On the go...

If I were to list all the things we did this week, you’d be 1. bored silly, and 2. amazed that we had time to sleep!

Thursday thru Saturday, the kids and I spent most of our time up at church, helping with the annual cleaning. With help, we also tore, scraped, scrubbed and soaked the old wallpaper off the women’s bathroom, plastered the cracks and filled in holes before freshening it up with a new coat of paint. The bathroom has gone from parsonage white (Yes, that’s what it’s called, even when it’s at the church) to Dark Rose, Toasted Wheat and Subtle green. We re-covered and spray painted the sitting bench, added new hardware to the stall door, replaced the towel holder and hung new curtains. It’s like a whole new place!

The cleaning continues all day today, with a voter’s meeting in the evening to look at approving (or disapproving) of the new sanctuary plans.

Friday night, after an extremely long week and after having been up since 0300, the preacher took me out to dinner at Chilis in Scottsbluff. It’s been open for months and we’re only just now getting around to eating there. The main dish was good, but the Chips & Salsa were excellent with my Top Shelf Margarita. I could have done without the dinner. I’m still torn on whether or not it was worth missing the Wings game for, but we really needed a night away without the kids. And Eden & Lars love their babysitter, so everybody was happy.

We also recycled our old printer, which has lasted 9 long years, and bought a new printer/fax/copier machine. It was going to be $150 after all was said and done, but the $50 cash from the old printer was actually a mail in rebate in the form of a Visa Debit card, and all the new ink cartridges plus the 2 year extended warranty made the purchase close to $350. Not exactly what I had planned, but necessary, none-the-less.

Spending a month’s allotment on a future car payment didn’t stop us from going through the car lot and picking out our ‘new’ ride. We’ll see if it goes through this time. I’m a little frightened to tell anybody that I may be soon driving a Ford instead of a Chevy. Times are a changing, though, and this SUV seems to be more bang for your buck. Besides, I’m a Michigan Native, so it’s not like I’ll be executed for this petty crime.

Somewhere in that week, my husband was busy being a Pastor during Lent on the college kid’s spring break and the annual church cleaning, as well as a father to his kids while their mother was running around town. Our children, in the meantime, were shuttled all over, fed on the run and napped in various locations throughout the week. We like to expand their horizons.

After all that expanding, I’m just hoping to stay home next week. Unless, of course, we get a new vehicle. In that case, I hope we have to go someplace far far away…

As a post script, for all you Lapeer natives, KP lost his battle with cancer this week and went to be with Katie forever. He was buried on Saturday.