It has been another good and busy weekend.
Friday started out as a very snowy day. This was what my drive to work looked like on Friday morning.
This was the parking lot at school when I got there Friday morning. Hard to believe that by afternoon, the sun was out and the snow was melting.
We volunteered to provide our local missionaries with dinner Friday night, so we got a rotisserie chicken, potato wedges, green salad and apple pie and dropped it off at their apartment. They texted me later that it sure was a good dinner. I always love feeding the young missionaries because I know that many families in Mexico did that for Josh when he served as a missionary there from 2014-2016.
Saturday morning, we got up and went grocery shopping as usual. While we were shopping, I got a phone call from an elderly friend, who is in one of the book clubs I am in, as well as the mother of one of Charly's best friends. We used to attend the same church congregation. This friend called to tell me her husband had passed Friday evening. This is his picture. He was a Korean War vet, retired school teacher, and an all around very nice man. Because he was Charly's best friend's father, he was part of my husband's life for many years. He had been ill for several months, and the doctors finally determined that he had metastasized cancer. He was 88, so he lead a good long life, and will be missed. We are planning to attend his funeral on Wednesday. It is always hard when a friend passes.
After a busy Saturday of shopping and errand running, Charly and I went to the temple in the evening. We met up with some people from our church congregation there and had a very good experience.
It was a cold and dark night, but I loved how the stained glass windows of the temple were illuminated.
They were really quite beautiful.
Sunday was a beautiful January day. The temperatures have been up in the 40s, so the snow has been melting and the sky has been blue and cloudless. We went to church in the morning, then I did my scripture study when we got home.
After lunch, Charly and I went for a walk around our neighborhood. The weather was perfect for a walk and I enjoyed it.
When we got back from the walk, I took a short nap, then woke up feeling a bit blah and sluggish, and a nice cup of hot chocolate seemed just the thing, so I mixed this Ghirardelli Double Chocolate and Stephen's Dark Chocolate, and topped it off with some Reddi-Whip for a just right Sunday afternoon warm-up, pick-me-up.
Josh has been working on homework all weekend. I love it when he asks his dad for help The class Josh is taking is an Excel class and Charly knows Excel well from his many years as an accountant.
For Sunday dinner we had chicken with Tuscan-Style Mushroom Risotto (made from a Food Network Kitchen Kit), with baked chicken and fresh green beans.
I always try to put more effort into Sunday dinner, and tonight's dinner was a delicious success. We all liked it.
After dinner, Charly and I made a quick run to the post office to get some bills in the mail, then Charly settled down to watch some TV and I did some reading. I am reading these two books this week and hope to have The Red Badge of Courage finished by mid-week, since I need to begin teaching it in my classes by then.
Tomorrow is Martin Luther King Day, so we have the day off, and I am looking forward to sleeping in just a bit, and then having a relaxing day with no particular plans. Even though tomorrow is technically part of the weekend, I decided to count it as a week day and include tomorrow's events in in my Friday Favorites post.
I will see you all again soon. Thanks for visiting!
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