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Sweet Loveuary

 I am looking forward to Valentine's Day this year.  When I was young I hated Valentine's Day.  Back in those days no one said you MUST take a Valentine to every child in your class.  I was shy, studious, and teacher's pet so there would be less Valentine cards on my desk than most other kids.  I would be up half the night before worrying that there would be none...wishing I was sick the next day so I did not have to endure the counting of cards and comparing who got the most.  I never counted my cards or looked at them at school.  I sat slumped down at my desk, keeping my head down until the snack was served.  I could not wait for it to be over.  But this year I choose to forget all that.  I am going out to dinner with my family and enjoy a Hallmark Valentine movie at my lovely decorated home.  I have everything I want and more here with my beautiful family.  Thank you God for my sweet wonderful life!  And there will be plenty of beautiful Hallmark cards to read...and gifts to open!  Hope your Valentine's Day is sweet and filled with love!

A link to the Hallmark movie on February 14...

https://www.hallmarkchannel.com/love-romance-chocolate

All The Holidays!

I am struggling with wanting to work on my scrapbooks and wanting to get our home ready for Valentine's Day plus getting the crafts done for St. Patrick's Day!  I love holidays but it seems every year that I end up skipping either Valentine's Day or St. Patrick's Day for major decorating.  Not this year.  I want to be sure I am ready for it all!  I forgot to mention the first holiday for us is Groundhog's Day on February 2.  That is the anniversary of my parent's wedding.  We celebrate their anniversary with dinner for the whole family at one of their favorite restaurants and an anniversary cake at home after.  I will take photos of the event and post them!  My grandson's birthday is February 16 and we will have a celebration for that day for him.  He will be 15 this year.  My Daddy's birthday is March 12 and we will celebrate that with dinner and a cake too!  He is celebrating in Heaven with Mama and God, but we still remember their special days here.  We miss them so much.  And that wraps up holidays for us for February and March.  The day my Mama went to Heaven is March 25 and we usually try to go away that day-to Ohio or Hershey or another place she loved to travel to, depending on the day of the week it falls on.  I am not sure about this year, although it is a Friday.  But if we are home we will get together and go out to dinner.  If we go away it will probably be to Ohio and maybe not until Saturday.  Now that we have only teenagers it is harder to take them out of school for a trip.  They are studying college courses and have so much homework to keep up those Distinguished High Honors.  

I left up the big gorgeous tree in the dining room.  It was red for Christmas for the first time ever.  Now it has poinsettias removed and there are beautiful red hearts on mixed in with the red decorations.  It is lovely and will work beautifully with the red and pink decorations for Valentine's Day tea!  I love to use my Old Country Rose china.  It is the oldest china pattern contiguously manufactured in the world and is made by  Royal Albert.  I just love when the holidays coordinate with pink and rose and burgundy! All of which reminds me that I have not made my list for the Valentine tea I have planned for February 19.

I did put up another smaller tree in the kitchen.  The black tree goes with all the red and black farmhouse decorations we have.  It is cute beside the candy bar.  

Are you ready for the first holiday this year?  What things will you do to celebrate this Valentine's Day?  Do you have any special things you are crafting?  Will it be a "date night" or dinner with the family?  Do you have a special dessert planned?  All these ideas are running through my head at once...haha!  I know we will be going out to dinner with the family.  And as far as dessert goes, I have not chosen that yet.  But the house looks quite festive and ready for Valentine's Day.  I will post photos soon!

So This Is Christmas

 

So this is Christmas...

I hope you had fun.

I had bronchitis...and had to take 4 Covid tests which were all negative.  And I had to have antibiotics and steroids and a puffer and Pine Brothers cough drops...and I coughed and coughed.  It was horrible, but I drank gallons of water a day.  And then I noticed the weight gain from the steroids.  I am still battling that and it will be one month tomorrow since I was diagnosed.  The entire month of December I was tired and did not feel well.  My daughter Karina put up almost all the Christmas trees...22 of them this year.  And since I am trying to catch up on life in general, John, Karina, Caroline, Isabella, JW and Nate took them down.  I am getting the Valentine decorations out and doing two trees and putting out the rest of the decor.  I am having a Sweet Stitchin' party on February 1st for my fellow cross stitchers.  For the month of February we will start new stitching projects as often as we wish.  For some of us that will be every day and for some of us it might be one or two for the month or any amount that we have time for.  If you cross stitch, join us on Facebook at 1 Nana 2 Girls for a month of Sweet Stitchin' and prizes.  Here is the link.  https://www.facebook.com/groups/423262886255970.  

Here are some photos of my latest finishes for winter and spring.  These are not my starts for February but pieces I stitched this month and some from years ago...

Holly Jolly Christmas

 Christmas morning at our house!  Loving this song playing from Michael Bublé!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Dkq3LD-4pmM&list=PLa1K2T1Ftz5kqD1jzJNDGG_0OZrHLg9n0&index=1

Our traditional stair photos for the kids.  I have done this since Karina and Lauren were little.  I love those photos!  As you can see, Isabella and JW got new bikes for Christmas!  A couple days after Christmas they were out riding them with Papa, Nate, and Caroline.  

They LOVED their new bikes.  We had the Disney parade on television and ate breakfast while we waited for Karina, Jackson, Caroline and Nate to arrive.  That is when the chaos starts!  This is Christmas with our little family of 10!  

All I Want For Christmas is You!

 My favorite song for Christmas is Mariah Carey's new video,  All I Want For Christmas Is You!  Her children are in this great video remake and I have it open on my computer to watch it multiple times a day!  Look it up...so cute and of course beautiful costumes and Mariah's beautiful voice!  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aAkMkVFwAoo

The other song that has been a favorite of mine for the past few years is Come And Get Your Love.  Technically not a Christmas song but it is used in John Lewis's commercial for Christmas...and also in the movie Guardians Of The Galaxy.  I adore the commercial and keep it open on my computer during the holidays too.  It is also the ringtone on my cell phone!  Here is the link to the commercial.  

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6PH88aAL7hU&list=PLa1K2T1Ftz5kqD1jzJNDGG_0OZrHLg9n0&index=8