Prayers of Thankfulness!

 

Going back to last night, my Monday Recycled Teenager's family came round, and we got through all the funeral arrangements with ease.

I bought these cookies in Tesco yesterday, for a change,  to go with the coffee when everyone arrived. I was looking forward to the latte ones, but they were rather disappointing, the caramel flavour was rather artificial tasting and the coffee taste not nearly strong enough.

The ginger ones were better but I probably wont buy either again, whereas the M&S orange and cranberry ones I could devour in one sitting!

 

The family are only expecting around 50 for refreshments afterwards, so that's quite manageable.

In talking to Grandma this morning about it, she dropped into the conversation one of her friends at church  had offered to make a fruit loaf for the last funeral but Grandma had refused it on my behalf!!

What????

I would have welcomed it with open arms and now feel I need to phone and apologise in case she thought the refusal was from me!

 

 

I drove over to Hobbycraft this morning, with Grandma, to buy some gifts for our Friday Club kids.

Initial letters are all the rage I noticed a while back, coming in all sizes and styles.

I thought the girls would like to decorate one, so armed with a list of all their names, I bought around 20 letters, some glitter glue, glitter, and will make up little kits with the stash of sequins, beads etc I have had at home/church for years.

 

 

With my trolley loaded with goodies I went to the checkout and half way through starting looking for the money to pay for it.

The money was from church and I had put £100 in an envelope and then written on the front all initial letters I needed.

I emptied the bag several times, but nope, the envelope wasn't there!

I asked the assistant if I had left it in the trolley she was taking items out of, but nope, it wasn't there!

I explained to her the envelope had a wad of money in it and she asked where I had been...she then kindly abandoned the till and came looking with me.

She asked where I had been... well I had been everywhere!!

Including upstairs!

However, on her way to the letters section, she passed the glitter glue aisle and there on the end was my envelope!

I must have put it down as I looked at the packs of glue, looking to see what was inside!

Phew!

She got the biggest hug of the day I reckon!

So, suitably ashamed of myself I then went back to the till to settle the bill and offered a silent prayer of thanks!

I have a little prayer that I, all to often pray...

"Thank you Lord for looking after me, when I wasn't looking after myself!"
The number of times I panic because I cant find my house/car keys, purse or phone and I offer up that prayer

 is becoming slightly embarrassing!

 

With that panic over, I suggested to Grandma we have a coffee in the nearby M&S,

I also indulged in a spiced bun ( well FQ2FF does rave about them!) and mmmm it was delicious, and dare I admit I had some butter on it as well!!

 

 

 

Back home, with some chores out of the way, I cracked on with some knitting needle making.

On online friend has ordered ten pairs for a kit she is putting together.

Rather frustratingly the "wood"kept splitting and when I was sanding them down, the wood split even more...totally useless for anything much less knitting!

So I went to Homebase this time and saw they had pine dowels as well as MDF...which made me realise I had bought MDF (the only dowel on off at B&Q) previously.

So that has made a little dent into my profits sadly, but hey ho, you live and learn!