Blue Chasuble

This is the blue chasuble I made. I made a red one a couple years ago. I want to make a green one and purple one too, but the fabric is expensive, so it won't happen too soon.

Saturday Supper

I decided to have Saturday Supper instead of Sunday Dinner last week as we wanted to go to a church dinner on Sunday.  Ashley had found a recipe in one of my cookbooks so I thought now would be a good time to make it. It called for hot dogs, refried beans, cheese, salsa verde and tortillas. I didn't think everyone would like them, so I added a few things....chili, hotdog buns, rice, relish, cheese sauce, sour kraut, fried onions, ketchup, mustards,sandwich sauces, chips, salsa and apple slices. We also had apple pie and ice cream for dessert. It was great. Andy's mom, Marty was here too. It was nice to see her again.

1st Annual Woodcutters Barbeque and Potluck

On Sept. 29th, the sons and sons-in-law came to help Kim cut wood. They cut all day and then in the evening we celebrated Evelyn, Mila and Corine's birthdays at a pizza place. It was a lot of fun.  The next day, Chris roasted a whole pig in his spit. It was so good. The weather was quite warm, so we didn't have the competitions as we had planned. Hopefully next year will be a little cooler. It was a great weekend! Here are some pictures. The top picture is out of order. It's also farther down. Ignore it.

Aubrey's Latest Dress

This is the latest dress I sewed for Aubrey. 

Bible Study Ladies of Southern Minnesota

This is the name of the Bible Study I belong to. My daughter,Emily, named us that when she sent a thank you to the group for a shower gift. We started as 6 women who either had known each other for years or had kids that were friends or were neighbors. We belonged to different churches and different faiths. We take turns hosting it at our homes. We are a support group and very much personal friends, invited to weddings and graduations and barbeques  and what not. We talk about issues in our families both good and bad. Women that know about us have asked to join and we have mostly said they could visit. I like our small size. We are now 9. One of our members invites others to come and I know it shouldn't bother me, and it wouldn't if we were just a Bible Study. We aren't. I don't like talking about personal things with people I don't know, no matter how nice they are.  I am not a hugger either and when someone comes up to me that I don't know and wants a hug,I am uncomfortable. This is the latest invitee. Also, the more I learn about the LCMS, the more I am not sure about staying. There are times I just want to shake some sense into some! They don't get the infant baptism. Infants can't have faith and you can't speak for them. They don't understand what baptism is to us. To them it is about them....they decide to be baptized and accept Christ. They don't understand where whole households were baptized. That means whole households....not just of a certain age.  They still have to dedicate. There has to be some ceremony. But there again it's something they do...they bring their child to God...they dedicate it.  God takes our child and makes it His in baptism. Infants have faith. One of the blogs I read talks about a study done that proves it.  Also all infants were baptized in all churches until fairly recently, when people decided it couldn't be right. One of the ladies actually said she had never heard of baptism being a means to salvation. They don't understand closed communion. I do. I don't want to take communion in a church where they don't believe in the real presence. I wouldn't think they would want to take communion in our church either. I like the liturgy. It is comforting to know what to expect  and that you can go to most LCMS churches and feel at home. I don't like praise bands. I want to hear law and gospel. I don't need a coffee shop. I feel comfort in the aroma of coffee brewing in the basement. I don't need a stage and huge tv monitors. I need hymns and an altar to worship at. I want a communion railing to kneel at and receive forgiveness. To be able to look at Jesus looking back at me and feel peace. I want to keep these women as friends desperately. I'm just not sure I can keep going to the Bible Study. I feel we aren't in the same place. I'm not sure what to do. The church doesn't have a women's Bible study and the one the Pastor leads, is at 6:30am. I am getting Alair ready for school at that time. I know it will all work out some how.

Change

I got the guys here to move the cook stove back  up into the kitchen. I also decorated the house for autumn. The stove weighs like 500 lbs. No exaggeration. Son in law Andy asked how long it would be until I decided I was tired of the stove.....Son Erik said it didn't matter.  Yeah....that's kind of what I figured.

Huh!

It has been several days since the incident and I still have a hard time dealing with it. I won't go into detail, but I was hurt to the core and humiliated. I still want to cry and have a hard time getting anything done. Of course no one would know it by looking at me. I can put on a good front. There was an apology, but I just don't think the other party gets it. Eventually I will get over it. I just wish I could feel happier.