Thursday, May 18, 2023

Thankful Thursday May 18, 2023, Recent Fresh Flower Blessings

For what you have done I will always praise you
 in the presence of your faithful people. And I will hope
 in your name, for your name is good.
Psalm 52:9


                       Greetings Sweet Friends,

                   Hope you all had a really lovely 

               Mother's Day that blessed your heart,

                 and hope the blessings last all week long.

                  My heart was blessed for sure......


It has been awhile since I have found any

fresh flowers I have wanted to purchase and

had really been missing them especially this

time of year.  So that all changed a few

weeks ago when a friend brought me Daisies,

then for Mothers day, hubby got me hot

pink roses, and then my Son another lovely

assorted bouquet.  All were the perfect colors too.

Which was fun to add to my Spring/

Summer decor, and how they were so much

more appreciated than ever!


                 Said all of that to say this,  these are the

                               photos for today!



All from one bouquet -that includes the header picture too.




   So on with my Thankfuls..............


                                      #1

          Thankful  for my own Mom, who was very loving, 

           kind and compassionate and who always love spending

           time with us, whenever she could.  She was a single

            parent so she had to work full time and did a rotating

           shift from 7-3 one week to 3-11, the next 11-7, so

            sometimes even if she was home she was sleeping in

           preparation to go to work, so she was not around

            as much as she would have liked for sure, and we

           always felt bad she had to work so hard to support us.

            I am also Thankful that the Lord saw fit to

 give me someone that was like a 2nd Mom, in our 

next door neighbor, my best childhood friends Mom

 who was a spiritual influence and the reason I am a

 Christian today, I practically lived at their house,

and then,He also gave me an Italian Step-

Mom who was good to me and loved cooking, family

 gatherings and celebrating, So I learned all that

 from her,  Then there was my Paternal Grand

mother who I only saw in the Summer time

but she dearly loved me and would do anything

for me, and I never even remember her ever being

upset with me about anything.  I was her only

Grandchild.





#2
Thankful for a fun night out going to TJ Maxx
and Kohl's,  then out to dinner at our new
 LongHorn steak house.


#3
Thankful for a nice long chat on the phone with
my Daughter, always a highlight of my week.





#4
Thankful for sweet lil talks with lil darling.

Note:  Just got a facetime call from her this
morning as she is now at her Aunt Deena's house, 
that was a fun surprise!!


#5
Thankful that I finally got our family room
decorated again for Spring/Summer.  Now
I can move on to changing my kitchen counters
around for a nice change.





#6
Thankful  and so happy for a young couple that
 we have known for a long time.  She was told
years ago, she could never have children and they
 tried some things, and were prayed for and decided
to look into adoption, then a baby came available
 for them to adopt 14 yrs. ago, and then about 3
yrs. after they adopted this lil girl, she was blessed 
to have another child, a lil boy this time. Truly
a an answer to pray and a miracle....
The adoptitve Parents always kept in touch with 
the birth Mother as they knew how hard it was
for her to give her baby up and that she had 2
 other children already.  About a year ago the 
older child from the original Mother called
 and wanted to know if he could meet his sister.
His Sister wasn't ready as she knew this 
was a life altering experience.  Anyway, this
year she decided yes to meeting he and her sister.
The parents went and met them first while she
was away on a trip.  So she got back yesterday
and they were at the house waiting to meet her.
Her Mom and Dad put it all on their
facebook page.......It was amazing and I
have never seen such a Love Fest and people
so full of joy. The post are just amazing,
and definitely a move of God.  All 3 of 
these biological sisters and brothers are so 
full of joy it is amazing, and they are in
love with her younger brother as well, it is
like she now has 4 kids instead of 2.
I wish you could see the videos and pics.
Blesses My Heart and I am sure
the Heart of everyone who see them.

Note:  Got to meet the older Sister
at church yesterday.  She is 17, adorable 
and a Sweetie too.





#7
Thankful for a Wonderful Mother's day.
Even tho I didn't get to have our Daughter
and Son-in-love here in person, she and my hubby
 did everything they could to make it a lovely day 
for me, and I was able to see them on facetime.
 We got to have our Son here in person,
and all to ourselves, which is a very rare thing.
So that was a huge blessing to this Mam's
heart, he and hubby made me a nice dinner,
and we got to visit and played some cards.
A fun and restful day.....
 I will get to see lil darling on Wed. and 
will be seeing our Daughter sometime in Jume
so I still have that to look forward to.....


