Courageous Joy

Wednesday and Thursday

I was having a great day yesterday. I got errands done. We tied up some loose ends from our last unit. I put in a produce co-op order. I got dinner going and then :::drum roll::: a headache began. It wasn't bad. It was at about a 3-4 on the pain scale. BUT everyone had told me to quit being stubborn and take the maxalt right away. I took one. I was NOT prepared for it to literally knock me on my hiney. Good GRIEF. What a strange feeling. It was God that Jared and Jamin were home. I had called Mike and thought he was on the way home so figured I could take a pill and finish dinner. Jamin had to finish dinner. I fell off my chair. ::snort:: BUT the headache did go away....and I'm at about a 2 today so that is GOOD.

Before the head thing Sherri stopped by. It's always fun to have an impromptu visit with a friend. I had picked this up earlier in the day at Sam's Club.

I've wanted one since Deja's baby shower. I had great plans of Thanksgiving Dinner. Sherri saw it and commented on how fun it would be for the Ladies Tea. I told her that I have wanted one for some time but now I had an excuse to try it out at Thanksgiving and then use it for lots of different things. I explained how you could use cheese and ranch and BBQ sauce in it too....but really it's about the chocolate....and as we talked I had a VISION...of Zander and Stacia bellied up to the Thanksgiving table with forks and chocolate flying all around my house....maybe this is best to save for a grown up event?

I know some of you must have one of these. I know Cindy does. What has been your experience? Are they workable for young kids - do you just do children's treats for them? What have you found to be good combinations? Have you used anything but chocolate in them? I think I need two - one for sweet and one for savory - but I tried to be responsible and bought one.

I spent quite a bit of time on paperwork today. ANYTHING you do in connection with the military has a lot of paperwork. We had a Ladies Day Out and a Project Night this month. We have another Project Night and a Ladies Christmas Tea in December. I have paperwork to do. I must not get behind or the Senior Protestant Chaplain gets upset with me. ::snort::

I cleaned house. I started 6 trays of apples drying. We went out to dinner - evidently the threat of magic loaf was too much for my family. I told them it will show up as sandwhich filler next week. ::snort::