Snow, Ice, Rain...books, baking and meals...

My wish was granted! My Husband stayed home to work from home today!

The snow was falling by 2 PM, I can hear people out shoveling as I write this,

now after 10 PM... it's still windy, freezing rain has been falling for a good while,

I am not sure if anything is still falling now... we had a lot of wet snow... it won't last around here though and I expect it will be gone latest by Saturday. 

Our house is a bit of a cluttered mess...tomorrow I will attend to this DV 

and I hope do bookstore and maybe come correspondence that I am very behind in.

So I baked today, caramel toffee bars... I think I will make them 'bites' as they are so rich

and I don't have too many of them, once they are cut up into pieces that is, 

 and have many people I wish to give baked goods too...

I LOVED Miss Read's Village Diary and am now on to her Storm in the Village...

I ordered a new hat this past week, after feeling the guilt I struggle with at times when

wanting to buy something...still working that out.

Anyway, the hat will be for special occasions, as is my other 2 hats, same hat,

just different colour (I have a black and a white one) and I hope to wear it for Thanksgiving

and also Christmas (my Christmas outfit is the same colour as the hat, 

sweater/shirt part of the outfit that is....)

We are still having some unbloggable concerns... 

but we are doing what we can everyday and we keep working on things

together, as a team and I thank God so much for our marriage and that we

really did become best friends... 

I have started to read Tolkien's letters to Mr Husband before we wind down

for bed and those have been quite striking... 

we listened to the Hobbit at lunch and dinner today and that is lovely...

we hope to do more of this tomorrow!

Tolkien's books really bring us both a lot of comfort and 

we have much to be thankful for.

I did a bunch of laundry today... and did a total OOPS too...

used a different sized parchment paper (as I was newly out of the kind I normally use)

and it was too big and caught fire in the toaster oven.

Without thinking I threw cups of water and got the fire out, but 

forgot to unplug it first... so hopefully it is still working! 

It's unplugged now, the whole area I cleaned and I carefully, after it was unplugged,

cleaned and dried the inside and outside... it's tipped  on it's side right now as one part seemed wet

still, though it's dry now... so tomorrow will check it out with Mr. Husband...who is working

from home again tomorrow...

Thank God it was not worse... 

I am so glad for ordinary quiet days like this one, home with my Husband

and a nice chat on the phone with my Mom earlier today 

and a warm home and warm bed and hot water bottles for extra warmth

on the colder days, thinking of all those struggling,

all those who don't have what they need to stay warm...

may the Lord have mercy and keep them safe, warm, by His miracles... 

Lord have mercy, so many suffering, struggling!

Lord have mercy on us all!