Not everyone…

          Not everyone in DC took shelter from Hurricane Sandy

 

          God bless them, they never looked better!

This was in an email I received this morning.  If you have already seen this take a moment to reflect again.

Stay safe and be happy!!

Beth

The Tree…

The pictures below are of the tree between the cemetery and my back door.  I have taken one picture on the same day each month.  My goal was 1 year.  Only one more month to go.

 

4 January 2012

4 February 2012

4 March 2012

4 April 2012

4 May 2012

4 June 2012

4 July 2012

   4 August 2012

6 September 2012

4 October 2012 early morning

4 November 2012

Have a truly blessed day.  Stay safe and be happy!!

Beth

It’s Saturday…

and I am going the the Christmas Bazaar at the hospital with my daughter this morning.  They have the cutest crafts there.  The handmade dresses for little girls are just adorable.  From now until Christmas there will be one church after another having a Christmas Bazaar.  That is one nice thing about living in a larger city.  Lots of activities and things to do.  I love the Christmas sale at the First United Methodist Church.  The ladies of the church make homemade noodles and use the egg whites to make angel food cakes.  I bought a cake last year for $5.  Those cakes are huge and just delicious, so I am looking forward to that again and also buying some of the homemade noodles.

And then next month is the cookie exchange.

These are the goodies I came home with last year.

My doctor appointment yesterday with my cardiologist was uneventful.  (Thank you God)  For now I am doing better.  Next month is my kidney/BP doctor visit. 

I hope you all have a lovely peaceful weekend.  Stay safe and be happy!!

Beth

Blog Of The Year Award…

 

I have been given this lovely award from Janice at   http://myfamilyjaysactivity.blogspot.com/  Thank you Janice!

Think about how many time we have participated in a hop and went thru the list of other blogs linked up, playing along and because they have answered something similar to our answer or something we had thought the same thought we leave them a comment? Those comments build and build between blog friends and we start following that blog author and building a solid friendship. We get them and they happily get us. I have some great friendships all due to the thanks of a blog-hop I joined, I also know some of our super hostess's stay award free on their blogs but I hope they know I applaud them weekly by their fun, challenging, & creative hop prompts they provide us. The opportunity to get these awards from our fellow bloggers and make us happy that we stick with blogging and participating in their challenges. I try to go down the list of the links and leave comments on blog posts and then I try and return a comment on my own post when left one but gosh it is hard to do both so in making my list of fellow bloggers to present this too I am going to go with those blog buddies who I see not just on my blog leaving hope. inspiration, and encouragement but on others as well..... mind you I do not want to leave anyone out I think every single follower is AMAZING but this award has real rules attached ......so here I go with who I would like to award this too - PLEASE check these awesome bloggers out.

1.  http://myfamilyjaysactivity.blogspot.com/  (Janice)  for the brave fight she is facing.

2.  http://maplelanehouse.blogspot.com/    (Mildred)   for caring so very much about all of her blogging friends.

3.  http://ravenhush.blogspot.com/  (Buttons)  for being such a wonderful sweet lady in the face of adversity.

4.  http://morbidscorneroftheuniverse.blogspot.com/  (Joe)  for the inspiration and caring he shows us all.

5.  http://elegantblessings.blogspot.com/  (Annie)  for being my role model; how does she do it?

SO: The ‘rules’ for this award are simple:

1 Select the blog(s) you think deserve the ‘Blog of the Year 2012’ Award

2 Write a blog post and tell us about the blog(s) you have chosen – there’s no minimum or maximum number of blogs required – and ‘present’ them with their award.

3 Please include a link back to this page ‘Blog of the Year 2012’ Award – http://thethoughtpalette.co.uk/our-awards/blog-of-the-year-2012-award/ and include these ‘rules’ in your post (please don’t alter the rules or the badges!)

4 Let the blog(s) you have chosen know that you have given them this award and share the ‘rules’ with them

5 You can now also join our Facebook group – click ‘like’ on this page ‘Blog of the Year 2012’ Award Facebook group and then you can share your blog with an even wider audience

6 As a winner of the award – please add a link back to the blog that presented you with the award – and then proudly display the award on your blog and sidebar … and start collecting stars…

You all are winners to me.  I hope the ones I have chosen will follow through with this.  but only if you want to as you are not obligated in any way.

I am off to a doctor appointment in a few minutes.  I will catch you all when I get back.  Stay safe and be happy!!

Beth