Happy Monday!!

Happy Monday Sweet Friends,

Hope you had a nice weekend!!

Ours was mostly good I'd say,  Friday I did cooking for

 our upcoming Celebration yesterday,  and Sat. was my

 Sister's Memorial Service, (it was about an hr or so away

from where we live),  so the service was at 11a.m., then

we got home late afternoon, rested awhile then, it was on

to getting the table set and the house straightened  up, and

exercising while watching movies, then Sunday was church

 and  Scott's Birthday Celebration, 

 and we also Celebrated our 40th Anniversary!

The Memorial Service was really as good as any Memorial

Service can be!!  It was in a small church in a small town I had

 only heard about, never been there, but it was very quaint and  

was a packed house. I was so proud of my neice (who had

 written a letter to her Mom, which her hubby read, and he

did a wonderful job, hard for him tho,  and my 2 nephews,

one was her son,  the other nephew was my other sisters

son.  He grew up being at her house all the time as a kid.

They all did a great job as hard as it was!!  and I know

 if she could see them she would have been smiling!!

Her hubby did amazingly well......,  holding on to

the Lord will all his might!!  God Bless Him!

He is a really good  christian man, and he so stood by

 her thru all these years with her cancer and treatments.

It was really good to be able to see the whole family

again,  just wish it had been under better circumstances.

Maybe next time!!

Sunday was very nice day,  and a nice diversion from the
events of the week.  Scott and Megan arrived around 2:30,
 then Dee and her boyfriend  and Jim's sister came later.
We all had a nice dinner of cuban food (Ropa Veija, yellow
 rice and black beans with a salad and rolls that remind us

of cuban bread when we lived in the keys).

We also played a game called 20 questions,  had  Scott's

birthday dessert  (banana pudding made with Nutter

Butter cookies,  his sissy made for him) and

everyone left by 8:30 or so,  mainly cause Scott had to

get up really early for work! (He has to drive 3 hrs.

  to meet a co-worker who is training him.just for today)

We had a lovely and fun day tho........and we didn't mind

 it ended so early cause we were pooped!!  lol

Want to show you what I found for $2.oo at Home

Goods a few weeks ago. 

Some of you might remember that I told you

hubby and I found this neat plate,  that we use

for special occasions,  and we call it our queen

or King for a day plate,  and whoevers special

day it is gets there dessert on this plate.

My guys are secure in their manhood!!  
They have to be living with me, and all 
my fru fru!!  lol

Well,  here is what we found to go with it..................

We never knew it even existed..............

we just happened on to it!!

Isn't it cute!!

But.........what is it you say???

It is an all purpose candleholder

to match our dessert plate!!

At least that is my purpose for it!!

Doesn't it leave a lovely glow!!

So royal and stately!!

Course, you can only see that in the dark!!  lol

Meant to take a pic of it on top of his dessert,

it looked really cute,  you'll have to take my

word of it!!

We usually only put one candle anyway,  cause

we are all old enough to set the house on fire

if we used the appropriate amount of candles!!  lol

So this was the perfect solution,  cause I always

have tea light candles but not necessarily birthday

candles, and I tend to forget to get them!!

Anybody else have that problem???  lol

AND.....  I realized it is just another way to

 simplify life!!  No more last minute trips to the store

 for Birthday candles!!  yeah!!

Well,  folks..........that's life in our world.............

Thanks for stopping by............

love hearing from ya!!

Hope you had a Mellow Monday to sort

of ease yourself back into the week!!

Blessings and Hugs,

Nellie

Oh Yea,  almost forgot again!!

For those participating in the 140 days of prayer,

this is week # 19 and our scripture reading is

in Psalm 117,  We are to pray for World

Wide Revival. 

Just one more week to go................

Stay the course!!