A New Favorite

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I've found a new favorite movie from the BBC...

I like this adaption for  

romance from a classic novel.  

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Inspired

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Inspired!

This is the movie that started it.

My kids and I lurve it.

Good old fashioned story of family, lurve,

and the County Fair!

My Son said, "Mom, you could do that."

I replied, "Do what Son?"

He said, "Go to the fair and win a ribbon."

I said, "What would I enter to be judged?"

He said, "Your Pig Candy or something else yummy. 

It doesn't matter, it's all good!"

That got me thinking...

and thinking some more...

regardless of the outcome it would be fun, we'd make a memory

and of course I could blog about it! ha ha

So that's why I want these books for my birthday or Christmas...

gotta know who my competition is! 

    

So in the upcoming year,

I will research, go over my own recipe box and decide what to enter in the Baked Goods category in our next local county fair.  If it wins, I can move on to the State Fair level.

Do you go to your county fair or state fair?

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A new toy!

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I recently received a gift card and 

knew exactly what I wanted to buy with it!

A French Press Coffee Maker!

I lurve my cup (pot) of Tea

but I prefer coffee first thing in the morning!

Now for some coffee humor!

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Starting my wish list

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I'm starting to make my 

Birthday / Christmas wish list... 

This is first on my list...

Marjorie Johnson's 

The Road to Blue Ribbon Baking

Second on the list is this...

America's Best

Blue Ribbon Winners

State Fair Recipes

~ What's on your wish list?~

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Birthday Memories!

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Birthday Memories!

We rotate the kids birthday parties 

(friends or family)

every other year and this year was the family year...

Simple decorations but full of fun!

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A Year of Tea Pots

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Life is resembling normalcy here again and with that brings

some free time to blog!  I thought I'd share these DARLING mini teapots that my Mother-in-Law gave me a couple of years ago. I display them on my curio cabinet every month. She has a set that I admired from afar and when her best friend was giving hers away, she KNEW exactly who would appreciate them!  ME!

Introducing my year of tea pots!

January

February

March

April

May

June

July

August

September

October

November

December

Do you have a display of "something"?

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A Jolt of Reality

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A Jolt of Reality

Last week I got the phone call everyone dreads to receive...

A loved one is in the hospital.

My Brother was "in the hospital and not responding, get there as soon as you can..."

Upon my arrival, he had woken up and was talking - Hallelujah! 

They were letting us in two at a time to see him, so my sister and I went in together.

His first words to us... "Well you're pretty."  ha ha

Having just come from fishing with my family, I smelled of catfish and sweat,

my hair looked like I had seen a vision and my skin was pretty pale...

 I assured the family there wasn't anything wrong with him, 

he was completely fine... ha ha

But all joking aside, he is not completely fine... 

By the grace of God he survived what should have given him his heavenly promotion...

He happily got to come home yesterday and is recovering with family 

but he's not out of the woods yet.

As we enter into my favorite season - Fall - I'm looking through my cookbooks 

to see how I can adapt some of my favorite recipes 

to accommodate Type 2 Diabetes at family gatherings.

And ya know what, it won't be that difficult after all!

I would appreciate healing prayers for my Brother and any delicious food

recipes you may have for those with Diabetes.  THANK YOU!

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A little show...

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The kids and their friends asked if they could put on 

"A little show..." for their parents recently and my kids asked if we could host it.

I asked what they had in mind for their "Little show..." 

and they said...

"Ya know... we do our show and then we have refreshments afterwards!"

I replied...

"What kind of refreshments do you have in mind?"

and they said...

"Ya know... like your tea stuff!"  

(ha ha)  Hard to say no to that, so the kids decorated the stage area 

and I got to work on the refreshments...

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Presenting "A Little show..."

Act 1: "Hula in the Sea"

Act 2: A Duet singing the theme song from a Disney show

(notice the costume change.. tee hee)

Act 3: Singing Solo to another Disney tune

The End!  

And with a loud applause, the parents rocked the neighborhood!

Next it was time for the Refreshments...

I have to say it was darn cute to see the fruit of the kids labor after they had worked for over a week putting together their "Little show...".  The experience also showed me that my kids are learning how to entertain through what they have seen me do as they surveyed the table a few times and told me what was needed.  ha ha

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Transition

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Vacations are over with the souvenirs packed away, 

a new School year has begun,

Football season is near,

 Yard Sales await us,

and new Tea Party themes need inspiration, 

so I am watching this...

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Vacation...

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On Vacation...

Looking forward to returning to the routines that school schedules provide!!

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N.G.A. Weekend

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N. G. A. Camp Out

~No Girls Allowed~

I have very little to contribute in the way of captions for these pictures as my Man took them this summer when our church hosted a NGA Camp Out... as in No Girls Allowed!  Looks like they had a great time though and check out that Tee Pee!  Very cool!

 I was told the Smores were smoking good that night!

I was told someone else did the cooking that weekend! (Yea Me!)

I was told water squirters are great for cooling off on a hot day!

So what did us Girls do while the Boys played?  

We did pedicures!

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