Granny Nanny and Winter Blessings With Barbie

As Winter closed in and the temps chilled, my heart embraced the Season with admiring the Holiday decorations and the Message of Christ's Birth.  The symbolism that points toward Christ's Birth and all that He represents grows more meaningful to me with each passing year. 

Family gathers and we made time to be together.  There's fellowship, gifts, food, fun and life.  The cold temps outside are forgotten as we gather indoors in the presence of one another.  Our hearts are warmed.  The world fades.

~AND BARBIE COMES OUT TO PLAY~
 Lil Miss brought her Barbies. 
Daughter, Sister, Lil Miss and Self entertained ourselves. 
We had a DANCE.

 Ken can't help but be involved.  Of course he is invited.

Some head of hair Ken has....don't 'cha think?

As we got together for after Christmas Time....we girls played Barbie Dolls with Lil Miss at my Folk's Dinner Table.  Grins.  We were girly girls. 

~OH FUDGE~

~OH TO BE SO LIMBER~

Are you having light hearted fun this Winter?

I sure hope so.  

It's moments like this that ease stress 
and makes memories to recall.

Winter Blessings to you!

Granny Nanny

~HEY HANK~

Mercy

Dear Ones, Has Christmas and the New Years truly come and gone?  Here it is the 7th day of January.  Mercy. 

I've got to get on the ball and post Hubby's birthday pics, Christmas spent with Family, after Christmas Family gathering, New Years and and and.  Will do...just not right this second.

Glad you have stopped by.  I have some left over Christmas M&Ms.  Want some?  They're red and green....uh huh.....red and green.  I told my thyroid doctor that I'd be working at eating more green foods like green fudge.  Well...green M&Ms isn't really green food, but if I squint my eyes, it's almost convincing. 

 

The week-end didn't go exactly as planned and I'm alright with that as I have 5 days to tidy up this 'ole house with company hopefully arriving late Friday night.  The master bed will be made up with clean sheets by then and the bathroom scoured clean.  The Family room vacuumed and dusted with Christmas presents waiting to be opened by LOVED ONES.  The Dining room swept and finger food on the old Buffet.

Thinking about the menu and what to shop for.  Will buy some new batteries for the camera.  Our Parlour Christmas tree is still up, but the Family room tree disappeared.  I need to transfer the gifts back in to the Family room and have them ready for the Grandchildren that are planning on being here.

The Porch is still decked out, but the wooden porch Santa and Angel journeyed to storage.  

I am looking forward to seeing the Kids.  Excited actually!  Lord, please help me to get those chocolate covered pretzels dipped and ready to eat.  Fruit and Veggie trays fixed.  Be with me in all the details.  Thank you...thank you and amen.

Well I had better go groom and send myself out the door to get some fun shopping done that needs done.

May you have an outstanding day,
d

CHRISTMAS House

The Christmas House

Slept in this Saturday morning and woke feeling refreshed.  Pouring my cup of coffee, I noticed a note from my husband on the kitchen counter top stating that he had taken our Airedale Delilah to get her rabies shot.

I tinkered around putting some Christmas Decorations in a red tub. Put some laundry in to wash.  Put some dishes away, looked through a newspaper, checked email and decided I need to locate my stuffed snowmen.  Researched some medical info.  Read some on the Victoria Jackson Show Blog.  Thought about what I have learned over the years concerning certain religious movements.  What I should accomplish this week-end. 

Read daily devotionals as a couple and prayed.

Had lunch, visited with the girls, went down into the cellar to look for snowmen.  Road along with Hubby out to a storage unit to put some decorations away.  Found my snowmen.  Took a drive.  Talked about the future.  Admired the Christmas House AGAIN.

Stopped by the Post Office to get the mail and walked down to the local Antique Store to dream.  There are a few items I wouldn't mind having.  That's easy.  Headed to the local Restaurant for Supper.  Praise the Lord!  I was a Salad Eater tonight. 

The temps chilled down, but we walked the Main Street of our little town.  Drove home, unloaded the car.  Watched a little television.  Sipped a diet soda.  Munched some popcorn.  Deleted pictures from files that I no longer need.

As I read the local newspaper...in the obituaries was a photo of a little smiling baby.  This little guy was only a few months old when he passed into eternity.  Also, the neighbor man died just before Christmas.  He had fought a long battle against cancer.  When I read that such and such passed away from cancer.....I have to stop and think about having more time on earth and what I am to do with this gift called life.  May I not forget that I am just a heartbeat away from eternity.  We all are.    

