A Lovely Sunday

Church this morning.

Beautiful new icons including one of

St James, the Brother of our Lord, who wrote 

the first liturgy in the time of the Apostles!

The liturgy we use today is shorter than his

but has many correlations. 

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My parents-in-law came to our far-away church, 

where they have been and visited many times over the last 25+ years

and it was so wonderful esp. to have my Husband's godmother talking with them

at length at coffee hour and just listening to the happy memories and catching up! 

My parents-in-law, my Husband, and I all had different hot drinks for our "coffee time"

that we had before dinner of pizza and salads...

Mom had decaf coffee, Dad hot chocolate, my Husband ginger tea and myself decaf tea!

We all enjoyed the homemade cookies and other treats! 

+Patrick's been on my mind a lot, so I am using his teacup, it's such a blessing,

one that I do not take foregranted! 

I made a pizza tonight and my Mother-in-law made the fruit salad and I made the green salad.

It was a really nourishing delicious meal! 

It was a really fun meal! 

Tonight I finally got most of a form that I had been trying to get done

for over a year, my Mother-in-law helped a lot;

and my Husband and his Dad built a new shoe rack for us that we got at IKEA.

So that was really fun! 

Tomorrow more work DV will be done - in our shower, my Father-in-law is 

putting in a new tile, replacing one that needed replacing and

they hope to put up metal shelves in a closet we call 

'our crazy closet' because it has no shelves and has stuff jammed in there

in a half-hazard 'crazy' fashion.

My father-in-law also fixed a cupboard hinge that was broken for over a year,

a light bulb that was flickering over our 'island', suggested a solution for my twinkle

lights that I always had to unplug and re-plug in to use,

and he unplugged my bathroom sink as well!

Hmmm, I just looked at my last blog post and I guess I am repeating myself a bit.

But it just goes to show that I am quite excited about all the fixes that have gone on! 

My Mother-in-law and I hope to reorganize our master bedroom closet as well.

I bought banker boxes that we need to assemble and use for this.

DV tomorrow I am making spaghetti for lunch and we are hoping to go out for dinner!

It's so encouraging to get things done around the house.

I am so thankful!