A tale of functions, furniture, and friends...

This week has been a busy one for us...well especially me. I haven't been feeling well, but that's a topic for another blog...at another time, and this week was gonna be busy. Tuesday night we had our quarterly, Ladies Refresh event. Ladies Refresh is our women's' ministry at church. We have been doing quarterly functions to help the ladies of the church connect, be fed, and most importantly get refreshed. We have had speakers talk to us about organizing our homes and our lives from a christian perspective, encouraging each other, etc. We have had soup nights and tea parties and, this past Christmas, we had our 2nd annual Cookie Swap and Craft night. These events are no small affairs. We try our best to go all out and I am fortunate enough to be part of the planning/organizing team for these fun events.
Tuesday night, unfortunately, I did not feel good and did not feel "fortunate" to have people counting on me to do my part. This quarter's Refresh event was "A Word Aptly Spoken". It was all about having the right word, at the right time, to encourage someone and speaking it. We had a wonderful speaker and we were making cards to send to whoever God put on our hearts to encourage. I was the one who would explain the craft/card making process. I was also going to help with some set-up, decorating, and make over 4 dozen brownies/cookies. So after spending Monday evening and all day Tuesday baking, I dragged myself into the church, Tuesday evening. Thank the Lord that he has provided such a wonderful team of ladies to plan, host, and set-up these events, because I was pretty much useless. I tried to help with what I could from a chair, but the other ladies had it under control.
I am so glad I "dragged" myself there. I was totally blessed by the whole evening. The woman who spoke, Deb Hogan, had such an incredible testimony. Not to mention, a lovely voice. By the time I needed to explain the craft, I was feeling a little better and it was so refreshing to see all these awesome women having fun making cards and socializing. (Even Kathy D.-I have no thumbs, so I can't do crafts-made a card, ALL BY HERSELF.)
I got home about late Tuesday, and then of course couldn't sleep. (story of my life lately)
Long story short, after about 4 1/2 hrs of sleep the delivery guys showed up to deliver our furniture. Now, since when, do they give you a 3-hr delivery window from 6:30am-9:30am and actually show up on time.
Not only did they show up on time...they were at our door at 6:40am to deliver our new living room furniture. We desperately needed it. Anyone who has visited us lately...well actually the entire time we've been in Mass., and the last year or year and a half we lived in Hawaii, knows our old furniture. It was hand-me-down from a friend about 6 1/2 or 7yrs ago. I don't know how long she had it before us, but needless to say, it was shot and it was killing my back, especially since I got pregnant. So we went and got new stuff with our income tax refund.
Wow...it's only Wed!
Tomorrow I have a fun day planned...but it's another day I have to get up, get myself ready, and go somewhere. I think it will be worth it, too.
First, I get to spend the morning with my good buddy, Paulette, just relaxing, and knowing the two of us...laughing a lot.
Then I have a lunch meeting with one of my bestest buddies, Dani...oh but she has to wear her other hat to the meeting...her Pastor Danielle hat. LOL
She is meeting with a me and a couple of other ladies, who were not able to make it to a children's ministry meeting a couple of weeks ago. I am gonna bring lunch for us so even though it's "business", it should still be nice.
As far as I know, so far....that's it for this busy week.
Unless...the people who were interested in buying our house, (again...another blog, for another time...) decided they'd like to come see the house on Saturday.
As much as I want and need to rest...I sure hope they do. And it's the perfect house for them and they want to buy it...
...Am I asking too much?

Here are some pics of our new furniture:


"my" new rocker/recliner.


our new sofa



and our new loveseat. (Yes, they are comfy..and they don't hurt my back. Yea!)