It is Monday, my dear readers and you know that Monday is our Celebrate Your Story Link Party! I started with my decorating early as I was limited on my “work time” due to my re-cooperating, but I am still behind. We are having two Christmas Open Houses…one on Friday and one on Saturday that…
Do you remember the lyrics to the Christmas hymn “Silver & Gold”? It goes like this: “Don’t give me a mansion on top of a hill Don’t give me the world With a shallow thrill But just give me a Savior, My life He can hold I’d rather have Jesus than Silver & Gold “…
A Christmas Cuppa is always relaxing, at least for me. I love hot tea, preferable green tea, but really, any hot tea works for me. It is not that I don’t like coffee, I absolutely do like a good cup of coffee…but I especially love a cuppa hot tea. The Captain, knowing full well of…
Hello my dear readers….if it is Monday at 8.m….. it is celebrate your story # 158!!!!! Are you beginning to feel the rush for getting things done or are you one of those who has the shopping done, wrapped and sitting by the fire drinking hot cocoa? I have to confess I still have packages…
Folks, I LOVE mushrooms in any way shape or form. In fact, as much as I am not a fast food fan…there is one local fast food joint that has a Mushroom Swiss hamburger that I have tasted and it is delicious. That is if you are a mushroom fan. I have several stuffed mushrooms…
Flower of the Holy Night or better known as the Poinsettia! Did you know there is a National Poinsettia Day? Yep! and it is the 12th of December! AND did you know that the plant was known as the Flower of the Holy Night and it’s origin was Southern Mexico? Sit back, grab a cuppa…
Hello my dear readers….if it is Monday at 8.m….. it is celebrate your story # 158!!!!! Are you beginning to feel the rush for getting things done or are you one of those who has the shopping done, wrapped and sitting by the fire drinking hot cocoa? I have to confess I still have…
At first light (early this morning), I grabbed my cup of hot tea, and curled up on the sofa. It was very quiet and peaceful, and still dark outside. I like to turn on the Christmas trees and the lights on the mantle …. any chance I get, …..as they are so pretty and give…
When I was a kid, I loved Christmas candy. Well, that and pony tails and bobbi sox and crinolines as I got older, but I never lost my love for peppermint. Before I go any further, I have to confess that I set up this tablescape last Christmas!! Yes, this is candy land re-visited. A…
Mini Strawberry Cheesecakes! I know, I know…This is too easy! Making these Mini strawberry cheesecakes is like taking candy from a baby,…. not that I have ever done that in my lifetime. OK, maybe that one time that the baby was about to pop a piece of candy into her mouth and we know how…
It is Celebrate Your Story Monday and another group of features for your enjoyment. I want to personally thank you all for not only reading our Celebrate Your Story Link Party but participating with us so that we are able to pick four feature posts. It is so exciting to see the posts and the…
Remember the song do the locomotion with me? Well, this ain’t it! I’m talking about Hawaii here folks. And a old type Diner dish from about 1949!!! I know, 1949….this is really an old recipe. Grab a cuppa what ever and I have a story to tell. Not my story mind you, but a legend…