Weekend

 

I took a quick photo Friday evening just as the girls and their moms were gathering. I'm mindful to know show faces online. But I'd taken this photo of my tea pots as I was waiting for the water to be ready to fill them. The old glass coffee carafe was used for Harney and Sons Indigo Punch tea, which has the Blue Pea Flower in it and makes the tea a dark blue/purple color! The girls loved seeing the beautiful color!

I picked it knowing the girls would love the color! Many of the moms loved it too, because it is a delicious flavored tea!

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This now bi-annual tea event is growing more popular and this year we had 49 moms and daughters in attendance. This is also only for 5th grade and under girls and moms!

The girls had fun stations where they could get their hair braided or made fancy with sparkle spray, pot an flower, paint their nails, and make a bracelet!

So, so fun!

I brought my tea cups, plus the Kids Ministry leader brought paper cup tea cups for the littles.

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This was the set we used.

Saturday, I chauffered my grand to a few events she was wanting to be at, and then came home to put my tea things away. I reorganized how I had them displayed.

My oldest daughter dropped by after work, to do some stuff with her chickens and ducks, and stayed for dinner. I made taco salad which we all love.

Yesterday, was rainy in the morning but cleared up by lunchtime and so we took my parents to Havre de Grace to have lunch. We like The Promenade Grille. There is only outdoor seating so we had to bundle up against the chilly wind blowing on the bay but it was lovely.

Here is a photo from their FB page.

This is what it was like yesterday - windy but sunny! Then we took the long way home. It was fun, and my parents love a good road trip, too!

I hope your weekend was lovely, friends.

Information Friday

 

Went to tea this morning with two friends, Jen and Ruth, and my mama. It was lovely. This is our favorite place, but it has new owners. Not everyone in our group enjoyed the food, but everything I had was delicious.

Today I am sharing information from Pepe Deluxe on Telegram. I have followed him for years on his various accounts. He was one who kept losing his IG and X accounts in 2020-2021 for sharing truth! And yes, it did end up not being disinformation or a conspiracy, as it has all been shown to be true!

Now I must dash! I am helping host a tea at our church for Sunday School girls and their mothers! We have 49 coming! Wow!

I've made scones and cream, I have lemon curd and jam, 44 tea cups, (5 attendees are babies!) creamer, sugar bowl, milk, sugar, stevia, and more to get to church! 

Have an awesome weekend!

Information Friday

 Hello friends! I'm working on some changes to my blog, and while I've been MIA on the blog, I have been actively working behind the scenes.

The doomers, shills, fake maga, never trumpers have been screeching so much, besides the left, that their is a ton of noise out there.

BioClandestine has some good info and written in a way to explain what's going on!

Did you see that Trump ally Larry Ellison just bought CNN? He and his son outbid Netflix.

Be encouraged, friends. Don't listen to those who say Trump is insane, that he's going to commit genocide, etc. That is not who he is. He's a master negotiator. He applies strong pressure. Reminds nations of why they don't want to cross the US.

Pray for clarity in the noise and for the safety of Trump's administration. The enemy is fighting hard, but they are losing and that makes them even more dangerous.

Good Friday

 

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I hate that my sin sent Jesus to the cross, but I'm so grateful to God for his plan for redemption. I am a recipient of His grace and mercy.

I pray you know Him as savior as well.

Friends and Family

Our dear friends are packing readying their trailer for the road as I write.  They've been hooked up to our electric and we've been having a wonderful time.  

What a blessing longtime friends are.  They KNOW you and LOVE you anyway!  {smile}

So thankful for them.  We'll see them in the late autumn likely, as we will be visiting Tim's mom and they live in the same town.

Back tomorrow with a recipe!

Let's Have A Chat And Look At Flowers From My Garden

I didn't post yesterday because I had a lot on my mind and I was processing it all.  Do you have days like that?

I watched this documentary trailer yesterday at Mundane Faithfulness.  A friend shared it online and I was so moved as I watched it.  The beauty of lives trusting in God and the pain of a life being lost to cancer.

