This And That

 These are the beautiful tulips that my daughter in law brought for me on Easter. It seems crazy that Easter was a week ago. Our family is now entering one of our big birthday months.

My dad, mom, Rachel, and Nate all have May birthdays, plus there is Mother's Day. We'll be celebrating all month!

I've come to a stand still on my bedroom. I need a rug, new lamps, and some art for the walls - still. I put is aside for a while but now am eager to get it finished. 

I need to get the Guest room finished, too. We'll be using it at the end of July and into August as wedding guests come into town. That is a fun deadline!

I don't know what it's like where you life, but here it is green, green, green! Loving the flowering trees and shrubs, the hay fields, the wild violets in the yard! Mowing season has begun, too.

I'd felt like I'd been eating badly lately but when I weighed myself this morning I am down five pounds from the last time I weighed myself! I'll take that victory!

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Sarah is having the Bridesmaids where Emerald green and the guys will have Emerald ties. I chose this photo because is shows summer flowers. Sarah wants to use roses and other flowers in the colors of the roses Dave has given her over the last year! Sweet.

Sarah is having Kyle stand up with her as a bridesman and he is going to wear a kilt! He will wear a white dress shirt like the groomsmen, as well as an Emerald green tie.

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I am working on a floral list, and we have already made a plan for food with the caterer. Things are right on track.

Now I should get moving, literally. I've been at the computer for quite some, and need to move!

Have a great day, friends!

Information Friday

 

I am so looking forward to hydrangea season. Coming soon!

Here are so wise sayings we should heed from some of the Founding Fathers. 

We can't rest easy, yet. We need to pray and work to save our nation. 

I'm having tech issues with uploading a video I've wanted to share with you. If it straightens out, I'll add it.

Easter Monday

 

This has been such a lovely Easter. The whole week, though I struggled off and on with back and muscle pain, was full of meaning. I took the time this year to really focus all week on Jesus' movements through the week leading up to his crucifixion. Our Good Friday service was good, and as always we left in silence.

I spent a good part of the day, on Saturday, preparing food, filling eggs, and making peanut butter eggs (Tim's favorite) for the celebration of the Resurrection on Sunday! 

What a beautiful day it was. I had tears singing several of the songs during worship that have been meaningful to me during this season.

We came home and most of our family and a dear friend joined us for lunch. Ham, potato salad, a smoked pork butt (thanks to my son in law Weston), homemade rolls (thanks Rachel), deviled eggs (thanks Kayleigh!), and macaroni salad. We also had several desserts. 

During the egg hunt Kayleigh found a Robin's nest! Look at these beautiful eggs!

These three cuties had fun finding the hidden eggs! It was pretty special having four generations here to celebrate Jesus' Resurrection. 

I found it interesting this morning to see the news that the Pope has died and that he'd met with JD Vance on Easter. I'd read that it was about 12 hours before his death. Reminds me of Queen Elizabeth II who met with her new Prime Minister at Balmoral and the next day she was gone. 

JD Vance and his family have arrived in India, and received a warm welcome from Prime Minister Modi. It was sweet to see the children so open and talkative, and included. I saved a video and will show it on Friday.

I hope you are all well, and that your Easter was special. I've been seeing a lot of posts about how people feel this Easter WAS special. On X people are sharing conversion stories, people all over the world are out in public participating in Easter ceremonies, the White House has had several special events in the last week.

All amazing. 

In Beatrix Potter Style

 There is a trend on Instagram and a friend asked me to do it. She said, "Your house would be the cutest!" so I gave it a try.

I uploaded photos into Chatgpt and asked it to make pictures in Beatrix Potter style!

Pretty cute, right?

Here are the original photos - 

I like the Beatrix Potter style edits! 

This is Holy Week, and I am not planning to post on Good Friday. I wanted to share a statement that DJT released on the official White House website yesterday.

What an amazing difference from the previous administration, though Biden is a Catholic. Last Easter day he proclaimed it as Trans Awareness Day. On Easter. 

I am thankful for the honoring of God's greatest gift to mankind, the sacrifice of his own son for our sins, and that he rose again to new life! 

Blessed Easter, Friends!

Information Friday

 

My poor daffodils took a beating in a thunderstorm, but the bleeding heart is now in bloom and making up for it! Peonies are coming up, roses are leafing out, hydrangea getting leaf buds. Tim and Kyle did mulch last weekend, and it's looking great!

What to share this week?! So much happening.

So much coming out about what they were doing to Trump during his first administration.

Lots of good things happening!

Here is some information about what Trump is doing with China.

Eyes on this post on X...

Trump is not ruining the economy with Tariffs. Did you see the Jobs report for March? Employment was up better than expected. Also inflation was thought to go up a bit and it actually was down! The stock market isn't the only indicator of how the economy is doing!

Don't be afraid, we are up to 75 countries working out deals with us regarding tariffs. It's going to work out just fine, and I expect China will come along as well.

One thing about Trump is he likes to work out deals and have them be fair to all involved. No reason why everyone can't do well!

Happy Weekend!