Thursday, February 19, 2026

First celebratory pot of tea: Victorian London Fog


Victorian London Fog by Harney and Sons is warm, comforting and creamy. My (lactose free milk aka sweet milk) added to the sense of comfort, brought the vanilla in the tea to the forefront and was just a lovely milk cream black tea swirl of comfort 🫖💜🥛☕🫖

I realized (it takes a bit for me to realize the obvious sometimes 🤣🫣🙃 that my egg salad needed more mayo (the chopped egg was not sticking together). 

My new mug is quite big! Basically my teapot fills it twice + a swallow of tea left behind! 

Great for a quick but enjoyable breakfast! 

There may be a storm coming, I am a bit concerned about the house blessing.  Meanwhile my professional help is coming later today.  I am SO HAPPY to get our house in order again!  

May God guide us and have mercy! 

Wednesday, February 18, 2026

teacups & today


I have been (especially when trying to sleep at night) imagining my teacups and how to make pretty tea party tables.  

We are supposed to, God willing, have our house blessing dinner this Sunday night.  Possible snow storm coming.  

Hopefully everything will be OK. 

I can't wait until I can have caffeinated tea again! I am trying to get better with my bronchitis first.  I am improving..... 🩷🫖

I have a lot to be thankful for!
May God have mercy on us. 

yay! ☺️


My ankle is healing well! I only need the walking boot for two more weeks and then a brace.  I was able to do the X-ray standing and it was without any pain when two weeks ago I definitely was having pain.  So I'm very thankful! 

I know it's in part a large part because of all the prayers going up for me in my healing! 

To celebrate my husband and I are getting takeout Indian food to enjoy! 🥰🍽️🫖

May God have mercy on us all!

Small things & Ortho Appointment


New mug, a Christmas gift 🥰🎁

Orthopedic doctor appointment today.  My ankle seems to be healing well. Sometimes it's itchy which is GREAT because it indicates HEALING ☺️

I hope to get a lot of rest today.

Dorothy Sayers A Cloud of Witnesses is great company (a Golden Age detective mystery novel). 

May God have mercy on us 🙏🕯️💛

Tuesday, February 17, 2026

Larissa's lamp is back


I am so very glad. 💛

Tuesday Progress

Things are still messy BUT the Christmas tree and all under it is put away.  And my table cloth is changed for Great Lent.  

They (the professionals I know personally) come back Thursday.  

Now I get to rest.  I am so thankful for the help!

May God have mercy.

Monday, February 16, 2026

Monday Progress

I am happy to say that some professionals I already know hope to help me Tuesday 3 hours and Thursday 3 hours to take down all my Christmas things and get ready for our DV Sunday house blessing!

My ankle swelling is down! Still more to go but progress 🙏 

Things are very busy.  I hope to rest well tonight.  

May God have mercy on us! 

Sunday, February 15, 2026

Sunday blessings

I had a good day.  I am relieved that tomorrow my Husband and I will be home alone together. 

May God have mercy on us.

Saturday, February 14, 2026

Happy moments from tonight 💝🌹


While my Husband was at vespers I made my little Valentine's Day display!

my beloved husband got me roses as a pick-me-up 🥰🥰🥰🩷🌹🌹🌹💝

Life is not all one thing or another but getting out our traditional Valentine's Day decorations / cards really cheered me up! 🩷❤️🥰 My friend mailed me the cute kitty Valentine's Day card 💝🌹 

May God have mercy on us all.


Even so, today is still Valentine's Day

My husband gave me an Ortho book 🥰 as I call them 📚 ☦️ ... 

I had made him a Valentine's Day card ❤️🌹💝 Earlier this week.

We both had a chocolate (there went my resolve to NOT have sugar 🤔🤣) he had the pecan delight and I had the dark chocolate caramel ❤️🍫... 

I have to find him my other Valentine's Day card ❤️. 

I'm still listening to the same Noble grief song of beauty that I blogged about in my blog post before this one. 

I'm going to go find my other Valentine's Day card for my sweetie. Now. I know just where it is! 🩷❤️

I will not write more about this


I was so excited about having the lady be a caregiver.  Out of respect and charity towards all, I can say this:

Years ago, as long time readers will know, I was let go from a job just days before my 6 months were up and I would be a permanent employee.  A lady who was hired to support me (I had the higher position) stayed in contact with told me how distressed my boss was.  Years later, when I was perhaps more mature, I understood that my boss actually cared about me.  She was in an impossible situation. She actually flew to Ottawa to be with me when I was terminated and was trying not to cry.  

Now I understand because it's me now, crying because I liked the woman we employed but it was in the end an impossible situation and we have parted ways, paid her wages and are done.

The song 2:14​ Prime (Version) and others in this set I was given last summer and I found it again yesterday (remember my phone died in November and I lost all my WhatsApp chats and YouTube downloads) and to me it expresses the great love and tragedy of life. I listened to it a lot this past summer in Ottawa when God did a lot but I was still so pitiablely sick. 

this song REALLY does this ⬆️⬆️⬆️⬆️ 

Music is amazing for what it can express and give words to the unspeakable grief tragedy beauty and love that is all mixed together.

Sometimes you only have a person in your life briefly for reasons you don't know.

I was getting more sick not less because of the situation that is now over.  But I saw great beauty in her even though we only had a week together.

May God have mercy on us all.

Friday, February 13, 2026

reduced to silence

So the more I talk, the more exhausted I am.  And talking is aggravating my bronchitis.  If that gets really bad, I can't sleep at all because I am coughing too much to sleep. 

Last night about 10:20 pm I hit a wall and was basically sobbing. My Husband kindly let me have my Hug from God Bible verses / prayer card in a box because all I could think of is "I need a hug from God"...

I read all 60 verses through once and before that half of the verses. It's really nice.

I have an unbloggable concern that I need to figure out / come to peace about and surrender to the Lord.

I am very tired.  But God has a reason for all of this.  

The WONDERFUL thing was that I had Confession and Communion early this morning!

May God have mercy on us.