Saturday Sweetness

I woke up early and the house was quiet

and beautiful...

I did dishes, cleaned up the coffee table,

had hot tea and a slice of delicious banana bread (with chocolate chips!)

and...took a nap LOL ... :) 

7 AM is simply not my normal Saturday routine :) 

Had a second breakfast, Dutch rusks with strawberries and Dutch chocolate,

with Mr Husband... we had chicken burgers and a salad for lunch...

We went on a walk later in the day,

I rested a bit in the afternoon and made a simple pasta dish

for dinner...I had thought of making it an official casserole by

baking it after layering it but it was all hot, the house was 

feeling warm (we turned the AC on for the first time) and so I just 

put the hot cooked noodles down, the hot just cooked/reheated sauce

(I sauteed a chopped onion and then mushrooms to make the sauce

go farther; it worked; the sauce was pretty much doubled) with

2 layers of noodle/sauce/cheese... it worked! 

And it was really flavourful; I was worried that the amount of noodles would

overpower the sauce but it was actually quite tasty and nice with the cheese! 

I did a lot of dishes tonight, as well as laundry and then made up the dough 

for the bread I hope to bake tomorrow morning for breakfast...

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I felt like it was a pretty good day for me,

considering the challenges of this time.

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I pray that God will have mercy on us!