Picture Tag

I've been invited to play 'picture tag' by Nicole from 'Nicole's Treasure Chest'. I'm suppose to pick the 4th file where I save my pictures on my computer and pick the 4th picture and tell something about it. I decided to show the 4th and 5th pictures because they go together. These were taken back around 1996 when I was manager at 'The Mole Hole'. You can see a lot of the beautiful things in the background that we had in the store. That is where I got my love for stained glass lamps. What do you think about those red glasses that I was wearing? I must have thought that they were sophisticated looking! I remember that Sally Jesse Raphael wore glasses like that! And the curly permed hair with a clippy in it! All of that and a 'business' dress! WOW Now I know why my daughter always laughed at my fashion-style!


Now I have to tag 4 people to do the same...



Cindy---Cute Pink Stuff

Rhea----Sweet N Shabby Roses

Molly---Molly Holly

Iris----My Journey


okay...you're tagged....you're it!!!

Victorian Wedding

I've been tagged! At the end of this post I will explain...

I wanted to share with you a few pictures of a wedding that me and my friend Missy went to a while back. It was our friend Sandy's wedding and she got married outside of an old Victorian house in the gazebo. Wasn't it so pretty and romantic?

A little lady lives there by herself and she lets people use her house for weddings, receptions, parties, meetings .etc. That is how she makes her living. She has everything decorated so beautifully. Gorgeous antiques and beautiful tiffany lamps are in every room. The wedding was beautiful and the reception was held in the dining hall and it was set up so nice. Missy and I went around afterwards and took a couple of pictures of ourselves. I wonder what it would be like to actually live in a house like that? We loved

it.

Well... I've been tagged for the first time. Deanna at "Timeless Things" tagged me. Here are the rules... Link to the person who tagged you. Post the rules on your blog. Write 7 random things about yourself. Tag 7 people at the end of your post and link to them. Let each person know that you tagged them. Here goes...

1.I love to read. I read almost every night before I go to sleep.

2. One of my favorite foods is red beans and rice. I would rather have that than a steak.

3. When I was a little girl, I wanted to grow up and have 7 children like my grandma did. I didn't get to do that, but I was fortunate to have my 3 babies.

4. I love animals! Anytime that I see one that is homeless, I want to take it home with me.

5. I would love to have a daycare one day. That is a little dream that I have.

6. I get excited whenever I see that someone has thrown out something 'good' on the side of the road that I can repurpose!

7. I am a pack rat...#6 helps to explain 'why'. I'm trying to get better with this one! LOL

Now I would like to tag these 7 people...

Melinda--MeMe's Place

Becky----Beyond The Picket Fence

Laurie----Rose Cottage

Becca-----Of Bluebirds and Roses

Kelly------Rose Vine Cottage Two

Penny----The Comforts of Home

Becky-----One Shabby Old House

I tried to list 7 things that maybe I haven't ever told y'all before on my blog about myself. Your turn...Have fun!

So many dishes!!!

This picture is blurry...I know. I just wanted to show you one with me at my desk at work. (I even have my 'signature' roses) I'm exhausted! We got finished with inventory at the store last night and it all went very smoothly and pretty fast. I heard the beeping of the scanner guns in my sleep last night. LOL I'm glad that its over!



My little boy has a reading project due on this Friday. He has to do a story board on the book that he picked out at the library called..."The Diary Of A Worm". If anybody has any suggestions, they would really be appreciated because I think that my brain is frozen right now! I have to be at work in a few minutes. I know that I won't have too much time to think about it at work. I figured maybe my blogging friends might could help me out with some ideas and when I get home I will check my blog to see. He is excited about doing it. I want him to do really good on it. He just got his report card last week and he made all A's and only one B. The B was in reading and it was only one point away from being an A. I'm so very proud of him. Well...off to work I go! Thanks in advance if y'all can help! I know that is what friends are for! LOL

Love Y'all!!!!

Halloween 2007

I found this picture of me and my sister from Halloween 2007. I had forgotten all about it. We went to a Halloween costume party at her friend's house. She was 'Dorothy' from the 'Wizard Of Oz' and I was a police woman. I felt really 'tough' in this costume! I even had a ticket book and I tried to give a couple of people tickets for various wrong things that they were doing. They really were not doing anything bad. It was a family party and there were children there. Cole even played his guitar outside and everyone sat around and listened to him play and sing. My friend Stevie went as a 'prisoner'. Melinda's husband went as the 'Scarecrow' from 'Oz'. It was a fun party!!! I can't find the other pictures.

I don't even know what I'm doing awake. I should be sleeping. I have to be at work at 4:30 in the morning for inventory. I slept a couple of hours this afternoon so I guess that is why I can't sleep now. I will work until 1:00 and then come home to eat and rest and go back at 6:00 and work until midnight or after. Thats why I'm saying I should be sleeping right now. I guess I'm just too keyed up thinking about tomorrow. Yesterday I counted my china stock-room and china wall. That is a lot of dishes! The funny thing is that I kept imagining having different patterns and decorating with them. I just love dishes! I have several patterns and I love all of them. My granny was like that. She loved all of her dishes! She didn't have a whole lot that matched but it was neat having them all mixed up. I had my favorite dinner plate to eat out of. Of course it had roses on it. I miss those days.

