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Friday, November 25, 2022

These blessed days before Christmas

It has been raining and raining. Not that I mind or complain, after the draught this rain is a blessing, it's just that a homemaker really needs some days of sun, or at least, that it doesn't rain so she may dry some clothes in the wind.


I do like the nice smell of dried clothes, if they are mine they smell like lavendar, the others have other nice smells. My children relate lavender with all things mine and they like to have their own scents. And I must say I don't like lavender scent on the kitchen laundry, I prefer to have it on my own things or the bathroom laundry.


Anyway, it has been quite a real Autumn with all this rain, wind, fog and it has been rather cold, at least as cold as it can be in this corner of Europe.

The days go by and I give thanks to Our Lord every day for all those blessings He gives to us. Even in the more difficult days we feel, so clearly, His Hand on us, guiding us, protecting us and helping us in each step of the way. Thanks be to God in His Saints and in His Angels and, above all, in His Holy Mother.


The First Thankgiving - September 8, 1565 - https://myfloridahistory.org/frontiers/article/140 

I'm not American but I do like Thanksgiving, even if we don't celebrate it, but I like it because one upon a time my husband, still not even my fiancé, organized a lunch with several people just to invite me. Well, one year later we were already married and I don't regret it at all.


After Thanksgiving it comes black friday which, even if I don't like the name of it, I like the reduced things we can find on that day.

And about Christmas, I must say that I'm singing Rudolph since October so I am in Christmas mood for a long time.

 



I've been buying and wrapping presents for a whole month now.


One of this days I will post about it as I like to do it every year.


From last year

Bye for now, see you tomorrow, maybe.

Thursday, November 24, 2022

Happy Thanksgiving

 




Happy Thanksgiving to all !

Let's give thanks for everything that Our Lord gives to us.





Tuesday, December 28, 2021

Presents


Christmas Day came and go. No that Christmas is past yet as it goes to the Epiphany, but the Day itself, I mean.

I spent the days before preparing for the big day shopping for the last presents, for the last ingredients and finishing wrapping the presents. I had not a spare moment to come here and say something.

Now all is calm and rest and here I am.

I will leave you with the animation of  the wrapping season, the happiness.

So it went from this




to this 




and this





then to this


and at last to this !! 😄


So many hours of wrapping and all the presents are out and the pretty papers done in rubble with the bows apart. It was all worthwhile. The happiness in those faces for each opened present !
Thanks be to God !

Monday, December 13, 2021

Only 12 days till Christmas


Did you realize that we are only 12 days away from Christmas ?

Do you have most of your presents bought ? What about wrapping ?

I must say that I bought already a lot of them but I will make some more trips to the shops to buy the ones I didn't do yet. But things are under control, thanks God.

Even the wrapping is half done. I'm quite pleased with myself.

And the book keeping related with Christmas shopping is not bad either - even if I need to give it a refressh soon.

I even bough the meat to Christmas day lunch. The cod for the Eve is on its way.

May Our Lord grants us peace everyday that we have from now to that blessed Day, and Eve, and let's give thanks  for what we have already now.



Remember that there is no Christmas without Christ.

Sunday, December 12, 2021

Viva la Virgen de Guadalupe !

 


Today is the Day of Our Lady of Guadalupe.

If you want to know more about what happened in those times, the amazing science findings on the tilma of Juan Diego, the Indian saint, go here.

Friday, December 10, 2021

Those lovely times at Christmas

Christmas time in those delightful days of the past through ads and other images by Roger Wilkerson, Norman Rockwell, Stevan Dohanos and others.

Shopping
















Wrapping





Decorating








The Eve and The Day













It happens every year and we expect it everytime.

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Shared at Grace at Home nº448 in Imparting Grace

Wednesday, December 8, 2021

The Immaculate - Solemnity



Who is she that cometh forth as the morning rising, fair as the moon, bright as the sun, terrible as an army set in array?

Song of Solomon 6:10 DRB

In a day like today, so many years ago, when I was a little baby just some months old, it was my Christening Day. And in what day was it? On the day of the Solemnity of the Immaculate Conception.

The ones who are interested in learn about it can read it here: Feast of the Immaculate Conception.


Thanks be to God.


Image 1 - The Immaculate Conception / Tiepolo

Image 2 - The Immaculate Conception of El Escorial / Murillo