roosje: {little rose}

Still quite busy here. My sister and her family are in the process of losing their foster son who they thought they would be adopting, he ha...

  It's amazing that it's already June! I am doing fine... busy, will be busy until July... just popping in to say hello... It is the...

So I need a new phone. Will be working on this some what soon. I think that's why I can't load pictures to my blog via my phone.  I ...

There is a lot of loss right now in my life on various fronts, between my foster-nephew, the w-a-r and other things.  I am learning to face ...

  We went away just for Sat-Sunday.  I got some great yogurt and jam last night!   Worshipped with a long time NJ-life (as in my life since ...

  I booked a plane ticket for mid-summer for me to be at my sister's foster son's birthday party.  He will be 3.  And so far it seem...

I got behind on laundry (and my Husband inadvertnaly hid my dirty socks, long but simple story) and finally I will have socks clean again.  ...

  Isn't this plate/saucer and teacup darling? in MINT condition! Got on Friday at the VNA rummage sale.  Thursday night I had terrible i...

My phone won't let me download pictures right now 😳🙄🤦‍♀️ I know that I am not here much. My writing project is taking over my brain n...

I managed to make chicken salad, egg salad sandwiches and beef roast slices with cheddar cheese mini bun...

Bright Monday.  I tried all 3 of my new Pascha teas.  I had my favou...

Pascha was very good 💗💐🙏🕯☦ 💗 Two pictures of our evening Pascha table.  3 hours of sleep necessitate a short po...

Meanwhile Holy Week is so beautiful. Deeply immersive. A church friend said that he read that the grace within Holy week can sustain us for ...

Great Lent has ended... now for the bridge between Lent and Holy Week... I am glad... my heart has a lot of heaviness about some things in t...

I put careful small stitches in two sides of this rushnyk in the middle with some of the white folded carefully. So that it woul...

  I may have slept but if I did, I woke again.  So.  Here I am. It's 12:30 AM EST here.  I am not overly worried about sleep right now b...

  A friend and I just finally exchanged Christmas (!) gifts yesterday, Sunday.  We were busy so opened our gift today.  And inside was this ...

first thanks so much everyone who commented or emailed me about my last post.  I can't say anything more about it but thank you so very ...

I can't fully comment on this book yet but am very hopeful.  I have had a great loss. I am OK. And I can't talk about it...

Lent sure has its challenges!  Not a lot to say. But I am doing OK and thankful for God's mercy. 

I had a really lovely full day today! I saw my dear friend Heather and her daughter! We laughed talked and loved our...

My Husband and I consumed half of a tart pan of this vegan dried fruit (cherries!) scones.  I finished a Miss Read book today. Dishes are do...

  Here we are again, amazing, second week of Great Lent. It's less intense than the first week but nothing is easy in this world, right?...

Beautiful presanctified liturgy tonight.  My brain has been spinning like crazy. My Writing Project is deepening. Words are comi...

and when I came to myself, I realized why.  Grief my friend, pure and simple grief.  The world events in Ukraine have deeply grieved me.  If...

NYC was good. I got a new box of toast & jam tea, lunch at Tea and Sympathy, restocked my scone mix from Tea and Sympathy, d...

Therefore my spirit is overwhelmed within me; My heart within me is distressed. ~ Psalm 143:4 NKJV *** This week for me has not only had wor...

It's before 11 PM and the evening is mine now.  I am relieved that I got most things tidy.  I am carefully re-reading a Madeleine L'...