One of the prettiest displays for flowers are old jars.  Just peel away the label and you’re good to go.  Good to go?  Yeah right! I’m in the process of helping my friend plan her young son’s birthday party (it’s a Toy Story theme) and one of the games we are planning is lasso toss over glass jars filled with candy….
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I am always amazed at the manner in which nature displays its beauty for us. As we drove by an apple orchard this weekend, I saw how every apple had been placed upon the trees.  Each placed there one by one ever so delicately, like beautiful shiny ornaments on a Christmas tree. God is a great decorator ! It was a coincidence that my sister had…
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Silence spoke to me this morning as everything was so very still. It spoke to me through the sound of my heart as it beat the name of my loved ones. It spoke to me through the wind as it skillfully played a beautiful melody with the leaves. It spoke to me through the birds who busily whistled a morning song. It…
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Each fall, we visit our local pumpkin farm.  We jump on giant bales of hay, go through a corn maze, feed chickens and cows, and of course…pick the perfect pumpkin. We pick five actually – one for each of us to decorate.  As it’s still early in the season and we have yet to go, we made some pumpkins of our own…
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Another day is upon me and my sheets holding me ever so softly and warm don’t want to let me go. I too, hold on to them and try to send this new day away. “You’ve come too soon”, I say.  But the clock’s persistence makes me let go of my warm blanket. I begrudgingly arise from my bed, my…
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