Wednesday's Winter Comfort Foods and Well-Said Sayings

Does this look yummy or what? It's so easy, too! Check out this link for easy to follow directions

http://www.foreverwherever.com/?p=760

And some quotes worth repeating:

"Well done is better than well said." - Benjamin Franklin

"People learn more quickly by doing something or seeing something done."

-Gilbert Highet

"If you always do what you've always done, you'll always get what you've always got." - Selected

"Education makes up what we are." - C.A. Helvitus

"We want to see the child in pursuit of knowledge - not the knowledge in pursuit of the child." - G.B. Shaw

"Educating your child isn't just completing bookwork, it's teaching your child who to be and how to be." - Selected

Enjoy this lovely Winter Wonderland - a Gift from the Father for His Much Loved Children!

Tuesday's Tea Time

Last Monday was my birthday. If you read my daughter's post, you will know that my mom, sister and her surprised me with a tea at Mrs. Teapots the previous Tuesday. (That was when they could work it out as a surprise). You can read about it on Lorna's blog.

It was the best birthday ever!

My mother-in-law gave me some money and this is what I purchased with it.

I fell in love with this teapot at Home Goods and decided that's what I would get with any money I received for my birthday.

On the way to the checkout, I spotted this darling set of tea towels and since they were having their first-time-ever 15% off sale, I was able to get the teapot and the tea towels with my birthday money!

I was so excited! Thank you, Mom T.!

Happy Birthday to me!!

Ok so you know this isn't Denise!! She would NEVER put a post on here for her birthday LOL!! So this is her daughter Lorna. I just wanted to let y'all know my mom is a WHOLE year OLDER!! Good thing is she doesn't look it LOL!! :) So leave a comment and wish her a Happy Birthday!! I know she'll appreciate it!! Thanks!! :)

Thursday Thirteen ~ "O" ~

I'm going to try to finish up the alphabet with Thursday Thirteen posts.

Counting blessings alphabetically is a great way to focus on things that otherwise just get lost in the shuffle of life.

So here goes

Blessings that Start with the Letter "O":

1. Our Father's outrageous (humanly speaking) offer to obliterate our sins! No longer an outcast, I enjoy this optimum opportunity to enjoy an earthly oasis from the oppression of the Old Man as long as I obey the Omnipotent One. He's my Alpha and Omega - I long for the day I observe my Beloved coming to take me to the home I'll occupy with Him forever!

2. Oceans - I've been blessed to observe the Indian, Atlantic and Pacific Oceans. The Indian is the most beautiful, the Pacific the deepest and the Atlantic the most vast. No wonder they say His love is like an ocean! Beautiful, deep and vast!

3. Ona - the name of both my paternal grandmother and my dear sweet sister-in-law!

4.Ohio and Oklahoma - beautiful states I've been blessed to visit and one of which I call home.

5. Operating computers online!

6. Oblong oak table - I have a beautiful one built by our Amish friend, Owen, where we often enjoy old-fashioned meal time!

7. Orange Free State - one of South Africa's most beautiful provinces that I've been blessed to visit. My friend, Eleanor's daughter lives in it's beautiful city of Bloemfontein. The beautiful fields of sunflowers there are a sight to behold!

8. Oval - my favorite shape! I'm so glad God created that one!

9. Organ - I LOVE to play the organ and have been the organist at four different churches.

10.Orthopedic Operations - have given my son an extra-ordinary lease on life!

11. Ottoman - love my big ottoman!

12. Organize - working on getting organized - again. It's awful hard with surgeries interrupting all the time, let me tell you!

13. Orthodontics - my first job was working as a nanny for my orthodontist, Dr. Ann Wilson in Port Saint Lucie, Florida.