Today is Palm Sunday, as a Roman Catholic it’s a reminder of the welcoming of Jesus into our hearts and of our willingness to follow him. Palm Sunday is the last Sunday in Lent and the Sunday before Easter. It’s the beginning of Holy Week, the most important week of the year for Christians. I remember back when I met my husband and the first Palm Sunday I spent with him and his grandparents in 1966. Grandpa made the most beautiful crosses from the palms that were handed out during Mass.
Today is April 1st and I’m so excited!! No not because it’s April Fools Day but because it’s the beginning of the April 2023 Ultimate Blog Challenge! I am especially excited to get back on track since I have not written ONE BLOG since the January Challenge and I’m missing my blogging friends! I turned 74 years old in March and I have been slacking big time but life got in my way. However I did come up with many blog topics that I would write down over the past
Where did the month go? It seems like the UBC just started and now the January 2023 UBC is History! I did my challenge a bit different this time, I had “mini” series for each week and I like that idea. Maybe that’s why it went by so quickly. My first week was about Meal Ideas since I put a stop to buying food for the month of January until my freezers were emptied out. But I have to extend that a bit since I’m still using up what I
Last Monday my blog topic idea came from a UBC blogger friend, I posted leave me your best tip and then I turned it over to my readers to see what tips they could offer. I was so excited when I read the replies I thought I would share them with you all so you can have even more helpful tips! This is Amanda Myer’s blog where I got her idea from. https://createmeow.com/have-your-community-share-best-tips/ My Readers Best Tips Alice Gerard Organizing is an area in which I do not shine. In
Since this is my week to share “this and that” I’m going back to my camera and share some new things I’ve learned on my Nikon P1000 the past few days. I’ve been shooting mostly in program modes now and excited to learn the difference about all the different modes. It’s actually not has hard as I thought it would be. These gorgeous male bluebird was perched on the top of Lia’s swing set just waiting for me to snap his picture. I was hoping he would turn around so