A Funny Thing Happened

A funny thing happened to me the other day. Well, not so funny really. Perhaps this is a sign of growing old. Last Saturday I was supposed to have a meeting with the other new leaders in our Stephen Ministry care group. I had invited everyone the week earlier for 10 am at my place. Well, too much on the go and on the mind and it showed!

We had company one day earlier than expected and that totally changed my thinking. People in your house tend to shuffle your priorities. Don't get me wrong...it was great to have him but in doing so, I totally forgot about my meeting the next day. My husband and visitor left early Sat morning to go for a Tim's coffee and breakfast. I slept in. After cuddling with my coffee and watching my fav show 'The Dog Whisperer' I had to answer the phone which was our newphew enquiring about our visitor and if he could come over. I told him to call my husband's cell to check it out. In the meantime, and just in case, I decided to have a shower and clean up things a bit and was just going to have my breakfast when the doorbell rang.

Of couse, you know it was one of the leaders for the meeting! She had come earlier than expected she said and hoped that was ok. She could tell I didn't know why she was there by the expression on my face! I wondered if someone was sick, or if she had a problem, or if she just occasionally showed up on people's door steps on Sat mornings (was she a Jehovah's Witness in her real life??!). No to all of the above. She was just a few minutes early for our planned meeting.

Anyway, I was in a flap from that moment on. Fortunately I was dressed and had just finished doing my hair! That's important. However, I was still in a tizzy as I had not done up the Agenda for our meeting as I so officially always do and had no clue as to what the order of the day was going to be! I like to be in control but this was NOT going to happen. I had to learn how to 'go with the flow' which is not part of my personality. The other two leaders showed up shortly after that. Everyone was early! Good for them - I hope it will be the same in the future. This morning, though, it would have been nice if they were LATE!!

We made it through - without cookies, or goodies, and had to wait for the coffee to be made - but somehow things were discussed and we got stuff done! I am looking at my notes from that meeting now and I definitely see caos in the first half of the notes I took and much more order and discipline in the latter half. Guess it took me that long to settle down!! A good lesson for me.

So, you would think I would be ready for today's meeting, right? WRONG! I did not forget about it this morning but there was a lot of discussion between me, myself and I last night as to what I was going to serve. I was tired after working all day so in my head I was deciding I would make a quick Bisquick hot biscuit with coffee for the morning meeting at 9:30 as there would be just the two of us. I was up at 7 am and trying to get the minutes done from our last meeting on Saturday which I would normally do RIGHT AFTER the meeting but of course, not this time! I got half way through and realized that biscuits would not be ready because I did not have the time to make them. So....I took off to the store at 8:15 to pick up something. By the time I got home, there were 4 messages on my phone. Four! count them, 1, 2, 3, 4 !!! at 8:30 in the morning!! People!! Anyway, by the time I got through the messages, one of them was from the Leader who was going to be at my place for 9:30 am She had a migrane in the night and would be unable to attend. I sighed a heavy sigh. "No problem" I said. "I still have lots of other things to do as well". We talked a little about what the agenda would have been and said we would try to talk more later int the week.

So, now I am relaxing a bit but definitely will be finishing my Minutes and organizing my thoughts so that does NOT happen again. But first things first...I think I will have a piece of that Banana Loaf I bought for my meeting. I just hope I do not get distracted by anything else before I get my Minutes done!

Oh, last minute thought. The other leader chuckled when I told her I had slipped out to pick up some Banana Loaf for our meeting. She said she had made some of the same for her meeting last night and forgot to take it with her so she was going to bring it this morning! What a joke that would have been when we both would be 'serving up' Banana Loaf. Well, I think it would have been funny.