Sunday, March 17, 2024

Thursday, March 14, 2024

Thankful Thursday March 14, 2024, and pictures of Birthday table


“But blessed is the one who trusts in the Lord, whose confidence is in him. They will be like a tree planted by the water that sends out its roots by the stream. It does not fear when heat comes; its leaves are always green. It has no worries in a year of drought and never fails to bear fruit.”

Jeremiah 17:7-8  NIV


Morning Sweet Friends,

Hope this finds you well and enjoying late Winter..... knowing Spring is just  5 days away. It has seemed like Spring has already Sprung here, since it has been in the 80's already.  Hope you are having a good week, mine has been fairly good, I have just been really tired the last few days,  think it is from all the activity we have had since we got back from our trip. So yesterday I pretty much did nothing, but I did spend some time talking with our girl, which is always good for me.  



Pictures today are of our "Ode to leaves and trees Spring birthday table" for 3 family members. Since our house was still done in green, white  silver and gold for winter. It seemed sticking to green and white would work best. When I found these napkins, I wasn't that thrilled with them really, but they were the prettiest ones I could find, so felt like I was sort of settling, but once I got them home and started working with them, they became a very happy surprise after all.


This could also make a lovely St. Patricks day table with just a few tweaks.


 



So on with my Thankfuls................
 





#1

Thankful for a nice evening out to dinner for Hubbies birthday at Carrabbas, Just the 2 of us. Family celebration on Saturday.


#2

Thankful for a fun time making Banana Pudding for our birthday celebration on Saturday with lil darling. She worked right along side me, and did a great job, and it took all our restraint not to dig in, cause it did smell so good!!  



#3

Thankful that I also got the Beef Stroganoff done today as well, it will taste even better tomorrow as it flavors through. I will just need to make yellow rice, caesar salad and rolls, and we will be good to go!! and set the table, half way there on that too, and had planned that already ahead.



#4

Thankful that we have implemented a decision we made about our Card Shop today, and will let you know about it very soon.


#5

Thankful for a lovely time with the family celebrating all the birthdays. Good food, Good fellowship, and a Good time....had by all.




#6

Thankful I did my hair today and didn't have to do it tonight after all the festivities. Cause knew I would be a tired girl.


#7

Thankful to be back at church today, and also to be able to go to lunch with our friends, as it has been awhile for one reason or another. We also got to meet their Son who is visiting from California. So that was a nice surprise since we have heard so much about him, very nice guy, much like his parents.



With the lights out!!


 #8

Thankful they moved hubbies Dr. appt. till Tuesday, which worked out so much better for us, since we home school lil darling on Mondays. 



#9

Thankful for the great Science project  lil darling and her Daddy (our Son) did over the weekend.  Looked great and she did a great job explaining it as well.  Also had a good school day.



#10

Thankful that I got all my Winter decorations down today, just got to get them put away now. Hoping the Spring things go up as quickly as the others came down.  lol




#11 and 12
Thankful hubby had his Dr. visit,
today, unfortunately, they didn't
drain it today, but they will remove
the cyst near the end of the month,
and gave him antibiotics to take
until then, to make sure it isn't 
infected when they do the surgery. 
Fortunately, it doesn't look infected
at all,  just leaking clear fluid,
that doesn't smell too good!!  lol
and Thankful for a nice early dinner at Cracker Barrel on the way home.





#13
Thankful for a nice and restful day and a long conversation with my girl
via facetime and the phone.  We lost face time after awhile for some reason, but that's okay.....that
doesn't stop us.  lol

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Well, that's it for Cozy Place

this week.  This is the Birthday

Edition!!


Thanks for dropping by

for a visit,  We are glad

you were here!


Have a lovely rest of the week.


Love, Hugs, and 

Mid March Blessings,

Nellie


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Sunday, March 10, 2024

Scripture Sunday





Wow, That we may live together with HIM..........

One day this world will be a thing of our past.....
and I look forward to living together with HIM.
No more tears, no more pain, no more lying and deceitno more worry,  no more darkness,
 no more evil......

