more important & serious news, Dan's dad, Joe, finally had his heart surgery on Friday morning. Things went well. Dan went to see him Saturday morning & got to talk a little to him. So far, they are trying to get his heart beat under control, which I've been told is a normal thing after this type of surgery. Yesterday, he had a little fluid in his lungs, which they took care of. Hopefully today things will go better.... Dan hopes to go see him after work today. Maybe he'll be out on Intensive Care by then. KEEP PRAYING.
10.10.2008
