yesterday deerwood baptist church ("in beautiful inner-city deerwood." --joke by dr. rosenbaum. deerwood has about 350 citizens, so you can imagine how huge the city is. it doesn't even have a decent restaurant.) had the annual Church Picnic. we go to a lovely park. we've been going there since i was a teen. i can't believe i was pushing my baby in his stroller down the same paved path that i used to in-line skate on as a stoopid teen. fabulous.
we had a huge buffet in a covered shelter on picnic tables. some ladies made the expected meatballs. there were a lot of "hot dishes". casseroles to you non-minnesotans. there were about 4-5 crock pots full of baked beans. i made a green bean casserole and i wanted to make rice crispy bars. alas, i didn't have rice crispies. i had given them away to my cousin who just lost his house to a fire. so, with marshmallows already liquefied in the pot and no time to spare, i used honey nut cheerios!:) i sprinkled pink sugar on top in the hopes that some little girls would be lured into eating them. i mean, whoever heard of cheerio bars?! only 3 brave souls tried them. bless there hearts. they were actually pretty good. really!
jack, of course, was a perfect baby the whole day. i didn't see much of my husband. he was off playing horseshoes with the pastor.:) i didn't see andy. he was off in-line skating with the kids. i was not lonely. i mingled my heart out. 5 hours was not enough time to chat.
i just so happened to have my camera and video camera with so i could document jack's first Church Picnic. so, when the Philippino missionary sang beautiful songs while playing his guitar, i got to get it on film. lucky me!
i could blog all day about the gorgeous weather at the picnic and the rhubarb cake, but i have to go and buy some pants. for work. oh joy. i hate shopping for pants.
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