(Compliments of Better Homes and Gardens magazine, I think)

Good Monday Morning Sweet Peas,

Hope your weekend was pleasant!

or restful, fun, peaceful or

 productive at least!!  lol

Ours was a mixed bag...............

a lil productive, a lil bit sad, a lil bit lazy,

and a whole lot wonderful!

Since we were feeling a bit sad over Joey,

working is like therapy for me, so we cleaned

the porch Friday evening, and we watched a

 movie "Where the wild things are",  it is a

kiddie movie, but cute, but something didn't 

compute with me, I didn't really get the gist

of it, course, maybe there was no gist!!  lol

or maybe it was just my sad mood.  

It made me cry too!

Before the movie hubby ran to Publix and

got a Keylime/mango pie to drown our

sorrows in!!  lol

It is a truly wonderful pie, might I say!!

By Saturday,

I realized that this too, is something I just

 have to trust the Lord with, Joey's care and

 keeping.  Hard not to worry about her, she

 is like a grandchild and even tho, she was a

 handful and quite grumpy and mean at times,

 you grow to love them, just like your children. 

 Thank the Lord for prayer and knowing that

 he is concerned about what concerns us!

That is a huge comfort!

If we didn't have Molly we probably would

 have taken her, but it is a real hassle with 

the 2 of them, as Molly is terrified of Joey,

 and Joey is fascinated with Molly in a good

way, but also loves to play chase the cat!!

Then they get into scrapes and it is just all

 very annoying to say the least,  and we can

 deal with that on a very short term basis

  but for 10 years or more is a bit more 

than we can care to think about.

So I have been covering her and her new

family in prayer and that is helping my heart, 

 but you gotta get the grief out,that is just

 the way it is, cause she did live with us for

 almost a year and has been a visitor quite

 often throughout the last year and a half. 

 So naturally, we would be attached and

 miss her!

My pretty lilies are blooming again!!

Saturday was sort of a lazy day and we sat

 out on our nice clean porch, and talked 

about some projects that we could do that

 didn't require $$$!!

We also started rereading "Heaven is for real",

 it really is such a great story.

We really need to do some repairs on the 

back of our Garden shed, it has water damage

 and dry rot,  and we do have some cedar, and 

wood so think we have enough to do the job,

and then after that, we can put the new roof on. 

We have had the roof tiles for years every since

 we got the new roof on our house. The old shed

 roof is fine, but it will just look so much nicer

when it matches our house.

I have to say, it was fun just to plan a project, 

 I just needed that for some reason.  So I am 

looking forward to it. Don't know if hubby is 

looking forward to it quite as much as me

since he will have to do more of the work! lol

But once he gets going he usually has fun

with it too, and always does a great job.

Compliments of Womans Day 2010

Aren't they sooo pretty!!

Sunday was just an awesome day at church, 

 the message and the music was just great,

better than usual for some reason, and they

changed the order of service, but it was nice.

Only thing is they had the choir sitting in

the pews, one of which is where we usually

sit, so we did get bumped out of our usual

 spot, but oh well, we probably needed

 to be moved anyway! lol

Sunday Evening was our Easter Contata.

But it was not your traditional Easter

Contata that we were expecting,  but

we truly enjoyed it.  It was more like

a concert, and we loved all the songs,

cause they were all familiar worships

songs,  so it was a wonderful time of 

worship and praise to our Lord.

Also, we were so blessed to see a lil

gal, that went to our church when she

was young, and moved away and has

been living in Canada for years,but she

 is back in the area now, so it was so great

 to see her,  she is 42 now! 

 She looks the same to me,

So that was a lovely surprise!!

and

 I know her Mom must be beside herself

 with joy, as she has been widowed

 quite a number of years now, and it

is so nice to have your children close

by.....she does at least have 2 sons

fairly close by thankfully! 

Then we came home to watch our Pastors 

on TV and eat Cranberry Chicken Salad, 

 um um, they are just one of the best 

salads I have every had!!  Truly!!

For recipe (Click Here)

You have to like a sweet salad 

dressing tho!!

This morning we had breakfast on the

porch and it was so cool and lovely,

and it is an absolutely breathtakingly

beautiful day outside.

and

 we started on our shed project this morning

 by taking down some brush and a small tree

 that is in the way, next we can move pots

 and other stuff out of the way as well,

 so we survey the damage, and make a

plan for demolishion!!  lol

Not the whole building............

 just the bottom of the back!!  lol

Compliments of womans' Day or Better Homes and Gardens, 

not sure which!

Well, that is all my news for today!!

Hope all is well in your corner of the

world, and that your day is sweet!!

Nice to have you visit,  and even

sweeter to hear from you!

Love, Hugs,  and 

Happy Easter Hugs,

Nellie