My friend Jan
I haven’t told you about my friend Jan yet…
It’s all her fault…
Jan did it! (finger pointed away from myself, at Jan)
I can hear our husbands laugh and shake their heads now.
OK, here’s the background story… Read more
Posts tagged ‘Thrift’
Feb 4
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The North Pole threw up in our house.
The best laid plans….
I had great plans for writing a blog every day.Β And then life got in the way this week.
I think I even talked about it in my last post…ah, yes – “Tomorrow we’ll talk more about my Christmas decoration addiction”.Β See?Β I did have great plans.Β Well a few tomorrows later, here I am!!!
Let’s talk Christmas decorations…
I LOVE CHRISTMAS!Β I love everything about the season!Β Finding the perfect present, the gift wrapping, the baking, the music, the decorating β oh the decorating.
Hello, my name is Patty and Iβm a Christmas-decoration-aholic.
From whence we came…
I love this little area on my wall…
The vintage kitchenΒ tools somehow remind me of my Mom…she didn’t own these particular ones, and only had a few similar, but somehow they remind me of her.Β I think it’s the red handles.Β She loved red and I love vintage.Β Needless to say I had to have these.
The top two pictures are of my Dad as a little boy (on the left), and my Mom as a little girl (on the right).Β I love these photos and the innocence they represent.Β Simple pictures of aΒ little boy going fishing and a little girl playing with her dollies.Β Beautiful snapshots of themΒ enjoying the things they loved – and continued to love through adulthood!Β Dad loved to fish and Mom loved babies.Β The stories I could tell… Read more
A Thankfully Imperfect Woman’s Epiphany Moment
As I sit here writing my first blog, I am eating a piece of my daughterβs twelfth birthday cake and having a cup of Vanilla Cream decaf coffee, and itβs 6:07 a.m.Yes, I am a thankfully imperfect woman.Β I am a part of the middle class. A family raising, comic strip living, ever-grateful, Christian woman whoβs main goal in life is to find something wonderful in every single day.
I have an incredible husband who I credit as my gift from God, I have three girls who are all growing up faster than their Momma would like (and who Iβm very proud of), and I have my lifeβ¦such as it is with my version of health issues.Β Iβve had my version of hard knocks in life, Iβve lived the βI have to be perfect for everyoneβ life, and Iβm here living in the NOW for me and my family. Read more
A Thankfully Imperfect Woman 