Too late

Yesterday our day was very low key, but nice – we had corned beef savoury tart and roast potatoes for lunch (I forgot to salt them while they were cooking so I simply poured on lots of salt afterwards, which wasn’t really the right thing to do!). In the afternoon we were just at home. Nick’s service in the evening was so good, it’s such a pity that only 9 people got to hear it, me and the boys included. He preached on the portion in Philippians 2 about working out your salvation, with the analogy of our salvation being like a house – at salvation, Jesus presents us with a completely built house, and a paintbrush. We are to give the house the finishing touches. The house will not fall down if we don’t paint it properly, but the onus rests on us to do it the best we can.

Today our plan was to go to town to collect the DVD of Prince Caspian which we had booked a week or two ago. We were very excited and had been looking forward to seeing it. Also had some grocery shopping to do and wanted to visit Elza. We spent the morning at home – the boys disappeared outside, helping Ethel with the Family Centre garden and working on the treehouse (and eating cake at their house); Nick read up on personality types on the internet, and I scrapped. After lunch we drove off, in high spirits – the boys had their swimming costumes with them too, just in case. We passed by a few people we knew worked in town, headed in their homeward direction, which got us a bit worried – our suspicions were confirmed when we reached town and every single door was shut! All shops closed at 1 pm today, and nothing is open tomorrow. What a huge disappointment! It wouldn’t have helped to be angry either because there were signs posted all over all the shop doors, advertising their opening hours for the Christmas week. It was our own fault that we didn’t bother to take note of them. So, that cancelled our plans for Caspian and grocery shopping. We went down to the pool expecting to find it closed, but it was actually open so Nick and the boys swam while I read. We stopped by Elza as planned, and Sarel was home as well – he needed to pop in at the hospital to see a few people, but then he and the boys were able to head down to our empty church to fly their helicopters…honestly, {big} boys and their toys! Elza and I were left to chat which was wonderful – I took a page to show her and she had two new pages to show me. She does excellent work and it always inspires me (and Elza, I’m not just saying that because I know you’ll be reading this!) We discussed a lot of other stuff too, including their recent trip to the UK. After Nick, Sarel and the boys got back, they had another cup of coffee and after more chatting, we left after 5 – still needing to come home and make dinner! I made a quick supper of scrambled eggs, cheese viennas and baked beans, a very acceptable meal. So that’s been our day.