{Around the House} ~ progress and continued effort

We finally got a shelf for above the kitchen 

sink a few weeks back...

The bare wood in front will be stained at a later

time...for now I am just glad to get this up

and to have my beloved

icon of the Theotokos, Virgin of Vladimir,

up in my kitchen...

such a sweet and most-loved icon!

This is what my kitchen looks too many times

during the week...

it's a constant effort to keep things from being cluttered!

So much of our lives is full of the routines

of clutter / cleaning / trying-to-keep-clutter-from-happening

and clutter again...

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At least God and the Mother of God are with us

no matter what our kitchens look like...