I want to thank all the men and woman who have served us with their lives and for standing up and being counted for serving our United States of America.
You all deserve more than a day. You have blessed us with your dedication, your lives and your families for the services you have performed for this country. I pray that God continues to shine His face down upon you all and to give you peace and comfort in the dark nights and lonely days. He is your comforter and your peace, look to Him for His watch care over you.
I also pray that the men and woman who dies for and keeps us free that their names never be forgotten, they are heroes everyone of them.
Thank you to all the Soldiers who have served this country from the beginning of time to this present day. Thank you for your dedication, your lives and all that you have done , are doing and will do for our freedom.
God Bless You and America.
Sunday, May 29, 2011
Sunday, May 8, 2011
Happy Mother's Day
I am wishing all you beautiful moms and soon to be moms a very blessed Mother's Day. Believe me you have earned it! You have carried the load year after year and occasionally complain :0) but are still there doing it! I want to congratulate you in your workmanship in keeping the house in order.
Today let the others rule the roost while you take the day just for you. Let the family serve you while you relax and look on. Of course they can't do the job you do, but they will do the best they can and let them just do what they can.
Remember this day only comes once a year so relish in it and enjoy it while you can.
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Today let the others rule the roost while you take the day just for you. Let the family serve you while you relax and look on. Of course they can't do the job you do, but they will do the best they can and let them just do what they can.
Remember this day only comes once a year so relish in it and enjoy it while you can.
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Sunday, April 3, 2011
Sunday, February 13, 2011
My Sister & Me!
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| Bella (my sis) and Cookie ( that's me) |
My sister went to be with the Lord on Feb 10, 2011. She went in for a gall bladder operation and wound up with 3 blood clots in her brain, she had a massive stroke. We were told that she won't make it if she were to have another stroke that she would be living in a vegetate state. She became paralyzed on her right side, couldn't talk, speak, eat or see. She had gone through so much in her short life-time. She had a breast removed, a brain tumor the size of an orange removed a defibrillator put in and many more health issues which came from chemo and radiation treatments.
We were sisters, friends and at times unlovable to one another, but she is my sister and I love her! I will miss our good times and our bad times as we were very close in growing up. My mom used to dress us as twins as we were less than a year apart. We use to play together and fought together and slept together cause we were afraid to sleep by ourselves when we finally got our own bedrooms. Of course my sister instigated a lot of trouble for me and I would get spanked and she would laugh, yep that's how it was folks, but she's my sister and I love her!
There are so many things I can say about our growing up, our marriages, our kids and grand kids but it would take an eternity and I don't have that much time. We both became born again Christians about the same time and we had our ups and downs in seeking the Lord, but He is faithful and now she is with Him, He is giving her unspeakable joy and she is seeing Him in all His glory. I will be with her and my mom when its my time to go, for He is my refuge, my comforter, and my Lord!
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| My Aunt, Mom Sister Me and Cousin |
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| Lil Sister and Big Sister |
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Bella and Cookie |
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| We were a little younger |
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| Bella and Me |
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Bella and Cookie |
Saturday, January 1, 2011
Happy & Blessed New Years
Just wanting to wish you all a very happy and blessed New Year. This was an eventual past year for me as I added many more websites and closed a few. I found it is best for me to have a pottery website, a glass website, a kid’s website and so on. I am very satisfied with my decision.
I also am working as a temp for the Amazon Fulfillment center in PA and find it very rewarding, yes I lost weight, gained muscle and made new friends. It’s great knowing how they get things done and it makes me a happy camper.
I've been to Florida to see my family, had a blast in the warm sunshine state and can't wait to go back. I lived there for over 34 years, moved to PA and now I am wishing to go back home. I miss the family, the sun, the warm weather as I am tired of shoveling snow and looking at gray skies daily. Yes PA is a beautiful state but I find it’s not for me.
