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Living Room, Spring Clean

Tuesday, February 28th, 2012

This is probably one of the easier rooms to spring clean. So I think this is where I will begin!

  • Wash the inside of the windows
  • Wash the curtains
  • Vacuum/dust window sills
  • Wipe down woodwork around windows
  • Wipe down doors (there are 2)
  • Straighten & dust bookshelves
  • Dust and straighten mantle
  • Thoroughly vacuum
  • Maybe do a little furniture rearranging
  • Vacuum furniture
  • Polish wood furniture
  • Put more of John’s board books away
  • Dust all picture frames
  • Dust/Vacuum radiators
  • Wash our “cuddle up” blankets

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Spring Cleaning, Revisited, Again

Tuesday, February 28th, 2012

In years past I have utterly failed to finish spring cleaning.  I’m talking about one of those deep down cleaning to the very core of the house.  Sure the house gets cleaned…but we’ve lived here almost 6 years and it is time for a good honest cleaning.  And I want to finish it during Lent so that when Easter arrives it feels like the house has had a resurrection too!

So I think I’ll make a list of each room, list the cleaning projects and get busy since I’ve already allowed a week of Lent to lapse.

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Fish for Lent

Friday, February 24th, 2012

I really need better food ideas for Lent.  Ash Wednesday we ended up eating fish sandwiches at McDonald’s.  This evening I thought I had a good one, but it flopped.  I served stuffed clams, fish cakes, cauliflower, and seasoned tator tots.

It is tough to serve fish dishes on a budget.  We really like salmon, but WOW, salmon costs an arm and a couple legs to serve.  It is recommended to serve fish 2-3 times/week.  Sardines….maybe!

 

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February 1, St. Brigid’s Feast Day

Wednesday, February 1st, 2012

Today is St. Brigid’s Feast Day.  At dinner we read about St. Brigid while we ate vegetable soup and some oatmeal scones.

The Oatmeal Scones recipe follows. They were okay and as substitute for St. Brigid’s bread, which I could not make because I was lacking buttermilk and every recipe I checked needed buttermilk.  I think next time I’d add maybe blueberries or dried cranberries to these scones.

  • 1 1/2 cups all-purpose flour
  • 2 cups rolled oats
  • 1/3 cup sugar
  • 4 teaspoons baking powder
  • 1/2 teaspoon salt
  • 1 egg, beaten
  • 1/2 cup butter, melted
  • 1/3 cup milk

Directions

  1. Preheat the oven to 425 degrees F. Lightly grease a baking sheet.
  2. In a large bowl, mix the flour, oats, sugar, baking powder, salt. Make a well in the center. In a small bowl, beat egg until frothy, and stir in melted butter and milk. Pour into the well, and mix to create a soft dough. Pat dough into two 1/2 inch thick circles. Place on the prepared baking sheet. Score 8 wedges into each circle of dough.
  3. Bake 15 minutes in the preheated oven, until risen and browned. Split wedges, and serve warm.

 

 

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Beautiful Rainy Day in Vermont

Saturday, September 24th, 2011

Dave, John, Dave’s father and I drove to Vermont for the day.  We left pretty early and were to our favorite cheese shop before 10:00AM.  They make a Gruyere that Dave really, really likes.  We drove through Townsend and on through Jamaica to view some of the damage from the flooding of Hurricane Irene a month ago.  Dave will probably post pictures soon, but it was amazing to see how the water just ripped out a bridge and homes as it swept through.

We went as far was Weston Priory.  We arrive 5 minutes into Mass so we missed it and we missed the bookstore too.  But it really is lovely there so we walked around briefly, took a few pictures and left.  On our way back to CT, we stopped in the town of Weston to have lunch and stop at the Vermont Country Store.  I found a little tugboat for John to play with in the bathtub that I think John will love.

So all in all we had a very nice day.

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Lenten Plans … Extended

Wednesday, May 4th, 2011

I had planned to be finished “spring cleaning” the entire house by Easter, but the project got expanded.  Dave and I decided to purge our entire house of everything we don’t use/love/need.  Our dining room and front porch has turned into garage sale central and we’re still not done.  A couple of rooms are completed; like the bathroom, our living room and the upstairs hallway.  The living room is actually housing a piece of furniture for the garage sale, our sofa.  We’d like to get some money for the sofa, but we’re also game for just giving the thing away to however will hauled it.

With our new computer we have plans to divest ourselves of a whole pile of media; DVDs and CDs specifically.  Dave bought a giant amount of memory that can hold 200+ DVDs and piles of CDs.  We’ll sell all but out favorites from both collections and free up even more room.  I think this will make the collections more accessible also.  We rarely listen to any music and I think it is because it is a pain to search the collection for what you want to listen too and then load it into a media outlet.

Well, I need to get dinner on the table.  I think we’ll have au gratin potatoes with broccoli and diced ham baked as a casserole.

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Lenten Plans

Tuesday, March 8th, 2011

Tomorrow is Ash Wednesday and thus the beginning of Lent.  Dave and I are actually ahead of the game, for once.  We’ve actually discussed our Lenten plans BEFORE Lent began!  WHOO-HOO!!  As a family we are going to say the Rosary every evening…a habit we also hope to care through outside the Lenten Season.  We are also going to purge the house of all the silly clutter and extras we have piled up everywhere.  In other words, we’re going to have a spring cleaning on steroids.

We are also hoping to get back to some of the simpler ideals we hold great value in, but fail regularly to follow through with.  Maybe more on that as time passes.

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Fat Tuesday

Tuesday, March 8th, 2011

This evening we went to Dave’s parents’ house for a lovely dinner of roast beef w/ horseradish, Irish soda bread, mashed squash, mashed potatoes and a side salad.  After dinner we had a homemade apple pie!  YUMMY!  A fantastic Fat Tuesday was had by all.

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Just a Few Posts Ago…

Monday, December 6th, 2010

I wrote that we were going to do a better job celebrating feast days.  I’ve failed utterly.

We got back from a long Thanksgiving vacation when it was already 2nd Sunday of Advent.  I missed my big opportunity to start out the new Church year with a bang celebrating Advent.  Yes, I still technically have time, but I’m bummed and disappointed in myself for not being better organized.  I’m such an all or nothing person.  My desire is to do it well and big or not at all.  And thus I’m mad at myself for not being better prepared and even trying to “do Advent” while out on our vacation.

Considering we really want to raise John in a Catholic environment at home and church, I’m doing a blah job of things thus far.

By the way, we had a really nice vacation and it was great to see everyone we got to see.  I am very thankful for a safe trip and awesome family and friends.

God Bless!

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Decided to Do a Better Job Celebrating Feast Days

Thursday, September 16th, 2010

For a long while I’ve had a couple of good books relating to celebrating the Catholic Liturgical Calendar within your family.  Today I decided to make an effort to institute some Feast Day celebrations into our household.  So this afternoon, during John’s glorious one and a half hour, uninterrupted nap, I had time to research and plan for the upcoming feast days through the beginning of November.

The first one I’m going to start with is Michaelmas also known as the Feast of the Archangels (St. Michael, St. Gabriel and St. Raphael) which is September 29th.  When the date gets closer I’ll let you know how we’ll be celebrating the day, but it should be fun.

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