Monday Weekend Recap....

Monday surely did get here fast!  Let's see....

Friday I had to leave work at lunch time because Joe's car is in the shop and he needed mine for an appointment. Rather than run cars and people back and forth all afternoon, I decided to just take four hours of vacation time. It was a tough thing to do, starting the weekend early, but I was happy to do it for Joe....

When he got home, we took off for Walmart to get my new glasses!  They are different from any I've had in awhile, but I like them....

Saturday we slept late, as we love to do.  I got up around 8:30 and I think Joe made it up a little before 10:00.  After we ate our late breakfast, we took off running errands.  

First, we stopped at Bealls, which is a department store that is found only in the south. I know there is one near my sister in Georgia, but I'm not sure how many locations they have. 

We love shopping there.  We took two Angels from the Angel Tree at church last week.  One was for a five-year-old boy and his mom wanted shoes, a shirt, and pants. We got all three and all I can say is that it costs as much to buy for a little guy as it does to buy for a big guy. We had 'sticker shock' but are happy we could help out this family.  We also got an Angel for helping seniors and shut-ins and got a requested gift card for Publix.

After Bealls, we stopped at Lowe's to look at Christmas lights. Joe insists on putting lights on the outside of the house and it always looks great, but I don't want him up on a ladder anymore. We've been looking at those spotlights that have the red and green 'stars' that cover the whole house. He didn't like them so I am going to ask our son to help while they are here for Thanksgiving. 

After Lowe's, we popped over to Sam's Club for a list of stuff there.  We dropped that off at home and then continued on to Publix for an even bigger list. I think I am ready for the big day and even remembered to put the turkey in the refrigerator yesterday afternoon, to start thawing.

All of that running around actually took almost five hours by the time we were done. Good golly!

Sunday, we were up early for church.  Today is the last day of the Catholic liturgical year because next Sunday begins Advent. We celebrated Christ the King.  One of our Deacons had the sermon. He is very good and reminded us that we need to concentrate on doing things His way, not "my way".

There were enough women selling pecans this week, so I didn't stop to help. I didn't sign up for it but would have helped if they were short-handed. We sold a lot of them last weekend!

After Mass, we went to Reececliff (local diner) for breakfast.  I needed a few things from the drug store, so we stopped at Walgreens, then filled my car up with gasoline ($1.99 a gallon!!!), then Joe had to pick up a prescription at Publix that wasn't ready when we were there on Saturday.  Whew....are you following this?!!

Back home, and I got the laundry started.  We had leftover chicken noodle soup for dinner. I made a big pot of it Saturday. It was good both days. And we DO have soup weather now! It went down into the high 40s last night and will only be in the high 60s today.  I think it will be back to 80 by Thanksgiving Day.

It's a short work week for me. We get two days off for Thanksgiving so Wednesday will be my Friday! It is quiet at work because my co-workers who have kids take the whole week since there isn't any school this week.

Wednesday, I will also leave work early because we help to deliver Thanksgiving meals to the elderly and shut-ins. Lakeland has a wonderful organization here called VISTE (Volunteers in Service to the Elderly).  We have been doing this for a few years now and usually take two meal bags to deliver. Hundreds of volunteers show up to help.  This is a picture I took last year of the volunteers lining up to take a bag or bags to deliver. There were that many behind us, too....

Our church also delivers meals to shut-ins and my church women's group supplies rolls and pies, so after we deliver for VISTE, we will drop off our rolls and a pie for the Knights of Columbus, who are the ones who organize the meals for our church.  

A busy week, but so much to be thankful for!!  Blessings over-flow.

I hope your weekend was a good one! Thanks for your visit!  Peace & hugs.