I started today thinking it was going to be a great day of getting things done because my 8 a.m. piano lesson had canceled so it put me in the mindset that I was ahead for the day. Well, not so. Apparently I planned too much for today perhaps? It is almost 10:30 and I am just now getting the chance to write a few words. I think part of my problem was wanting to write something after I made my delivery but then I almost ran out of time. I do have a job, ya know. So I taught at 3 until 6, was at bible study til 9:30 and rush home to kiss the kiddos. Note to self: on Thursdays, deliver meals earlier so that I can blog earlier. Whew! Anyway........
I went back to the school to deliver my second meal and it almost felt like when I walked in the door that they were waiting on me. So I gave the sack of food to the beautiful receptionist and the lady who is getting a meal tomorrow told me that she had already told her husband about the meal and they were excited. It almost made me feel like I better kick it up a notch. ha Well, regardless, they are having a meal of Santa Fe soup because it is already in the fridge made and ready to go. What is not made is the cornbread which I planned to take with it. I was having trouble deciding what to take with that soup. We usually eat it with tortilla chips but I didn't just want to send over a bag of chips, although I think I could and it would be received just fine. I will get up tomorrow and bake the cornbread maybe bake some more cookies. I haven't decided who I am taking a meal to on Saturday. Leaning towards a neighbor as school is not in session until after Thanksgiving. I'll let you know.
NOW..... everybody keeps asking about recipes. I'm working on it. In fact, I have two people I need to thank for helping today with this project. My friend, Becky, from church offered to scan my recipe cards so that I could upload them here. So she sent that to me today. I will try to get that put on here for you by tomorrow. Thank you, Becky. The other person I wanted to thank was my friend, Allison. She is an extreme-couponer. If you don't know what that is go look it up. She may think she's not but she is. Places are paying her to take the stuff out of their store. She needs to start a blog on that herself. Anyway, I asked her to keep an eye out for disposable plastic storage containers. The aluminum containers from the Dollar Store work great but not when you're trying to transport soup. And I plan to make a lot of soup because it feeds a lot of people (and fortunately, it is cool outside). So she calls me this morning (early) with coupons for it and for many, many other things I need to make these meals (I gave her several things to keep an eye out for) and by the end of that conversation she went to the store for me....cause she was going herself, and got them for me. Also, (and I will make a mistake here because I will forget something), this is what I got from her today; either from her getting it at the store(s) for me or her giving it to me out of her pantry because she has 20 chicken broths already (that may be a slight exaggeration but not much) :) Several pkgs of plastic containers, small and larger; 5 chicken broths; 4 cream of mushroom soup, vanilla puddings, bananas, vanilla wafers, 3 bags of frozen corn and I can't remember what else and I paid her less than $13. Now this does not include that 20 or so coupons that she gave me with the instructions of WHO has the sale that will get me cookie dough for a $1 and other equally valuable information while I am doing this project. Holy cow! What a help! Thanks, Allison.
I love how this project is involving more people, directly and indirectly. Obviously, if you're a friend of mine you see how I'm busy working, running around. If you're in this family, there are new conversations about what is "free-game" in the fridge and what is not. haha But there are those indirectly and directly affected by these meals and again, that's what this is about. "Lord, please bless this meal" means a lot more these days.
See you tomorrow.
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