A Quiet Thursday with pots of tea and delicious food

Another quiet day at home. It's been a very good day. I got some more writing done. I'm absolutely loving this book. Very short on Einstein.  I chatted with a very dear friend. I enjoyed having the rest of the chicken pot pie which was ginormous! I had a bowl of chicken soup for dinner. I also enjoyed the scone that I'd gotten earlier which my husband said I might as well eat because he hasn't gotten to it. 

I must say I like Tea and Sympathy scones better!  They'll both are good.  Harney and Sons has a bit too much sugar for me. 

I was able to get some laundry done today.  

Grief is a strange thing. I went through a day or so where I couldn't read Lee Smith's novel at all. Today I read a little and it felt stable again. I think I was in so much grief that I couldn't take it. Of course the book has a lot of sadness in it....

I'm so glad that we have such days like I've had today. It wasn't always an easy day but it was a day of quiet. And I desperately needed it. We're getting a snowstorm this weekend. I'm already thinking I need to husband the milk I have! I have enough. I just really like hot chocolate! And I figured out that lactose-free milk being sweet added to cocoa alone is really good without extra sugar. 

The heart-shaped block of tea has rose petals in it. It's really good and I plan on using it again tomorrow. It says you can steep it twice, but actually it's such a profound amount of tea that you can use it more than twice! 

It's funny how grief is that thing that feels like it's swallowing you whole or like you need to yawn or you're desperately hungry and don't know why. Then you realize oh it's only grief. 

But grief takes time as does everything in life. And I've had many good moments today and clearly really good food. I'm extremely blessed and I'm very thankful for that.  

May God have mercy on us all.