2 posts tagged “friends”

Yesterday Mom and I both had some time off work so we went shopping for chocolate and ingredients for the chocolate for our “Art & Chocolate” fund raiser.  “Art & Chocolate” is a fund raiser we are planning for our adoption process of bringing home our children from Colombia.  It was good to have her along and I was surprised how supportive she was and interested in brainstorming for other chocolate formula ideas.  She is an expert at this and it’s good to have her as a resource.  It will be interesting to see how all these formulas come together.  I have more testing to do.  I have so many pounds of excellent quality chocolate at my house…  it must be close to heaven.  Maybe after the pressing projects of this week are done I can start in with the first stages of prep.  Now that is going to be fun!

My parents were not going to come to the “Art & Chocolate” fund raiser because of a scheduling conflict with their small group and seeing friends they haven’t seen in a long time.  But when she heard that hubby’s parents were coming in from Indiana for the event, it really turned the tide for her.  I think she pretty much decided on the spot that they wouldn’t be able to go to their small group thing after all.  It’s hard to want to be in two places at once and I knew the choice was hard for them.  However, I just got a call that they are coming and bringing the whole small group to the event.  Yay!  Some of those folks are loaded – so it will be lovely to have them there from a financial perspective.  They are close friends of my parents, so that means there will be the emotional connection.  They are generous and good people.  And they have a tradition of making chocolate together each Christmas.  So the event is perfect for them.  I am delighted!

I had a delightful weekend with Ginger Sister here!  The hubby made pizza dough and we loaded up the crusts with all sorts of marvelous goodies and loads of cheese.  Yummmm…  We spent a little time with her playing my piano (which sounded so cool!) and the two of us singing together.  If I wasn’t singing on the worship team we’d have played hookie, but since I did we went to church.  We ended up singing twice in the service Sunday.  First was "606" which came with a heavy dose of nostalgia for me and sounded really cool with two sopranos though we both missed the tenors and basses just a wee bit.  I took the high part and she put together elements of the alto, tenor and bass lines and made her own part.  Yeah baby!  We also sang a Misty Edwards song at the end which got a really good response.  I Loooooooooove singing with Ginger Sister again after all these years!  How I wishes that my music buddies lived sooo much closer!  I tried to tell her that there was this adorable little cottage available to rent that would be perfect for her.  I guess it didn’t look enough like London to entice her.  Tsk!  And she was willing to play carrier pigeon to our adoption announcements to save us money on postage to our friends that live near her.  That was lovely.  Yes indeedy!