My little girl

I got my computer back today. I am so glad. I wanted to show some pictures from my daughter's birthday party on January 12th. I can't believe sometimes that she is all grown up. She turned 27 this year. I am so proud of her. Here she is reading the card that I bought for her. It takes me forever to find the perfect card for my loved ones. I have to read so many before I find the perfect one.

Here she is with her gift from me. She was so excited. I had bought the same thing for my sister for Christmas and when Christy saw her open it, she looked at me and said "Where's mine, Mama"? I told her that I wasn't sure that she would want one so I got her something else. I had already decided to get her one for her birthday. LOL

I got her an Estee Lauder make-up collection. She loves it! She was so happy! Can't you tell by the picture?

This is a picture of her and my daddy. She was his very first grand child. I did that to him.

Me and Christy. My only little girl. Always my little girl.

Missing my computer...

Just wanted to do a post to let everyone know that I'm still here! My computer was finally put in the shop a few days ago. I can't wait to get it back. I haven't been able to post in so long. I'm using my little boy's laptop right now. He wasn't too crazy about that either. I guess he thinks I'm gonna mess his up like mine! He is only 8 years old and he knows more about computers than I do. Mine completely froze up last week. It had been acting up for a while and then it just froze! I will say that I have been able to get a lot more done around the cottage since it's been broken. I finished painting my china cabinet and started working an a few other projects too. As soon as I get my computer back, I will post pictures. It looks so much better. I'm enjoying reading everyone's blogs...I've missed that too.

Have a great day!

Unfinished projects

Remember this old hutch that I bought last year and had great plans for? Well...today is my day off and I started looking around the cottage at the 'MANY ' unfinished projects that I have started and decided that today would be the perfect day to get a couple f them finished! YAY!
I have been using her already to hold my sweet shabby rose dishes. She has a coat of primer on her and a partial coat of pretty 'cottagy' white paint. I just need to finish touching her up and rearranging my dishes inside and she will be ready for her debut.

My plan is to finish a project every time that I have a day off. I want to finish the things that I have started already before starting new ones. That has always been a "thing" with me. Too many irons in the fire and not getting them all done. Well...no more. That was one of my New Year's Resolutions and I'm stickin' to it.

Grand Baby Love

I'm back! I haven't posted since sometime in December. I've just been so busy with...life. You know how it goes. Everything happens at once! It has been so cold here in Mississippi. So not normal for us. I'm usually so hot natured. I won't even wear a coat to work. Don't want to have to keep up with it. However this has been a totally different week for us down here in the South! I've been wearing my big coat and gloves and even a scarf! It has been freezing! Speaking of which, my water pipes froze last night and I don't have any hot water. I've been boiling it on the stove to fill the bathtub for me to bathe and the sink to wash dishes. I even left the water running a little bit and it still froze and the pipes busted. I haven't even let it stress me out. At least I have cold water and lights and a warm house. My computer is still messed up but I finally figured out a way to put some new pictures on my blog. I called my sister in Louisiana and ask her to email some pictures to me off of her iPhone and then I saved them to my favorites and then I got them from there. Yeah! I know that some of y'all are probably thinking 'duh, why did it take her so long to figure that out'? Oh well...I'm not too good with all of this hi-tech computer stuff but I'm learning! This is me and my new grand baby, Gabriel. Isn't he a doll? Cole and his family came down last week for a few days. I had to work the whole time that they were down so they stayed at my daughter's house. After work I would head straight out there to spend time with them. I held Gabriel the whole time that I was there. I'm telling you, it was heaven! I would have him in my arms and every few minutes my other little grandson, Jason would come over and give me a hug and I would be hugging them both at the same time! Wonderful feeling! Nothing like it!

Look at this precious one looking up at me! I just wanted to keep him forever!

He looks like a baby doll. He is 6 weeks old in these pictures.

He looks just like his daddy! Look at his big eyes! My grandma did it again! She passed down her big ole eyes to another generation!

Holding Gabriel brings back so many memories of me holding Cole when he was a baby. I cried the first time I held him. I will be making a trip to Memphis soon!

Please excuse the way that I looked in these pictures. I was exhausted from work. They really put me through the ringer this year! It was tough and we worked some really long hours!

I would've stayed up all night long if I could have and played with my grand babies and still went to work but I knew better. I'm not as young as I use to be and I have to get my sleep. I'm a 'Nana' now! I'm lovin' every minute of it!

Thank You so much Melinda for sending these pictures to me so that I could use them on my blog. That was so sweet of you to pull into the gas station to email them to me! How many other sisters would do that?

She was on her way home from Hammond, La. and pulled over to email me these. She had just taken her kids to the movies. Wasn't that sweet?

Well...I guess I've done enough bragging for one night. I have this huge smile on my face right now because I have a warm feeling inside after sharing my precious grandsons with you.

