Welcome to FFF! Hosted by Susanne!
This has been a good week... which makes fro a grand opportunity to share the blessings that the Lord has bestowed on us!
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I am so pleased tahtour church offers a ministry for ladies to get to now each other better. It is called 6 sisters where 6 ladies are assigned to groups to meet once a month for fellowship or nasty, what ever they decide to do. My group includes, Gerri, Barbara, Beverly, Rosie, Robyn, and Kayla. We have enjoyed much in each other's homes, or dining out at fun restaurants, and I hosed a spring tea party. This month Gerri and I hosted together at Lydia's, an Italian restaurant and Gerri gave each of us the most precious bouquet of velvety carnations in the most luscious color in darling rosy cruets she found at the dollar store!
I have to say that I love our home and am so pleased each room now is light and bright which makes me very happy. Except for over sunroom! Isn’t that just crazy.. our sunroom was dark and drear! And it is the first room visitors enter as they come to see us. So what made this room so sad? Mainly, the Cherry panelling, the matching colored blinds at each of the 7 large windows. And lastly the large maroon and navy chairs that were moved into the room once we changed the decor in the living room last year to brighten the aspect in there. So this week I sort of put my foot down and we decided to take the largest chair to the Salvation Army. Then just by keeping the blinds more open and changing up the decor in there, the room now seems much larger and much brighter. Now I enjoy sitting in there, whereas, it was so heavy, almost smothering, and dark just a couple of days ago!
This may not seem exactly like a blessing, but it is so wonderful to go in the sunroom now, to watch the birds at the feeders, and read our daily Bible readings!
I am so blessed to be regaining so much more strength , especially by just losing 12-15 pounds. My back doesn’t make me bend over as it did a month ago. I can walk better, and am enjoying doing household, gardening tasks I doesn’t enjoy at all, a month ago! Praise God I am enjoying Weight Watchers so much, and with the online helps, losing is much easier!
Last night I so enjoyed a lengthy phone call with our daughter. She is such a busy young woman, mother of two very vivacious young girls, she also works in her church, does a couple of Bible studies, and volunteers at the girls schools. But since they live 7 states away, as I get older I long to hear from her, hopefully every week. I know she understands but sometimes that just doesn’t happen. So last evenings call was a precious treasure to me! I am so very excited about the families 4 day visit in a couple of weeks!
I am fairly certain there are many more blessings, for this has been such a wonderful week, but I will just end by praising God for the great dental report that hubs and I both received this week. Sometimes one wonders as we become more and more mature if things are working as they are expected to, and we both got glowing reports about both teeth and gums. ( Not to be too graphic)😛
Your sitting room looks amazing! And your ladies ministry seems like such a blessing! I understand what you mean about catching up, my daughter is only a few hours away but working at a youth camp she's busy most of the day and our chats are few and far between. I enjoy them more and more each time. I know you're ready to have them with you!
ReplyDeleteI LOVE your sun room!! I have NO blinds on ANY of our Anderson windows mainly because i hate cleaning them. I do sheer curtains in the dining room and dave's office (our youngest girl's former bedroom) and a sheer curtain in our walk in closet. Semi sheers in spring-autumn in the master bedroom (and for winter I have drapes that are thermal), and in the guest bedroom (oldest girl's former bedroom) i have a pretty thick cotton drape that you just have to pull across. For hte deck door/family room I have just a valance and in the living room windows I have a valance over semi sheers that I draw for the darker hours. I can't stand blinds!! they do make a room look dreary. Glad you found a solution!
ReplyDeleteHow awesome that your daughter and grands are coming to visit you. Is this the one that lives in the Boston area??
yay for good dental reports!!
Good report on your dental work. I have to go in every 6 months because I do have issues thanks to osteoporosis. Glad that you have your Bible friends. Lovely carnations too. I enjoy my group too. Nice that you have so many windows. This house is lacking them. The master room has a big window with a good view and I can see birds at the birdbath too. I don't like blinds, but they are needed.
ReplyDeleteI would just LIVE in that sun room! Love it!
ReplyDeleteYay for visits from your daughter and grands! Enjoy your time with them and make special memories.
Have a good weekend!
PS: I spy a wonderful book on your table in that first photo--I own it, too!
ReplyDeleteI like light, bright rooms, too. I'm happy you got the sunroom arranged so it's sunnier. :-)
ReplyDeleteWe've been visiting churches for the last few months and think we may have found a church home. They have something like your six sisters, only with four. I'm looking forward to getting to know the ladies better.
It's nice to have long talks with our kids.
Your weight loss results are encouraging! I need to make some changes in that department.
Yay for good dental reports!
I love your sun room! Oh, does it every bring back memories of my great-aunt Marge. She had a very similar looking room where she worked on the rugs she made using the technique of traditional hand hooking. I always wished for a room like that but haven't had one yet.
ReplyDeleteMy hubby and I have been doing intermittent fasting for about 6 months, so we're experiencing weight loss too. Very thankful for how much better we feel and how much more energy we have!
Hi, regarding the Oregon Trail. There is an Oregon Trail Museum in Oregon City. In the 1840s and 50s, Oregon City was the growing and important city while Portland was just a nothing town. OC is where the Falls are on the Willamette and you had to go around the falls to continue on the Willamette River into the Valley (my brother lives near the Willamette about 30 or 40 miles upstream (south/southwest) of Oregon City. There is so much pioneer history in Oregon!
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