We have been trying to sell our home for the past two years but nada, no one is moving here, can't blame them :). The timing is off for sellers, but great for buyers. We will not undersell our home; we will just stay here and possibly freeze to death (just kidding folks). I must admit the summers and spring times are the best, beautiful flowers in bloom, trees awakening from their sleep, deer getting back their beautiful coats, baby fawns with their polka dots (lil Bambi's) so cute and adorable, yes the baby black bears are cute too!
I am looking forward as to see what the Lord will do for me and my husband this year. We go to a great church and really learn the Word. This church I will definitely miss if and when we move. I am not going to make New Year’s resolutions since I never keep them anyway, but will take one day at a time, well maybe a few days at a time since I haven't really made any plans yet.
I do pray for all my friends, business acquaintances and my followers and buyers that your year will be a healthy and prosperous one.
Barbara
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I also am working as a temp for the Amazon Fulfillment center in PA and find it very rewarding, yes I lost weight, gained muscle and made new friends. It’s great knowing how they get things done and it makes me a happy camper.
I've been to Florida to see my family, had a blast in the warm sunshine state and can't wait to go back. I lived there for over 34 years, moved to PA and now I am wishing to go back home. I miss the family, the sun, the warm weather as I am tired of shoveling snow and looking at gray skies daily. Yes PA is a beautiful state but I find it’s not for me.
We have been trying to sell our home for the past two years but nada, no one is moving here, can't blame them :). The timing is off for sellers, but great for buyers. We will not undersell our home; we will just stay here and possibly freeze to death (just kidding folks). I must admit the summers and spring times are the best, beautiful flowers in bloom, trees awakening from their sleep, deer getting back their beautiful coats, baby fawns with their polka dots (lil Bambi's) so cute and adorable, yes the baby black bears are cute too!
I am looking forward as to see what the Lord will do for me and my husband this year. We go to a great church and really learn the Word. This church I will definitely miss if and when we move. I am not going to make New Year’s resolutions since I never keep them anyway, but will take one day at a time, well maybe a few days at a time since I haven't really made any plans yet.
I do pray for all my friends, business acquaintances and my followers and buyers that your year will be a healthy and prosperous one.
Barbara
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http://twicearoundbooks.ecrater.com
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http://bamboohutch.ecrater.com
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Saturday, December 25, 2010
Merry Christmas Everyone!
May you day be blessed with many blessings from our Lord God. May He continue to shine down on you peace, love and joy.
Thank you all for stopping by and visiting me and my stores.
Thank you
Barbara
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Thank you all for stopping by and visiting me and my stores.
Thank you
Barbara
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Thursday, December 16, 2010
HEY, WASN'T THIS US ?
I recieved this from a friend of mine and thought I would share it with you all!
Author/Writer unknown
HEY, WASN'T THIS US ?
A little house with three bedrooms, one bathroom and one car on the street. A mower that you had to push to make the grass look neat. In the kitchen on the wall we only had one phone, and no need for recording things, someone was always home.
We only had a living room where we would congregate, unless it was at mealtime in the kitchen where we ate. We had no need for family rooms or extra rooms to dine. When meeting as a family those two rooms would work out fine.
We only had one TV set and channels maybe three, but always there was one of them with something worth to see. For snacks we had potato chips that tasted like a chip. And if you wanted flavor there was Lipton's onion dip.
Store-bought snacks were rare because my mother liked to cook and nothing can compare to snacks in Betty Crocker's book. Weekends were for family trips or staying home to play. We all did things together --even go to church to pray.
When we did our weekend trips depending on the weather, no one stayed at home because we liked to be together. Sometimes we would separate to do things on our own, but we knew where the others were without our own cell phone.
Then there were the movies with your favorite movie star, and nothing can compare to watching movies in your car. Then there were the picnics at the peak of summer season pack a lunch and find some trees and never need a reason. Get a baseball game together with all the friends you know, have real action playing ball -- and no game video.
