Chinese New Year at Alpha

We've been running the ALPHA course on Monday evenings at our church since mid January.  ALPHA is a course explaining the Christian religion.  We start the evening with dinner, then a video or speaker and then we discuss the material.  It's been my pleasure to work with 2 other ladies and some volunteers to provide a lovely meal for our guests.  Last Monday was Chinese New Years so our menu was mandarin chicken, rice, oriental salad and for dessert I made some lotus flowers, filled them with trail mix and put them on a plate with a mandarin orange and a fortune cookie.  I was pleasantly surprized at how lovely they looked and tasted!!!  Lots of rave reviews about the whole dinner!

Super Bowl Sunday

We started the day by going to church.  Our youth Pastor announced that a 2 year old girl whose family attends the church next door to us went missing yesterday and after much searching they found her in a nearby pond, took her to hospital but couldn't save her.  We all formed small groups and prayed for the family and church family.... a pretty sad way to start Sunday worship!!!

This afternoon our daughter and son-in-law, and our second daughter, son-in-law and 4 grandkids came over.  We put the TV on downstairs and the TV on upstairs to watch the super bowl.  We put a bunch of appies into the oven and filled the kitchen island with all kinds of food to be nibbled on while watching the game.  After the game I put out a bunch of desserts and everyone ate more.  The phone rang and our friends D & G were in the neighbourhood so I invited them over for appies and dessert.

Very sad day, but also a delightful day to be gathered with family and friends!