"My Favorite Things" Friday

I thought I'd show off some of my favorite things on fridays, so here they are...

Fresh Daffodils...

Pretty New Easter Clothes...

My Spring Piano Top Display....

My Favorite "Airline" Cookies...

So, there you have it, have a great weekend!

First Day of Spring Tea Party...

My sister and best friend since high school came over to help me celebrate the first day of spring. It was such a nice day that I was able to set up my tea party on my back deck. With everyone busy getting ready for the easter holiday I decided to make the party a tea "brunch".

In addition to the traditional cucumber sammies, I served my special recipe deviled eggs, and "make your own" yogurt parfaits, with home made granola, and fresh strawberries. I also made some yummy vanilla orange cupcakes, cuz I cannot have a tea party without some kind of cake! (Cake is my favorite food group, ever!)

I placed a darling and very scrumptious dark chocolate bunny at each place setting.(Lindt!) Here they are naked!

We had a great time, very calm and relaxing, a lot of sun and soft breeze, perfectly first day of spring weather!

Thanks for stopping by, and Happy Spring!

Fallen Soldier

This past friday, the small community that I live in mourned the loss of one of our own. A young Sargent in the Army, killed in Afghanistan, was laid to rest.

A motorcycle group of Veterans led the procession, down the main street of town. Hundreds, including myself,came out to pay tribute.

Later, the children of this soldiers former elementary school lined the street as the procession moved to the cemetery.





thank you and rest in peace.

Bed Buddies and Banner Frustrations...

I tried to do something a little different with my banner, just some little adjustments, and I ended up screwing up the whole thing! In my defense, up until 3 years ago, I couldn't even use a computer. No kidding, I literally couldn't even turn one on. So I have come a long way. And I came to a conclusion this week. This little blog of mine is a learning project, and one day I hope it will be as beautiful, entertaining and inspiring as the blogs I look at every day. See how I was experimenting with the font? yeah, I have to let go of wanting this space to be so pretty, yet. But if you hang in there I assure you it will get better.

I love how a lot of blog-ladies have cute names for their spouses and kids, I don't want to writing "my husband" this and that, so I will hearby dub him "the Boss". Because his ringtone on my phone is the theme song from the Sopranos. And cuz I let him be the boss. So, the boss is away at an academy for his job, promotion kind of a thing,(law enforcement) 10 weeks, and he's only home on the weekends. The babies have been sleeping with me, but they that do even when he is here. I guess we're those "family bed" kinda people. The thing is I have a 16 year old daughter(from a previous marriage) so I know how fast they grow. I do appreciate the extra room in the bed, during the week. If I won the lottery, I would have a huge ( I mean like really big) bed custom made for all of us.