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| More Painted Ornaments: The Sailor Moon Series |
Daughter's latest set of painted ornaments, representing some of the characters in the Sailor Moon anime: Sailor Moon, Sailor Venus, Sailor Jupiter, Sailor Mars, and Sailor Mercury. They have been added to the tree.
On Sunday, the day after the almsgiving, I focused on "erasing the evidence" and put away the dishes used during the almsgiving. I also put away all the Christmas themed dinnerware, too. I had been planning to keep them out to use when daughter's friends came over for their annual holiday get together, but, that has now been postponed to the second weekend in January and the 12 days of Christmas will be over by then. The Christmas drinking glasses are still being used, although, they will be put away over the next few days.
I folded and put away the laundry, including the table covers and the sheets used to cover the sofas.
I tidied the laundry area, swept the kitchen and the family room, and took the recycling and kitchen trash out to the bins.
I also called friend R to check on her and to thank her, again, for helping me with the almsgiving.
Later in the afternoon, late friend A's younger daughter arrived with a load of laundry to use our washer and dryer. She brought us two portions of salmon with herbed butter as a gift from her father who works in a grocery store. I was able to return their food container that had been sent home with us with leftovers after Christmas dinner and, since we don't return empty containers, I sent some of the ribbon cake I had bought from the Sri Lankan store in the container.
I had a ham sandwich for brunch and daughter had leftover almsgiving rice and curries. For dinner, I cooked the salmon we had received and served it with savory rice (with green peas added to it) and steamed broccoli and carrots. Daughter had some dump cake for dessert and I had some of the cut up mixed melons and a slice of ribbon cake.
On Sunday, I was grateful for:
- What I was able to accomplish in terms of putting stuff away
- Being able to help my late friend's daughter by letting her use the washer and dryer
- The gift of two portions of salmon
- Working appliances
- Feeling energetic
Sunday's joyful activity was crocheting.
Plans for Monday include doing another load of laundry, cleaning out the fridge, taking the trash cans to the curb for pick up on Tuesday, watering the front garden, and cleaning the kitchen.
How was your Sunday? What are your plans for Monday?
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I've never read Sailor Moon although I've seen it on the shelf many times at the library. Your daughter's ornaments have inspired me to check it out. :) Does she have many slips left in her craft jar?
ReplyDeleteI haven't read the series, either, June, although I've watched some of the videos with my daughter. I must ask my daughter how many slips she has left; I know she only made 16 slips because some of the crafts were multi step projects that took several days to complete. She is still crocheting the garland of Christmas lights, for example.
DeleteChe belli gli ornamenti dipinti da tua figlia
ReplyDeleteThank you, Stefania. :)
DeleteCrocheting seems like a good way to unwind following the last few days. You've been so busy. And it was kind of friend R to help.
ReplyDeleteI imagine it must feel good to get the house back in some sort of order. X
Crocheting is very relaxing, isn't it? Yes, I've been busier than usual, but, I took it easy, today. It was very kind of friend R to help. I've invited her over on another day when we can just sit and chat.
DeleteIt does feel good to get the house back to partial order. I still have to do a lot more to tidy up and put things back in place.
You are staying on top of your chores. Cleaning up after the almsgiving and now putting things away - especially putting away the Christmas dishes. That's the kind of thing, for me anyway, that can languish a bit. We will keep our tree up for a while but I am putting things away a bit here and there too.
ReplyDeleteI just moved my Christmas glasses to the back of the cabinet and put the daily ones in front. Mainly because I'm getting tired of hand washing the Christmas ones because they have a raised snow flake dotted on the glass. They are getting up there in years now.
I remember the Christmas brunch I hosted for my work girlfriends that I bought these for. I was in my 20's at the time. So these glasses are 40 years old now. I think I mentioned these gasses before. They are from Woolworths and you and I got off subject and talked about eating at the Woolworth's counter :) lol
You are nice to lend your washer to friend A's daughters. Having a washing machine break does throw a wrench in the daily planning. It's nice they have someone like you and your daughter to rely on.
You mentioned putting away your table covers and sheets from the Almsgiving. I forgot to mention in the previous post how nice the cloth looked on your coffee table. I like the print a lot. It's probably a full table cloth but folded the way you did, it looked like it was made for the lower table with how the print fell.
More pretty ornaments from your daughter. My favorite is the pink one :)
I have found that, if I don't put things away right after an event, they tend to sit around for a long time, cluttering up the place.
DeleteYour Christmas glasses are obviously much treasured. Oh, that's too funny how we got off subject and talked about eating at the Woolworth's counter! :D
Offering the use of my washer and dryer was nothing, really. I consider these girls to be like family and my daughter had a nice visit with her friend while the laundry got done.
Thank you for commenting on the table cloth. I bought it about 29 years ago when there was a small birthday party one November. It is quite faded now, but, I've been using it for the coffee table during almsgivings, more recently, because it is not only machine washable, it doesn't require ironing! The other table cloths my mother used to insist on using were embroidered and, while they survived being washed in the machine, I had to iron them, while still damp, to get them to look good.
The pink ornament is the symbol for Sailor Moon, herself. :)
Those ornaments look quite professional. Your tree must be getting quite full of ornaments now. I'm glad that you felt energetic on Sunday, after such a busy time.
ReplyDeleteThank you, Bushlady. Yes, the tree is getting quite full of ornaments! I wasn't as energetic, today, and had to take it easy. :)
DeleteYou have such a lovely gratitude list for the day!
ReplyDeleteThank you, Anne. :)
DeleteThe ornaments are so lovely!
ReplyDeleteSounds like you got a lot accomplished. It's lovely that daughter is staying with you longer!
Thank you, Sharon. Yes, I got quite a bit done, yesterday, which is good because I sort of crashed, today! I love the fact that my daughter will be staying a bit longer! :)
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