Through the Screens...

....there is blowing a most delicious breeze.

 After about a solid week of very oppressive heat,

 it feels like heaven!

Busy Days.....

.....but wonderful at the same time.

~Hope all of you in the U.S.A. had a wonderful Memorial Day weekend!

Strawberry~Volcano Mini~Muffins

They were supposed to just be Strawberry~Jam~Filled Mini~Muffins. But I got a little zealous with the strawberry jam....So I decided to call them  Strawberry~Volcano Mini~Muffins instead. The children thought they were the most amazing things ever.

One thing I have learned, which will remedy most all cooking mistakes (as far as your children are concerned;), is this:

Give whatever it is a really spiffy name.

And don't be afraid to use their favorite book characters or even authors! I know from experience......it works! ;)

(~Like Dr. Seuss's Orange Lumpy Muffins......yes.......they were pretty bad. An experiment with left~over pumpkin gone horribly wrong. Can't believe I don't have a picture. You'd have to see them to believe them. Anyways,  I came up with the name out of sheer desperation. And guess what? The children couldn't get enough of them!

~I think it might be a technique that would work for picky~eaters as well.....;) 

Tuesday Morning....

Stacks of pancakes.

Plenty of sunlight and singing birds.

Sheets drying on the line.

It doesn't get much better than this.

Sing in Silence

"Since our life as monks consists mainly in singing the praise of God, then, everything around us must also sing. Sing with fruitfulness, with the radiance of beauty.

Sing the truth .  .  . in silence."

~A Contemplative Monk

My Mother's Day Gift.....

As many of you know, I love hanging the wash out on the line. Back at "the cabin" there was a lovely umbrella clothes line that I was able to use, but when we moved here....nothing. For weeks, I had my eye on this, and told my Knight that I would love nothing more for Mother's Day.  Weeks went by and nothing was said. I resigned myself to waiting til the summer.....or maybe even later. Our budget is a bit tight right now, what with all the "restodling" we've been doing.

However, a few days before Mother's Day a great big box arrived!

And my Knight got it all set up this week (~he had wanted to put it up before Mother's Day, but circumstances beyond our control prevented it).

Isn't it the most beautiful thing you ever saw?!

I told him I 'd take it over a thousand diamond necklaces any day (not that he was planning to get me any!;) and he laughed at me.......but said that is one of the reasons he loves me so much.

The morning after he poured the cement, I couldn't wait and just had to run out and see how it was drying.

And my heart melted away when I saw this: 

He'd carved it with his pocket-knife and said he wasn't able to do a very good job of it because it was getting dark.

I think it is perfect.

It's the little things like this.

One of the many reasons I love him so much.

Ascension Thursday

"Grant we beseech thee, Almighty God, that we who believe Thy Only-begotten Son, our Redeemer, to have this day ascended into heaven, may ourselves also in mind dwell amid heavenly things. Through the same Christ our Lord Who liveth and reigneth with Thee in the unity of the Holy Ghost, one God , world without end. Amen."

~Prayer from today's Mass.

Aren't these flowers lovely?

Miss Posy picked and arranged them just for me.

That girl's got talent.

I just finished washing and chopping a rather large mound of potatoes.

Now they are in a large pot.....presumably simmering away on the stove;)

(My dear mother asked me to bring potato salad to the feast day dinner tonight.)

Mmmm.

I do love potato salad. 

Hope you all have a wonderful Ascension Thursday!