10th Day of Christmas ~ Purge Project Part II Is Complete

My kind of breakfast!

My Husband's breakfast dessert :)

Our hyacinth bloomed!!! 

I am so happy about this!

My good friend instructed me via text on how to make these Pelmeni. 

"I boil these in chicken broth and serve them with a small amount of the broth, 

a pat of butter, sour cream, and cracked black pepper."

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So I did this but forgot the pepper! 

I really enjoyed it! 

I did not make the whole bag as I thought it would be best

to make fresh and then eat right then. 

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My Husband joked about Pel-Meni (said like meany) 

calling it Pel-Nice-i instead LOL :) 

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Oh I love the 12 days of Christmas, it's like God puts His tent

over our house and we have more peace and joy for those days,

it's a gift that I am most grateful for. 

God wiling we will have these again for lunch,

and then dinner and onwards will be simpler

until Theophany, which is a great feast day

and thankfully Wednesday also is a fish day!

My Husband finished our rotisserie chicken,

I had the last of our chili (what I call My Mom's Chili) and

we both enjoyed some cheese and crackers,

it felt like Christmas :) 

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So, I halved my yarn supply.  I am giving it to my

cooking-advice friend mentioned above :)

In the large hamper that yarn used to live in,

(now it lives only in baskets above our bookshelves in the library)

I put a bunch of my old journals and books I want to keep but

am not going to read in the near future.

So by the time we get the very last of the books moved from 

our library, we will have reclaimed about 2 shelves.

That's above what I did earlier this past year...

Also did laundry, prepared meals, went to vespers...

pondered books I am reading... 

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I am so glad for these special 12 days of Christmas.

And that I was able to do so much clearing out of things.

I have more things I want to do,

like polish my silver-plate for instance, 

or get organized and figure out what we need for the 

Delft plates that we own but are not yet on the wall.

or clear the last of the papers from my tables in the living room.

Catch up with emails.

I need another week :)

and this week will not be a full week for us, so it goes.

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O Lord, that we can live our lives in peace!

May God save us and have mercy on us!