Last Saturday I went back 150 years and for a little while I pretended that the year was 1868...............After going to Her Majestea's Salon tea garden it was really laid on my heart to do a Victorian tea party there,the place was perfect, the ambiance was great and on their menu they actually serve a high tea, perfect. To "advertise" the tea, I had a few minutes to talk in church before the church services, and to make it interesting I created, and wore a hat and in my best poshest English accent invited all the ladies to attend........ in fact when I had finished some people clapped, I think they forgot where they were, did the minister laugh, I think I missed my calling perhaps I should have been on stage.
It was an absolutely perfect day and one of the great things for me was there was no preparation and when it was over there was no cleaning up and NO DISHES. We sold tickets to 29 ladies and they were asked to dress up Victorian style but the minimum requirement for entrance was a hat , no one would be allowed in without a hat.
The place looked absolutely beautiful, the tables were stunning and the food looked and tasted fantastic.
I was the MC and was a cousin to "Vicky" ( Queen Victoria) I had done some googling on what was happening during that time, what life was like, and did a whole comedy skit on the current happenings, the casting of Big Ben, the first steam train in London, the Imperial Penny Post, I was a personal friend of Frank Turner and William Wordsworth was a secret admirer and he wrote most of his love poems with me in mind.............. it was a challenge to maintain the British accent and remember the skit, but it turned out great and everyone had a good laugh, I still haven't decided if they were laughing at me or with me.
With "Vicky' being a cousin I threatened anyone who laughed at my "hat hair" when I took my hat off with a beheading, it did not work, I love hats but just cannot wear them.
Noreen Hart, a member of the church and a phsycolgist gave a talk on love, really thought provoking stuff, during the whole talk she linked song titles such as , "I think I love you" "Love changes everything" "Never ending love" and movie lines like Love Stories famous, "Love means never having to say your sorry" in to the real world,in to real relationships and ended with the fact that love is a verb, it is a doing word, it is something we need to work on, all day everyday in order for it to be a success, it was really very apporpriate since it was just a few days before Valentines day.
I had everyone write a love note which they would like to receive from our Heavenly Father and then when everyone left they were each given someone elses note as inspiration, it was amazing how many people received the message that they needed.
As we were leaving I got my idea for the next tea................ I just love the way God works never a dull moment.................. we truly serve an awesome God
A journey into changing who you are, so you can find true peace with your life
Saturday, February 19, 2011
Sunday, February 6, 2011
Lost and found
Today is a day of ones. Give one smile to one person, one hug to one other. Say an encouraging word to one. Perform one charitable act for one person. One-on-one. It’s a way of life, but it will multiply many times over in your lifetime. For now, one is a great way to start! (By Ron Cooper)
I remember reading a blog a few months ago, it was Pennie's over at Mom's Thoughts one afternoon she could not find her son after school, he had taken a short cut home, and I remember thinking how awful that must have been, well now I know just how awful that was................. Last Friday my daughter went to a sports evening at the school, I dropped her off, and I didn't need to fetch her as she had arranged with her friend to pick her up with the evening was over, simple...... at about 9.30 I phoned to make sure that all was still organised as after the week I had, had I was exhausted and bed was calling my name loud and clear................ KAREN COME TO ME, KAREN WHERE ARE YOU, I NEED YOU...................
as all was still on track, off I went to bed, just as the sand man was filling my head with thoughts of love........mmmmmmm........... my cell phone singing to me somewhere in the back of my head was an unwelcome rude awakening, as I dragged myself back to reality, it was Kayla asking if I could fetch her, I asked what happened to the friend, and she tells me, OH she forgot her friend was fetching her............... alarm bells began ringing and being a Mom I just had a weird feeling so phoned her back and I could hear she was a bit panicked, so asked must I fetch her, and her hurried YES told me she was stressing so I jumped in the car, pyjama's and all.......... not a pretty sight and off I went to the place I had dropped her off................... which has always been the rule, that I pick up in the same place I drop off, which just happened to be a one way street, in the rush to get there, I made mistake number one I forgot my cell phone at home, and after driving up and down the street for 10 minutes, was people and cars everywhere she was nowhere to be found.................. okay I am not going to panic yet, I sped home as fast as grease lightning............
I flew home to fetch the cell phone.............. and on reaching her on her phone she asked where I was she was waiting , Luckily we live minutes away and as I got close I was surprised at how everyone had left so quickly, there was a few people standing around a couple of policemen, but no Kayla............. panic is now setting in, I have to park the car............. picture the sceen pyjama's............ no make up........... bed hair...............
panic attack................. no one had seen her................. by now hysteria is setting in............... so I decided to drive around the school to see if i could see her................ on the other side of the school it was in darkness and there was no one except there by a tree, Kayla all alone........... crying her eyes out................ as usual my first hysteria reaction is to yell, scream, shout, explanations come later.....................
What had happened was she had come out of the wrong gate, and they would not let her back into the school, she had no air time and could not phone me, and was to afraid............ thankfully......... to walk around to where I would be.
We both learnt a lot of lessons, never forget your cell phone, always make sure you have airtime, I will always drop off and pick up to any event, I really need to learn not to panic, and she really needs to be much more responsible, if she wants to be treated like an adult , it is time for me to let go, and stop the "smothering".
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