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Wednesday, December 26, 2012

Merry Christmas! And My Favorite Wipe-off Board

Merry Merry Christmas!!!!!!!


The morning of Christmas Eve we baked and listened to music, and prepared to visit family by having a quiet first half around our home.  We love that we are quiet and at home.
Then we attended the 4pm Christmas vigil mass!  The Nativity scene, bright red poinsettias and crowded (ok, we stood outside) church were all inspiring. This early vigil mass is just the perfect time for our young family (ok, as perfect as perfect gets when you are held to specific available times!).
Christmas Eve evening was spent exchanging gifts and sharing a meal with my extended family.
So wonderful!
Linking up with Clan Donaldson!

Yeast bread rolls the size of oranges! (Ok, except the sad one near the top right corner)
This past liturgical year I spent seeking to set a foothold for grasping at true submission.  The submission of Jesus Christ.  That in loving Jesus that submission fills me and spills into loving, selfless, beautiful submission to my husband.  Gosh that sounds awesome.  Let's just say I have a foothold...but I don't always use it the best.  Eeck! (I just think that looks so funny! I don't think I really say "eeck!"but anyway, you get the idea) So, Eeck! I really need to begin to build this virtue but mission accomplished!

Decorating sugar cookies we baked together! First time ever and it was so so wonderful!
Thank you Jesus for my sweet Rita.  And thank you Lod for helping me let go of "perfect" cut-out cookies.  It was so worth surrendering and letting our cookies be crazy delicious circle-ish shapes.
Now we are in the Year of Faith...ok it started a while back... (just looked it up - October 12th! Whoa baby I'm late! Better than never!!!  I really do say "whoa, baby" if you were wondering.  And sometimes Rita does too - hahaha!) but I needed to get into and through Advent to really discern where God is leading me.

Contentment.

This year will be a foothold for contentment.

I'm pumped!

We are skim/paraphrase reading Declutter Your Life - this is such a great read!  I'm so excited Tyler is reading it with me...and guess what???????????????

I'm reading it from my...

KINDLE FIRE WITH WHICH I AM SO SO SO TOTALLY EXCITED ABOUT AND CAN'T BELIEVE THE GREATEST HUSBAND EVER GOT ME SUCH AN AWESOME NERDY GADGET AND HE IS JUST THE MOST THOUGHTFUL GUY EVVVEEEERRRRRRRRR!  THANK YOU LORD FOR SUCH A VERY VERY THOUGHTFUL HUSBAND!

Whew! I'm so pumped.  I. Love. To. Read.  

My Review: 
Reading on an iPhone versus the Kindle Fire is like
eating potted meat versus a stuffed oven roast*.

*I've never had potted meat, but my husband who has eaten both approves this statement.

Ok, contentment.

So this is the quote I'm going to cling to this year:

"Fast now - feast later.  Feast now - headache later."
~Venerable Archbishop Fulton J. Sheen

And so enters in the following photo.  It includes my favorite wipe-off board ever: a large, oversized bathroom mirror.  Total quotation-mad-creative-happiness.  This folks, is our bathroom!  Or half of it at least.

And it was so wonderfully decorated with: a dry erase marker.  Washable markers totally work too.  Promise.  I was like crazy mirror writing lady through all of high school.


My contentment quote and my "rhythm" schedule adorn our bathroom mirror.
So this will be a year of seeking contentment, which will be carried with me and grown deeply into throughout my life (or so I pray).

I imagine that I'm going to need lots of:

self control

prudence

patience

patience

patience

gratefulness

not sure what else but I think contentment will really help to cultivate other virtues

Hoping that you are having a wonderful beginning to your Year of Faith and 12 days of Christmas!

2 comments:

  1. You're like Good Will Hunting with the bathroom mirror writing! Next rainy day I'm sending the kids into our bathroom with washable markers- love it!

    Thanks for linking up!

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  2. Sounds like you had a wonderful holiday! Yay!

    I love the bathroom mirror idea - I went and found our dry erase markers but they had dried up so I tossed them. Yay! for unexpected de-cluttering ;)

    Contentment is what I have realized I have (most of the time.) Really. We don't have a lot nor do we make a lot of money but we have all that we NEED. When asked what I wanted for Christmas all I could come up with was stuff like a new bathroom rug. Jason on the other hand...that guy is full of wants. It runs in his family I think... Good luck on your continued quest for contentment in 2013!

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