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Simple + Southern Sunday No. 496: Mother’s Day 2024

~ Mothers Day, Simple + Southern Sunday, Spring

“I praise you, for I am fearfully and wonderfully made. Wonderful are your works; my soul knows it very well.”
‭‭Psalm‬ ‭139‬:‭14‬ ‭ESV‬‬

Happy Sunday and Happy Mother’s Day. Starting our day off a little different, but I hope with a pleasant and peaceful spring scene. We dropped by the Birmingham Botanical Gardens for a brief visit on our way to enjoy a nice meal in honor of Pam, mother and grandmother extraordinaire. And of course, I was allowed to eat too! Notice the cardinal sitting on the rock. This particular male cardinal kept dropping by and we both thought the red color on him was brighter or “redder” than any we’d seen before. Maybe not so noticeable here in the shadows but he really stood out!
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Lessons From My Mother

~ Monday Morning Blooms, Mothers Day, Spring, Tablescapes

Hello sweet friends! The month of May is my favorite spring month with all of its blooming beauty and fun celebrations! May often brings on heat and humidity in our Appalachian Foothills. This week we will be in the mid to upper 80’s, it will feel like summer!

“Charm is deceitful, and beauty is vain, but a woman who fears the Lord is to be praised.”
‭‭Proverbs‬ ‭31‬:‭30‬ ‭(ESV‬‬)

“She looks well to the ways of her household and does not eat the bread of idleness. Her children rise up and call her blessed; her husband also, and he praises her: “Many women have done excellently, but you surpass them all.””
‭‭Proverbs‬ ‭31‬:‭27‬-‭29‬ ‭(ESV‬‬)READ MORE

Simple + Southern Sunday No. 444: Mother’s Day 2023

~ Mothers Day, Simple + Southern Sunday, Spring

“When a woman is giving birth, she has sorrow because her hour has come, but when she has delivered the baby, she no longer remembers the anguish, for joy that a human being has been born into the world.”
“‭‭John‬ ‭16‬:‭21‬ ‭ESV‬‬

“Youth fades; love droops; the leaves of friendship fall; A mother’s secret hope outlives them all.”
~Oliver Wendell Holmes
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