Only Love, Joy, Peace, Patience, Goodness,
kindness, gentleness and self-control,
truth, light, beauty...........and Jesus
The Best gift of all.

If you don't know Him, please make it your
ambition to get to know Him.....
You will never be sorry.....

Have a lovely Sunday,


Hugs,  Nellie

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Thursday, March 7, 2024

Thankful Thursday March 7, 2024, and Pretty Birthday Cakes


This is the day that the Lord has made; let us rejoice and be glad in it.
Psalm 118:24 NIV 


Greetings Sweet Friends,

How are you today??  Hope you have had a good week. It has been a bit busier than normal as we are gearing up for 3 birthdays as you will read,  but it has been a good week, and a fun week preparing.  



Pictures today are of  Pretty birthday cakes in honor of Birthday week at Cozy Place. Hubby and his sister and lil darling all within one week.  Well, 8 days this year because of leap year.  lol  I would like a slice of all of them....





On with my Thankfuls................



#1

Thankful we got to see lil darling after our time away.  Had a good school day, and then we all went to dinner, so that was fun. Sort of a pre-birthday celebration.


#2

Thankful that I was able to find some napkins while away, that spurred a plan for the birthday table.




#3

Thankful that all gifts are wrapped accept one that hasn't arrived yet.  It arrived but it was damaged so had to send it back. Nice that Amazon automatically reordered it for us. 


#4

Thankful that we are getting to spend lil darlings birthday with her. She is 11 yrs.old today, and today is a school day, so we tried to make it a fun morning.  We gave her all but 2 of her gifts (from us and her Aunt Dee), so that she would have something to open this coming Saturday with everyone else. She loved everything and everything fit, which was great. We also got breakfast sandwiches from Duncan Donut (which she loves) and got her a fun-fetti cake, (one of her favs.)  So she is a happy girl, and is now working on her school work which isn't too bad since we tried to get a lot done on Friday.  So should be a shorter day than normal. She has been birth daying since Friday. So it's been a good birthday, for sure, and she still has Sat. to go...........lol

We are all about dragging birthdays out as much as possible around here!




#5

Thankful that I finally have decided what to make them for their birthday dinner.  It was sort of a hard decision cause they don't all like the same things. Dessert was easy as they all love Banana Pudding.


#6

Thankful that a dental appt. I was supposed to have this week got moved to April due to my Insurance info wasn't back yet. Have to say I was happy about that since hubbies birthday is on Thursday, we home school on Friday and then the other festivities are on Saturday.

So gave me a lil breathing room!!




#7

Thankful that we were able to enjoy sitting out on our porch this morning. Enjoyed hearing the birds singing!  The sounds of Spring......


#8

Thankful for a really sweet story I read in the Epoch times about a couple who sang their way thru the labor and delivery of their 2nd child, a baby boy. They are both singers, and they truly value God, children and babies. Wish I could have found a way to share it with you.




#9

Thankful for a sweet text from one of our Pastors wanting to know if we were okay,cause he had missed us, the past 2 weeks. 

Always nice to know you are missed.....


#10

Thankful we were able to get my hubby a Dr. appt. for Monday of next week,as he has a cyst that is weeping, and needs to get that taken care of.  Sometimes these days it takes a long time to get appointments, and this is a new Dr. as well.





#11

Thankful for my Wonderful Hubby of over 53 years.  Today is his 76th birthday, so looking forward to the day, and the family celebration on Saturday for all 3 birthdays.


#12

Thankful our tree is not dying.  Looked out the window this morning and our Oak trees have been shedding for awhile now, and when I saw some lower limbs they were so bare I thought our tree was dying, so went out on the porch to have another look and altho they did look dead, I looked up to the top of the tree only to see lots Spring green new growth.

So was very happy about that!!







Well, that's it for this Thursday
 at cozy Place.
This is the Birthday Edition.


Happy you came by..........


