Lazy Sunday

I had a busy mid morning, baked banana bread, a potato salad, homemade sandwich bread and homemade pizza. then prepared some chicken in a marinade I will bake tomorrow. Then went to bed at about one in the afternoon and slept until 5:30! Boy was I tired. Seems like every Sunday I do a bunch of cooking so Ashley will have things to take to school for her lunches.
Ashley brought home a very awsome friend from Teen Conference...Sarah Jefferies! Sarah use to live here and went to school with Ashley. Her father pastored the church in Wallowa until they moved. She will be here for the week. So these girls are spending a lot of time giggling and talking and giggling and wrestling and giggling. It is so much fun.
Last weekend my parents came by and helped drain the sprinkler system outside. I had a really good talk iwth my mom about the divorce and how things are now. How odd that for all these months she would barely talk to me and certainly not mention the divorce. So it was good to talk it out and feel that closeness to my mom. that isn't something I grew up with. My father shows his love by "doing things". helping me, like fixing my bedroom heater so this winter I will have some heat in there and won't shiver all night, thereby having no sleep at all. It was a tough winter last. Even now, we keep the heat off in the house except when we will be using a room. And layer lots of clothes! the other night I shivered in bed until I finally fell asleep in exhaustion at 3:00 a.m.! So I have this rule..no heat on until we get home from work and school, then only to take the bite off the air. So Ashely is being very good about it..and guess who is the wimp and always gives in to turn the heat on! Oh my poor electric bill! Sorry kids, Santa won't be delivering this year!
A friend of mine who is elderly...ok, in his 60's.........has been watching too much vitamin tv. So he is always telling me about this vitamin is good for this...that one is good for this....ect. So I went to Lewiston yesterday and when I came home, there was two bottles of Omega three fish oil caps, some BAM bathroom drain cleaner, and some grapes he had picked off his mother's vines in Hood River all sitting on the kitchen counter. So next time I see him I will get a lecture on all the things that fish pill can do for me. he will make sure my drain is no longer plugged, and he will tell me many stories of his father and the vines and I am just so glad for friends who watch out for you. And family that prays for you and encourages you. I am just plumb glad today..in a Pollyanna sort of way! I love that movie!