Hectic Sunday

[wiseheart]

So, I took Mum to church in the morning, like every Sunday. While she was there, I went to ALDI to do half the shopping. Then I fetched Mum and we went to Savoy Park, where the closest Auchan supermarket is. We had lunch - yummy giant pancakes from Il Treno - and did the other half of the shopping. Several basic food items (like margarine and fruit yoghurt) were on sale, which means I had to carry a lot when we came home. A lot of groceries plus Mum who needs support due to her aching joints and can only walk very slowly. I was dead on my feet by the time we got home.

Once here, I continued on with baking chocolate-peanut cookies for tomorrow's sewing group. It is Advent sewing, after all, and I promised my girls that there will be Advent cookies each time. If you're interested, they look like this:



This is an older picture, but the ones I made today are almost exactly the same, only a bit rounder. Sometimes they do turn out better.

When the cookies were done, I worked a bit on my beheaded XL Christmas Elves. I intend to finish them tomorrow at the sewing group. Then I cut out pieces for the large teddies I also intend to saw for the fair, translated a page and a half (or so) of "The Sins of the Mothers" and now I'm ready to fall onto my face and asleep, soon.

I seem to remember a time in the distant past when Sundays were there to, you know, rest.

Comments

[meathiel]

Hmmmm ... the cookies look yummy. I like peanuts ...

[wiseheart.livejournal.com]

It is a really, really easy recipe! I'll scan it in for you as it's in German, if you want it.

[meathiel]

That'd really be nice.

[wiseheart.livejournal.com]

Will do!

[manue7a.livejournal.com]

Have restful dreams at least!

[wiseheart.livejournal.com]

That would be nice indeed.

[wanderingmogwai.livejournal.com]

Your relationship with your mother reminds me a bit of the relationship I had with my grandmother. We became really close when I was in my 20's and could still drive. She had a hard time being active because she had emphysema but we did all sorts of things together. Museums, botanical gardens, lunches, grocery shopping. I'm SO glad I had the chance to do all of it with each other.

[wiseheart.livejournal.com]

So am I, honestly. Grandma lived a great old age of 96 years; I told Mum that she has to outdo that record. Let's hope. :)

[wanderingmogwai.livejournal.com]

<3

[curiouswombat.livejournal.com]

It is hard to cope with shopping and a mother who needs help - but I am so glad fr you that your mother is still able t g to shop.

And the cookies look really nice.

[wiseheart.livejournal.com]

I hope we'll be able to do things together for years to come. She's really good company.

[adafrog.livejournal.com]

Wow, go you!

[wiseheart.livejournal.com]

I'm trying my best here. ;)

[elwenlj.livejournal.com]

Did you have to walk home? I did some shopping yesterday, deciding to take just one bag, to limit my spending. I had to cram to get all my purchases in and spent the journey home switching it from hand to hand. It's only a ten minute walk but that last hill was a killer.

[wiseheart.livejournal.com]

The main problem is to walk slowly. It exhausts me a great deal more than simply marching through as I do when on my own. We didn't walk a particularly great distance, just down the street from the tram stop, but the slow encroaching is very, very tiring.

[mirasaui.livejournal.com]

The cookies look delicious. Hope you and Mum are able to get enough rest, holiday time can be exhausting if you let it.

[wiseheart.livejournal.com]

It's my own stupid fault, really. I just can't resist making this little thing and that little thing and try out a third and fourth and sixth recipe and all that...