Thankful Thursday December 21, 2023, More Christmas at our House 2023

  Suddenly a great company of the heavenly host appeared with the angel, praising God and saying,

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“Glory to God in the highest heaven,

and on earth peace to those on whom

     his favor rests.”  Luke 2:13-14

Christmas Greetings Sweet Friends,

Hope this finds you doing and feeling well and as ready as you can be for the big day........Christmas, of course!

I am happy to report that finally I am feeling totally back to normal. (For those who didn't catch me last week, I had the flu or Covid (have no taste or smell at this point and had a horrible headache for a day), and also threw my back out. Been a long week but a mostly a good week of rest and of enjoying all things Christmas. Hubby came down with it too, and is still not there yet. He did get his appetite back and felt a lil better yesterday, so hoping he is feeling a lot better today....will see once he's up!!

Photos today are from Christmas at our house this year, 2023.  These pictures are of our foyer and living room.

This is so you can see that the picture really is pretty. Doesn't photograph well from the distance evidently.  lol

Well, on with my Thankfuls................

#1

Thankful for our Card Shop and that we were able to send tons of flip cards to family, friends and church family this Christmas Season.

We sent a few last year, and folks seems to really enjoy them, So much easier, and definitely time, energy and cost effective and really great to use when you are sick!!  lol

 One purchase + a lil time, makes it possible to send many................... by e-mail, fb messenger or phone, Doesn't take nearly as long as buying, signing, addressing, stamping and buying stamps for snail mail cards, and is much less expensive. and as with any email or fb message you can type whatever you want and just add your link for the (flipcard) or E-greeting card. Plus you can do all that without even leaving home!!

Sorry if this sounds like an advertisement, it really was just me being reminded of why we have this online shop to begin with, and hoping it is a help to others, as well.

#2

Thankful for a great Christmas Special with Danny Gokey and Natalie Grant that we saw on TBN on Thursday night.

#3

Thankful for all the Christmas movies we have available to watch, cause my back is still out and hubby is not feeling too good either, so we watch Christmas movies from Great American Pure flix and Christmas Specials from TBN. So we are getting rest and enjoying as much as we can!!

#4

Thankful for all the Veggie soup I had frozen a few months ago.  It has come in handy this week for sure.

#5

Thankful for a fun facetime call with our Daughter on Saturday. Missing her and really needed to see her sweet face. She was sick too, earlier in the week, but feeling back to normal now, thankfully.

#6

Thankful for a long phone call from a long time friend of 42 years. It was great catching up as always, but it was really great to hear of a long time prayer request we have all been praying for that has finally been answered for someone in her family, and then some other short term prayers answered as well, and then also one about a family member who was 87 yrs. old and on his death bed pretty much who gave his heart to Jesus finally.  Such an unlifting phone call.

#7

Thankful I got my hair cut, and that always

makes a girl feel better.  No, I didn't go out

sick........My hubby hair stylist did it before he

got sick!! 

#8

Thankful all our gift shopping is done, but need to get wrapping soon. We also decided to order a delicious cake from our Publix bakery for our dessert.  It is called "Raspberry Elegance" and it is such a good cake, It has Raspberry Jam between the layers of yellow cake, and a cream cheese frosting, if I remember correctly.  So Yummy!

Note: Was finally able to start wrapping

Yesterday, (Wed). more to go today.

#9

I have lost 3 pds. being sick, so quite happy about that, cause it was much needed, as I had plateaued and just couldn't move forward. lol  So thankful for that silver lining, to this dark cloud of sickness and back issues.

#10

Thankful that I have really reaped the benefit this past week of the new sofa we had delivered this time last year.  We had been searching a long time (years actually) for just the right reclining sofa, and altho I liked it I didn't know if I really loved it..........well, with all my back issues this week, it has been such a blessing and one of the reason we chose it, was I had just come out having problems with my back just a few weeks or so before looking once again. Anyway, we were impressed because you can adjust it just about anyway you want. You can recline to any point, it has lumbar support, and head adjustments. So I can not tell you how comfortable it has been especially with it being hard to sit and get up and down. That lumbar support and head adjustment is awesome, last time I had to put a pillow behind my head, and nothing was comfortable at all, and the pillow would keep falling off the back of the sofa. So very Thankful for this sofa and love it a lot more than I did before this.............lol

#11

Thankful for an unexpected sweet, and  encouraging card we rec'd yesterday from one of our young pastors wives, and for other sweet neighbors who brought us, home made linzer cookies and they are typically so awesome, and hubby says they are, but I can't really taste them yet. Poo......taking some zinc so hoping that will help, so I can enjoy them too.

#12

Thankful that I have been able to sit again, since my back is way better, so have been working on family Christmas cards, Have made much progress thankfully!!

Note: just one left to do.....so hopefully

today........

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Well, that's it for this week

at Cozy Place. 

( this is the early Christmas edition.) lol

Always Great to have you come by.

Praying you and yours have a really

lovely and Meaningful Christmas Celebration

Of Our Lord's Birthday!!

Love, Hugs and

Merry Merry Christmas!!

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