Today was a productive day. I started my day by getting up just after 7, in preparation for my meeting with Father Paul of the Holy Apostles Catholic Church. We were meeting to further my spiritual journey. Since I became a practicing Catholic last week, I have gotten my rosary and what I call my "cheat sheets", the booklets that tell me how to say a rosary. I was looking forward to my meeting with Father Paul because I had several questions to ask him, some about the rosary. Why were we praying to Mother Mary, asking her to pray for us. He explained we prayed to Mother Mary and the Saints to ask them to pray for us, like you would ask your family and friends to pray for you. Like he prayed for me in morning mass, that I would come to find peace and happiness back in the Church. I understood.
Father Paul and I talked about confession. I thought you had to go to confession every week to confess your sins in order to get absolution or forgiveness, then you partake of communion. But Father Paul told me that technically, you only have to go to confession once a year. But people go to confession as their hearts tell them. Some go once a week, some once a month. Some only come when they commit a major sin and need to unburden themselves. Father Paul and I did the confessional in his office. I confessed my sins, got my penance and received my blessing. I left him floating on high. I will see him tomorrow at noon mass, with hubby in tow.
My next stop was an estate sale down the street from my parents. I was on the search for a certain kind of material to be able to use to make fabric flowers for Cassie's bridal bouquet. I hit the jackpot and found two dresses that would serve the purpose. One dress was only 5 dollars as even though it was a formal dress, it had a large stain on the front. The other dress was nice and marked $25, but was half priced. I also found a special ash tray that we used to get in Mexico for only $1!
Since I had to park my car in front of my parents' house and walk down to the estate sale, it was only natural that I stop by and visit for a little bit. I showed my mom my dresses and told her what they were for. I couldn't tell her that Cassie and Drew was planning to get married soon because Cassie made me promise not to tell anyone else yet. So I just had to tell her I was making the bouquets now because I found the pinecones. Just another prep for the wedding. I didn't tell Cassie that I ordered a dress for her, it's black lace but I thought it would look really pretty on her. She probably won't want to wear it for the wedding but I thought of her when I saw the dress and couldn't resist on buying it!
After visiting mom and dad, I went off to Hobby Lobby. I was on the mission of getting the rest of the stuff to make the bouquets. I gathered the styrofoam balls, the floral wire, a couple of more floral bouquets with the rhinestone buttons. Wire cutters, a hot glue gun and additional glue sticks. The price was quite steep but I happily paid.
My last stop of the day was our local grocery store, King Soopers. I had my raincheck for whole chickens for 88 cents a pound and today was the last day it was good. I scored! Not only had they have the chickens in stock, they were now on sale for 79 cents a pound! Chicken is one of the food meats that still tastes good to me so I happily bought up the remaining 13 chickens. 3 of the chickens was for my friend Holly. When I told hubby that I spent $69 on buying chickens, he just shook his head and said "No more buying chickens! We have enough!" Which was true as I had preciously just bought 10 chickens. So now our freezer was full. I feel like I have plenty of meals I can make with the chicken. I have made a good purchase budget-wise.
Though I had risen hours ago, when I arrived home, I found hubby still in bed, having only waken 15 minutes earlier. I was happy to see him get some much needed sleep and he wasn't in pain, like he is so many other times he decides to sleep in. I brought all the chickens inside myself and got them into the freezer.
The rest of the day, hubby and I took it easy and relaxed.
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