I received this lovely Golden Heart Award from Mary at Pile of Smiles - please visit this very sweet blog - I know you will come away with a big smile on your face!
In order to receive this award I have to nominate 5 other blogs.
Here they are:
Jillian at Jillians Pages Jillian's joy in her new baby and motherhood plus her spirituality come shining through her blog pages. She has a heart for God and willingly shares it on her "Pages."
Melissa at Sunbonnet Cottage is a woman who has been through many trials these past few months and is in Florida taking a well deserved time away from it all. She is a blogger friend and I wanted to give her this sweet award because she does have a heart of gold.
Sue at Beautiful Pear Tree Lane as she is a warm, caring person with a loving heart. She speaks easily of her faith and encourages many with her posts. Another golden heart.
Melly at His Pink Princess is a new friend from Australia that I "met" on our Spiritual Sundays posts. She has a lovely blog, she is also creative and fun. She, too, has a golden heart.
Sister Sheri at The Leaking Window is a woman who has the biggest heart for God and shares it so very willingly. She is someone I admire for her thirst for more and more knowledge of her faith, the bible and our loving God. She has a loving, golden heart.
If you have received this award, all you have to do is pass it along to 5 others you feel are Golden Hearts!
When I saw these two adorable doggies bookends at a thrift sale recently, I just knew they had to come home with me! These particular bookends were made in Japan and the dogs have a slight Asiatic look to them. They depict two sweet dogs who were obviously much loved by their young owners. You can almost see the kids playing with them by the way they are bound up with yellow polka-dotted "bandages" - even around their tails! I think they are perfect for showing on Mellow Yellow Monday.
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My mother, who boasted of no degree,
Was tutored in philosophy:
Five buttered beans within a pod
Were generosity from God;
A broom could sweep the shadows out;
Churning put many a fear to rout;
A young pear tree in bridal veil
Was beauty's triumph over the gale;
And every star that blinked on high
Was proof that, body and breath put by,
No darkness was so vast, so deep,
But that the Shepherd would find His sheep.
-John Robert Quinn
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Christ is the Head of this house,
The unseen guest at every meal,
The silent Listener to every conversation.
-Motto
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This last poem I dedicate to my maternal
Grandmother, Anna, who passed away in 1989
as this is what she did every Thanksgiving
when my father carved the turkey.
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When Father carved our Christmas bird
And asked us each what we preferred,
As sure as summer follows spring
Came Mother's, "Please, I'll take the wing."
We children never wondered why
She did not sometimes take a thigh,
Or choose a drumstick or a breast,
We thought she liked a wing the best.
She said it with such easy voice,
It seemed so certainly her choice...
I was a man before I knew
Why mothers do the things they do.
-Richard Armour
I am very thankful my pink azaleas bloomed so well this year...they didn't look too wonderful at the end of last year and I can still see some deadwood in this picture. I missed Posting for Pink Saturday because I didn't read "how" to post for Pink Saturday! Next time I will try to be on the ball and find out before hand! LOL!
