We found this wee snapping turtle on the driveway today. He's been moved to a safer location!
Monday, October 19
Sunday, October 18
A Little Work Trip
2020 has been a very strange year! My husband does a few filming jobs for his business every year, but he has been focused on helping parishes build better websites because of the pandemic. However, he was recently hired for his first on site filming job of 2020, so we all piled in the car and took the trip with him. It was great to get out of town and visit a church that is not too far from us. The filming came out well... now comes the hard task of editing!
Labels:
Orthodox Christianity,
Out and About
Saturday, October 17
Our Nephew's Baptism
Our littest nephew on my husband's side was baptized today at his home parish! He is the sweetest little one! May God Grant Him Many Years!
Labels:
Family,
Orthodox Christianity,
Orthodox Home
Friday, October 16
My Ikea Haul
Join me as I share the things that I purchased on a very quick trip to Ikea yesterday!
Labels:
Out and About
Thursday, October 15
Day Trip
Father John is filming at Holy Apostles
Russian Orthodox Church this weekend. They're in the process of
renovating this pretty little church. We're so happy to be taking our first little trips out of our neighborhood.
Labels:
Out and About
Wednesday, October 14
Chasing Glimmers of Light
Labels:
Homemaking
Tuesday, October 13
Monday, October 12
Breaking Habits at Forty
Labels:
Beauty
Sunday, October 11
Rose Glass for My Bedside Table
My dear sister Anna and her husband Justin surprised me
with this wonderful bedside carafe this week! Isn't it lovely? I had one
before I was married and it smashed one fateful day. I have always
wanted a replacement and it means a lot to me that they saw this and
thought of me!
Labels:
Family
Saturday, October 10
Training Himself Out of a Job
Father John taught our daughter to cut her youngest brother's hair! She watched her papa do our middle son and then she went for it! My husband is slowly working himself out of jobs: our daughter mows the lawn, does the livestreaming at church, and now cuts hair and our middle son uses the leaf blower!
Labels:
Learning
Friday, October 9
A Good Article
Also, nice: freshly whipped cream in a mug of hot chocolate.
Labels:
Reading
Thursday, October 8
Colors of the World
Labels:
Arts and Crafts,
Learning
Wednesday, October 7
Fading
I've been hanging on to this bouquet of dahlias as tightly as I can. Every few days I remove the faded blooms and rearrange the remaining ones in a new vase with fresh water.
Labels:
Homemaking
Tuesday, October 6
Swedish Meatballs for the Feast of Saint Innocent
Swedish Meatballs in Cream Sauce for my husband's Namesday! O Holy Saint Innocent Pray Unto God for Us!
Notes: The recipe is from Vikalinka's blog. I made the meatballs without the allspice and baked them at 400 degrees for 25 minutes (instead of frying them). I doubled the sauce and added 1 tsp of beef stock base The sauce needed to be thicker, so I made beurre manié with two tbsp of flour and two tbsp of butter and stirred that in at the end. I served the meatballs over egg noodles and sauteed baby bella mushrooms.
Notes: The recipe is from Vikalinka's blog. I made the meatballs without the allspice and baked them at 400 degrees for 25 minutes (instead of frying them). I doubled the sauce and added 1 tsp of beef stock base The sauce needed to be thicker, so I made beurre manié with two tbsp of flour and two tbsp of butter and stirred that in at the end. I served the meatballs over egg noodles and sauteed baby bella mushrooms.
Labels:
Kitchen
Monday, October 5
Beautiful, Natural Things
Labels:
Homemaking
Sunday, October 4
Sunday Dinner and Sunday Drives
We started to take Sunday Drives during the pandemic and have continued this summer. We ended up taking a road we had never go on before and spotted this estate. I wonder who lives there?
Saturday, October 3
Friday, October 2
Beautiful Packaging - My One Weakness?
Labels:
Kitchen
The Height of Elegance
Labels:
Learning
Thursday, October 1
Everyday Things
I have my beloved Grand Union flag up! It was the first American flag and is flown in Colonial Williamsburg.
I scrubbed the backsplash behind out stove and am so please with the result. It was a task that was making me quite nervous because the tile is fancy and very textured. Walmart has been out of many of the cleaning supplies in their cleaning aisle, so I had a very limited choice in scrubbers and spays. I went with the last bottle of Ecos All-Purpose Cleaner
(it says tough on grease and grime on the label, which I figured
couldn't hurt) and a pack of Scotch Brite original scrubbing pads. The
backsplash is now very clean and very matte (which is the original
finish! 😂). No more grease!
Our daughter and I sat on the front step this evening and bathed in the golden evening light. She's the dearest love.
Labels:
Homemaking,
outside
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