Hugs,

Lee Laurie

A Year in Review at the cottage

Hello everyone! I hope all of you had a very Merry Christmas! This year is almost over! It has went by so fast! I'm ready to start the new year. I've been working on my New Year's resolutions list. I don't want to make it too long...don't want to make it too hard to follow. However, I have so many things that I want to accomplish this year around my little cottage. I thought that I would do a 'mosaic' of different pictures taken around the cottage this past year. Cindy at 'My Romantic Home' is having a "A Year in Review" party. I thought that I would join in and show some pretty pictures of my flowers around the cottage and a few pictures of my Christmas tree and even some pictures of when it snowed. We usually don't get too much snow around here in our little town. It was beautiful. I hope that you enjoy these pictures and please go by Cindy's to see all of the other participants. Her party is December 31st. Y'all come!

Merry Christmas, everyone.

I just wanted to do a short post and wish everyone a Merry Christmas. I just woke up from a nap and now I'm getting ready to play Santa. We closed early at work today and then I had to come home and take a nap...I was exhausted. I also have a terrible cold...I took medicine and took a nap. Now I'm feeling so much better. Garrett is fixing to be tucked into bed and as soon as he is asleep...Santa will be doing his thing.






Merry Christmas!

An award from Tammy

An award from Tammy at A Stitch In Time...Tammy sent me this a while back and I am just getting around to mentioning it. I have been so busy working in retail with the holidays coming. I am suppose to list 10 things about myself and pass it on to 10 other people to do the same. 1. I am a procrastinator! I bet y'all didn't know that! lol Just now posted about this award proves that. I always have good intentions but somehow my good intentions get pushed aside with other things. 2. I work better at everything...I mean EVERYTHING when I am under pressure. I have always been that way. Examples...In college, I would cram for tests the night before, staying up all night long with a pot of coffee and going to class and taking the test and making an 'A' and then coming home and crashing! Why I always did that I will never know. Another example...cleaning the whole house the day before a party or family get together instead of doing a little each day. Doing it all in one day! I'm talking cleaning the dust bunnies off of the ceiling fans down to cleaning the grout in the floor tile! Don't know why I'm like this. Must be a disorder that I haven't heard about yet. After the party, I can't even get out of bed because of the exhaustion! Maybe I will learn one day. LOL 3. I don't like putting gas in my car! Not just because of the cost of it...I just don't like doing it. Whenever I see the little 'gas light' come on, it makes me moan and get a sad face. I then know that I have to stop and fill her up again! That is one thing that I have learned to do...fill it up. That way I don't have to stop too often. 4. I love to spend my day off just taking it easy around the house doing whatever I feel like doing. Staying in my p.j.'s all day long, watching old movies (The black and white ones!) , Blogging and just simply relaxing. It does my body good and I feel refreshed the next day at work. 5. I love painting! I'm talking about painting walls, furniture,cabinets,etc. It makes me feel so good to take an old piece of furniture and make it look so pretty with a couple of coats of paint. To me it brings out the beauty in old tired pieces. Why do I have STILL to paint the bottom cabinets in my kitchen? I must be procrastinating...again. lol 6. I love spending time with older people. I love to hear their stories about their life and the things that they learned throughout the years. I could spend hours listening to them. 7. I don't like hurting other people's feelings. Matter of fact, I will totally avoid the situation rather than hurt some one's feelings. I know that it can have a lasting impact on people. I've been hurt many times in my life and I don't like those feelings that come with being hurt. I usually avoid being hurt or hurting others at all costs. If I do hurt someone without realizing it of course and I find out that I did it, I get so upset with myself and it will make my heart hurt to know that I was so careless. I will apologize and try to get over it but it still lingers in the back of my mind. 8. I have a dream of owning a daycare one day. I don't think that I've mentioned this before on my blog. Its just a little dream that seems to resurface from time to time in my mind. (A lot lately) I love babies and children. I always have. I started babysitting at age 11 and I think about each child that I kept and wonder how they are doing and where they are living now. I've seen several over the past few years...they are all grown up and some with children of their own. I would love to have a daycare fixed up just like a grandma's house...a place where they would all feel welcomed and loved. A place where they could be themselves and have fun baking cookies, finger painting, and playing all day long! Having 'no worries' just like it should be. 9. I would rather give gifts than receive them. I've always been this way. Well...maybe not as a kid...maybe I just grew into it as I grew up. I love to see the smile on some one's face whenever I give them something. It makes my heart smile. 10. There are several things that I want to learn how to do this upcoming year. One is that I want to take some painting classes. I want to learn how to paint all kinds of things. Roses being the first thing! I've tried several times on my own but never been too happy with how they turned out. I know that it takes lots of practice and maybe with some classes I could learn the basic technique and then take it from there. The other thing would be to learn to play the guitar. Just for myself. My dad plays, my Uncle plays and my son plays and I want to too. I'm sure I have that talent hidden in there somewhere.

Well..I have to go now. Gotta get ready for work. I only have an hour! I'm sure I can do it. I work great under pressure. Oh and did I mention that I hate putting gas in my car and it is on empty! Oh well...here I go again!

Thanks, Tammy for this award. I'm passing it on to anyone out there that wants it and wants to share more things about themselves with us. This was fun!