Dairy Daze...and Now Beyond

 Here is a pic of my peeps.  Haha..  This is our ladies GLOW group from church.  GLOW officially stands for Godly Ladies of Worship, but various of our husbands have referred to it in other terms, one being God Loves Old Women.  In fact all ages are welcome.  Unfortunately our youngest member, at age 16, was at work at the Catfish Cafe.   As a general rule we meet monthly at the church where we have a devotion, do a craft or a project, then have lunch. This time one of the ladies hosted the group. Our Christmas meeting in December traditionally involves our secret pal reveal and a cookie exchange.  I forgot to get a picture of the cookies.  We did pretty well at bringing a variety of cookies, though there were 3 different kinds of sugar cookies, just decorated differently.   Also for this meeting we got an assembly line going to make cards and then make small gift bags for each of the residents of the nursing homes the youth gr...

Yesterday evening we had a Fall Festival for the youth at our church.  It was fun.  We had different activities set up in a few different Sunday School classrooms; arts and crafts, a cake walk, apple bobbing, a photo booth,  and a Christmas Card-making stop (the cards will be handed out to residents of the local rest home.).  There was also the S'mores-making campfire out at the firepit (bless the hearts of the ones running that station...it was COLD last night), and the evening culminated in a musical bingo game. The children all had a great time.   I signed up for the apple bobbing activity.  There was more than one person surprised, and relieved, at how I did this because due to COVID-19, and a general overall enlightenment about germs in general, people were grossed out about allowing their children to bob for apples like we did back in the day.  I remember bobbing for apples in a huge tub of water at school, no less. Things are a bit differen...