#8
Thankful for my family and for how they 
did so much to make my day special, and
thankful for the lovely cards and gifts.
I feel like a very loved and blessed woman!!


#9
Thankful that we decided to check into bundling
 our Auto Insurance with our Home owners
 Ins. and Insurance policy.  It is going to be 
a huge savings to us, on our Home owners and
Auto Insurance.
Wow, were we surprised!  It's pretty much
 a NO brainer,  so we did it......

Note: We recommended someone else to check
into bundling as they have the same Insurance
Co. we do, and it turned out really well for her
too.  So if you don't have the same Insurance
Company for everything,  you might just want
to check it out and see if it can help you too.




#10
Thankful we are dog sitting our Nephew's family
 dog this week.  He is such a sweet doggie....
His name is the same as our Grandson Dogs.  
Bentley, he is some sort of poodle mix, and he a reddish
 brown like the other Bentley but he is smaller. 
He is so funny he will actually watch TV and if 
he sees an animal, he will go after the TV barking,
 and if you throw him a toy it will distract him but he
 really shakes that toy around like he is trying to kill it.
He is so funny,  just cracks us up!



         #11   
Thankful we got to spend about 6 hrs. with lil
darling today before she left on a trip for her
Aunt DeeAnna's.  Always a joy to see her.



#12
Thankful for this lovely picture
my Daughter and Son-in-love sent me for 
Mother's Day.  I am in love with it....
and enjoying it so much!





Well, that's it for Cozy Place Today.

Have a Lovely rest of the week,

Till Next time.......

Love, Hugs, and 
Mid May Blessings,
Nellie

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Sunday, May 14, 2023

Happy Mother's Day and Scripture Sunday

 




Happy Mother's Day 
to all you Wonderful Mom's out there!

Hope your Mother's Day 
is 
Sweet and Special

Loving and Lovely

Happy and Hopeful

Pretty and Peaceful

Funny and Fulfilling

Jolly and Joyful

and

A little bit Wild and A whole lot Wonderful


Blessings and Hugs,

Nellie


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Thursday, May 11, 2023

Thankful Thursday May 11, 2023, and Various Nature pictures


Praise be to the LORD, the God of Israel,

 from everlasting to everlasting. Amen and Amen.

Psalm 41:13 NIV



Greetings Sweet Friends,

How's YOU???

Hope you are doing well, and holding on to your Joy!

That's is one of the main reasons I do this post, is to

help me hold onto my Joy and maybe encourage you

in your Joy, as well.  Have had a quiet week, but

did get to talk with my Daughter a bit, and we got

to see lil darling this afternoon.  Today was her

last day of school, but they weren't doing anything

but Field day, so she didn't want to go.  Glad

she didn't cause we got to spend time with her,

as we want see her at all next week, as she is going

on a trip to see her Aunt Deena, and Uncle Jerry,

 Our Daughter and Son-in-love.

So they will all have a blast......


Today's pictures are various Nature Pictures

compliments of Unsplash.com.




So on with my Thankfuls...............


#1

Thankful for a nice day and evening on Thursday.

We were able to get lil darling from school and have

her for a few hours,  then we went out to run some

take back errands, went toHome Goods, Marshalls 

and Home Sense and looked around.  Looking

 for a round pillow to put on a lil table turned stool. 

 You can hardly find any round pillows anywhere.

 Might have to break out the sewing machine soon 

and make one.  Brought some Taco Bell home 

with us.....cause we rarely get that cause our 

Taco Bell is mobbed all the time, so we really

 enjoyed it, even tho it was missing some key

 components!!  lol




#2

Thankful for all the lovely friends and readers

of my blog for the last 14 years, Just remembered

 last night that my Blogaversary was on May 4th.

