Sunday, February 7, 2021

"I do not want my love to be little, but GREAT!"/"Grandpa's peace" otherwise known as "Go in peace" on Cold 5th Sunday/wearing her mom's shoes

Birdie is just 2 days from being 9 months! She is wearing her mommy's little paten leather shoes for mass today.  She found the latest afghan project her Aunt Ruth is stitching.  
Now the other shoe... 
Birdie was a delight at her dad's birthday celebration at the local Mexican Restaurant.  She must know that she will be fabulous 9 months on the 9th so she was in a sweet party mood.  How wonderful to feel semi normal eating in a restaurant with family!
Jude enjoyed chips and watching people all around him.  They are such wonderful kids and add to the evening rather than are a problem.  So fun!
Grandpa's hat and glasses and they had their share of rice and beans...
Posing for grandma goes with the territory.  
Birdie just looked so cute by Ruth's new afghan.

I am having family here for the big game today, so this promises to be short.  Yesterday I found myself distracted with not much to share here for once.  But there are some special parts of  the 5th Sunday of Ordinary time that bring me here for a short share.

Joy is showing me her second hand tea set by some old fashioned dishes we used for our brunch after church at Ruth's wonderful farm house.  The party dishes were also some from grandma Ann/Pat's mother and from the thrift store.  Her version of Valentines dishes.  Ruth is always the hostess setting a beautiful table is her JOY!  

Her sweet JOY will be 4 on March 30th.  It warmed my heart to see her saying the words of the Creed and the Gloria with the help of her daddy.  She added some other sweet words she heard in the mass today - when Fr Tony said "Go in peace"  Joy heard "grandpa's peace."  I love when the kids hear with their innocent ears the mass to them!  Like our famous "Rose Again" and "Mom where is your name in the mass...I know 'I am not worthy to enter under your roof (Ruth)!' "

Tea set for those important tea parties with cousins and siblings and moms... a special rose cup she also found at the Thrift store.  I think it is safe to say that she will love dishes like her mom and great-grandmothers.
David did the rolls today and had to pose for grandma.  Simon and Mary had to go to 10a mass as Mary has another job in the neighborhood caring for animals - now at the dog kennel just a few miles away.
On the fridge from Rose last year.  Mary had a similar one saying that she wanted to be a little sister, too.  We are so blessed to have them in our lives and the example of their Aunt Hallel!
Frigid landscape with sundogs to prove it.  Below zero this morning with not much hope of reaching zero.

Joy playing with her baby Birdie...  so fun!  Birdie is now down to one of the shoes that her mom wore before her.  So fun!  Bobbi had 3 brothers and was the only girl, so her things at this age are almost like new.  The way these little ones grow there are only a few times they can wear them.  Maybe her cousin, Magdalene will wear them in a year?
Girls and stuffed animals is just too cute to resist.

This meditation from the Gospel today where Jesus has a busy day of teaching, healing and prayer from Mark 1 and ends with the Disciples pursuing him and finding him...  Rising very early before dawn, he left 
and went off to a deserted place, where he prayed.
Simon and those who were with him pursued him
and on finding him said, “Everyone is looking for you.”
He told them, “Let us go on to the nearby villages
that I may preach there also.
For this purpose have I come.”
So he went into their synagogues,
preaching and driving out demons throughout the whole of Galilee.  Mark 1
Beautiful words very much like St Therese before her!  I love how she speaks of prayer as so important above all else as the air that we breath- each breath and every beat of our heart!  Jesus, we love you and "everything is little in me, except my love.  I do not want my love to be little; I want it to be great, very great..."  Mother Mary Magdalen
Dad today in his prayer book is thrilled with LOVE/Agape LOVE - "AHAA"  Dad left me an icon of St John, the Evangelist, as he was filled with tremendous joy at the LOVE we find there!  "God so loved the world that he gave his only begotten Son" LOVE!  
Back to the girls at play in the middle of the kitchen.  So sweet 
Lamb in hand.
one shoe and a lamb and a kitty!
Now Joy's spider has joined the pile, soon her favorite rat joined in.  Paul was giving Jude rides up in the air with lots of giggles... a happy scene as we share family on the farm after sharing mass as a family.  Jesus, we trust in you.  Bless-bless, Barbara




 

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