FIRST MONDAY OF NOVEMBER

I took this photo a few years ago with a wide lens because the momma goose was not a happy camper as I scampered by her brood. They are sure silly looking. Stop by Sandee's and say Aw....Mondays.

Here is a pinterest find and a black and white kitten in black and white. Everyone at Face Book was passing around doing a b/w photo, no people, no words. Not my style, laugh out loud, but I will share this sweetheart here too. Show this to Sandee and stop by for more Aw....fun !

Stop by Blue Monday and shares your blue today. It is really a blue Monday, cold and dreary. But I am busy indoors so I don't mind. Plus I have some yummy coconut Thai Chai tea. I'm happy today.

I am loving this tea. I don''t do a lot of caffeine. This is perfect and I like to make it with skim milk.

My hubby works so hard! He will be at his office today until nine o'clock tonight. He has a co worker that never uses her time off so unless she does by Dec 31 she will lose a ton of hours. He and Tony split the hours and the overtime is so helpful. Everyone at his office was making red or green chili today so he will not go hungry. He made a batch last night and put it in the crock pot to keep warm all day long. Love the newer settings on crock pots with the added "warming" setting, Love is...always makes me smile.

Ha Ha Ha! Ooh Maxine, your a bad influence. I found a bag of Mint Hershey's kisses. Must hide those from myself.

Sadness in our world. I keep trusting in my Savior. My favorite Target cashier lost her son, that she was shopping with, at the Thornton, Co. shooting on Halloween. he was 26 years old and the father of two with one on the way. Many shoppers were trapped inside the store. Their fire doors have an automatic 30 second timer on them to stop shoplifters. Merchandise, not lives is more important to billionaireWal-mart. Very tragic. I believe in 100 percent #nonotoriety  for these shooters, which shows me main stream media loves a good story nothing more. If they cared one bit about victims they would never show the shooters face. Nick's BFF made our local and national news. He is a young cop in our town and seeing him on T.V. sent chills down my spine. He is like my own child. Prayers please for all.

I miss the simplicity of life. Today it is so complicated and the more demands I see, the more tragedy seems to follow.

Thinking of my mom and dad today. Rebekah and Zach will be married Dec 2. Time is going by quickly. My mom's 16 year anniversary will be Nov 16. A bittersweet day for me. She was my lifeline when I needed to talk.

My mom was a woman of wisdom, she always told me, when life gets hard, pray harder. Have a beautiful day.

A surprise will be on the way to Diane once she sends me her mailing address. I will draw the other two winners before the end of next week. Congrats Diane! she was the first winner in my blog giveaway with Tea/Coffe favorites.

Still having blog woes at the other newer blog. Google and Blogger do not communicate. I can not see comments. No matter what I do the comments at My Tata's Cottage are gone. If you visit there please leave comments here. If you left a comment there for the giveaway let me know. Just send me an e mail or  leave all the info here :
1) Favorite Tea or Coffee?
2) Chocolate, do you love it, what kind?
3) Your favorite color

Just follow me at both blogs and leave comments here. Confusing, Just e mail me. I apology for the silliness of nerdie non techies like myself.

A LITTLE GIVEWAY DELAY AND HAPPY BLOGAVERSARY

I am delaying the giveaway for a few days simply because I have 16 comments from the original post at My Tata's Cottage and they are hanging in limbo and I cannot read them. I want to be fair to those who follow me there and so if anyone left a comment there and not here please let me know. Oh my goodness, this is not how I wanted November to start out.

This pinterest find, pretty scalloped edge tea cup is simply beautiful. I will make my giveaway worthwhile. I have three different gifts to award three people. I just want to be completely fair and appreciate all of you. I do not have great IT skills and a nice person at the blogger forum gave me some good info. I have to navigate through it all.

I have been blogging 8 years as of today. I started this blog to talk about Tinkerbell, our middle daughter's little rescue poodle. She had been diagnosed with liver disease and passed away in May 2010.

Say a prayer for me if you are a praying person. If anyone has any simple ideas to share regarding this google vs. blogger please let me know. I will return to have my hubby select the winners. If you left a comment at My Tata's Cottage please let me know so I can update the info here. Thank you.

HAPPY HALLOWEEN

Are you celebrating? We hand out candy to the kids and we get bunches of them especially the really cute lil ones. Some area businesses have treats for the kids too. we are having cooler weather so I am not sure if we will have the kids we had last year when it was warmer weather. Tomorrow they say we may hit the 70's.

Charles Schultz had a way with kids and writing great children's stories. I still love watching the specials during the holidays.

Times have changed and so has the all American baseball. Are you a fan? Since neither one of the teams I love are in the world series I did not want to watch it. But it has been a great series. Will the Houston Astros take it tonight or will they go the distance, the best of 7 and see the LA Dodgers win it all?

Prayers for New York City and those who lost loved ones and those who were injured in today's terror attack.

This was Halloween three years ago. I was still employed and I remember it was windy outside. But I had my talking candy dish and it was a fun day.

I have always loved this quote.

My sister Mary and I on All Soul's Day. Today it is called All Saint's Day.  Our mom's oldest sister, Auntie Mary had a closet filled with hand sewn costumes for Catholic school kids. My sister was wearing one. There were many different orders of priests and nuns. I believe I wore that same hand made halo in a Christmas play where I was the angel holding the star over the baby Jesus in the manger. My uncle Sam Cosimano made that halo and also the star from the Christmas play. We always had great fun on Halloween and All Soul's Day.

Have a terrific night!

Monday Monday

How did Monday roll around so quicky? It seems the days are flying by. I hope you will visit Sandee and say Aw...Mondays to everyone who shares their fun here.

