Enjoying Mother's Day Goodies

I suppose the weekend is catching up with me,  I sure didn't want to get going this morning.  I finally pulled myself out of bed after listening to Madi (chihuahua)  whine for me to get up.  I still didn't want 

to busy myself, so I made myself some Strawberry Tea,  prettied up the table on my patio and placed the 

cookies my daughter gave me on a plate with a piece of chocolate biscotti.  The flower cookie is a Green Smiley Daisy Honey Lemon cookie. The Teapot cookie is a Honey Vanilla Cookie. I saved the teapot cookie and the Apple Cinnamon cookies for later.  The Ahmad  Strawberry Sensation Tea is a black tea from London, England, it  was good but maybe I should have had a different flavor that went better with the biscotti.  It was so nice to sit outside and listen to the birds sing.  There was a gentle breeze  that made it perfect.  I could have sat there all morning.

Aren't they pretty?  I  almost  didn't want to eat them....I did eat the daisy cookie but saved the teapot one.

I love the Tea for One teapot my daughter found at Callaway Gardens for me.

Two of my three daughters gave me Roses.....to plant...  so happy that my two grandsons and  son~in~law planted them for me.. One is a yellow Knock Out Rose and the other is a white Tea Rose.

The cookie set was from my daughter and her daughter and son, Morgan and  JC,  and they gave me the sign.. I am so blessed,

I hope everyone had a BLESSED MOTHER'S DAY!

Sylvia

Linking to Tea Time Tuesday

DRINKING FROM A SQUARE CUP

Have you ever drank from a square cup?  I hadn't until this morning.  Recently, well this past Christmas I went on a tour of homes, in one of the homes the bedroom was decorated in French Country.  I fell in love with it.

Loved the curtains

And the side table.

I've always loved this style and have tried to put some of it in my home.  

Now back to my square cup.  Yesterday my sister and I spent the day shopping.  I had been looking for a cup to match with my bedroom, (silly huh!)   I found one but it was square, I loved it anyway.  Now never have had drank from one, it took me a few minutes to figure out how to, do I drink from the side or find a point and use it like a spout? 

 I found it difficult at first, I didn't give up,  I used it both ways.  Those of you that know me or have been reading my post for awhile know that I am not a journalist.  I do my best to get what I want to say in words as best I can. In my morning devotional I read James chapter 1(kjv).    I found it interesting, ...life can be like a square cup..trails and troubles comes upon us and we may not know how to handle them...do I do this? or that? or what?  I found the answer in verse 3, when difficult times comes upon us we should "count it all joy when we have trails,  knowing that faith worketh patience"  Patience means to have staying power or the ability to endure.  In my daily life, as in the square cup, I trust that by faith and God's grace I can learn and grow from difficult times.  

2 Corinthians 12:9

May your cup run over with Blessings!

(Psalms 23:5)

Sylvia

HOW TO TELL VINTAGE CHINA'S AGE?

Yesterday my daughter and I went shopping around town and in one antique shoppe  she found a set of vintage Homer Laughlin China  "Virginia Rose".  She fell in love with it.  When her hubby came home from work she asked him if he would get it for her, for mother's day.  He told her to go back today and get it.  I met her there to help put it in her car, it has a few pieces missing and she's hoping to find the missing pieces.  On the back stamp are some numbers.  Can anyone tell me how to tell the date it was made?  The lady in the store looked it up on the Internet and she said from the 1940's - 1950's.

I was wondering if the 47  on it could be 1947.

I did google "How to read a back stamp" but didn't find anything to my satisfaction.  It is a beautiful set of 8 dinner plates, 6 teacups and saucers, 2 salad bowls, salt & pepper, sugar & creamer, bowls and other pieces.  I told her I would ask and blog about it and hopefully someone would have more information or had some to sale in their Etsy Shoppe.  She would like to end up with an eight piece setting.

Any help on this would be much appreciated.

Have a Blessed Day!

Sylvia

ONE!

I will bless the Lord at all times; his praise shall continually be in my mouth.  Oh, magnify the Lord with me, and let us exalt his name together!  Psalm 34:3 ESV

by Zig Ziglar (shared from FB)

Lord help me to be that ONE today!

HAVE A BLESSED SUNDAY!

Sylvia

GREAT SPRING BREAK!

This week is Spring break for some of my grandchildren. My husband and I decided to rent a cabin and a campsite, since there wouldn't be enough beds in the cabin to sleep 8 of us. We took our vintage camper for two to sleep in.   We wanted to spend a couple of days with our 3 girls and 4 of our grandchildren.  It wasn't enough time but then it never is, when you love being with those that are near and dear to you.  We made the most of the time we did have by doing different things together.

This was our cabin. A two bedroom with kitchen,living room and eating area together.  One bath for all of us. This cabin was built in the 1930's when President Franklin D. Roosevelt started the State Parks to create jobs during his term as president.  This is at Franklin D. Roosevelt State Park near Pine Mountain,Georgia, my favorite State Park.  President Roosevelt visited here often when he was at the "Little White House" in Warm Springs,Ga. which is only a few miles away.

The screen porch looked out over the lake.

The  two sunsets we were blessed to see were beautiful!

This is looking through the screen on the porch. (from the rocking chairs)

Of course that's were you would find me most of the time.

Playing Phase 10 was a game that was played both nights!

The boys would play ball on the driveway!

They loved to fish and got a lot of fishing time in.  They caught 5 of them.  Papa taught them how to clean them themselves.  They were excited to learn and cooked them on the campsite fire, and then ate them.  Morgan, my 14 year old granddaughter was right there with the boys.

This was our campsite with vintage camper.

Sign my son in law made me.

The camper is a 1969 Frolic.

FDR State Park is really beautiful.  There are trails to walk along.  The trail even goes from the cabin side of the lake over a bridge on the creek side to the campsite.

It made it easy for us to go between places.

We did a lot of just sitting and enjoying the scenery!

There were beautiful wild azalea's.

On Wednesday morning before we left in the evening, there were a  papa and mama geese with their little ones feeding along the lake. I took some bread down and they let me get pretty close to them. Aren't they cute!!

Fun was had by all and we didn't want to leave.  Our days were blessed!

Hope yours are Blessed also!

Sylvia

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IN TIMES OF TROUBLES

"God doesn't give us what we can handle,

He helps us handle what we've been given"

(Author unknown)

HAVE A BLESSED DAY!

Sylvia

FLOWERS AND TEA!

I finally got around to buying some plants for my pots this week!  I still have a few more to plant but did get most of them in pots.

 Milo (my cat) loves to get in this concrete pot and lay, so I put some rabbits and  a candle holder in it so maybe he'll stay out and let the potato vines grow.

Need to buy more hooks to hang the baskets of geraniums.

My flowers in the ground are blooming and looking good.

I love the shade of this lavender Iris!

After a while I got tired and came inside for a break and a snack. My new Tea Time magazine had come in the mail yesterday so I thought I would look at it, to my surprise at the back of it was an article about the Madison Tea Room.  I was there this past November.  Kathi had told me it was going to be in it but she didn't know when and I had forgotten about it.

And 

HAVE A BLESSED DAY!

Sylvia