A Lovely Sunday

Yesterday was a nice day. I woke up very refreshed at 7:30am. Not bad for the weekend, if I do say so myself. We had signed up to make dinner for one of the family's in our ward and I had a lot of lofty goals in that department -- redemption mainly. The last time we signed up for dinner, our schedules were so swamped we ended up ordering them chinese food. Pathetic, no? So, I was excited to get on with cooking.

This time around, we were doing it all different. I started by making fresh bread. Yup, you read that right. Once the bread was going, I started the roast in the slow cooker with some yummy veggies. And then I made a chocolate thunder cake. Mmmmm. Okay, so I don't know if it was actually mmm because I have never tried it before and we gave it all to the family. But it consists of chocolate cake, sweetened condensed milk, hot fudge sauce and melted white chocolate with peppermint on top for decor. It sounds mmm, right? And with vanilla ice cream, how could one go wrong?

I loved cooking that much food! Ben and I don't cook a lot. And for the most part, that is because we are lazy. But it is also because we just don't have that many eaters. And I love to cook for a crowd, for some reason. They are a family of 6, so I got to cook LOTS of food. I just like doing that.

That took up most of my morning and we don't have church until 2pm. I taught the laurel class. And the girls actually said how much they enjoyed my lesson. We talked about the house of Israel and the Covenant of Abraham. Who enjoys that lesson?!?! I was totally stoked they didn't fall asleep, even more stoked the professed they liked it.

Late that night before we went to bed, I was looking at a sale email I got and something caught my eye -- an LBD. I have been trying to find an LBD. Despite all of my formalwear, I actually don't have one and have had need of one on a couple of occasions. I had to improvise with separates (which I achieved with mixed success). Finding a cute, modest and affordable LBD is kind of a challenge. I thought this one might qualify. So, I bought it.



I'm hoping: 1) it's hemmable. This model is probably 5'10", which means this "knee-length" skirt would come to my mid-calf. :) 2) it doesn't look matronly. The good news is if neither of those things prove to be true, it's returnable.

Oh my. I just admitted that I bought this online on Sunday. It was at like 11pm. And I swear I was incredibly focused on sabbath-like things the whole time. Don't tell Ben. But it kind of put the cherry on top of my Sunday.