So wanted to say, Thank You to all of you

 in blogland who have helped make that possible - 

you have all shared your hearts, 

given encouragement and inspiration by your

comments and your own blog posts, some have become

friends, some have prayed for us/or others over 

different situations, some have shared your spiritual

 insights and wisdom, and shared your wonderful

and inspiring creativity by showing us how to

make our homes more Warm and Charming, and

how to make floral arrangements and an array

of other things, like painting furniture to making

wreaths, gardening and cooking over the years, 

So Thank You.....You have Blessed me

and many others, and I surely hope my blog

has Blessed you, as well.

I have always liked writing letters my whole life,

 so blogging has brought great Joy to my life

In the writing of it, and in the virtual meeting

of all of you,  So Again Thank You!












#3

Thankful, once again for my Mr. Fix It, Hubby.

We have an acrylic sink in our kitchen, and have loved

it as it is pretty and has been easy to clean, with

 no scrubbing.  It  is called a Thermocast sink,

and we have had it for about 20 yrs.  Right after

 covid, we started getting stains in it for some reason

 that would not come out.

So we started to look for a new one, but we could

not find any thermocast sinks anywhere, so actually

called the Thermocast Co. and they had a supply

shortage and eventually went out of business. So we

did find an idea.........and used that, and it worked

for awhile (It involved applying car wax to it,

once I used bleach to get the stains out) and it did

work for awhile, so we tried again to find a thermocast

sink but to no avail.  Anyway, hubby looked online

and found that there was a way to buff the stains

and scratches out, so he did that and my sink looks

awesome once again!   So hoping this is a lasting

fix,  will see..........












#4

Thankful for the beauty of the sun streaming through

 our woods in the backyard in the early morning hours.

It's like God saying, " Good Morning!!"













#5

Thankful for a good day at church.  We had a Haitan band with us this morning.  Our Music Minister is from Haiti,  so they are friends of his.  They were really good.....and one man played the "Via Dolorosa" on the Saxophone and was truly amazing! It is such a beautiful song. Then after church, a quick trip to Sams and lunch out at Olive Garden. I have been getting their appetizer lately with a salad. It's called "Miso Shrimp"and it is so good, and had plenty left over to bring home and put in the air fryer for tomorrow.  Yea!!  It's sort of shocking to find good seafood in an Italian Restaurant, that is better than some Seafood Restaurants.  lol











#6

Thankful for my new hot pink pumps, I wore them to church for

 the 2nd time, and they just make my heart happy for some reason.

I think cause they are such a pretty color and also cause

 my thoughtful Daughter got them for me, for my birthday this year,

 cause she knows her Mom is sometimes too practical for her own

 good!!  lol




#7 and 8

Thankful once again for the "Better Together" Show

on TBN every week day.  This week is all about

being a Mom. Something someone said made me feel

convicted by the fact, that over the last 10 years, I have

 prayed almost every time I watch lil darling for strength,

 energy, and a patient and a loving spirit, and for a good

 day with her, and the Lord almost always blesses 

our day, but I have rarely hought to thank

Him for it!  

I was 60-61 yrs. old when I started watching her.

So Thank You Lord !!




#9

Thankful for an answer to prayer..... we got a positive

 response back on something we thought was very important,

but was not sure how it might be received.


#10

Thankful that we finally got to meet hubbies new Cardiologist. 

 Our Dr. of 18 yrs. left the practice, so we now have a new Dr.

We really liked him, he is probably about 40-45 yrs. old,

very nice, thorough and a very good communicator. 

 We have heard nothing but good things about him. 

 Loved his nurse as well,  she was such a sweet and 

vivacious young woman who puts you right at ease.




#11

Thankful that I was able to find some things, I really liked

 for 2 young ladies that are turning Sweet 16 this week.  I hope

 they will really like what we got and I really think they will.

I am sort of our of touch with that age group to some degree.  lol

Note: They both seem to really enjoy their gifts.


#12

Thankful that hubby was able to easily get a black snake out of our

garage Wed. morning.  I keep my scale in the garage and

went out there to weigh this morning and when I did I saw

a black snake on the move cause he heard me coming.  He was

fortunately, right near our side garage door,  so hubby just

opened it and took a broom and he just slithered on outta here!

Thank The Lord!!! 

We were afraid he was gonna try and hide, and get behind

stuff and make it a real fiasco.  So happy that was not the case.











