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{Baking, Family, Friends and Fun}

Oh my! It's been a month since I have blogged. I honestly have found it hard to keep up but I am blaming on family time! What better explanation could I have huh? Well, maybe BAKING ! Vanilla cake with chocolate sauce filling and cool whip with powdered sugar icing topped with sprinkles.  Chocolate with fresh strawberry filling with buttercream frosting and a touch of candy pearls. Butter cake with buttercream icing and chocolate sauce.   There has been a whole lot of baking going on at my house. I get in these moods at times. Family & friends have enjoyed my gifts of love. My daughter Melissa and I carried my granddaughter Kyleigh and one of her sweet friends to see Snow White. We had such a fun time with the girls. Our family enjoyed watching our granddaughter Adalynn in her first cheer competition. Her team won 1st place.  Our granddaughter Mallory attended her Junior prom and had the best time. I've decided that blue is her color! I thought this was the cutest pi...

{It's almost February}

We are about to in February y'all and do you know what that means? Well, for starters February will kick off my birthday month but it's our annual Mountain getaway for two ! YEP, my three daughters pout every year because they can't go but we didn't make it to 46 years without truly guarding some of our precious time. I wish these younger couples would learn to GUARD some of their precious time.   For today, I will share a few flashbacks from my week.    One of my elementary long time friends gave me some of her beautiful Meyer lemons. This is the 2nd batch that she has shared with me. I have juiced so many and frozen for treats and recipes. I just love all things lemon. I had a batch of apples that needed to be used so made a fresh apple and walnut pound cake. Saved half of it and froze it for our upcoming mountain trip. The other half didn't last long round here with my tribe. Made a big pot of  sausage and potato soup in which my oldest granddaughter loves. ...

{FUN TIMES}

Hoping that you all are staying warm. Us Floridians sure can't handle the cold too good! LOL! I have decided that I must be a Spring and Fall kinda gal! What is your favorite season of the year?    I recently carried the youngest three grands to get their nails done. Oh my! I think I may have started something and may have to go back to work part time! LOL! We had three days together doing whatever they wanted to do and made lots of memories. However, this Nana was in need of some STRONG COFFEE once they went home.  We took a day to process some venison and make some sausage. The Lord blessed us with several harvests this season.  Marty's dad joined in with us. It's hard work but oh so good. The Lord was surely good to me in allowing me to harvest this beautiful buck. I had been sick a few days and had not been able to get out to hunt any. I was somewhat feeling a little sorry for myself to be honest because at that point I had overed the nasty, awful Covid and was ...

"It's A Brand New Year, A Brand New Day and A Brand New Moment"

  I sure hope your New Year has started off good and that you are enjoying life. I wanted to share a few pictures we snapped over the holidays. Of course I wanted to share my WORD for "2024". The Lord surely has speaking to my heart about staying focused on Him and not worrying, fretting and pondering what the future holds because HE is the ONLY ONE that holds my future.  It's always fun to see Santa and know him up close and personal. LOL! (Marty's brother played Santa for all of our children) My girls! Lots of love with our family. A whole lot baking and cooking went on too over the holidays but I had some good little helpers. I had to show you all the beautiful gift that my sister Mary gave to me for Christmas. It meant so very much too me and as always, God's timing was perfect. Nothing like being wrapped in the Word in Word of God.  I will close with my January Focus. This is my 3rd year of doing a monthly focus board and a reminder that no matter what we hav...