{pretty, happy, funny, real}

What Advent is really about. {bits & pieces}

{pretty, happy, funny, real}

~ Capturing the context of contentment in everyday life ~

Every Thursday, here at Like Mother, Like Daughter!

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We “traded” family photos with some friends last week — we all showed up at a pretty spot looking relatively put-together, and I took pictures of their family after they took pictures of ours. While they waited, the kids explored. (We chose our location based on its potential for both picture backgrounds and for exploring, assuming we’d be in need of both if we were going to be doing two family photo shoots!)

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The gravy I made to go with last week’s roast somehow ended up much too salty to salvage as gravy. Rather than toss it, I saved it in the fridge on the premise that I could make it into something else. In fact, I turned it (not without quite a bit more effort, I admit) into Sunday dinner. Half of it formed the base of a pot of French onion soup, and half got cooked up with some potatoes, mushrooms, and the last of the roast, then wrapped up in dough to make tasty little meat pies. (I baked them in a muffin tin! How Pinterest of me.) Sunday cooperated by being rather gray and rainy, so it was a perfect fit.

These little housewifely successes make me happy.