Day After Thanksgiving: Bringing Out the Christmas Tree!

Guess who woke up a bit before 7 AM and began setting up the 

Christmas tree at 7 AM?

Yep. Me. It did me good.

Boy, that's a lot of work!

Of course I would get all done, and 

our main window shade DIRECTLY behind the 

Christmas tree would break and I had to move the

WHOLE quick-unplug-the-lights tree. 

Sigh. 

But it's back in place now 

(without a window shade to pull down behind it)...

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Mr Husband drove me down town (in our NJ town)

so I could get my boots (they were being repaired)

and (I asked) he picked me up some lentil soup for dinner!

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Pilgrim:  I think what you were referring to is this person 

which poem did she mention? 

I see she referenced it but did not name it.

So neat that there are so many valuable 

resources to think upon!

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This week was good but tiring,

hard but worth it.

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We are staying local for church DV and resting.

I need to go to NYC next week

and I need to rest up!

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Tomorrow I hope to finish the Thanksgiving cleanup

(still a few things to wash) and finish the Christmas

decorating.... of course I got most of it done today,

Thank God.

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May God bless and keep you all,

dear readers and many blog friends! 

Thanksgiving 2020

 I think for most people celebrating Thanksgiving today,

it was a day of gladness and sadness 

all wrapped confusedly into one day.

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I don't have much more to say about it

but that our hearts were blessed, were glad,

and our hearts were heavy and sad.

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It was a different type of Thanksgiving.

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One HUGE thing I was super thankful for, 

other than the amazing food of course and a blessing

of a select few coming over,

was that the weather went from rainy to sunny and,

for November, warm.

We even had a walk....

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I pray that no matter what your personal situation is,

that you know that God sees it, 

that He cares and that His mercy and lovingkindness

never fail.  God bless you.

Monday: Cold and Sweet

For many of us, these days are hard.  

All the more reason to remember what we are thankful for.  

Here's a few of my own thanksgiving thoughts today.  

1. God's mercy and His mercy never fails. 

2.  My marriage and that we get to grow together.  

3.  I made my Mom's chili and Jiffy cornbread for lunch and I was one happy camper

 (last few meat meals before the Nativity fast that begins this Friday!).  

4.  Beautiful music that lifts up.  

5.  Great books to read and savour.  

6.  New recipes to try (DV the apple crisp tomorrow!) 

7.  Grocery delivery service.  

8. Most of our thanksgiving meal is being delivered to us via the grocery delivery service! 

9. I am so far on track for what needs to be done each day

 in preparation for Thanksgiving.  That means that today...

10.  I was able to make our bathrooms 'squeaky clean' again 🙂  

11. That I can make our home beautiful and orderly.  

12.  Things I ordered for Christmas came today! 

13. Phone calls and texts from dear ones near and far. 

14.  That tomorrow is a new day and that God's mercy is new every morning. ❤