Perhaps It Will Snow
PERHAPS IT WILL SNOW and we will see first hand the world we live in slow way down almost to a halt and be so quiet you can hear yourself THINK. Perhaps. Perhaps not. As we inch along toward CHRISTMAS, I have hopes of cheering up some.
We have no CHRISTMAS TREE up in our tiny RETIREMENT COTTAGE nor are there lights on the outside of this place we lay our heads down at night to have sweet dreams in. Just a few holiday items sit out to see as you look around the room.
I placed a few CHRISTMAS cards in the mail yesterday. No CHRISTMAS letter this year. Think I'll just write one after CHRISTMAS, print it out for my personal collection and forget about it. I know that this year it is very different than so many others put together. Not sure I like it this way. Not sure.
Hubby and I purchased lots of blue lights half off last CHRISTMAS season to decorate the big rock house for CHRISTMAS this year. Daughter and her new husband used them to flash out their home this year since we had a huge change in plans.
CHRISTMAS gifts were finalized yesterday and it's a relief to me as it always is to have ALL the Grandchildren and Children's gifts ready to go. I won't be giving siblings gifts this year. Parents yes, but after CHRISTMAS.
Ready for an afternoon nap. Need to get rested before I forge ahead on laundry. My age is in my bones and my muscles let me know about it when I'm tired.
LIFE ON THE PRAIRIE is different for me this Christmas.
If I don't get it said later, I'll say it now.....MERRY CHRISTMAS TO YOU!
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DAUGHTER'S PIE CRUST RECIPE
Pie Crust Recipe.
With her permission I share her recipe with you. BLESS your family, friends and your taste buds with this wonderful crust.
Pie Crust Recipe
1 cup flour
3 heaping tablespoons of shortening
A dash of salt
A tiny bit of ice cold water
Mix ingredients together well.
Roll out on wax paper.
Assemble pie.
Spread a little milk on top of crust before baking.
Simply delicious,
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DECORATING
I knew a very frugal Lady named Edith that shared with me a excellent guideline for decorating. She said with ease, "If your room has clean ceilings, floors, and walls, and the windows have nice curtains, you'll have an attractive room."
John 3:7
“Marvel not that I said unto thee,
Ye must be born again.”
King James Version (KJV)
PSALM 118:17
I shall not die,
but live, and declare
the works of the Lord.
By wisdom
a house is built,
and through understanding
it is established;
through
knowledge
its rooms are filled with rare
and beautiful treasures.
SALVATION
Romans 10:9 King James Version (KJV)
9 That if thou shalt confess with thy mouth the Lord Jesus, and shalt believe in thine heart that God hath raised him from the dead, thou shalt be saved.
Acts 4:12 King James Version (KJV)
12 Neither is there salvation in any other: for there is none other name under heaven given among men, whereby we must be saved.
"HOME is a wonderful place to LIVE. No matter the size of the rooms, ones HOME is a place to call ones own. I so LOVE my HOME." ~Deanna~
PSALM 90:12
SO
TEACH us
to number OUR days,
that we may apply our HEARTS
unto
WISHES
NO MATTER HOW BADLY YOU WISH with all your might that the something devastating that happened in your life hadn't happened and want so badly to go back in time to prevent it from happening...it isn't humanly possible to do this. You can't change the fact that it happened. IT DID. But JESUS can change the MEANING of what happened to you and give you PEACE. He can show you the way in which you are to go. God richly BLESS you. ~Deanna
2 comments:
Hope that you had a happy Christmas Deanna and wishing you happy holidays and best wishes for 2017
hugs
Carolyn
May you be blessed with many blessings and a time of peace Deanne as you settle into your new retirement home. Your Thyroid issues must have been hard but a great attitude sounds forth. We recently watched The Crown series on Netflix and although I knew all the history and there was some poetic licence, I loved it and did not want to miss a word. I amazingly managed to not doze off as I often do when watching TV later in the evening.
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