Sunday, December 28, 2014

40 YEARS AGO ON THIS HERE DAY….

40 years ago at this time we were saying "I DO" & like today it was raining, 2 girls & 1 boy now grown into beautiful adults, 2 son-n-laws & 8 grands later our life has been a wonderful blessed journey, it would take a book to go through the 40 years to tell of all the journeys , all the miracles, we've seen God do & looking forward to many more new doors he has for us to walk through that's awaits us

 

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Saturday, December 27, 2014

TRYING NEW THINGS & A CANDY BUFFET

Since many don’t venture over to the cooking blog I thought I’d bump my post over here, because I knew you’d love it! lol!

every year we try to discover something new, something different & sometimes out of our comfort zone of the same Oh same Oh, this year it was cinnamon candy, I had came across this recipe on Blog years ago,& recently found it on Pinterest, yea for Pinterest lol! she advises a candy thermometer but we did it old school, where you do the cold cold water hard ball stage & yes it did take longer doing it this way, I didn’t dust mine with the powered sugar as much as she did, maybe next time!

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http://serendipitymommy.com/cooking/recipes-cooking/desserts-cooking/christmas-rock-candy/

 

then it was onto Divinity,Fudge, Peanut Butter Balls, White Trash, Date Balls , peanut Brittle & Cinnamon Candy for our candy buffet

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for as long as I can remember we’ve always made cookies, tons of cookies! but this year we went with candy, maybe we’ll have a cookie baking party for New Years!

Thursday, December 25, 2014

Monday, December 22, 2014

BLUE MONDAY OR IS IT?

BLUE MONDAY

well lets see , I’m sitting here in hubbys blue plaid housecoat but  you don’t wantta see that lol!Blue Mondays  doesn’t have to be blue, but happy! happy! happy! we’re having unusable warm weather here with rain trying to come in but that wont make me blue no sireee! as I’m off to a friends to finish up a Christmas present for my sister  which has blue in it but can’t show you as she may check out my blog, ya just never know what sisters are gonna do! lol! I know you’re thinking by now are ya gonna make a blue post or not! lol! sooo without further a due…..

I have lots of dishes blue ones white ones pink depression ones, brown ones Christmas ones oh sorry got lost in my dishes ,lol! I’ve started reorganizing them ,trying to make them cute in the cabinets which hubby doesn’t understand why seeing ya don’t see it with the doors shut, husbands ! bless their hearts! lol!

ok ! ok! here comes the picture! wait can I just say this, I mixed my whites with my blue willows sister gave  me the cherry napkins & the cherry glasses,s that I thought complimented the black plates that I use on buffets

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there’s lots more to play with  but so far I’m liking how  this is going and since it’s  almost Christmas  here’s  a peek of  a few blues that’s on one of my trees

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blue sure to visit Sally over at  http://smilingsally.blogspot.com/ & get your Blue happy on!

 

 

Friday, December 19, 2014

DO YOU LOVE TO READ? LIKE JUST A LITTLE BIT?

not sure when the conversation  got started but I know it took place, don’t  ask me with who lol! anyways I was thinking about re-reading some of my classics like Tess of The D'Urbervilles, Little Women etc.do you love to read? does a good challenge inspire, get you motivated  to read? I came across  a few interesting  ones this morning, whether you choose one or more I think  they all work well with each other, the library one would be good to find books for the Alphabet challenge, the Woman challenge works with all  that are written by women Authors, beginning to see how they all work well with each other? so check them out, see if there’s one or more you’d like to join in on

alphabet 2015

 

http://www.escapewithdollycas.com/challenges-2/2015-alphabet-soup-reading-challenge/

It’s an alphabet challenge!!! The challenge is to read one book that has a title starting with every letter of the alphabet.

You can drop the A’s and The’s from the book titles as shown below. For those pesky Q, X AND Z titles the word with the challenge letter can be anywhere in the title.

The 2015 Re-Read Challenge

https://confessionsofabookgeek.wordpress.com/2014/12/12/the-re-read-challenge-2015/

&

http://belleoftheliterati.blogspot.co.uk/2014/12/its-officialthe-re-read-challenge-2015.html

How You Participate

1. Re-read some books!
2. In the first week of each month, we will post a re-read recap on Belle of the Literati and So Obsessed With that includes a linky that will be open all month. Write a post detailing what you re-read the last month, and add the direct link to our linky to be entered in our giveaways.
3. If you write any re-read reviews (it's totally optional!), add those to the monthly linky for additional entries (one per post) in our giveways.
4. If you miss a monthly post, just link up your reviews and/or recap in the linky during the next month.