I guess I had better try and get some sleep. I may not be able to post for a couple of days. I know with work, I will be very tired. Thats ok, I did 2 posts today! Thank you everyone for leaving me sweet comments and wishing my daughter a happy birthday. It really meant a lot to me.

Little girl all grown up...

Happy birthday Christy! We love you! My daughter turned 26 years old on January 12th. Her husband had her a surprise party. He did all of the cooking and even baked her a cake. That was so sweet!

Here she is with a few of her birthday gifts. She collects "Willow Tree" figurines. I think that she ended up getting 5 of them. I bought her two but she already had one of them. I will have to exchange it for her. I bought her the one called 'Cherish'. It is the one that is 'expecting'. I could not find it before she had the baby or I would've gotten it before. This one she is holding was from her Grandpa Rodney and MaMaw Pat.

This was the one that her daddy got for her. It is called 'Father and Daughter' . Christy's face is red because she always gets so emotional. She is so tender hearted.

Her 'Nanny' got her this one called 'Grandmother'. It is adorable.

This is a picture of me and my 3 children. Cole is 17 now and Garrett is 7. I am so proud of them. They are everything to me.

My daughter's birthday

I know I have been missing in action for a few days. I have been so busy with work. We are having inventory this week and I have been having to clean out my china stock room and also organize all of my china tables,etc. I just love dishes! Every time I go into the stockroom, I see another china pattern that I fall in love with. My daughter's birthday was on the 12th. She turned 26 years old. It seems like yesterday that I held her in my arms and looked into her eyes for the first time. Now she is a mama and she is experiencing all of the joys of having her own little baby to nurture and love. She is such a good little mama. I am so very proud of her. These are just a few 'pictures of pictures' that I wanted to share with you of me and Christy. I wanted to put more but I have to unpack my boxes and find them. I haven't hooked up my scanner as of yet...I haven't figured that one out yet. The song I have playing is a song that I use to sing to her when she was a baby. It was on a Disney movie that she loved...'Dumbo'. This is a better version of it. I just love Allison Craus. One day I was playing the CD for Christy in my car and when she heard it she got so emotional. She told me that she sang it to her baby. She was expecting at the time. I was so touched that she remembered the song.

Isn't she just adorable? I cherish these photos. They are some of my favorites. Christy has been such a joy to all of her family. All of her grandparents love her dearly.

Christy's husband Phillip, gave her a surprise birthday party the other night. He did all of the cooking himself while she was at work. He made chicken and dumplings, (her favorite) and sausage jambalaya, and bacon burgers. He even baked her a birthday cake. I will post pictures of her party as soon as I get them downloaded.

She was around 2 months old here. We were at her great grandparent's house. They loved her so much.

Last night when I got in from work, I visited a few of my favorite blog friends. I went to visit my friend Deanna from 'Timeless Things' and was surprised to see that she had posted about me and asked her blog friend's to come by my blog to read a post that I had written about me and my little brother and sister when we were little. I had no idea that this post would've touched so many people. I just poured out my heart that day. I felt warm all over that day and every time I get a knew comment on it, it makes me tear up. Thank you, Deanna for telling your friend's to come by. That was so sweet. You have become a very good blogging friend to me and I cherish that.

I want to share with you a special story. When we were children...me, my sister, and brother lived in a little tiny house with our mom. We even called it 'the little house'. My mom and dad were divorced when I was around 12 years old. Anyway we three kids shared a small bedroom. We had bunk beds and my brother slept on top and Melinda and I slept on the bottom. (You wouldn't believe how many times I would kick really hard on the bottom of the top bunk to try and make my brother fall off! LOL) I know, I know...that wasn't very nice! He is a couple of years younger than me and we didn't get along too well. He thought that I was always trying to be the boss of him and our little sister. Every night I would read to them out of this Bible story book that my Sunday school teacher had given me. I would read one story each night. Robbie (my brother) wouldn't pay attention too much but Melinda always did. At the end of each story there would be questions to ask to see if they were listening. The first one was always "Were you listening?" Melinda was always ready with her answers. She wanted me to be so proud of her that she paid attention and got all of the answers correctly.

(We are 7 years apart in age. ) We had Christmas at her house this year and her little boy Chase brought this book to me and gave it to me. It made me want to cry. It brought back so many memories. I remember writing this message inside the front cover. I read this book to my little girl when she was growing up too. These 2 pictures are some of my favorites in the Bible story book.

My heart was so touched that Melinda had kept it all these years and then gave it back to me. I actually didn't know what had become of it. I will keep it always and read it to my little boy 'Garrett' and to my grandson 'Jason'. I'm not sure what the big 'A' was for. I might have graded them and given them an 'A'. We always would play school. I taught my little brother how to read when he was 4 years old.

I just wanted to share this story with you. I hope every one out there has a blessed day!