I do believe the pink ones are my favorite. Which are your favorite?
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We’re both a lot older now! My mom turns 86 today and my dad will be 87 in May. My mother is truly the Proverbs 31 woman. She has always put her children and husband as a top priority in her life. Her first child died at 2 years old and she has raised 8 others sewing clothes for the girls and making 3 meals a day most of our lives except for Sunday mornings. On Sunday mornings because we’d all be in a hurry to get ready for church she’d get a break and we’d have store bought coffee cake for breakfast. Usually it was a frozen Sara Lee variety. Of course there would be preparations under way already for Sunday lunch. Usually we’d bring someone extra home for that lunch, too. Once in the while in the middle of the week my father would pick up a pizza from Johnny’s and we’d even get soda to have with it. (Did I get that right siblings? Was it Johnny’s pizza?)
So today I am thanking our God Almighty for giving us a mother who loves us, sacrifices for us, and loves her husband. It’s a wonderful heritage and we have benefited in many ways from it.
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For some of you that visit my blog regularly this will be a repeat. It’s time for Susan’s Tablescape Thursday so I wanted to post my actual Easter table for this week. Were you aware that tulips continue growing even after they are cut and placed in a vase?
I just realized that about all my tulips as I trimmed the stems each day when I added fresh water and they were taller the next day!
My centerpiece is the Traditional Russian Easter Bread (Kulich or Paska), Colored Eggs, and hollow Chocolate Russian Matryoshka dolls.
The china is Royal Albert Moss Rose.
We used our International 1812 Sterling. The stemware and napkin rings are Target clearance. Napkins are from a thrift store and the tablecloth is from Goodwill at $4.99. The runner is also from Goodwill but I forget what I paid.
Our traditional molded sweet cheese spread that is called Seerney Paska in Russian. The XB is for Христос Воскрес (Christos Voskress), Christ is Risen!
We squeezed 12 around the table and had a wonderful time celebrating the Resurrection of Christ!
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Time to visit Mary at Work of the Poet for some more Yard Art!
These great specimens are all from one yard and this is just a sampling of what was in this yard…
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…to laugh and talk with these girls!
6 of the 10 contributors on the Mennonite Girls Can Cook blog.
Julie, Bev K. , Betty R., and Charlotte were unable to join us.
It was my first face to face with all these ladies. You know these girls are even thinner in person. I forgot to ask them their secret on how they stay so slim while cooking all that great food!! And for the record…Kathy, I think you are great!! I feel so blessed to have been adopted into the fold even though I’m not Mennonite. Many of our Russian recipes are similar to the Mennonite favorites.
Before eating we got a little shopping in. After lunch we parted ways. I headed South and they headed North with a stop at the Tulip Fields.
I brought home a food gift and the prize I won on Judy’s blog giveaway a while back.
My own Vancouver Olympic Mittens and a Canada Pin! Thank you MGCC for a wonderful day and thank you Judy for my prize. I love the mittens and the pin.
Before I met up with the girls I had a quick stop at the tulip fields and I’ll show more of those photos later. Blessings!
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Today I’m heading North to La Conner and I’m meeting up with 5 of the Mennonite Girls from Mennonite Girls Can Cook! We’re going to have lunch together at Seeds. I am so looking forward to meeting these blogging friends in person. My camera is all packed and ready to go!
I planted some seeds of friendship
All nice and neatly in a row
I tended to them with love and care
Then watched them sprout and grow
I’ll be sharing more about our meeting later in the week. Happy Tuesday to you all!
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What a lovely Easter Day we had here in the Northwest. We started out the day by going to a baptism of two little girls we know. Sisters getting baptized on Easter morning. It was a great event to witness. After that celebration we came home to prepare for our Easter lunch with our DIL’s family and my sister Lana and Steve.
Sorry I caught some of you in mid-chew! I realize that when we host an event like this my photo skills go out the window. Too busy with other details. Everyone is busy eating Rack of Lamb, rice with raisins and almonds, and salad with Persian dressing. For dessert we had a Russian Strawberry shortcake made with the Kulich, Seerney Paska and strawberries.
