Sunday songs....

It's Sunday and I'm excited. I don't work on Sundays but the past three or four weeks we have been shorthanded so I have volunteered to work afternoons. I have been going in as soon as I get out of church and working till late evening. But starting today, I've quit volunteering for it because I miss my Sunday's. Relaxing and just doing things I enjoy around the house....reading, watching a movie, a little baking. Plus we started our Christmas Choir practice and I have missed the first one or two. After I get home from church this morning, I plan on baking me a white cake with chocolate icing to have later this evening with some sliced peaches. Then I'm putting on a pot of homemade veggie soup to simmer so I can that for my supper. It's going to be a wonderful Sunday here in the South.

Sunday Song

What a beautiful song. Please listen to the words. Grab a tissue the video is just wonderful.

Some things I am loving right now....

This popped up on my Facebook memories. I made these a few years ago, but gave them as gifts. I want to decorate a little tree for my home office/craft room. So I am going to try to make most of the ornaments. Heading to AC Moore today to look for some burlap and brads for the eyes. Already have some jute.

I want to make some more of these as well. They were so much fun and very simple to make. Used the tops off some of my broken ornaments. Use some yarn I had and some toothpicks with beads glued on the end. 

I have started the little wreaths but need to get ribbon for a bow on them. Crocheted just chain stitches and then wrap them for the wreath.

Can't wait to start on crafts.

Friday Foto Friends

In honor of Ms. Debbie's love of clouds, I posted my morning skies this week for my link up on Friday Foto Friends. God is the best artist I know. My phone only has a 5MP camera so these aren't great, but they are still pretty.

Wednesday Witch Humor

Changing a decor area...

I love decorating my house but sometimes I don't get it right the first time. When I bought the giant B with the bible verse, here was how I decided to display it for fall.

But it still looked a little bland to me so I went shopping around the house. I had this little angel on another shelf and moved her to the inside of the B. Then I moved the pumpkin and put this leaf in its place. 

I didn't like that either. The angel had been sitting inside a grapevine seed wreath so I put that on the leaf tray and then sat the pumpkin inside the wreath. NOW I am happy with the display. Sometimes it just takes one or two little pieces to totally change the look of something. This is what it looks like now.

Living in a Conditioned Society

Something happened this morning that really saddens me. I had to take my trash off early so I could head to work. I volunteered to help my daughter out and drop off my granddaughter at school.

When I pulled up, there was a gentleman opening the doors for the children. I had not seen him before. He was in jeans and a t-shirt and very "normal" looking. 

But we live in a society that has conditioned us to be suspect of anything that would have been normal in the past. My first thought was "He doesn't look like a teacher. Why is he just standing their opening the door for the kids."

How sad is that when you cannot even fathom someone simply being nice. When you look at what I am sure was a wonderful man who was being gallant and helping the children coming up the sidewalk to get through the door. 

I did ask Shelby if she knew who it was and she said it was their janitor. She said "He is always so nice. We all love him."

Oh, to go back to a child-like heart where we still believed the best of people and we could trust blindly that people are all full of good. 

But unfortunately due to many saddened circumstances over time, we have been conditioned to believe that others have ulterior motives and that you can't trust anybody.

Americans need to be on their knees daily praying for those days of yore when neighbors helped neighbors, you could make new friends without feeling like you needed to do a background check and that you could openly speak to strangers and show them kindness without worrying it would lead them to take advantage of you. 

What a wake up call today.