Thank you...Seashore...Wesley...Prize...Show and Tell Friday...

Today is Friday and it's Show and Tell time over at Kelli's........This picture of zinnias in a bowl belonged to my grandmother........When I came into possession of it I had it re-framed and re-matted........It means a great deal to me because it belonged to her........I use many hanging plates, platters, bowls in my decor.......thank you for coming by.................
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Thank you for all the kind comments on our 47th wedding anniversary......I read each one and you can never know how much your good wishes mean....and how encouraging to go for another 47.......rather than visit you all today and thank you, please accept this as my thanks for this time............

We went to the seashore for a mini holiday this week...the same one we went to on our honeymoon and stayed across the street from where we stayed 47 years ago......we walked on the beach very early in the morning.......how can one look out over the ocean and not believe in a high power...........


We ate at our favorite restaurants and didn't think about the calories.....I'm thinking about them now that we're home.......the camera batteries died early on so just a couple of restaurant pictures...............this one is very reminiscent of Key West....especially the style and landscaping of the outside...wrap around porch.........
The bridge reminds me of ship's sails................................................
Edward on our walk...............
Someone just walked out of their shoes and kept going....in which direction are your footprints going...................
We found some very unusual shells.........................................

Our nine year old grandson, Wesley, has been in the hospital this week but is coming home this afternoon........acute sinus infection......

I am the happy winner of Barbara's 100th posting give away...I know you would enjoy visiting with her at Ramblings From An English Garden. I am anxiously awaiting the beautiful handmade cards........I'll share pictures.........

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Happy 47th anniversary to my husband....Edward

This Father's Day, June 19th, 1960......there were two....


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Then there fourteen............................Amy's family......................................
Melinda's family..........................................
On Sunday, June 19th, 1960, Edward and I were married and began life together. He was a school teacher and I was a nineteen year old bride with much to learn about many things.....cooking, housekeeping, farming.......and as the years past being a mother to two daughters, Melinda and Amy.....

We've had years filled with good times and sad times as well. I can't say we've never had a cross word, as I've heard some people say....but we have always worked it out. We agreed whoever left had to take the children and the bills, neither of us were that brave....Edward told me in the beginning if I went home to Mama, he wasn't coming to get me.....I believed him.

We've tried to honor the Lord with our lives and have a home where love is felt...Edward has been in the ministry for twenty-two years and the rewards are beyond measure.....The good Lord certainly has blessed us abundantly...........

We have eight grandchildren that we love dearly...We are so blessed with a family that puts each other first........As Martha Stewart would say, "to love and be loved by a good man....it's a good thing"...........