Remember when the doctor used to be the family friend, and didn't need insurance or a lawyer to defend? The way that he took care of you or what he had to do, because he took an oath and strived to do the best for you.
Remember going to the dime store and shopping casually, and when you went to pay for it you used your own money? Nothing that you had to swipe or punch in some amount; and remember when the cashier person had to really count?
The milkman used to go from door to door, And it was just a few cents more than going to the store. There was a time when mailed letters came right to your door, without a lot of junk mail ads sent out by every store. The mailman knew each house by name and knew where it was sent; there were not loads of mail addressed to "present occupant."
There was a time when just one glance was all that it would take, and you would know the kind of car, the model and the make. They didn't look like turtles trying to squeeze out every mile; they were streamlined, white walls, fins and really had some style.
One time the music that you played whenever you would jive, was from a vinyl, big-holed record called a forty-five. The record player had a post to keep them all in line and then the records would drop down and play one at a time.
Oh sure, we had our problems then, just like we do today and always we were striving, trying for a better way. Oh, the simple life we lived still seems like so much fun, how can you explain a game, just kick the can and run? And boys would put baseball cards between bicycle spokes, and for a nickel, red machines had little bottled Cokes?
This life seemed so much easier and slower in some ways. I love the new technology but I sure do miss those days. So time moves on and so do we and nothing stays the same, but I sure love to reminisce and walk down memory lane.
Author/Writer unknown
HEY, WASN'T THIS US ?
A little house with three bedrooms, one bathroom and one car on the street. A mower that you had to push to make the grass look neat. In the kitchen on the wall we only had one phone, and no need for recording things, someone was always home.
We only had a living room where we would congregate, unless it was at mealtime in the kitchen where we ate. We had no need for family rooms or extra rooms to dine. When meeting as a family those two rooms would work out fine.
We only had one TV set and channels maybe three, but always there was one of them with something worth to see. For snacks we had potato chips that tasted like a chip. And if you wanted flavor there was Lipton's onion dip.
Store-bought snacks were rare because my mother liked to cook and nothing can compare to snacks in Betty Crocker's book. Weekends were for family trips or staying home to play. We all did things together --even go to church to pray.
When we did our weekend trips depending on the weather, no one stayed at home because we liked to be together. Sometimes we would separate to do things on our own, but we knew where the others were without our own cell phone.
Then there were the movies with your favorite movie star, and nothing can compare to watching movies in your car. Then there were the picnics at the peak of summer season pack a lunch and find some trees and never need a reason. Get a baseball game together with all the friends you know, have real action playing ball -- and no game video.
Remember when the doctor used to be the family friend, and didn't need insurance or a lawyer to defend? The way that he took care of you or what he had to do, because he took an oath and strived to do the best for you.
Remember going to the dime store and shopping casually, and when you went to pay for it you used your own money? Nothing that you had to swipe or punch in some amount; and remember when the cashier person had to really count?
The milkman used to go from door to door, And it was just a few cents more than going to the store. There was a time when mailed letters came right to your door, without a lot of junk mail ads sent out by every store. The mailman knew each house by name and knew where it was sent; there were not loads of mail addressed to "present occupant."
There was a time when just one glance was all that it would take, and you would know the kind of car, the model and the make. They didn't look like turtles trying to squeeze out every mile; they were streamlined, white walls, fins and really had some style.
One time the music that you played whenever you would jive, was from a vinyl, big-holed record called a forty-five. The record player had a post to keep them all in line and then the records would drop down and play one at a time.
Oh sure, we had our problems then, just like we do today and always we were striving, trying for a better way. Oh, the simple life we lived still seems like so much fun, how can you explain a game, just kick the can and run? And boys would put baseball cards between bicycle spokes, and for a nickel, red machines had little bottled Cokes?
This life seemed so much easier and slower in some ways. I love the new technology but I sure do miss those days. So time moves on and so do we and nothing stays the same, but I sure love to reminisce and walk down memory lane.
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