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I would love to invite you into my home to have a cup of tea with me. We could sit in my sunny kitchen and talk about all the things that are going on in our lives. I could share with you the news I hear from my grown daughters. How my grandkids are growing. We could laugh together over the funny things that they have said. It would be fun to share the ins and outs of our family life, and talk about our latest creative projects. We could share what God has been teaching us, in our personal lives, and encourage each other on this walk of faith. We could pray together, laugh together, and even cry together. Since most of us will never be able to sit down together face to face, I would like to invite you to join me here. So come on in and have a cup of tea with me.

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Joy

Joy

About Me

Crossville, Tennessee, United States
I am a 61 year old, wife, married to my best friend for 40 years. We have been blessed with 6 children, & 13 grandchildren. I love mentoring women in their spritual walk & in the everyday. I have a diverse background, having spent over 30 years living and ministering in a small South American country. Now my family resides in a small town in the lovely state of Tennessee. We have experienced the blessing of adoption, but also the hard of dealing with a child with RAD and other mental health issues. You can live life with the cup half full or half empty the choice is yours. I choose half full.

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Monday, February 14, 2011

Happy Valentine's Day!!!!

We are on "School Break" this week.  We finished up our first semester last week!  I can't tell you what a great feeling that was!   Everyone was more than ready for a break, too, so this all worked out great! :-)

Our first day off, has been pretty laid back.  I have been working on getting things ready for a special Valentine's dinner tonight.  Actually it was going to be a special lunch, but I got a little behind, and Teddy has tennis class from 3 to 4, so we just decided it would work out better to make it a dinner.

We are having Chicken Alfredo with salad, homemade Italian Herb bread, strawberry jello salad, and "Strawberry Cordial Pie".  (recipes will follow in another post, for those of you interested. :-)

On Saturday, the kids made valentines for each other and for Tony and I.   They also decorated lunch bags, for "mail boxes".  I also found a lot of ideas for valentines on FamilyFun.com, and I made several different things to stick in their bags.  One of the neat things I found, was "coupons and checks", which I printed out and put together in a little book for each of them.   I never went quite this far when Mandie, Ashley and Lexi were little.  We would usually have a special dinner or breakfast, and cards and a little gift for each other.   They always had a Valentine's Party at school, so there really wasn't any reason to do all of that at home.  This year, I decided, since Teddy, Carla and Matthew, have never had a Valentine's Party at school, we would try to do something kind of like that at home, along with our special dinner.   Thus, the "mail boxes" and the little "valentines" for everyone.

Well, it's time to go finish up dinner and get things moving.  I hope each of you have a wonderful Valentine's Day!

God Bless!
Joy 
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1 comment:

Barb said...

That sounds so cute. It is important since they are not in a public school to have things like this for them.

February 14, 2011 at 7:05 PM

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