My First Daybook

Outside my window...

We are waiting for... RAIN!!  It has been one dry winter here, and we are all a little parched. Bring on the torrential downpour!

I am thankful for...

My husband.  He is working so hard to take care of our family right now.

I am thinking about...

A muy muy delicious-looking cake from a Julia Child episode I just caught on PBS.  Of course I did not see the whole episode, just the completion of this marvelous cake with a chocolate coating and raspberries... perhaps I can Google it?  And make it in that magical 30 minutes between the time the children fall asleep and the time one of them wakes up?  Ha.

Learning all the time...

How to use Blogger.  I know very little about posting.  I hope I can figure out all the options, how to post links, books and references.  I also hope that, if I do get any followers to this blog, you will bear with me while I work out the kinks.

I am creating...

A homemaking lifestyle.  Although I have desired this forever, this is new for me. I've been a stay-at-home wife and mother for 10 months now, ever since Chickadee was born, but I think I only really realized and embraced this in the last few months, when it became clear that I wouldn't be going back to work for some time.  Which is WONDERFUL BEYOND WORDS!!  I want to shout it from the rooftops.  But, there is a lot of creating in process.


From the kitchen...

Chicken and dumplings.  My first try, last week, was delicious.  I tried it again this week but with different dumplings, and it was not quite as perfect.  Yummy, but without that nice gravy quality.  I'm always a little averse to cornstarch, and don't have arrowroot in the house at the moment; it was too late to thicken with flour and we had guests, since our priest and his wife had come for our house blessing and stayed for dinner.  Need to figure out how I made the dumplings last week and write it down.


Also - a new batch of baby food:  kale and pear, which even I thought was delicious, and peas, which I have never managed to like, but which was a big hit with Chickadee and with the little baby I'm also taking care of, we'll call him Laddie.  

I am working on...
Friendships.  They are wonderful, and deserve a little tender, loving care.  So, dinner with a very old friend whom I haven't seen in more than ten years (she lives in Alaska) is on the calendar this week.  A friend and I are throwing a baby shower for a new friend from church in a few weeks, I'm really looking forward to that.  And... I will be seeing my sisters-in-law in just a month or so!  Ok, they are family, but they are friends too, and I'm pretty excited to spend a little girl time with them.

I am going...
To try to go to Vespers every Saturday for the rest of this month.  It always makes our week more lovely.


I am hoping...
To finish this, my first blog post, and to be able to keep up with this fairly regularly.  I have already been interrupted in the range of 15-20 times during the writing of this, but it's all been to do joyful little things like feed the baby (those yummy peas), put Bluejay down for a nap (he goes to sleep all by himself, it is a thing of beauty) and find the diaper cream.

I am reading...
Man of God - Saint John of Shanghai & San Francisco.  Here is where I need to figure out how to post those linky things and send you right over to Amazon.

I am praying for...
My husband's job.

I am hearing...
Chickadee bouncing up and down in Laddie's car seat.  It's new, sitting here in the living room waiting for me to install it in my van, so we don't need to be housebound even though I'm taking care of another baby for a few months.  So, it's quite the novelty, plus it has that nifty cow pattern on it.  I love all things cow!

One of my favorite things...
Panettone with chocolate in it, and coffee!!  Oh it is so yummy.  Moist and soft and chewy and delicious with a nice strong sip of coffee to go along with it.  Alas, I am once again trying not to drink much coffee.  It makes me feel dehydrated and probably a little stressed.  Tea is better.  I guess.  But I miss you, coffee.  Why do you make me so happy?

A few plans for the rest of the week...
Laddie tomorrow and Friday morning.  Dinner with a friend and my dad on Friday night.  A nice quiet Saturday, maybe I'll take Bluejay and Chickadee to the park!  


Here is a picture thought I am sharing with you...

Hopefully we will not need to water this guy for a little while.

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