A photo I'm sharing...two stuffed pumpkins in the oven right now! A fun recipe I heard on NPR. Here's the link: http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=130704456&ps=cprs. "Pumpkin Stuffed With Everything Good" is a name hard to resist.
Outside my window...baseball in the dark for my boys with Daddy (who isn't really playing b/c he can't run right now). Don't like this time change already...but I do like the baseball fever that has kept the boys happily playing outside since watching the Rangers play in the World Series.
I am thankful for...unexpected joyful moments today including stuffing the pumpkins together, drinking tea from Ceylon while reading about Asia w/ the big boys, a surprise soccer award for Jude who is our birthday boy this week. We had a small, fun party for him over the weekend. It is almost always fall-themed: often pumpkin pie for his cake (although this year it was a cookie cake & we had the pie for his feast day last Thurs.), apple bobbing, caramel apples for one of the party favors. John Paul jas eaten 3 apples today!
I am hoping for...a quiet week! Soccer is over, we're in the off week for my Mom's Book Club at church & the boys' HS Book Club. (Are we big nerds or what?)
On my mind...Jesse's imminent deployment to Afghanistan. He leaves for combat training in less than a month and for Afghanistan in February. We found out a little over a week ago, still can't believe it b/c he has a back injury, are praying for an 11th hour reprieve so that he can completely recover from this back injury that is keeping him from running, but are also making plans for him to leave per his commanding officer's instructions. I think I need to start a perpetual novena to St. Joseph.
Noticing that...Mary is taking a long nap & I'm about to have to get dinner on the table...
A few plans for the week...tomorrow will be our off day b/c Auntie Carrie is coming for the day for Jude's real birthday. Should be fun. Other than that...finding some help for when my husband is gone, holiday plans once we know where he will be training..
From the bookshelves...The Children's Homer mostly for our read-aloud, still finishing St. Dominic too. We have to return all our good Ancient Greece & Asia books this week b/c 've maxed out our renewals...going to buy a few of our Ancient Greece read-alouds to finish up w/ & have for the younger pair one day.
In the kitchen...those pumpkins! And some leftover pumpkin & banana breads from our awesome neighbor & healthy baker-who-loves-to-share.
On the Church calendar & in our home church...w/ Feast of St. Jude/Halloween/All Saints/All Souls over, I get a short break to prepare for Advent. I love St. Elizabeth of Hungary, whom we remember on the 17th. Jude makes his First Reconciliation on the Feast of Christ the King, which we will celebrate w/ a feast & crowns that we need to make & start filling w/ jewels for the last Sun. of Ordinary Time b/f Advent- a big feast day for us, as Regnum Christi members we have a devotion to Christ Our King.
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