Our centerpiece was the Russian Easter Bread with hollow chocolate Matryoshka dolls for each of the ladies to take home and colored Easter eggs. We call our Easter bread Kulich but another popular name for it is Paska.
Our other traditional Easter treat is this sweet cheese spread that we make from eggs, butter, Farmer’s Cheese, whipping cream and sugar. After you mix it all up you put it in a mold lined with cheese cloth and weight it down and leave it in the refrigerator for a day or two to drain as much liquid as you can out of it. The X and B are for Christ is Risen which looks like this in Russian, Христос Воскрес!
I was able to use my individual place card vases for each guest which was fun.
Katie, Lana, and Laura
Sisters flanked by my daughters :0)
The cross was one of my hostess gifts from my DIL’s mother. Thank you Pat! I love it along with my other goodies.
All the dishes are washed and put away but I’m still enjoying the vases filled with the tulips. My brain is in slow motion today but I’m sure to perk up here sometime soon so I can visit everyone’s Easter greeting posts that I missed yesterday.
Looking forward to another great celebration tomorrow. I’ll tell you about it soon.
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Christos Voskress! Voistina Voskress!
Христос Воскрес!
Воистину воскрес!
Christ is Risen!
Truly He is Risen!
We welcome glad Easter when Jesus arose,
And won a great victory over His foes.
Refrain
Then raise your glad voices, all Christians and sing,
Bring glad Easter tidings to Jesus, your King.
We tell how the women came early that day,
And there at the tomb found the stone rolled away.
Then raise your glad voices, all Christians and sing,
Bring glad Easter tidings to Jesus, your King
We sing of the angel who said: “Do not fear!
Your Savior is risen, and He is not here.”
Then raise your glad voices, all Christians and sing,
Bring glad Easter tidings to Jesus, your King
We think of the promise which Jesus did give:
“That he who believes in Me also shall live!”
Then raise your glad voices, all Christians and sing,
Bring glad Easter tidings to Jesus, your King
Row upon row yellow, pink, red, purple.
I took a quick trip North last Thursday because we were promised a window of time without rain. I wanted to see the tulips before all the crowds started coming.
It was dry for my hour drive up until I took the exit for Mt. Vernon to head to the tulip farms. Then it started pouring!!
Most of my photos had to be taken out of my car window.
I was amazed at the beauty of this lovelies blooming row upon row.
It was wonderful to get the effect of a sea of tulips when you didn’t focus down the planted rows.
It really is a treat to see and if you ever are in the Northwest in April make sure you make it to the Skagit Valley!
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John 17: 1-5
After Jesus said this, he looked toward heaven and prayed: “Father, the time has come. Glorify your Son, that your Son may glorify you. For you granted him authority over all people that he might give eternal life to all those you have given him. Now this is eternal life: that they may know you, the only true God, and Jesus Christ, whom you have sent. I have brought you glory on earth by completing the work you gave me to do. And now, Father, glorify me in your presence with the glory I had with you before the world began.
John 19: 16-18
Finally Pilate handed him over to them to be crucified.
So the soldiers took charge of Jesus. Carrying his own cross, he went out to the place of the Skull (which in Aramaic is called Golgotha). Here they crucified him, and with him two others—one on each side and Jesus in the middle.
This week in history is so important to our world. It’s no wonder that we still take notice 2000 years later. The events leading up to the Resurrection of Jesus Christ are powerful. His Resurrection will never be trumped by any other event in history. Even the name of Jesus has more power then any other. Today my sister Lana G! and I will be baking and keeping with our Russian traditions of making Easter Bread (Kulich) and a sweet cheese spread for the bread called Seerney Paska in anticipation of our Resurrection Sunday celebration. Growing up Good Friday was a day of fasting until our church gathering Friday evening. After the service the congregation would break bread together and have a meal to break the fast. Good Friday was a very sorrowful day for the followers of Jesus 2000 years ago because they could not understand the miracle of His resurrection that brought them out of their despair. I’m glad we know the end of the story. Our Savior conquered death and He lives and still saves today. “Salvation is found in no one else, for there is no other name under heaven given to men by which we must be saved.”
Have a wonderful Easter Everyone!
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The Happy Wonderer ~ ellen b. 