Thursday, December 18, 2014

Fridays Unfolded #138

It's Friday again!

With most of the hard work behind me, I find myself looking to see what little things I can do to help make the season a little brighter for those around me.  I'm running out of time, but food is always welcome and my features from last week are are all about the kitchen.


We have these little squares of deliciousness from Decor to Adore:


These fun little snowmen, showcased at Home Decor Designs, are the cutest:


And then there is this delightful piece of winter from Simply Suzanne's:


While we are on the subject of food, I wrote a fun little poem this week I thought I'd share:

There are cakes and stacks
Of wispy snacks
Of bars and turtles and pies.

There is food galore
Always there's more
Bread: pumpernickel and ryes.

I stand and stare
Completely aware
Of the joyful festive treats

The January fast
Will come with a blast
On the heels of perpetual eats.

Wishing you and yours a Merry Christmas!

Let's see what you all have to share this week...

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Thursday, December 11, 2014

Fridays Unfolded #137

This week.

I don't have words enough to discuss how busy this week was.  Well, I probably do.  But you would be bored to tears reading about it.

Let's just move onto the features from last week's party, shall we?

I have some frozen blueberries and am going to use them in this recipe from Future Expat this week.  Just think! Pancakes without standing over the griddle for 30 minutes! I'm intrigued.


Isn't this the cutest ornament??  She has more examples on her website, Artistic Endeavors.  We are going to make these this week as well.  


This story from Pattie Tierney was so fun to read.  I love stories about things being cherished, lost, and found again.  


Let's party again, shall we?

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Thursday, December 4, 2014

Fridays Unfolded #136

Thanksgiving passed us by, a blur of turkey and family and pie and coffee.  I trust the holiday found you thankful, full, and ready to move forward to the season of our Savior's birth.

A dear friend of mine has, over the last few weeks, enlightened me to metaphors surrounding Christmas that I've never heard before.  Or if I have, I wasn't listening.

Truths about shopping and exhaustion akin to the traveling and the exhaustion of a very pregnant Mary.  Wrapping the gifts reminding us of our God wrapping Himself in flesh and coming to live a perfect life for us.  Selflessly giving all month, cooking, giving, wrapping, preparing, all pointing to a Savior who has spent eternity preparing for us, giving to us, selflessly serving and watching us unwrap His perfect Gift.

So much for commercialism and the meaning being stripped of Christmas.

I feel like I'm able this year to see through the propaganda and straight into the beauty bound up in the hustle and bustle.

This post today was a sort of icing on this cake I'm being fed, one of enjoying Christmas, embracing the buying, loving the wrapping (okay, loving the idea of the wrapping...baby steps), and joyfully being full of expectation for the coming of Israel's long-awaited Savior.

We are reading Jotham's Journey for Advent this year, a book I bought three years ago but was always too busy to think about beginning, and the kids are just enamored with this story.  Always, the stories are what astound them.

Last week, I shared a rather long-winded note to mothers and did a lot of Christmas shopping the Saturday after Thanksgiving.  (I actually think I'm almost done. Be jealous.)

Let's see what you've been up to, shall we?  But first, some features from our last get-together:

This card from Paper Seedlings was just precious.  I am not crafty like this at all and am always amazed at the things people can create who have this gift:


I am enamored with chalkboards right now and so was drawn to this cute globe created by Hearts in my Pocket.  


And, last but not least, Elizabeth at Just Following Jesus has done a great job of putting together a wonderful idea for Advent.


We have decorated for Christmas and I'd like to get some pictures up for you.  I, however, am not the photographer some of you are.  So consider them "snapshots" not "photographs."  

Now it's your turn!  

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