A very slow paced day.  I need them and feel blessed to have them.
I will fall asleep tonight thinking about how I would decorate the Christmas House.  The decorating that goes on in my head is affordable and entertaining.  
d

French Rag Dolls

 

Daughter was inspiried to make French Rag Dolls......you like?  

Oui.

I like.

 

She gifted me with one for my Christmas present.

Will share pic later.
The dollies are about 18 inches.
She's willing to take orders.  
email me your email address and away we will go.

I like dolls....i really do.

Have ever sense I was a wee lil one.

Now that I am a wee BIG one...I still like dolls.

grins.

Love you this day,

d

The Love Of My Life

We celebrated his Christmas Eve Birthday with cake and sugar-free ice cream.  Sang him HaPpY BiRtHdAy!  Should have spanked him 58 times, but then my paddle would have broke and my spanking hand would have hurt.  Grins.

What a great age 58 is.  

Since we are about 6 months difference in age, my on going joke is...You will always be older than me.

Hope your special day was pleasant for you.  I love you!  You are the LOVE OF MY LIFE.

Love,
dd

Birthday Blessings

~LIL MISS TURNS 6~

HaPpY BiRtHdAy

to a wonderful Grand-daughter!

I love you,

Grandma

DECLARING The New Year

Thinking about the new year and wondering how it will go.
Not sure what to expect, but can't help compare what 2012 went like.  Hey, I'm human.

Gotta have HOPE.  Gotta have some nourishment to feed our souls and inner being.

This past year, my daughter-in-law separated from my son and my heart broke.  Divorcing.

Divorce is a death.  I know that God can heal marriages if both husband and wife desire it.  God can breathe new life into a sad situation and turn it completely around.  This I know.  

But you have to believe in God.  The relationship with Him must be active and real, not a ritual.  Facing a certain direction when praying isn't a prerequisite for God hearing your prayers.  Wearing certain clothing articles doesn't necessarily enhance ones prayer language.  

Reciting mantras doesn't do it.  It's in having a personal relationship with the Lord Jesus and being filled with the Holy Spirit that starts the ball rolling to where God hears your cries.  Some do not understand that you can have a personal relationship with God.  Some have no desire to know God.  The goodness of God isn't something they know about.  They are still in the dark.   

Declaring that this year be full of light,
d   

Raconteur

raconteur:  someone good at telling stories.

The first time I heard the word raconteur was as I was gathering info about Abraham Lincoln. Used to described Lincoln's story telling abilities.

Hubby and I ventured off to the Movie Theater to see LINCOLN.  I liked it.  I like the time era, clothing, interior decor, speech patterns, history.  Watching the story line unfold in the movie was interesting to me as I sat there in the dark sitting by my husband munching on buttered popcorn.  I was a good girl sipping on water instead of calorie free soda.

Daniel Day-Lewis did a superb impersonation of Lincoln's persona.  Not knowing Lincoln's tone of voice other than being described as reedy sounding, actor Day-Lewis was believable as a convincing Kentuckian.

I would love to see a movie about Mary Todd Lincoln's life after the death of the President and how she lived out her life until she passed away.

Their son, Robert that reached adulthood, had an active political life 

as the 35th United States Sect. of State.  

Robert Todd Lincoln

Mister Lincoln on the far right.  Lincoln with Taft and Harding.

Robert Todd Lincoln's Georgian Revival Style Summer Home in Manchester, Vermont.

www.hildene.org

 Abraham Lincoln on the left and actor Daniel Day-Lewis portraying Lincoln on the right.

Mary Todd Lincoln on the left and actress Sally Field portraying Lincoln on the right.


Years ago, our young family toured Mary Todd Lincoln's childhood home and one of Abraham Lincoln's childhood Log Cabins while on vacation.
Thought it was fascinating.

Mary Todd Lincoln's Childhood Home in Lexington, Kentucky.
www.mtlhouse.org

I hope to go to the Lincoln Presidential Library and Museum in Springfield, Illinois.
Someday.
www.alplm.org


ABRAHAM LINCOLN QUOTES
"You can't make a weak man strong by making a strong man weak."

"A house divided against itself cannot stand."

"Don't interfere with anything in the Constitution.  That must be maintained, for it is the only safeguard of our liberties."

"Sir, my concern is not whether God is on our side; my greatest concern is to be on God's side, for God is always right."

 Off to a great start,
d

How Many Kings Video With lyrics