We had arrived last night at 10:30 p.m. in from the cottage, about one hour and a half away.   Amazingly, the house looked company ready and no panic was needed for the church friends that were coming to our home in the morning with a guest pastor from India.

I got up around 5, prayed for about an hour. Then I went to the freezer to decide what to have for our potluck today.  I have been in a habit for the past year, that when ever I make a meal for our  family, I make a second one at the same time and put it in the freezer.  I can't tell you what a great new habit this has been in improving the quality of my life!!  On many days that I have felt like only doing what I feel like doing, I can get away with it because I go to my freezer, pull out something like lasagna that I had made a month ago, put it in the oven, and when my husband and kids came to the dinner table in the evening, it looks like I knocked myself out by having the table set, some garlic bread and salad with the lasagne.  Likewise, there have been times I have had our church coming on Sunday morning,  that I had no clue to what I would serve.  The last time they came, I opened up my freezer, sleepy eyed in the early morning, and to my delight, I had forgotten I had made meatloaf and froze 2 extra ones!   

This Sunday morning, I looked in my freezer, and I found a dish full of beef meat balls, and another dish full of ground chicken meat balls, already cooked and ready to be added to a spagetti sauce ( in my family I have 3 people that won't touch red meat with a 10 foot stick, so I always make 2 versions of everything - beef/chicken spaghetti, meatloaf, etc..)     I went to my pantry shelf and found 2 big mason jars of my mom's homemade spaghetti sauce.  I added more sauce to make the quanity go farther and seasoned it accordingly, cut the meat balls in quarters (so the kids wouldn't pick out all the meat balls when they served themselves), then simmered it from 7:00 a.m. until we ate that day around 3:00 p.m.  It was the best spag hetti I had ever made.  I think it was because it simmered all day and the flavor really melded together, and the water evaporation left it a nice thick marina sauce.  But the positively best part was that I made it with minimal effort!  I served  garlic bread with it that  I just happened to have 3 full boxes of in my freezer that I had gotten from Walmart. It had 0  trans fat grams in it (extremely important to me).