Isn't this 1939 Paragon Blue Hydrangea tea cup and saucer perfect? I love beautiful teacups so I wanted to share this one for Blue Monday. Come join the fun today.

I have never been a great tennis player, in fact, I love to hit the ball like I would a baseball. It doesn't make for a great game or a pleasant partner! But this Love is...is just perfect.

I haven't been a fan of a U.S, President for my adult life except for Gerald Ford, who passed a law which gave single mothers the right to add their children to their health insurance benefits. Maxine makes a valid point here. We seem to go to one extreme and then the other. Oh Maxine, you and your opinions.

This is my childhood school, Saint Mary's Catholic School. It was built in 1923 with bricks from the smokestack of the defunct Colorado Smelter.  My grandpa Joe worked there for many years. I had many happy memories at this school and still keep in touch with so many of my former classmates. Today it houses a library and has information regarding our sLOVEnian heritage. It is on the edge of BoJon Town .

On the other side of the school is the parish priests home and then the church.

 I believe this is the prayer garden and today the church is known as Saint Mary Help of Christian Church.

I love catching and collecting photos of churches and this Old Testament verse seems so fitting for teaching the little ones today. My friend Maureen says we need to teach the little ones abut Jesus.

This is a tiny sneak peek of the beautiful tea cup I received from Brenda J. in Marietta, Georgia. She gifted me this lovely cup as she was choose to select a tea cup for me in Stephanie's Tea Cup/Tea Mug Exchange. I want to remind everyone to please leave a message and answer the simple questions to be entered in my own Tea Tyme Giveaway which will end October 31. We will draw the names of the three winners on November 1. Please follow me and answer these questions, do you love tea and/or coffee and what is your favorite? What is your favorite color? Do you love chocolate and what is your favorite kind? This is limited to the USA only, I am sorry to say. I wish I could send a gift to everyone who has become a friend here. Seeing everyone leave comments always makes my day If you do not have a blog, send me your address via my e mail. Any questions, just let me know and have a wonderful week.

PINK HAPPINESS

This is the newest tiny in our phamily. He will be  a whole two weeks old tomorrow! Of course, this handsome fellow is a little gentleman!

We just found out my niece Kate will have another girl in March. She is due about the same time as my daughter-in-law Brittany. My phamily will welcome another little boy into our world but Kate will be tickled pink.

Little boys are so easy to raise. Little girls, not so much. They are more demanding and pouty. But I would not trade the kids I have for anyone else's.

A few more pinterest finds in pink. Make sure you visit Pink Saturday and share your own pinks. I wonder if this trailer park had any pink modular homes? Hmmm.....

Strawberries and Cream and Cream Cheese cake. So pretty in pink. Do you think it may be calorie free?

A pinterest find in tiny cottage pink house. Suzanne McCrone is the lovely photographer here. Check out her cool pink bike too.

I would love to find my mail in this vintage mail box. It is so sweet. If you join my tea tyme giveaway maybe you will find a tea tyme surprise in your mail box. It is easy to enter:

1) Follow my blog

2) Tell me if you love tea and/or coffee and what is your favorite(s)

3) What is your favorite color?

4) Do you prefer dark chocolate or milk chocolate or all of it!

The giveaway is currently for US residents only. Please join the fun today and leave a comment here.

Please stop by Pink Saturday

Baseball, Tuesday and Beautiful Babies

Oh Reggie Jackson, how I loved that guy! Mr. October, one of the greatest clutch hitters in baseball. I love my Colorado Rockies but my dad made my heart truly belong to the New York Yankees.

Bill Veeck, you were one smart baseball guy!

I understand how Nolan Ryan must have felt leaving baseball.   I L O V E baseball. I use to love the NFL too. But I felt betrayed. Politics and football do not mix. The league and the players ruined it for me. I do not wish to watch politics running around a football field.  I loved watching sports because it takes my mind off the real troubles in our world, not just the USA. Is change necessary today? Of course it is, but disrespecting the American flag isn't solving one issue.  No one thought about 9-11 or the Boston Marathon Bombing. They just took a knee without blinking an eye. The flag has done nothing to deserve your disrespect. Tom Brady didn't deflate footballs, the NFL did it. So I will continue, in my own heart,  to always love baseball best. I will mourn it's loss when winter comes and there is no baseball.

Joe DiMaggio said it best:

Jackie Robinson knew what racism was. He lived it daily. But it never stopped him from becoming a great ball player. An icon, people remember his name.

Tuesday was a great day! I watch my handsome great grand boy and today he and I went with Grammie Noelle and we drove to see our newest phamily baby :

He is so tiny, like a little loaf of bread. Oh how I loved cradling him in my arms and loving his smell, his sweet sounds and his beautiful smile. This is momma's twin. After two blonde haired blue eyed handsome  boys just like daddy, momma got her dark haired handsome boy number three. My grandgirl Tarrah is a super momma. She is never easily riled, loves her boys and is one of the very best examples of a momma who loves the job she was given.

These are the silly Fruit Loop cousins. Sharing a bowl of fruit loops while watching some Disney cartoons. My heart is smiling.

Vroom Vroom, Harrison's favorite sound when he hears a motorcycle. Several of my neighbors have super cool motorcycles, big "hogs", and oh how he loves to listen to them rev the engines! Boys and their bikes, hanging out with cousin Michael, the chill kid, cruising the patio on their bikes!

Grammie says I love this tiny tiny bundle of pure J O Y ! Benjamin James, you are stealing my heart.

My treasure is in my phamily. If I have to live on this earth I want to be here with all these babies. They are such a joy in my  life and boy oh boy do they make me smile.

Today was a lovely day. I am grateful that God gave me this beautiful day filled with sunshine and babies and boys and their bikes. Have a beautiful week.