One Day at a Time — Day 8— Day of Rest

 Joshua said,] "For the LORD your God dried up the Jordan before you until you had crossed over. The LORD your God did to the Jordan just what he had done to the Red Sea when he dried it up before us until we had crossed over. He did this so that all the peoples of the earth might know that the hand of the LORD is powerful and so that you might always fear the LORD your God."

—Joshua 4:23-24

We had a baptism at church today.  I love baptism days.  It was a little girl named Evelyn Joy — she was so tiny.  The River Jordon was at the center of the homily.  It was a lovely celebration.

Our clergy and several parishioners are going to Israel next week.  They are going to visit the River Jorden and swim (or float) in the Red Sea.  I pray for their safe journey and their  exciting adventure.  

Today is a beautiful day.  The weather is beautiful, baby Evelyn Joy was beautiful, my favorite acolyte, Bean, was beautiful, my daughter the Reader was beautiful — it has been a very good day.  

We ate lunch at a historic Ft.W eating establishment, The Paris Coffee Shop.  It was fairly recently sold and remodeled and is, if judging by the crowd, still a very popular place to eat.  I had a prime rib sandwich on brioche bread.  It was delightful.  The bread was fabulous and, as usual, I brought half of it home.

I made a pot of soup yesterday.  I need to freeze a bunch of it tonight after I have some for my dinner.  I love to have frozen meals at the ready.  I should have about three meals of soup and that is a good thing.

I started my second book of my reading challenge — Christmas in the Little Irish Village.  So far it is good and engaging.  I don’t think it is going to take long to read so hopefully I will have a review soon.

I wrapped the embroidery hoop.

As ridiculous as this sounds, wrapping an embroidery hoop isn’t the easiest thing in the world if you want to keep it smooth.  The top hoop fits nicely on it and you can tighten it - with fabric in it, however, it is a different story.  I can’t tighten the hoop any further so we will see if it is tight enough to hold everything together.  The twill tape was made in France, however, and it is a lovely quality.  Hopefully it will all work out well.

So, I am off for a little Sunday nap.  I already tried but Trixie brought me her bowl for me to put something in it and woke me up.  Now she is full and asleep, hopefully I can be too.

Have a wonderful rest of your Sunday.