Thankful Thursday back again!

'In all things give thanks.'

Here's a funny to start: Last night I was seasoning the soup for supper when the top flew off the jar of chillies. There wasn't much I could do so I added a few more potatoes and hoped for the best...served it...and...my family had their heads blown off! Aaagh! We are still in orbit, and that's from one spoonful each!
So if you hear tell of a nuclear incident in the west of Ireland it was just me making supper!

And now for this week's thankfuls- I've struggled a bit to find five since the week has come hard to me:

1. Thankful there's been no damage to the house after two storms this week. At the weekend the winds were blowing gale force ten apparently.

2. Thankful the school children are excited about starting the Nativity songs. They are so 'into' it they have organised their music themselves and are even excited about learning song-words for homework! Miracles do happen!

3. Thankful for a weather-proof, warm and comfortable house to live in. It hasn't always been so for us so we are all so thankful for the comfort.

4. Thankful for several bids on the eBay items I've made. That may sound silly but it matters to me.

5. Thankful for the fun yesterday with the Music classes I taught, the children are really keeping me going at the moment. One of the songs has a high-ish note some of the older boys were struggling with yesterday so one of them suggested that breathing helium might help! Another classroom became really stuffy so I opened a window, to see three seagulls on the rail of the bridge outside watching us. The children thought that was really funny, and even funnier when four more seagulls arrived, so they sang the whole song to the seagulls! A whole new meaning to 'for the birds'?

Teacup Tuesday and Small Quilt

This was my new cup from last week's visit to the Thrift Shop! Its lovely greenish pottery.

This evening during supper Ben -dog decided that the loaf of bread needed guarding! Anyone who wanted a slice with their soup had to push him aside to get to it which turned supper into a bit of a game. Ben always hopes that the bread will accidentally fall off the counter into his mouth!

I made really easy soup from a sweet potato and a cup of lentils, and seasoning. It was tasty.

I finished the squares of the little quilt and sewed it all together this afternoon, with a border. It is about 22 inches by 30 inches. I’ve begun quilting it, just outlines and straight lines along the borders.