Category: Blessings

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Things To Love~

right this minute…

A pretty girl kitty that seems to really like having her picture taken.

A great big, grumpy man cat that couldn’t care less…about anything…one way or the other…as long as you don’t mess with him.

An incredibly lovely, handmade quilt designed by my smarty-pants daughter over at Prairie Grass Patterns, and sewn together by my dear friend Lynnette. What a great thing to stay warm with.

A balloon wrapped in cellophane to look just like a giant piece of candy…stuck on the wall.

A kind little sweetheart that will make an incredible massage therapist someday.

An amazing discovery–a robot that will do your exercising for you…I’ll take two!

Miss Chompy’s Super bowl outfit even if they aren’t…you know…actually playing in it. Dang it.

What do you love this fine day?

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{ Keys To Abundance }

“At the advent of a new year, I challenge Latter-day Saints everywhere to undertake a personal, diligent, significant quest for what I call the abundant life—a life filled with an abundance of success, goodness, and blessings. ”

~ President Thomas S. Monson

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~Basking~

These days between Christmas and New Year’s Day are some of my very favorite. Snowy slippers, hot chocolate, Christmas music and…

wayyy too much sugar.

This week always feels like some kind of sweet bonus to a season that goes by all too fast.

In fact, if you said that tomorrow was actually Thanksgiving Day…

…rather than New Year’s Day…

I would happily, gratefully believe it…love it, actually.

Truth be told, I’m a bit of a “bask-er.” I work very, very hard to to slow everything down…

in order to feel it all that much more. I guess I’m hoping that if we could just let all that holiday goodness soak into our hearts and let it sink to the tips of our toes, and shoot out the end of our fingers like warm lovely light–well then…

It might just be that much easier to keep it the rest of the year.

Ok, maybe just for the first half.

Because by that time, I’m already looking forward to the next season–planning, sewing, sneaking around and scheming.

Yeah….I firmly believe that living from one Christmas season to the next…

is a good, good thing.

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{ Speak Your Love }

This Christmas, mend a quarrel. Seek out a forgotten friend. Dismiss suspicion and replace it with trust. Write a letter. Give a soft answer. Encourage youth. Manifest your loyalty in word and deed. Keep a promise. Forgo a grudge. Forgive an enemy. Apologize. Try to understand. Examine your demands on others. Think first of someone else. Be kind. Be gentle. Laugh a little more. Express your gratitude. Welcome a stranger. Gladden the heart of a child. Take pleasure in the beauty and wonder of the earth. Speak your love and then speak it again.

~Howard W. Hunter

 

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Thanks. Giving.

The blessings of our lives this very minute overflow to where sometimes, I have to stand back just a bit to truly grasp them all. I hope your Thanksgiving was warm and lovely and filled with everything that brings you happiness.

Thank you my dears, for being part of our world these past four years. Your friendship, comments and kindness have given us much to be grateful for.

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