Countdown! Only 10 days until daughter Lovina and Daniel’s wedding day! This is shopping week — my least favorite job for a wedding. It takes lots of brain work to figure out exactly how many eggs, flour, milk, butter, sugar, and other ingredients you need for meals to feed 1,000. This isn’t for 1,000 people, but I count how many will be here at the noon meal, how many in the evening, then add those numbers together.
My friend Ruth is coming to my rescue once again. She’s a great help with this job. She not only takes me to where I want to shop but also checks prices for me.
If you are buying more than 40 pounds of butter, you see a big difference in the price. Or 40 loaves of bread, 500 pounds of chicken, 400 pounds of potatoes, and so on. No, I still haven’t sewn Lovina’s wedding dress, cape and apron.
My goal is to do that on Wednesday, then go shopping on Thursday. It will only take me a day once I get down to it. Today, some of Daniel’s family is coming to help, so that will take more jobs off my list.
Last week, when sister Emma and her family, sister Verena, and all my daughters came, we accomplished quite a lot, and many items were crossed off my list. We put more than 12 dozen egg yolks into noodles, canned 28 quarts of rhubarb juice, and made four batches of strawberry jam that we put in the freezer. The basement and back porch windows and doors were cleaned along with my back porch (entrance area).
They all worked a little later than usual to help get.