We had a productive, fun and relational Weekend!!

(This is the honeysuckle growing in our backyard - It smells like Heaven)

I think it must have really liked the cold weather, cause this is the best

it has ever bloomed before.  Click on the pic cause it is hard to see all

the blooms otherwise)

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Happy Monday Sweet Peas,

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So what sort of weekend did you have??

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Hope whatever you did it was satisfying

 to you and yours!!

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Ours was good,  it was productive, fun

and relational!! My favorite kind of weekend!

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Friday night we painted woodwork in the

bathroom,  and we made a lot of progress.

1 door casing finished, Yeah!!  1 almost

finished, 2 with 2 coats of paint waiting for

a 3rd coat,  so we are getting closer and

closer and I am getting more and more

excited to be finished!!  lol

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After we painted we stayed up late, like dumbo's,

 (I told you staying up late is considered fun in our house)  

 and watched a movie with Hugh Grant called "about a boy".

  It was suppose to be the funniest movie of the year!!

  Whoever rated this movie must have a very sick 

sense of humor is all I have to say!! lol

Not that there weren't some funny scenes but

the comedy of the year,  come on!!

It was an okay movie,  but a comedy...........

Not!! 

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Saturday slept in and the got up and had a nice breakfast,
 I made a breakfast casserole on Friday to have on Sat.
 morning,  cause I am tired of bacon and eggs,  so it was 
different and good.  I almost think it could be a dinner 
casserole as well.

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Then we read some!!  Hubby bought a book called
 "Christian Athiests",  it talks about how people can be
 Christians but act like God is no where to be found!! 
 We can all do that given different situations,  but some

people live like that in every situation.

Anyway,  it is pretty good book so far.

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Then we decided we needed to get out and have 
some fun.  So we got dressed and went out shopping. 
 It was kind of an early 

Mother's Day shopping excursion as well!  

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 There are still a few things we have been searching for
 to finish the bathroom, so we went to Marshall's,  and
 found nothing,  well, I found nothing,  Hubby found
 sneakers and  some very inexpensive flashlights that
 he adores (we have given away a ton of them, so he
 was a happy camper!! Then we went to Kirkland's, 
I got tickled at hubby..... he made me drive to
 Kirklands so he could put on his new sneaks!! 
 I told him that was one of his lil boy ways !! 
 He couldn't wait to get those new babies on, 
 I thought it's was so cute!! lol

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We did find some pics at Kirklands on sale that we
 might could use,  and they had quite a few so we
 decided to wait and look around a bit more.
By then we were getting hungry again,  so we
 went to the mall to get something from Chick fil-A.
  Have you every had their chicken salad  sand-
wiches???  I just love them!!  
So after lunch,  we checked  out a few stores in
 the mall,  then decided to go to Home goods.

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Well, they had nothing,  in toothbrush holders,

 soap pumps, etc. that would work,  but I had

seen these pcs. the last time that I really liked

but they didn't have the pcs. that I needed, so

for some reason I decided to go look in the

clearance area just for grins, and guess what

they still had what I saw before but they were

way less $$!!  So we bought them all and 

decided to try it and see what we thought,

cause you can always take it back!!

Boy.........Do we know that!!

I feel like that is all I do...is buy it and take

it back!!  lol

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After that,  we ran to Target to pick up a

grocery type items, and they happened to have

some bathroom accessories in just the right shade
 of green, evidently they are new cause I have been
 there a number of times and never seen them, 
 so we decided to buy them to try too, just in

case the others didn't work out!

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Then we called Scott to see if he felt like having visitors 
since it was after 9 by then! He has wanted us to come
 see his apt. since he and his girlfriend decorated it. 
 So we went by his place for about and hour,  and 
Megan was still there too,  so we got to visit with
 both of them.  They did a great job decorating his

place, it is in earth tone colors and looks very 
manly,  but Megan has gotten some nice femine
touches in there too!!  Scott is a quite a good 
decorator himself and has very good taste, but

I think Megan probably did most of the arranging, 
 anyway,  it looks great and so nice and homey!!
  They have very similiar taste which is good.

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So we got home pretty late,  but we had

a really fun,  much needed day out!!

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And I am exceedingly glad and happy to say that we
 wound up mixing and matching the accessories from
 both places,  and it looks great and adds a touch of
 whimsy to the bathroom.  Cause they have butterflies

and dragonflys on them,  and the colors are turquoise
 and apple green.  so they look perfect!! 
 So very happy with them!!

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There was a matching ceramic trash can

and I think I am gonna put a floral arrangement

in it and put it between the sinks and the mirrors

on our vanity.  Just have to figure out what

sort of arrangement to make now!!  Hmmmmm!!

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Yesterday,  we went to Sunday School and heard

a young woman in her early 30's who we have 

known most o her life,  who is now a missionary

in Burkino Faso, Africa.  She grew up in our

church.  What a great and gifted speaker she is!!

I was hanging on her every word,  she laughed

when I told her that, and says that's just because

you like me and I said well,  that is true too,

but you really are God gifted as a speaker!!

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She showed a video of  what the  life of a 

woman who lives in a village in Africa would

be like!!  They live in a nearby small city, but at

 least they have running water, lights and
 grocery stores.

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The video shows this lady getting up before 

daylight,  going out to pick beans or corn or

whatever she is gonna grind up for the day to

make dinner out of.  Then they put the beans

 or corn it in some sort of heavy stone pot,  and 

one lady gets on one side, and one on the other

 and they have large long poles with flat ends,

 not skinny either (probably the size of a mason jar lid)

 or at lil bigger,  and they begin pounding one and

then the other,  and after they have done that

awhile they strain out the bad husk or whatever

and then they go looks for firewood,  and 

sometimes they have to go miles to they find

it and water,  then they start a fire and put a big
 pot on to cook something sort of like grits looking,

cause she ground the beans into a type of

flour,  so she is constantly adding more flour

and stirring the pot constantly as she is cooking

over this open flame,  and mind you this is

all outdoors and it is very hot,  and this lady

is pregnant to boot!!  I mean the poor thing

spent the whole entire day just making dinner,  
and hey, there are no breaks for fast food
 or any kind of food,  cause they

don't even have stores.  I thought oh, Lord,

I should never ever complain about cooking

again as long as I live!!

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I tell you stuff like that just gives me so much

perspective on how good we have it in this

country.  They don't even have homes, they

live in huts,  no A/C,  running water or

electric lights.   Pretty much like our pioneer

women I would say!!  It is so amazing to

think that there are people around the world

that still live like pioneer people.  You know

it, but yet when you see it,  it just amazes

you.  They have old wood plows and some

are blessed to have a plow pulled by a

horse or mule.  incredible!!

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Anyway, then we went to church and got to

see her hubby speak some too.  Scott and

Megan came to church and afterwards we

got our favorite "Chocolate Elvis",  we have

Megan hooked on them now too!! lol

Scott likes the smoothie with added coffee.

We then came home and had lunch and

visited with the kids awhile till they had to

leave to go visit with some friends.
Oh yea, and we brought Joey home Sat.
night,  and Megan is picking her up today
to take her back to Scott.

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So we had a lovely productive and

fun and relational weekend,  my favorite!!

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Well, best get myself busy,  think I

might try to paint some,  and I am in the

middle of making meata balls!! lol

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Hope you have a Sweet Evening 

with You and Yours,

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Blessings n' Hugs,

Nellie