A peaceful Sunday with church, a walk, and making chicken noodle soup

It was good to be at liturgy today... 

nice coffee hour afterwards with good talks...

We had a nice walk... hard to know how to dress...

cold when the wind is up and not as cold when it is not...

I dressed warmly but, as the wind died down, I was carrying my new

red coat by the time we returned, but was so glad for it 

when the wind was blowing! 

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Tonight I prepared a chicken soup for the crock-pot...

used these two recipes (one, two) to start off with and then basically added a lot of 

carrots, half of a huge onion, dried celery seeds (since I did not have celery),

parsley, thyme, salt and pepper... 

I am going to cook it overnight and finish preparing it in the morning

(de-boning, taking off the chicken skin + cooking the noodles while doing so)

and we will have it for lunch tomorrow! 

If I have a chance, I hope to make bread to go with it! 

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Tomorrow afternoon I am going to NYC (again!) and hope to go to 

Trader Joes (simple list, 2 things: organic spinach and bananas!)

and will have a meeting later on...

It's going to be cold so I will dress warmly! 

We will come home and reheat the soup and have soup and bread for dinner,

most likely with hot ginger tea! 

That is going to be so nice, God willing! 

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I was looking at my shelf with all my new vintage Miss Read books

and suddenly an image of my old hometown library,

that when I was a child was in an old white clapboard church,

and there on the shelf near a window, I am sure of it, 

was a whole shelf of Miss Read books.

She was still busy writing them when I was a child and I know that library

well and have no doubt that these books were, in fact, there

as they would have been well loved by many who lived there... 

It's funny how you can remember places that no longer are...

I remember the light of the library, bright light, yellowish walls,

cheerful, simple and so many rows of books... 

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I remember the librarian of my childhood too,

curly short grey hair, big round glasses,

so friendly and remembering everyone's names...

it was a happy place to visit...

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I am dreaming more and more of Thanksgiving and of

Christmas and the gifts (esp baked goods!) that I hope to make...

it's lovely to have things to look forward to!

I hope you are all having a good Sunday

and that your week begins peacefully.

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We all have our challenges in life and things don't always 

turnout how one expects (to say the least) but we have

hope nonetheless and it is amazing to me that God loves us;

I used to take this more for granted I think, 

not realizing how little I deserved such love... 

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May you all have a blessed week and the help you need in it!