Have a lovely rest of the week,


Love, Hugs and
Early March Blessings,
Nellie

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Sunday, March 3, 2024

Thursday, February 29, 2024

Thankful Thursday, February 29, 2024, and Animal pictures to make you smile

 Sing to the LORD with grateful praise;
 make music to our God on the harp.
Psalm 147:7 NIV 


Greeting Sweet Friends,
Had this all ready to go last night and posted it only to have half of it missing, so gotta
do it again as I couldn't retrieve it.
Hope this finds you doing well.......
We just returned from our Daughter and
Son-in-loves on Wed. nite, after being there
for a week. Had a great time.


Pictures today are of animals that will
make you smile..........lil darling and I picked
them out before we left and we even threw in a few captions we thought of
just for fun.



On with my thankfuls.....


#1
Thankful for a safe and uneventful
trip to SC and back. Didn't even have
any traffic back ups which is amazing
considering the traffic we now have
in the past few years.

#2
Thankful for great weather while we
were there. Cool and Sunny most of
the days. Love that, as I function and
feel so much better in cool weather.


Ohhhh, I gotta go potty and Mom's not
 home to let me out!!


#3
Thankful for our Daughters wonderful
quiche and cream cheese with straw-
berry coffee cake, she always makes
us.  It is really scrumptious!!


#4
Thankful for restful relaxing days
just drinking coffee and sitting outside
catching up and solving the worlds
problems.  We also love to watch
dry bar comedy, decorating shows
and play cards while the guys
watch Battle bots.  lol  Just love
spending time doing nothing or
 anything with our kids..............



I'm just so sleeppp.............

#5
Thankful for the fun of making home
made sourdough cinnamon rolls. The
girls she works with are into that so
 they sent her home with some sour
dough starter and the recipe. They
turned out pretty well and tasted 
good considering we didn't know
 what we were doing!!  lol

#6
Thankful for Bentley our furry
Grandson dog, who looks a lot like
the doggie below, accept he is all
caramel colored. We call him Mr.
Muppet, he is so lanky and loose.
He is such a character.


     Been a rough day.............just need to chill 


#7

Thankful for a fun day out shopping

at the outlet mall.  Only our 2nd time

to go there and had some birthday

shopping to do for lil darling.  As

we are coming up on birthday row.

My Sister-in-law Susan, Lil darling

and then hubbies birthdays. So we are

 pretty much ready gift and card wise.

So just need to plan a dinner for

them all for next week.  So fun

to be able to shop with our Daughter

 as she always has great ideas, for

things lil darling would like, cause 

sometimes Grammy is too practical.  lol


#8

Thankful for finding a cool candy shop there called

 "River street sweets".

The aroma coming out of there

was heavenly, and then there was

a guy passing out samples. Well,

that was all it took, so had to go

in and get some and it not only

smelled heavenly it tasted

heavenly as well.



Ohmmmmmmmmm

      
#9  
Thankful for one of the best smoothies
we have had in about a year.  We stopped
getting our Chocolate Elvis at Planet smoothie cause they just never tasted the
same anymore, so make all my own, which
are very good.  But they have a "Smoothie
King" and wow, what a delicious smoothie.  

#10
Thankful for a trip to Hobby Lobby on
the day we left, we always like to end
on a fun note and have the memory of
going there together.  Found some cute
Easter things. 


              I might be cute and tiny                              but I am fierce.


#11

Thankful for an especially great gift from the Lord.  I have always wanted some Bunny napkin rings but just could not bring myself to spend $5.oo each for them, which would equal $40.

Found 8 of them half price for.....

wait for it...........$5.00 Total 

Love them, they are solid white. So cute!

Stay tuned for our Easter Table.....

in a few weeks.


I always say Good Things come to those who wait!!


#12

So Thankful that we have such good relationships with our kids, it is an incredible blessing to all of us. Just love spending time with all of them. One of our most favorite things to do really.


#13

Thankful for a really good Italian recipe our Daughter made for din din one night. It was so good, company worthy, and a one pot meal. Will be getting the recipe and will share it as I am looking forward to making it.



Seriously.......

We are going to the Vet?.......NO!!!


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Well, that's it for Cozy Place this week.

This was the Vacation Edition. lol


Thanks for stoppin' by

Hope you have a Fabulous Friday

and

Wonderful Weekend,




Love, Hugs, and

First day of March Blessings,

Nellie


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