Monday Morning Musings #18

Last week, I was introduced to a new blogger through a Facebook friend who happens to live in my own backyard of Knoxville. I’d like for you to meet, Leslie from Step at a Time. She’s a woman of faith, a mother, a daughter, and a cancer patient who’s struggling with Hodgkins Lymphoma. Please, join me in uplifting her prayer. We know not what the future holds, but the One who holds her/our future does.

If you feel compelled to pop in on her to drop a message of encouragement, then I think this would be appreciated and well…the prayers will wrap around her like a blanket. I believe in prayer. I know God hears our pleas. Please share Leslie’s needs with others when you request prayer.

Also, please remember my friend, Michelle Burnett. Last week, I asked for prayer for her mother. The Lord called her mother home while she slept sometime on Friday. This pain is a bittersweet mix of sadness and gladness.  The good news is Michelle, like all believers in Christ, knows one day she’ll be with her mother again.

Thank you for covering each these requests in the sweet name of Jesus.

Our weekend was spent on the go. We took a lovely drive along the Cherohala Skyway on Saturday. I took plenty of pictures, which I hope to share with you in the coming days.  Here’s a little teaser…

A quick shot of two proud fellers on Indian Boundary Lake taken with my big girl camera (Nikon D7000). It’s not perfect even a little blurry, but the moment was captured.

Sunday, we knocked around town looking at 4 potential homes (none suited our taste for one reason or another), grocery shopped, and took the car through the wash.  We were privileged to have gorgeous, spring-like weather. Now that DST has given us that extra hour of sunlight in the evening, I’m lovin’ it!

iPhone5s image snap On the outskirt of Knoxville, one might stumbled upon a taste of country life

How was your weekend?

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Stash hosts my first blog hop Monday Listicles and Christine submitted today’s prompt.

“10 Traditions”

1. Preparing traditional dinners for the holidays
2. Gathering around the parents’ table for Thanksgiving & Christmas.
3. Calling our loved ones to wish them a happy birthday or happy holiday.
4. Having hotdogs & hamburgers on the 4th of July
5. Making rubber-stamped art greetings for all yearly special events. Hallmark can’t say what heart can say with a one-of-a-kind hand-made card filled with your own sentiments.
6. Exchange of small gifts throughout the year for various occasions. Nothing elaborate, just a little something that says, I thought of you.
7. Always make & decorate birthday cake for our children, fussed a little over them with a pizza dinner, & watch a couple of movies. Now that we have an empty-nest, I still do all these things for DH.
8. Wear something green for St. Patrick’s Day
9. Make an Irish meal usually the weekend before St. Patrick’s Day. That being said, this weekend, I will make Beef O’Brady’s Reuben sandwiches served with potato soup.
10. When the children were little, the Easter bunny left baskets filled with goodies, we attended sunrise service, colored, hid, & hunted Easter eggs, rejoiced over Christ’s resurrection, believed in Santa, wrote letters to Santa, left Santa cookies, read the foretelling of and the story of Jesus’ birth from the Bible each Christmas, celebrated Jesus’ birth, left baby teeth under pillows for the Tooth Fairy, & many more customs. Many of these same things we still do even though the kids have moved out. I just can’t break from family traditions with all of these special memories.

Each week, Heather, puts on loan FOUR QUESTIONS for anyone to borrow and answer for your blog post, and then she give you the option to add a fifth question of your own for those who are visiting your blog to answer in the comment section, along with commenting on the four questions you answered. Don’t forget to grab the MQAM badge for your blog or post or both from Acting Balanced blog!

1. March 10th is Middle Name Pride Day – are you proud of your middle name? What is it and is there a story behind it? I haven’t thought one way or another about being proud of my middle name. It’s rather a simple four-letter name, and I have no clue if there is a story behind why my mother choose it. Maybe, it’s because she liked the sound of it…Lynn…Cathy Lynn.
2. What makes you happy? Other than my DH? Music! Click here to join me on the dance floor this morning.
3. What do you consider to be ‘middle age’? Once upon a time, I thought 40 was ‘middle age’. However, having been there and done that and now in the next decade I have to say ‘middle age’ is over-rated. You’re as old as you want to feel, so don’t think of yourself as ‘middle age’ or ‘over-the-hill’ unless you’re ready to act like grandma/grandpa. I. Will. Never. Be. Middle-age.

4. What is your fondest memory of your grandparents? Waking up to the smell of coffee brewing and bacon frying. Watching grandpa pour off some of his coffee onto his saucer to cool. Calling grandpa to pray for my toothaches (I had many of these as a kid). Helping them in the garden, or chasing their chickens, gathering eggs, or sloping (feeding) the hogs. Laying in bed with grandma at night listening to scary stories, or laying near an open window at the foot of her bed looking at the millions of stars in the night sky ~ so beautiful. Listening to grandpa preach or to my grandparents & parents sing in church. Helping grandma wash clothes with an old-fashion wringer washing machine and getting my hand stuck in it ~ not fun! I have so many wonderful, wonderful memories of my grandparents. I still can’t believe they are no longer with us but one day I’ll see them again.

My question for today is…. 

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Do you like music? Would you like a fun, loving group of loyal bloggers to visit you week after week after week? If you’re nodding your head yes like I think you are, then you’re gonna wanna check out my Monday’s Music Moves Me post and be a part of the dance floor shakin’!

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