Delicious or as we like to say with a Russian accent Duhliscious!
This is the delicious baked treat we had over Christmas and New Years. I will be posting the recipe in the future for my Russian friends who don’t have this recipe (Roolyet) handed down to them.
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Appetizer
When was the last time you received a surprise in the mail, and what was it?
Just this week I got 2 packages from the Bloggy world that made my day. One package all the way from Greece and the other all the way from Tennessee! I posted about it here. I also got a late Christmas gift in the mail of the new ESV Literary Study Bible.
Soup
If you could have a summer and/or winter home, where would you want it to be?
Interesting question because my hubby and I without any master planning on our own part do have two homes right now. We have our family home that we love to spend definite seasons in Washington State and now surprise to us we have a lovely little condo in Southern California because “Dear’s” job is located here right now. We have seasons whenever we want in the great Northwest and summer most every day in our condo in Southern California. The hard thing is being divided and paying two mortgages. We are waiting and trusting on the Lord to make us content wherever we are until the day we are finally in the best place…heaven!
Salad
Pick one: pineapple, orange, banana, apple, cherry.
Oh my this is hard. I love all these fruits. I love them all together. But I’m suppose to choose one so I’ll choose the versatile banana that is available all year long for about the same price!
Main Course
Describe the nicest piece of clothing that you own.
Whoa! I don’t own many fine pieces of clothing. These days I prefer to shop second hand and I hate to spend full price for anything. I have some nice pieces of clothing (great labels) that I have bought at Goodwill. The most versatile nice practical piece of clothing that I own right now that I did not buy at Goodwill is a great Gortex raincoat that keeps me dry in the great Northwest rain or the Great Britain rain! I bought that coat at REI!
Dessert
If you could forget one whole day from your life, which day would you choose to wipe from your memory?
Wow just one? There are so many from my junior high days. Then there are those from High school. Ugh those early days of dating. Yuck all those mistakes in early marriage and early parenthood. Sorry there is not one day that stands out from all the rest. Thanks be to God that He has mercy on me and that I can leave these days/mistakes behind and move forward in mercy and grace!
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A very Happy New Year to all!
We’re headed to the airport to fly back to Southern California from Washington early on New Year’s Day. We’ll be in the air and on the road for a large portion of the day. Today I have to totally de-Christmas my house and try to pack everything I want to take back to Cali with me. I won’t be back in Washington till Easter. The last few days of 2007 were spent with family and friends celebrating our daughter’s 22nd birthday and then just celebrating our friendships. It’s been an eventful busy year. Looking forward to what 2008 holds. Blessings…
The Birthday Party
The Soup Party the next night…
It’s always good to have a tupperware drawer way down low…
Photobucket has blacked out all my photos and is holding them hostage. I’m slowly cleaning up my posts to remove the ugly black and grey blocks that photobucket has inserted instead of my photos.
Today will be my last 6 mile walk with my buddies for a few months. I leave the Seattle Area for Southern California on New Year’s Day. Every Saturday for several years now we walk rain or shine or snow 6 miles on the trail. Usually 9am to 11 am. Of course when I’m in Cali the walk is with 2 instead of 3…
Don’t they look lonely without me??
We walk by Wayne Golf Course in Bothell. It’s a little under water from all our rain.
And when we are this old we hope to still be walking together on the trail.
I’ll miss you my friends. God knows the desires of our hearts and He is good to us. Blessings on the trail without me….
4th in Bothell, Washington.
6th at Baba and Deda’s sharing the day with Aunt Nina and cousin Stephen both born on the 27th too.
10th at the Skating rink where your dad broke his wrist…
12th bowling with fam and Hiller’s
13th with Jamie, Kristen, Heidi, and Christie (sorry Christie this was the only photo I had)
14th with Jamie, Heidi, Kristen, and Christie (very nice photo this time Christie!)
15th with Kristen, Heidi, Christie, and Katie K.
19th ~ the year of the ice cream cake…
20th ~ The year of the maple bar cake!
21st the Spice Bundt cake and another small crowd with Kristen, Christie, Jamie, Heidi, Ben and fam.
22nd will be another wonderful celebration with Bowling, Tacos and another Spice Cake!
