Christmas in Storefront Windows and the end of it all

These were all taken in NYC,  a week BEFORE Thanksgiving.

I am still at my parent's house.

I gave out wash clothes I knit while here, and am glad to have more time

to spend with my parents; I saw my Grandmother and others today also.

I am glad to see my family....

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I have heard two homilies recently of how 

we cannot stop change, we must think about the fact that one day

we too will die - that we here is only temporary and how we must 

be rich towards God.

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I am always reminded of that when I visit my family.

I will be 39 years old soon, my parents are retired, all will change....

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I find with all the distractions via technology and such,

that it is a struggle to remember God and keep

Christ as the Centre of our lives.

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May He help us prepare for His first coming at Christmas

and His second coming which we all await. 

Busy visiting family!

One of my favourite parts of my parent's house

My Mother's buffet 

Thanksgiving Dinner on Thursday!

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Mr. Husband and I have been in Michigan enjoying 

seeing friends and family!

He's back home as work calls but

I am here (have to clean out things I left for years

here at my parents!) until Thursday!

It's going to be another busy week, so if I don't post,

that's why!

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I am thankful for some good time away,

and I got to see my godmother today at church!

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And today is a fish day (hello Nativity Fast!) and my 

parents are making a great Sunday Fish Dinner!

A simple curry meal!

Above curry sauce,

50 grams worth of red curry sauce that is,

chopped up mushrooms and a red pepper.

Two cans of coconut milk.

Sauteed in coconut oil.

Plated over rice noodles... 

Cashews on top.

Many Beautiful Things to be Thankful For!

Beauty,

wonderful dinners, 

Cleo, 

daily walks, 

hot tea in mugs,

Mornings and Evenings with lampadas lit!

Yellow Leaf

I so loved seeing this yellow leafed tree on my daily walks in the park,

during late October, early November!

The leaves are falling now, Thanksgiving is just a week and a bit away 

and then Christmas will be around the corner! 

All things pile up

Stack of wash clothes knitted over the last months

Growing amount of squares for my many coloured blanket 

My treasure trunk is bursting with them...

I've been reading a lot:

Jan Karon books

Home to Holly Springs

Somewhere Safe with Somebody Good

Come Rain or Come Shine

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I've also re-read and read

Homecoming

Dicey's Song

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I've had a lot pile up on me, so much

that I did not even realize that it was a week since I blogged here.

I've not been able to keep up with my blog reading,

so sorry about that.

Just busy, I've been still feeling a bit under the weather, but

I've been taking walks almost daily,

am back to sewing and am trying to focus on this beautiful simple verse:

in everything give thanks.

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What are you reading and creating?

Yarn Along with us!

Beauty in Squares and Papa's Wife

I am still stitching away at wash clothes 

and also making more squares for my second 

many coloured blanket. 

I savoured my first reading of 

Papa's Wife,

such a lovely book about a family

with a deep Christian family

and many adventures,

and a very spunky wife and a very strong loving Papa!

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I also recently read 

another fun family book,

Cheaper by the Dozen.

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What are you reading and creating?

Yarn Along with us!

Books from the sale in Princeton...

Books that we got at the book sale,

including the last which is a first edition.

I actually realized, when reading the plot online, that this late L'Engle book is not one

I have read yet and I can see that it is more in line with L'Engle's 'adult fiction' with

betrayal, drama and such things.

It's one that my husband read years ago and by the end of it,

he felt that L'Engle as a Christian was being put to the test in it,

to paraphrase him.

Well, someday I will read it and have more to think on.