Thankful Thursday July 4th, 2024, and Images of American Symbols

       

 Now the Lord is the Spirit, and where the Spirit of the Lord is, there is freedom.

2 Corinthians 3:17 NIV

  Happy    Independence Day    

 

 Sweet Friends,

Hope you and yours have a Wonderful

time celebrating!!!  We sure will.....

God Bless the USA

Thankful for our country and the freedoms

that we still have..........

           Pictures this week are of American

Symbols,  thanks to Pixabay.

  On with my Thankfuls.....

         

                                 #1

Thankful for getting to have lil darling with us

 for a day and a half. We had a funtime as

 always. Played some old games

and a new one called "Catch Phrase"

that she was good at too.

#2

Thankful we got to take her to the $5 and

 under store, to dinner at one of her

 fav restaurants, and then got frozen yogurt to

 take home. I think her idea of pretty much the

 perfect evening. lol

 

#3

Thankful for a new animated series on "up

 faith and family" called "WingFeather".

 Hubby and lil darling really like it......and I

 sort of like it, but happy it gives us something

 good and clean to watch with her when we

 run out of things to do. lol

#4

Thankful that we had the idea to play an old

 game we had when our kids were lil in a new

 way, with lil darling. It was a fun way to

 generate conversation. I posted about it on

 Tuesday, so in case you missed it

 just click here.

#5

Thankful for fried chicken sandwiches from

 Kentucky Fried Chicken. We just recently had

 one and it was delicious. We have had a KFC

 near us for years, but we quit going there

 cause they were not very good, but recently

 we heard they were in a contest with Chick-

fil-a, so we decided to try them since they are

 much closer by, and we were pleasantly

 surprised. So guess they have stepped up

 there game a bit.........Their fries were good too.

#6

Thankful for a lovely day at church,  we had a

 guest speaker today, and he was really

 good. Then ran some errands and hubby and I

 went out for lunch, then came home and took

 a very longgg nap (since I didn't get a lot of

 sleep the night before, think because I took

 my B Vitamins (that I usually take in the

 daytime) right before bedtime.....won't

 do that again soon!  lol

#7

Thankful for the fun surprise of getting

 3 videos from a long time friend of almost 

 50 years.  We were all in the videos and 

 they just cracked us up. It was before we

 had kids, so we were in our 20's, and I

 could not believe I was ever that skinny

.   lol  Such a fun blast from the past. 

 Can't wait to show them to our kids and

 lil darling.  lol  

#8

Thankful hubby was able to mow our lawn 

today, as it has been raining everyday,

sometimes 2 or 3 times a day.  So it

getting quite long.

#9

Thankful for Caramel Frappe's from

 MacDonalds, as I don't drink a lot of caffeine,

 as it doesn't agree with me. So sometimes

 these come in handy for hubby and I to share

 one and gives me just enough of a caffeine

 boost without overdoing it, not to mention it

 is delicious!!  lol

#10

Thankful the Gov. Huckabee has a new show

 on TBN called "Huckabee Today".  It's great!!

 He has people on that shed light on some of

 the things that seem to make no sense, and

 why they are happening. 

 Very Good!

#11

Thankful that our Supreme court has made

a number of really good decisions this week.

#12

Thankful that we have not only seen our lil

 brown bunny almost everyday, but we also

 saw a big turtle in our back yard three times

 this week.  He likes to eat the berries one of

 our trees is dropping.

Well, that's it for this week.

Thanks for sharing your time

with us, here at Cozy Place 

Have a Wonderful Rest of the Week.

Love, Hugs, and

First of July Blessings,

Nellie

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Thoughts to Ponder #7 A way to generate conversation with your kids

 

Morning Sweet Friends,

Happy Tuesday to ya!!

Wanted to share something with you

that we did last night when we went

out to dinner with our 11 yr. old Grand-

Daughter, that was a hit with all of us.

We have this old game we bought

when our kids were young, called the 

"Ungame", made by James Dobson

of Focus on the family.  It's purpose

was to get families talking and having

conversation with their children.

We played it a few times, but think

our kids were maybe older when the 

game came out and the game really

 has no rules about winning, so nothing competitive to it, which isn't typically

 exciting to kids as a game, but we

decided rather than trying to play it

as a game, to just try using the cards 

with the questions on them, as we just

 sit around and talk for years now

with our Granddaughter.

Well, last night we knew we were 

taking her out to dinner, so I decided

just to take a lil stack of cards with

us, so we could play as we waited

on our food to come, as a way to

generate conversation. We all really

 enjoyed it and I would highly 

recommend it.  You could make up

your own questions and write them

on a list or make cards.

A few Sample questions:

1. If you could live anywhere in the

 world you wanted,  where would 

you live?

2. If you could own your own shop

or store what kind would it be?

         3.  What is your favorite dessert?

          4. If you could have any famous

              person you wanted come to your

              birthday party, who would it be?

              and why?

            5. If you were a dog, fruit, vegetable

                or anything else you can think of  

                what kind would you be?  (Just 

                pick one out of the above choices.)

Each person will take a card or question

and answer it first, then every person

gives an answer as well, then the next

person gets a card and answers and

so does everyone else, and then on to

the next person.

It was really a fun way to pass the 

time, and also generate conversation,

and get to know more about each

other, as some questions can be very

thought provoking.....

Just have fun with it.

Spurring you on.........

Nellie