Food

Last night we had our braai, which went pretty well. Oh my, the amount of food that was brought. Well, I didn’t bother preparing anything to contribute because I knew what would happen, and it was exactly as I predicted. There were enough chicken drumsticks cooked that I kept about ten (for reheating for lunch today and supper tomorrow), and that I could make up parcels for each family to take home. The salads didn’t look like a dent had been made in them, although everyone had heaped plates of food. There were 17 of us in all, including the children (nine adults, and eight kids ranging from almost three to about 12). We did the unheard of and allowed the boys to get out of bed and stay up until after 9pm, to play with the other children as they have so little other interaction with kids. They had a lot of fun, and all things considered haven’t been too bad today. They are sleeping at the moment, and Nick is also having 40 winks (actually I think it’s more like 800 winks). I also now have another tomato sauce, Worcester sauce, mayonnaise, BBQ sauce, frozen pork sausages and garlic butter which were partially used and then left here for us. That’s just the way of things – anything brought likes to be given as a gift to the pastor. The weather was pleasant to sit outside, and Nick did a good job cleaning up the back yard for it to look neat.

This morning while Nick was out preaching, I spent some time building Lego with the boys – Caleb is getting quite good at building it, and exercised extreme patience when his model kept falling apart as he was trying to build it. I kept expecting him to throw it down and cry in frustration, but he kept rebuilding it. Then we did Sunday School, just briefly – I told them a story and we prayed – then into the kitchen for the Sunday Food Activity. Today it was icing biscuits with red icing-sugar icing and M&Ms, whereafter we had TUC biscuits and juice, then they stripped to their undies and played in the sprinkler. When they started getting cold they wanted to lie down on the chairs outside and be wrapped up in their towels. Well, it was a fun morning. Lunch was a selection of last night’s leftovers.

Only 8 more sleeps until Aaron turns three. We are looking forward to his birthday, because we are so keen to give him the presents we bought before we left. Caleb has been doing odd jobs to earn money so that he can also buy Aaron a present. Shame, he really is a lovely big brother.