Well, Thats' it,  for Cozy Palce this week.


Thanks for coming by and bearing with my

 long windedness this week.............


Have a Terrific Rest of the Week!


Love, Hugs, and

First of May Blessings,

Nellie


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Thursday, May 4, 2023

Thankful Thursday May 4, 2023, and our Easter/Spring living room, Part 2


The Lord is my strength and my shield;
 in him my heart trusts, and I am helped;
 my heart exults, and with my song
 I give thanks to him.
Psalm 28: 7 NIV



Howdy Sweet Friends,
Hope you have been having
a good week, this first week
of May.  Can you believe it??
We are more than 1/3 of the
way thru 2023 already.
It has been cooler here this
week because it has been
so breezy,  hope that sticks
around a while, it feels awe-
some when you go outside.
We are in the 80's but doesn't
feel that warm which is the
joy of it all..........


Pictures today are part 2 of our living room dressed up for Easter/Spring..........some of
that will be changing soon!  
All the bunnies will be going bye bye.
Sad to say!!  lol








Now on with my Thankfuls 
for the week......


#1

Thankful for a fun night out to dinner, and then some window shopping at Bealls Centric again, since we didn't really get very far, before we found our chairs last week.  A fun store!  Then a quick run to our Publix.  Works for me!!


#2

Thankful that my son took lil darling to the Dr. this morning cause her tonsils were so swollen, turns out she has strep throat.  Amazingly, only her throat hurts and she is feeling good.  We decided to take our immunity boosting regimen just in case.

Hoping we aren't too late!!  lol

Note: We weren't  PTL








#3
Thankful that I got more done working in my closet this week.  
Got way more to go tho!!



#4
Thankful for a few things the Lord
revealed to me this week, that I
really needed to see.







#5  and 6

Thankful that we got to help lil darling with her schoolwork again today and that she had sometime this afternoon to get to play with her lil friend next door to us.  It has been awhile and even tho it wasn't for a long time, at least they did get to spend a lil time together, as they love each other so much and really enjoy playing together.

Note: She has been on antibiotics for 3 days, so she is no longer contagious.



#7

Thankful that lil darling and I finished making a Mother's day card for her Mommy today.








#8, and 9
Thankful for a visit from a friend that I have only seen once in 5 years. Much to my surprise it was to
 apologize for something the Lord brought to her mind.  I was very touched by her humility and 
obedience to God, and definitely warmed by her love and God's love for me, as that is a very
rare thing she did!!
  Relationship definitely restored.
Awesome!!

 Thankful to get to catch up on our lives and what has been going on with both of us, as we
 had along overdue 4 hr. visit.




#10
Thankful for the daisies my friend brought to me as well. I wound up making l large arrangement
and 2 small ones.  I have been looking for daisies for awhile and could never find any.  So they
were really an unexpected and
 special treat!!











#11

Thankful that I got all my Easter things taken down, just have to pack them away now, and make some Spring like replacements.


#12

Thankful that a problem with facebook got resolved very quickly. I Was notified late this afternoon that our online Card Shop we have on facebook, was unpublished because I had broken their community standards, with a Mother's Day card, I guess, as that was my last post.  So I wrote about it on my normal fb page, and said I didn't know what community standard it was that I broke, so how am I supposed to fix it.  Was it a scripture verse, the kind words, or that I used the word Mother??,  none of which I would correct. So, if you don't see me on facebook you will know why.


So not long after, I was notified  by facebook,

"Good News,  you have no violations."


So that was a quick fix....Praise the Lord!  Very happy about that!






That's it for this week at Cozy Place


Thanks for stoppin' by......

and

Hope you have a Terrific
 rest of the week.






Love, Hugs and 
Happy May Blessings, 

Nellie


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National day of Prayer!

 




Morning Sweet Friends,


Don't forget today is our

 National Day of  Prayer!!


God Sees

God hears

God listens

God moves


Have a Blessed and

 Prayer filled Day!



Hugs, Nellie

Thankful Thursday August 27, 2026, and cute doggies

O Lord, I love the habitation of Your house And the place where Your glory dwells. Psalm 26:8 NIV Evening Sweet Friends, A little bit late, ...