cookies bagged, tea blended, a sudden power outage and a prayer request for my beloved Grandma Ruth

St Nicholas gifts ready (bag of cookies in the last bag on right added since!)

 From early this morning...I wrote:

"So, I had the funniest happiest "nightmare" one could have: the dream was that one of my friends was getting married and I was so down in the dumps because I kept thinking of this friendship I had with this great guy but I was already married and so very depressed because I could not marry the guy that was actually the one I wanted to marry because I married someone already who was so not as good a friend as my newer friend and THEN I suddenly remembered my wedding picture and saw that actually I DID marry the guy I wanted to, as the one I was wishing I could marry (instead of this none-friend nightmare dream) was my Husband!!! I married my best friend!!! We can go on having adventures together!!! Boy did I wake up happy today. Isn't that the funniest but most strangely happy dream? 

ps: my Husband, who I just read this too, said that this sentence was nearly a Pauline length run-on sentence (ST Paul used VERY long sentences in his New Testament letters!)"

 Worked on a new tea blend,

earl grey with rose petals, lavender, cinnamon and vanilla! 

I bagged all the cookies for St Nicholas day today! 

I am ready!!! Can't wait, God willing! 

So, earlier the power suddenly went out! I calmly got our battery powered lantern, lit candles and found batteries for our other lantern.... about 15 / 20 minutes and the power went back on! A lot of our immediate area had lost power too! I was already mentally preparing for a cold night with no heat, thinking of our extra blankets, when we suddenly had power again!

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A friend is coming for lunch and my Husband and I will be off

for St Nicholas vigil and liturgy after that! 

I may not be able to blog until Wednesday, so don't worry if you don't

hear from me tomorrow!

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I am still working on a few Christmas presents but have almost everything ready.

I will do more baking for Christmas (January 7 Christmas) I hope in the new year!

I will be too busy with family Christmas things before to do more!

If we stay healthy that will be best! 

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My Grandmother Ruth has her knee replacement surgery tomorrow morning.

I do ask your prayers for her, please!!!

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May God be with all of us, bless and protect us!