Everyday Living

Simple Southern Sunday No. 132 Happy Mother’s Day

~ Simple + Southern Sunday

“Charm is deceitful, and beauty is vain, but a woman who fears the Lord is to be praised.”
‭‭Proverbs‬ ‭31:30‬ ‭
  I am forever grateful for my Godly Mother who loved our Lord, her family, and her friends.  She was the epitome of a beautiful Southern lady who knew the joy of serving and giving her life away!  Not a day goes by that I don’t think of her and wish she was here with us…but she is living in eternal joy with our Father, and I rejoice in that!  It has been ten years and I still miss her more than I could ever say.  This Simple Southern Sunday is in memory of the greatest lady I have ever known, my Mother.

 Our sweet Ella Mae turned one on Friday and we got to celebrate her yesterday! Oh what a great time we had!  She opened gifts, laughed, and had the best time!  My sweet Mother did not live to see her three grandchildren married, but she would have been so proud of them.  Oh she would be bursting with joy at the lives they live!  There are now 5 great-grandchildren…four cute boys and our little princess.  I cannot even imagine how she would have loved them!
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Music & Memories

~ Everyday Living, Music

 A song can paint a picture, and transform our thoughts, attitudes, and feelings like nothing else.  Music has the ability to take us to another time and another place instantly as the first notes reach our ears.  We are suddenly back into our own unique story, briefly experiencing something special, and for a few moments it’s yesterday once more. We all probably have hundreds of songs that carry us away to the land of memories.

We live in a wonderful time where if a song has been recorded and we want it, we can usually get it easily! ITunes, Youtube,…you name it and it’s probably there!  As fortunate as we are to have the ability to have thousands of recordings on the device of our choice, there’s still nothing quite like a live performance.

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A few weeks ago, Butch and I took a little road trip to Nashville, the music capital of the US.  We often go for business, but this trip was for the sole purpose of seeing a singer/songwriter that we began listening to in our early teens…one that I first saw perform as a starry-eyed 13 year-old in Birmingham, AL.
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Tablescape Tuesday: Simply In The Garden

~ Food & Entertaining, Tablescape Tuesday

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

Sweet friends, thank you so much for checking on me last week…I took a blogging break…the first once since I began almost three years ago.  Don’t we all need a time of rest and refreshment and to quiet the noise?  Butch and I took a short vacation and I can’t wait to share it with you next week!

You all I know I love alfesco dining…especially in our little garden! The temps have been  perfect the past few days…and coupled with a gentle breeze that kept mosquitoes at bay!   Don’t we all love that?  This week’s setting is very simple and would be a sweet Mother’s Day table.  My Mother would have loved it…and oh how I wish she was still with us so I could prepare her a special meal! Please pull up a chair and join us today!
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An ironstone pitcher filled with yellow tulips is a simple centerpiece.
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