Sun Harvest had a sale last week…59 cents per pounds. So we decide to buy it in bulk. It think 50 lbs will last at least until the next sale! I see lots of shranola (my homemade granola) and oatmeal bread in the future!
Last week we had a playdate reunion in Brenham with our friends the Ceys. It was so much fun and the kids really missed their play buddies. (I missed my “play buddy” too.)
Brenham has an amazing park! I haven’t been to a park that nice in Austin. Fireman Park had a covered pavilion with a ton of picnic tables, two play scapes, a merry-go-round and restrooms! Great meeting place for children 5 and under! I’m sure it’s there for all the school trips that go to the Blue Blue creamery.
Unfortunately I learned not to suggest taking a picture right after we got rejected from the merry-go-round.
The first or second Saturday of Lent, I spent the afternoon making our Lenten cross. I got idea from the book, Lent and Easter in the Domestic Church. The Lenten cross is very similar to the Jesse Tree we do for Advent. Each day there is a different reading either from the Old Testament prophesying the death of Christ or a reading from the New Testament about the fulfillment of Christ’s way to the cross.
I didn’t put a picture of it up earlier because it was just anticlimactic with only six squares filled in. I make them all of felt and put them on a stiff white felt background with all the readings written in pen for each square. I velcro-ed the white pieces of the cross together and then each purple square has velcro on the back. The most fun square to do was the cock pictured below. I was inspired by the Rose’s beautiful hens that we had seen earlier that day.
Well, I found out yesterday that our house is going to be added to the over $160 million in damage from the recent hail storm. Although my first inclination was not to call a roofing company or our home insurance, the roofer signs kept popping up ALL OVER the neighborhood and my father-in-law encouraged me to call. So I made the calls a week after the storm.
Bad news: The roof is totaled.
Good news: We only have to pay the deductible for a new one.
I suppose this storm was God’s way of sending a stimulus package to the roofing companies, suppliers, and Mexican laborers. I still think I like God’s stimulus packages better.
