Happy Week-end

I hope you are having a wonderful and warm week-end . Here is a little flower basket for you to enjoy , I just love these colors , I hope you do too . We are laying low and I am baking cookies and goodies for Christmas , hubby is sick with some bug , some gift wrapping needs to be addressed , but mostly just enjoying the moment . God Bless , Suz

Contemplating

                                                    After a busy week fraught with car problems , freezing conditons here in Northwest Florida , and so forth , I came home after Advent service at church and found warmth and coziness and a sweet husband waiting . After Elzabeth Edwards brave battle with cancer ended this week and our Pastor's new born undergoing heart surgery today I have no complaints . These are brave people who in the face of real problems look to the Lord and find their refuge in Him . I look around and count my many blessings , health , a home , a job , a family who loves ...... and most of all a Savior and a Heavenly father who knows and loves me . No , I can't complain , my cup runneth over . By the way , the Pastor's baby Eli came through the seven hour surgery fine . He is a tough little cookie .Have a blessed week .xxoo Suz

Love ,Love , Love

Love came down from heaven . Love so lovely , love devine . Love came down from heaven , the stars and angels gave the sign .

I think this is my favorite time of the year . It's not the gifts or the hectic pace or the deluge of sentimentality that overwhelms us this season . I feel such a sense of peace and love that I know doesn't come from me , and I find my refuge there . Don't get me wrong , I get caught  up in all the trappings sometimes too but this year somethings different . I feel gratitude and great love for my family , our situations in life that point to anything but peaceful , but most of all to our Savior Jesus Christ , the annointed one ,  who came down from Heaven . He came so that we may live , for that I am eternally grateful . So lets pause during this season and thank God for the day when Divinity met Humanity , go spread the word . Love , Suz

Tuckered out

                      Too much turkey , too much fun , just too much ! This picture of my sweetie and our little man Boo Boo is a perfect picture of Thanksgiving contentment ! We celebrated at home , watched the parade and dozed off a little . I was in cooking gear for a day or two , my first turkey in 28 years , so I learned how to brine a turkey , make the cornbread dressing (  I couldn't find Mama's recipe so I had to wing it ) , the sweet potato casserole and green bean casserole are long time favorites , easy peasy , and thank you Mrs . Smith for the punkin pie ! All in all , it was a wonderful day and now ..... move over honey , its my time to nap ! xxxooo , Suz

wondering and wandering

                  Do you ever wonder when you pass by a house , what is life like in that home ,? Is it full of laughing , songs , good smells coming from the kitchen ? Is it a home where sadness and loneliness live , unwanted but present ? I think about that , some houses look loved , that is what makes it a home in my opinion , the evidence of a life in progress . It's everything from the books on the nightstand to the sweet smelling soap in the bath that tell where you are . As well as the pictures on the table , the chewed up toy that takes precedent in the only comfortable chair , the Bible out and ready to be read , sewing sitting in a basket waiting for a few free moments in the day . I am grateful to be where I am in this life , it is not worry free but it is the only one I've got and I plan on being present in it . Have a blessed week , don't forget to thank the Creator and his Son for for all that has been done for you . xxoo Suz

Hooty hoo

I love this poem , makes me want to drink hot chocolate and curl up on the sofa ! Have a blessed day .

poem by Rachel Field


xxoo Suz

 "  I like the Fall, the mist and all .  I like the hoot owl's lonely call ....and wailing sound of wind around. I like the gray November day and wet bare boughs that slowly sway ....... in the rain . I like to sit and  laugh at it and tend my cozy fire a bit.  I like the Fall , the wind and all .   "  

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feeling ruff

                             
                                                                    This isn't the best picture of my little man , but it describes how we have been sick at our house this week . Mopey , Dopey , and Coughy .I haven't been this sick in years and it just knocked me back , way back . When you're too sick to watch TV , too sick to eat , ya just want to waller on the sofa with a blanket and a sweet little dog and a box of  kleenex . Hope you have missed this badness going around and will be better soon . God Bless , Suz