I also wanted to share with you a post by a woman whom I've known most of my life.  She was a mentor to me in my youth.  She is one of the authors of the Princess Parables.



Jacquie was a missionary in Central America when I was a young girl and in this post she shared an experience that God used to teach her 

trials + Acceptance of the trial with joy and thanksgiving = Growth/Maturity

Go here to read the post.  It's challenging and encouraging.

Daily we have the choice of how we are going to respond to what HE is allowing in our lives, for our good.

Behind the scenes here at Creekside Cottage life is happening.  Children are learning, our cottage is being cared for, we spend Tuesdays with my parents, work to be available to help others.  Lessons not of the academic kind, are being learned by all of us, and we daily walk in Grace.  It is so needed, and I am thankful.

We are having warmer weather now, so I am feeling the coming of Spring.  In honor of that I thought I'd share some photos of flowers from my gardens over the last few years.  I am looking forward to seeing these in the garden this year!

Have a great day friends!

On This Last Day Of The Year

I want to reflect back on the Lord's goodness to us, through good times, and hard times.

We had a daughter married this year in March.

We took two unexpected trips to Florida in June and July

 We were in Florida in July for Tim's stepdad's funeral.

 We took a trip to Knoebel's in June as a family.

 My friend Bonnie and I went to see the Downton Abbey exhibit at Winterthur.

 We freshened up the look of our cottage by taking the shutters down, pressure washing the house, painting the shutters black and rehanging them!  It looks great!

Joseph's brother Tommy died at the end of July.  This was a very hard thing.

The big event in August was the baptism of all four of our daughters!

 September we took a trip to Colonial Williamsburg.

Then took Emma to school in South Carolina.  She's thriving there.

 The beginning of October, we took a day trip up to the Pennsylvania Grand Canyon with my parents.  It was a fun, beautiful day.  The leaves were changing in the Canyon though where this photo was taken, three hours south, there was little change yet.

Glorious Autumn in our own yard, later in October.


Tim's Aunt MaryLou went to be with the Lord in November.

 November was Thanksgiving and the first break for Emma from school.   It was a beautiful day with my parents, Tim's brother's family and a few friends.

The following week I hosted the Ladies Christmas Tea in our home.

We got our tree a week later.  We've celebrated Tim's birthday, Christmas, and now it is New Year's Eve.  We have a Ball we are hosting at church tonight with English Country Dancing.

Tomorrow is Lindsay's birthday, and Friday is our 27th Anniversary.

I am reviewing God's goodness to us, and want to express my thankfulness for His protection last night.  

We were driving home from our friend's home near Reading, Emma was driving the kids in her car and we had Kamryn and Grammy with us.  All of the sudden cars are slamming brakes and swerving, smashing into one another, all because of a deer!  Tim comes to a stop without hitting anyone and we see that Emma has missed the accident too!  The cars in front of us are moving off around the crash and before we can move - Smash!  A young gal rear ended us.

We are all fine.  The police officer told us "This is a real mess.  The car that hit the deer didn't stop.  There was a car a head of us that hit someone but that car wasn't there.  The cars between us and that car all were fine and had moved on.  The gal that hit us really damaged her car.  It was a weird accident.  Tim will call the insurance company today.  We are uncertain of what they will do - there is some damage but it doesn't look too bad.  Tim did notice though the van was pulling to the right last night.  The biggest thing is that this van has 265,000 plus miles on it!  I'm thinking the insurance company may just total it.  

Please pray with us that we will be able to find another vehicle that we can afford.  We don't like to have a car payment.  We are trusting God to provide just what we need.

We kind of chuckled last night as we talked about how many miles just this year we have driven, on the many trips we've taken, and then on the 2nd to the last day of the year - Bam!  We are so thankful that no one was hurt other than the deer - that was a real mess and laying in the road right in front of our van.  

We are sewing this morning and preparing for our Ball tonight!  It's going to be so much fun!

We will be Ringing in the new year with Thankfulness in our hearts.  What about you?  How are you ringing in the New Year?