alas that it was not the case last weekend.
i got a phone call midweek informing me that the real estate company was going to have an open house in my current house on sunday afternoon. and since i was busy/gone all day saturday, i did a lot of cleaning and organizing on friday. plus baking for the bazaar that my congregation has, which was on saturday (yay for apple crisp and banana bread) . needless to say, i spent a good chunk of time being a homemaker. not gonna lie, i enjoyed it.
what i didnt enjoy was being up late and getting up early. i mean, finishing everything up on friday night only to wake up early on saturday morning to get ready for a wedding before dropping off my baked goods at the bazaar.
bonus points for me getting tons of compliments at the bazaar over my outfit, especially the boots and the pigtails i had my hair styled in at the time.
then, after a fiasco of me being afraid of having lost my cell phone (well, one of the two cell phones i carry), i got on the road to drive the four hours to minneapolis for my cousin brian's (aka salsa) wedding later that afternoon. i met up with my mother in a parking lot in one of the suburbs so that we could carpool into the city. and get to the spiritual center where the wedding ceremony would take place. it was interesting to watch this particular ceremony since it was the basics of what is needed to get married: vows were spoken and rings were exchanged in front of a gathering of family and friends. i thought it was very nice. plus i loved the music. and i loved the fact that they brought back the old tradition of binding their right hands together for the ceremony. and it was great to have the vows be spontaneous (since they had written their vows but forgot to bring them, which meant that later at the reception they read them so everyone could hear what they had intended to say earlier).
one interesting fact: i was wearing the most popular color of the day, which was variations of fuscia, along with the most popular shoe, which was the tall black boot.
this is a picture of my cousin denise, my aunt teresa, and i as we pose in matching redish colors. denise and i had the boots (along with at least 5 other women at the wedding) while teresa and i had the skirts and sweaters.
the reception was almost overwhelming with the selections of food since it was a potluck. and people provided a lot of food. i enjoyed the variety of noodle salads in particular. after the reception the dance started. an eclectic and awesome selection of music began. unfortunately i had to leave early since i needed to get back on the road. so at 8:30 pm, i took off so that i could begin my drive back to bemidji since i had to work in the morning, which is the plight of pastors everywhere.
and so i rolled into my driveway and pulled into my garage at 1:15 am.
only to have to clean up what little mess was left.
and then to get up early to get ready for a long day at church since it was confirmation day with open houses in the afternoon. and of course, everything that could go wrong did. the power point did not want to open at church, but i manage to fix that. then somehow the prayer list didnt make it to the lecturn, so i had to "wing it." then for the second service, i specifically put out the lessons and prayer list for me, but by the time i got there in time to read from the list, it had vanished. so of course i had to get the bulletin and read the lessons from the Bible itself. which seldom happens in our culture of having the Scripture printed off in neat and tidy pages. then the service was about 2 hours long as we provided the 14 students opportunities to each read their faith statements. it was a nice service but long.
i really enjoyed going to peoples' houses and spend time with them outside of the church building. even being as exhausted as i was due to lack of sleep (9 hours total over the previous two nights).
so by the time i got back to my house in the evening, i was ready to crash. which i did.
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