Today was a home day, I woke up just before 10, thinking I told my friend I would be up and dressed by then, but I wasn't. She wasn't coming over, she had emailed me her forms and texted me her information to be printed on the forms before printing them. I offered to let hubby print her flyers for her event at the home show this weekend. It is taking a couple of hours after work but hubby is doing it. Then he needs to cut 500 papers in quarters for her drawing. This was a special favor for me that hubby is doing. I am having this done for my friend because she is trying to earn extra money and doesn't have the money to spend on printing right now.
Anyways, I got up and did my morning pages, trying to do something I read about in the Catholic Times, ow whatever it was called. A woman talks to God, and God talks back to her. She recommends that you do journalling. You sit before a page and pray, then write down your questions to God. Then you pray and when you stop thinking about all the answers you have, whatever comes up next is from God. I journalled about forgiveness. About how I was forgiven by God and the Church and know that I need to follow suit and forgive those in my past. I prayed and thought about the the question and came up with a story I read in the bible about a man going to his master, a man he owes a great deal of money to. He pled his case that he could not pay the man back and the master forgave the man his debt. The man went home. There he encountered a man who owed him money. The man demanded that this other man pay him what he was owed. Now this is the part I am a little foggy about but I think the man have the other man arrested and put into debtor's prison. When the master heard what the man had done, he called him to come see him. I forgave you your debt when you said you could not pay me what was owe, the master said, but when faced with the same situation, you threw the man in debtor's prison. Now I revoke my forgiveness and you shall be thrown in debtor's prison, and the man was led away. In order for me to receive forgiveness, I must forgive those that trespass against me, as we say in The Lord's Prayer. When I meet with Father Paul on Saturday, it is one of the things I will talk to him about. And I will pray about it.
I did get dressed and out of the bedroom to downstairs today. The dogs were much happier and so was I. Hubby called me several times and we love chatted. He was going to come home for a late lunch so I offered to make dinner for him to eat when he came. He thought that would be very nice and so I made the beef stroganoff I have been trying to make for the last week. I used the recipe from Dining on a Dime cookbook and added to it to truly make it a full balance dinner. We didn't have salad stuff so I added an onion to it, along with adding canned peas just before I served. Let it heat up a little and it was good. I almost forgot to cook the noodles. I was standing at the stove, had my cookbook sitting on the stove while I measured the ingrediants. When the noodles started to boil over, I reached up and turned them down. At least that is what I thought I did, but what I actually did was turn on the burner my cookbook was sitting on. I burned my book badly and melted the the binding. Tomorrow I will see if the book has dried and then I will see if it is still usable. I am going to reorder it as it is a really good book.
Anyway, I made some substitutions in the recipe. It called for cream of mushroom soup and I used cream of celery, since I don't like mushrooms. The trick is not to add the sour cream until about 10 minutes before you serve it. The noodles were ice cold by the time hubby got home, he got delayed and I had set the table, lit a candle and dished up the noodles while I waited for him, expecting him to come in at any time. We zapped the noodles in the microwave and we put the beef stroganoff on top. He loved it! And I felt good that I was able to feed my hubby. It was a good feeling that I want to have again, so I am going to try to make dinner on a regular basis. And he said that when he went back to work, he was feeling really good, the meal was a good thing. It brought some peace into his hectic day.
The only thing I didn't do was make the cake I was going to make and I will do that tomorrow. I pulled out a whole chicken so I can boil it down tomorrow and make a chicken barely soup for dinner. I am going to look a bread recipe for the breadmaker and do that too. I want to make my hubby happy and I want to have the meal ready for when he comes home for lunch. That is my goal for tomorrow.
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