REVIEWS

WHEN I First Read

WHAT I Remember

WHY I Wanted to Re-Read

HOW I Felt After Re-Reading

http://mybookdragon.blogspot.com/2014/11/i-love-library-books-2015-sign-ups.html

Requirements:

  • choose a level - you may move up as needed, just not down.
  • read books you checked out of the library
  • books may overlap with other challenges
  • any format allowed (print, ebook, audio)
  • reviews are not necessary but a list of books read is. (post with review linky is coming in January)
  • a blog is not necessary, just comment that you want to join in or link up another way

Levels:

  • board book - 3
  • picture book - 6
  • early reader - 9
  • chapter book - 12
  • middle grades - 18
  • Young adult - 24
  • adult - 36
  • just insert IV - 50

http://www.peekabook.it/2014/12/2015-women-challenge.html

This challenge will make us want to read more books of any kind written by women, so choose whatever you like and get involved!
Set your level

Levels:

Level 1: BABY GIRL - read 5 books written by a woman author
Level 2: GIRLS POWER - read 6 to 15 books written by a woman author
Level 3: SUPER GIRL - read 16 to 20 books written by a woman author
Level 4: WONDER WOMAN - read 20+ books written by a woman author

this is so me lol!

so true!

Books are treasures - agree!..and writing.  Awesome!

ha!ha! have you ever done this?

Haha I do this all the time

Especially when it is the last book in a great series!

Monday, December 15, 2014

HERE WE GO AGAIN!

pull out the bling bling! it’s time for the first Christmas party of the year!

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then  it was off to pick up a friend & go see a great performance of Little Women

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(images from FB)

then a friend invited me to go along with her to the Nursing home where she visits & sings , we must of visited over 30 rooms singing hymnals & Christmas songs, no pictures, maybe next time as she's invited me to go again , this week she will sing in the main activity room & do a concert for those who can leave their rooms

then  we were off  to a wedding! Hobby's cousin got married in the sweetest little Historical church  located in our state park

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the reception  was down the road where there’s was lots of food & a beautiful tree set up with handmade ornaments she had made for her guest to take home for a reminder of that beautiful day10845915_4877765877577_8998942952870557529_n[1]10387606_4877765517568_1685492901455365899_n[1]

speaking of beautiful day, there is always beauty throughout the park everywhere you look

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then to round out the weekend my niece performed in  the Children's Theater

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I always look forward to seeing her perform as much as she looks for me to be there! lol !

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Sunday the little ones at church had their Christmas play, it was the sweetest thing!

this week’s kinda slow yet there’s a lot going on, hummm may not be so slow lol! a friends helping me make  something very special for my sister for Christmas, it will take several days!, sing at the Nursing home, Dad’s birthday,

wellllll  I thought it was gonna be a slow week! lol!

Monday, December 8, 2014

A VERY BUSY FUN FULL PACKED WEEKEND

PICTURE HEAVY

How much can you can into a weekend or even a day around here it has been know to be a lot at times lol! Dec. is always full  the calendar looks like a coloring page with all the blocks colored in with events, some even share events lol!

FRIEDAY

we went to the Galleria  a big mall  not far from us & did some Christmas  shopping, rode the carousel oh yes we did! lol! & pigged out just because we could lol! not to worry , we shared the sticky bun & the pretzel , that makes it less fattening right? lol!

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terry even played with Legos & made little Lego people lol!

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SATURDAY

first I gave that bathroom a  second coat of paint then we celebrated our son’s birthday who's’ birthday is on the 5th as well as my father-n-laws  who's birthday is on the 6th

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SUNDAY

after church we  got in some culture & History of our town, every year there are some older homes that have a Christmas Open House

this use to be  our main Library & is now a Museum,The Friedman Library

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love seeing the girls dressed up, fitting for the era

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you are greeted with punch, as you began to tour the house , there is food set up everywhere with platters filled with desserts & foods the way it would have been presented back in that time

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Then is off to the Old tavern

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Then there was the Old Friedman Home

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for more History on our town you can visit

http://www.historictuscaloosa.org/index.php?page=tour

I hope you’ve had a good weekend & looking forward to a fantastic week ahead, today I’m getting the bathroom back to normal, all weekend with no mirror’s been interesting lol!, so putting it back together & sewing a curtain for  the little closet

there’s a lot of Blues in this post so I think I’ll stop by Sally’s & invite her to come over

BLUE MONDAY

http://smilingsally.blogspot.com/

yal come back now ya hear!