August 7th-12th

But you are a chosen people, a royal priest hood, a holy nation, a people belonging to God, that you may declare the praises of him who called you out of darkness into his wonderful light.
1 Peter 2:9

BELONGING  House in Port Townsand. July 2o12

Tuesday 7th

1. Hope

2. Heritage

3 . Belonging

4. Sleeping in

5. Green everywhere; one of my favorite aspects of living in the Puget Sound!

6. A hard day; it reminds me how much my heart has grown and how far it has to go.

7. The boys and cousin Joy covered in Mud from head to toe!

 Taste of Heritage

The pungent vinegary aroma of my German heritage. German potato salad with memories of peeling large pots of hot potatoes with my grandma, my mother crying onion tears over her chopped onions and children munching gusto and exclamations of pleasure. 

Heritage isn't just something you eat, it isn't something you practice... it is part of who you are and where you come from!

Hot German Potato Salad

(Warmer Kartoffelsalat) Grandma Rose's Family Recipe

Wash and cut into halves

6 Medium Red Potatoes (about 2Lbs)

Cook (boil) about 2o min. or until potatoes are tender when pierced with a fork. Drain potatoes, dry potatoes by shaking pan over over heat. Peel and cut into 1/4" slices.

Meanwhile, dice and panbriol, reserve bacon dripping of 

12 slices of bacon. Set aside. 

Clean and chop

3 Medium-sized onions (about 1 1/2 chops, chopped).

Put 6 tablespoons of the bacon dripping into a saucepan. Add the onion and cook until it is tender, occasionally moving and turning with a spoon. Stir in:

3/4 cup vinegar

2 1/2 Tablespoons of sugar

2 teaspoon salt

optional 1/4 teaspoon pepper

Heat mixture until boiling. Add the diced bacon to the onion-vinegar mixture. Pour over the hot potato slices and toss lightly to coat evenly. 

Serve hot.

Wednesday 8th

1 Art work at the dining room table with the kiddos & Uncles

2 Little E's songs

3 Brothers working together to finish a project

4 Cool refreshing flow from my faucet pouring into cupped hands overflowing, splashing into the sink

5 Beads of water on the crisp cabbage I cut

6 Pot of red Potatoes boiling on the stove

7 Grandma Rose

 

Thursday 9th

1 The holes around the pilings teaming with sea life of crabs, star fish, sea anemone... an ocean world we get a glimpse at

2 A whole purple black plum, juices dripping red on my fingers

3 Half a day spent exercising patience and seeking joy

4 All the kiddos sitting with me on the dock feet in the cold water, sun freckled children's faces turned up in smiles.

5 Boys with Legos creating

6 Little E and his workers puzzle hammering away

7 Time alone to rest and rejuvenate

Friday 10th

1. JB’s and Alyssa’s farewell hugs

2. Hay pick up with Alyssa

3. Ice cream on the dock

4. Old barns withered with the years and perfumed with dust, hay, tractor grease and warm summer air

5. Hot feet in ocean cold water

6. Jelly fish

7.How we as women can so quickly understand each other, we just get it!

3 Hard Eucharisteo:

1 The imperfect relationships in my life that compel me to Christ’s feet and revel deeper purpose to pain and struggle and help me to love without contingency... love for who we are and not what we have done or can do.

2 Worrying converting to trust

3 Limitations ; health needed limitation.

Saturday 11th

1.Family cleaning the van together

2.The peppery earthy smell of lavender

3.Hinges creaking on a gate

4.Metal pounded against metal as Husband drives  fence posts into grass covered earth

5.Green suet cage swinging with the large majestic Pileated Woodpecker

6.W-Man’s serving heart glowing through his joyous smile

7.Dad in his garden

Sunday 12th

1.Daughter’s Colonial Queens Cakes

2. Little E’s water dripping hugs between slip and slide turns

3. Remembering,  being reminded and putting to memory God’s  lessons of the heart

4. Ted and Daughters voices lifted with praise

5. Brilliant red, small globes of sweet Huckleberries adorning the limbs of bushes hidden under evergreen trees peeking through Salal plumes

6. smile forming around tears

7. summer evenings 

8. Grandmothers of the heart Mrs. Whited and Mrs. Syre