Happy Mother's Day

My mother was one of the reasons my childhood was so great!
She was and is a fun person to be around. She could go to another state and see someone she knew or meet someone new but like they had been old friends!
So many memories...sewing our play clothes, curling our hair, cutting me bangs the night before my first grade picture, leaving me with sprigs!
Putting on our babydoll pjs with pillow and blanket in hand and going to the drive-in, in the summers, on our vacations, every sign she saw had a song and she sang her way to NY and FL.
Use to drive us nuts but guess what...we all do it today!
Just a lot of love in our home and everyone wanted to hang out at our house.
My mom and dad made many sacrifices for us girls and never complained and we realized it and greatly appreciated it.
I thank God that He gave me my mom! She's a blessing!

There comes a time...

There comes a time...
There comes a time
when one must embrace "fifty-nine" !

And that time has come for me...today!
Embrace it...YES!
Act like it...NEVER!

PS....

Love this version of 1 Timothy 2:1-6 from The Good News Bible, Todays English Version.

"First of all, then, I urge petitions, prayers, requests and thanksgivings be offered to God for all people; for kings and all others who are in authority, that we may live a quiet and peaceful life with all reverence toward God and with proper conduct.
This is good and it pleases God our Savior, who wants everyone to be saved and to come to know the Truth.
For there is one God, and there is one who brings God and mankind together, the man Christ Jesus, who gave himself to redeem all mankind."

Amen and amen!

National Day of Prayer

"A Call To Prayer"

"First of all, then, I urge that entreaties and prayers, petitions and thanksgivings, be made on behalf of all men,
for kings and all who are in authority, so that we may lead a tranquil and quiet life in all godliness and dignity.
This is good and acceptable in the sight of God our Savior,
Who desires all men (mankind) to be saved and come to the knowledge of the Truth."

1 Timothy 2:1-4 NAS


"...Truly, truly, I say to you, if you ask the Father for anything in My name, He will give it to you."

John 16:23 (spoken by Jesus) NAS

Word to the wise....we must ask according to God's will.

A Lovely Day!

Today I picked up two of my friends, Ann and Ruth, widows who live in our neighborhood and drove them into Waxhaw via the "scenic" route...back country roads. We dined at the Main Street Grill and then shopped a bit, spending most of our time in an antique store full of all sorts of treasures! The shopkeeper was a very interesting lady with wonderful "shop" stories she shared with us as we were the only ones in the store for a while. We then piled into the car with our purchases and drove to our house where we spent a lovely afternoon conversing on our porch. It was such a lovely day!

Happy Birthday Daddy!

Happy Birthday Daddy! He's the handsome gentleman in the light blue shirt behind my mom.
He's 81 today! He was always there for us growing up...always had time for us whether it was for talks, games, just life in general. Had a wonderful childhood! And yes, we are all still very close today.

AND Happy Birthday to Christian on April 30th....our oldest Grand is 12!!!!! Hard to believe!
He's the tall one on the front row in the black hoodie! Our "kids" are growing up!

Spontaneity...the spice of life!

Out with the old, REALLY bad plastic wrap and ......

in with the new! This was a gift from friends! Was in a gift bag and all! And I was pretty excited about it.

Okay, I know some of you are wondering how any of this goes with my title but bear with me...it does!

Yesterday all our plans got changed...cookout with some church friends in Belmont was postponed due to a funeral we all wanted to attend. We decided to invite the hosts of the cookout to go out to eat with us and visit some on our porch afterwards. We invited a few others but only one other could join us and then we decided not to go out but throw something together at our house!

We 3 ladies converged on our kitchen, pulling stuff from the pantry and fridge and we ended up having a blast getting it together! We were chopping and laughing, peeling and making messes and having a wonderfully fun time doing it! It became a salad dinner with a huge beautiful toss salad and potato salad and Trader Joe Fiesta dip and tostitos...Trader Joes' thin Ginger snaps and lemon cookies along with some sugar free candies became our impromptu desserts and the fellowship just got better and better.

We went to clean up and put away the food and Teri wanted my plastic wrap. I sort of wavered a bit there. My plastic wrap was awful! I had wrestled with that "off" brand way too many times and just avoided it altogether. Should have thrown it away a year ago. Well, she was determined to conquer it and put it to right. She worked quite hard but I 'm not so sure she won the battle.

Then this morning at church there was a goodie bag on my seat....GLAD WRAP!

So I came home and threw the imposter away!

You know that saying...."Don't get mad, get Glad!" Well thanks to our friends I now have GLAD!

Used it at lunch and it really works! Amazing!