Most of my blogger friends know me and what I like to blog about but for those that are new, I want to share a little about me to you. I met a handsome guy on a blind date on Christmas Day 1965 when I was 16, he was just back from serving in the US Army and safely home from Vietnam at 19. I graduated high school in June 1967 and we got married on July 29, 1967. We have two daughters, 7 grandchildren and 12 great grandchildren, scattered
The 2025 Ultimate Blog Challenge Begins today. Four times a year in January, April, July and October bloggers join in on this exciting challenge to write a blog each day of the challenge months.
Today is the 31st, the last day of October, it’s also the last day of the October Ultimate Blog Challenge. But the last day of every month will always be the hardest for me. It means another month has gone by without having Rich by my side. He was and still is my everything and 59 years is a long time being together and then just like that he’s gone. Today is 7 months since my first and only love was called home on Easter morning, March 31st. I can
Well today is the last Wednesday of the month, seems like it went by fairly fast! But this week I gotta have words on Wordless Wednesday. I was so excited when I got my mini cast iron baking dish and it even came with a wood trivet. Hobby Lobby has all their Christmas items half price and this was one of them! It was regular $14.00 but at $7.00 I thought it was a steal and I couldn’t get home quick enough to make an omelette in my mini pan.
I know it’s supposed to be Throwback Thursday but I’m changing it this week. Today will be Throwback Tuesday from years ago because it was when I tackled the master bedroom closet I found this Easter memory from 1969. This sweet little cutie is our first born daughter, born on Christmas day 1968. This is a picture of Christine on her first Easter, April 6, 1969. I made her Easter outfit, a white batiste dress and bonnet with delicate pale yellow lace trim hand stitched on the cuffs and bonnet.