We love you dear Katie and are so happy that God brought you into our lives 22 years ago. May your birthday and everyday be filled with an awareness of who created you and who you are in Him.
Photobucket has blacked out all my photos and is holding them hostage. I’m slowly cleaning up my posts to remove the ugly black and grey blocks that photobucket has inserted instead of my photos.
I am so thankful for all the love from family and friends that has filled my life this past week.
Today (December 27th) is our daughter’s 22nd birthday and we are so thankful that God blessed us with a little girl 22 years ago and that she has grown into a lovely young lady.
I am thankful that God continues to shower us with His blessings and extends His mercy to us each day.
Praying that God will fill your life with His love and Joy this coming New Year!
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My gift for you who visit here and all who participate in Thankful Thursday is this prayer from Ephesians. It is so rich and so full. Blessings on all of you at this wonderful Christmas time.
Ephesians 3:14-20 ~
“For this reason I kneel before the Father, from whom his whole family in heaven and on earth derives it name. I pray that out of his glorious riches he may strengthen you with power through his Spirit in your inner being, so that Christ may dwell in your hearts through faith. And I pray that you, being rooted and established in love, may have power, together with all the saints, to grasp how wide and long and high and deep is the love of Christ, and to know this love that surpasses knowledge that you may be filled to the measure of all the fullness of God.
Now to him who is able to do immeasurably more than all we ask or imagine, according to his power that is at work within us, to him be glory in the church and in Christ Jesus throughout all generations, for ever and ever! Amen.”
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Boo Mama is hosting a Bloggy tour of Christmas homes. Come join the fun.
Please do come in and enjoy my home at this beautiful Christmas time. Jesus has prepared the way for us to love and enjoy this season. There would not be a Christmas worth celebrating without Him!
The wreath welcomes you at the front door. Please do come in and make yourself at home.
I’ve been busy preparing for your visit.
From a Christmas past on to Christmas present…
The stockings are hung by the chimney with care…
and lighted garland is placed here and there…
Some Christmas decorations handed down from years gone by…
Now here’s a Caramel Pecan treat before we go any further. If you enjoy them you can find the recipe here.
Now to some tables set for my friends. First red and green on cream.
or how about gold with green?
Here’s the fun Christmas breakfast table set for the family with placecards and placemats from long, long ago.
I hope you enjoyed the tour of my home. It would be so much fun to see you in person and share a cup of coffee, cocoa, eggnog or tea to go with the Caramel pecan cookies. We could sit by the fire and enjoy the lights on the tree. Blessings on your day touring other homes. Click here to continue your tour from Boo Mama’s.
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Last year at the after Christmas sales I bought these great chair covers for half-price. Our everyday and breakfast Christmas table is casual and fun with Santa Bear place-mats from our daughter Katie’s 2nd birthday party 20 years ago.
The chair covers are Christmas hats with a little bells on the back of the covers that jingle when you move the chair.
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Photobucket has blacked out all my photos I was storing on their site and they are holding them hostage. I am working on updating my more than 4000 posts.
I am thankful that I got my cards/Christmas letter mailed out this week.
I am thankful that Dear will be back in Washington in a week.
I am thankful that God sent His Son to earth to live among us and to make it possible for us to have peace with God.
I am thankful for being in Ephesians this month and for this powerful passage…
Ephesians 1:3-10 ~ “Praise be to the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, who has blessed us in the heavenly realms with every spiritual blessing in Christ. For he chose us in him before the creation of the world to be holy and blameless in his sight. In love he predestined us to be adopted as his sons through Jesus Christ, in acordance with his pleasure and will – to the praise of his glorious grace, which he has freely given us in the One he loves. In him we have redemption through his blood, the forgiveness of sins, in accordance with the riches of God’s grace that he lavished on us with all wisdom and understanding. And he made known to us the mystery of his will according to his good pleasure, which he purposed in Christ, to be put into effect when the times will have reached their fulfillment to bring all things in heaven and on earth together under one head, even Christ.”
I am thankful for this wonderful time of year when we can reflect again and again on all we have in Christ.
Blessings on all of you.
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The Happy Wonderer ~ ellen b. 