tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-37555990664698054652024-03-12T19:38:46.811-04:00 HEART AND HEARTHLucy@heart and hearthhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15918596143821300650noreply@blogger.comBlogger372125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3755599066469805465.post-85234665749608339612016-07-29T17:01:00.003-04:002016-07-29T17:03:42.316-04:00Weekend Reprieve<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"> Memories; some created, some waiting to be formed..</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"> ~Happy Last Weekend Of July~</span><br />
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Lucy@heart and hearthhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15918596143821300650noreply@blogger.com5tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3755599066469805465.post-52663310235553006182016-07-19T17:17:00.000-04:002016-07-22T07:52:17.989-04:00Summer's Serendipity<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">On my way around the local thrift store last week, I spied this chair.( <span style="font-size: x-small;">when will I learn to take a before pic?) </span> It was painted a dark brown and there was nothing special about it really. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">I knew though that it would be a perfect little paint project which is what I did..</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"> </span><i style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">This adorable bird pillow really accessorizes the chair nicely...I purchased it locally in a cute, little store in Elora. Loved it, and turned a blind eye to the price for once..:)</i><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">I have also had a little time to read, and have been very engrossed in this book.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">I'd recently read another one by her, <i>A Gathering Of Finches</i> which gave me a respect for the author. She writes about actual people in history in a very real and honest, intricate way . </span><br />
<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">I highly recommend this at times heart wrenching but courage filled story ...</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">I did manage with my daughter's help to pick a bowl full of currants which I canned into juice...</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Then I found a recipe for zucchini currant muffins and I wish I had left more out...</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Oh well maybe I'll buy currants and freeze them:) The zip in the muffins is so yummy. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">I think it is rather serendipitous that the zucchini and currants are ready at the same time! :)</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">June always passes by much too quickly, this year was no different. An exceptional line up of celebrations and milestones filled it though and I find myself reflecting on all it's sweet memories. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Our youngest child graduated grade eight, so after having a child in elementary school for 18 years that chapter has formally closed.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Our son completed his high school education and we'll wait to see what the next step is in his learning process is.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">The weather here has been very dry, and we would all love a few days of good soaking rain.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Surprisingly the gardens are not doing too terribly,although I did notice the peonies and most perennials not having quite the luster they normally would.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">I find nature's tenacity inspiring ...whether in drought or fair sunny weather the strength of it is marvelous, and not unlike ourselves if we plant our roots deep into real and lasting things such as faith in God and cultivating relationships with those around us. We too can live lives of strength and purpose regardless of conditions that seem less than ideal.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">I love summer's quiet days, actually I should clarify and say I have <i>learned </i>to love the quiet days this season has offered. Years past there was no such thing here, as five children of my own inevitably brought many friends and children through our doors. Countless lunches, cookies and popsicles were served, and the barn, sheds, woods and tree house were privy to many an imaginary game.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Those days have shifted slightly, while I <i style="font-weight: bold;">never </i>want a home where children's laughter doesn't echo; I know nothing remains forever in the same place. Time moves steadily forward and children grow up. </span><br />
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Lucy@heart and hearthhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15918596143821300650noreply@blogger.com5tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3755599066469805465.post-89898230622289223022016-06-21T08:55:00.000-04:002016-06-21T08:55:26.055-04:00Summery <div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><i>Apparently this is not to happen again for another 70 years .Statistics like that leave one feeling small but held by our amazing God who knows each of us by name..</i></span><br />
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<i><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Longing and lingering waft on the gentle breeze.</span></i><br />
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Lucy@heart and hearthhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15918596143821300650noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3755599066469805465.post-51565814488994979592016-05-14T08:49:00.001-04:002016-05-14T22:43:31.072-04:00A Tool Shed and Dreams<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">I have always loved it's mysterious simplicity and charm... It is more than a thing to admire though as its handy storage ability rates right up there with its good looks...</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">One quiet afternoon this week I gave it a bit of a clean and then enjoyed a cup of hot peppermint tea while reading on the old sofa we put in there a few years ago...</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">It was a peaceful way to spend an afternoon and I was reminded of how good it is to at times escape from life a little and unwind. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">some day I think it would be fun to create a real oasis/ studio in here, but for now this little abode is a odd mish mash of this and that ...a place to dream, remember and hope.</span><br />
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Lucy@heart and hearthhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15918596143821300650noreply@blogger.com5tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3755599066469805465.post-31329831491816486802016-05-07T22:20:00.000-04:002016-05-07T22:20:33.117-04:00A Mother's Day Sentiment<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">Every year daffodil bouquets blaze the trail for the many she gathers....</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">Much like a mother in affection of her first born, she never wishes any away... Each bloom and bouquet precious, like a child's life; changing, fleeting and pressed immeasurably against those creases in her heart.</span><br />
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Lucy@heart and hearthhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15918596143821300650noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3755599066469805465.post-48802418609284400292016-04-18T09:09:00.000-04:002016-04-19T09:16:08.583-04:00Blissful Knowledge<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">It's a strange phenomenon but it seems like right when I have reached that age where I may once have thought I'd know it all, I suddenly am jolted by the discovery that the more I learn and <i>know...</i>the more I realise how<b> little</b> I know.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Not that I ever really <i>thought </i>I knew it all, but sometimes in the age of invincibility our sense of understanding has not yet been disillusioned.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">I was thinking about this as I considered how kids must feel these days with everything this techno driven society offers them. I remember the angst I felt in my teen years and can not imagine how magnified it may have been if I had to think about stats, likes, and followers. I wonder how I would have fared if there was always opportunity for contact, even in an abstract way.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">I'm thankful I share a great relationship with each of my children. Although two of my daughters no longer live here I feel I <i><b>know </b></i>who they are and what they do. But it would be absolutely presumptuous of me to think that they tell me everything...<b>I really have no idea. </b> </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">As I ponder this, I am compelled to hug them more often and tell them just how wonderful they are. Life is a great teacher and I would never want to shelter them from truths and lessons they must learn for them selves.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">The last bits of snow that a few days ago still dotted the sides of the fields are gone. I cling to to what I know...that the One who has brought us this far will never leave us and that <a href="http://biblehub.com/psalms/139-13.htm">He formed</a> each one of my precious children. This makes me able to <a href="http://biblehub.com/proverbs/31-25.htm">laugh </a>at the days to come and trust Him for all I have no idea about. </span></div>
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Lucy@heart and hearthhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15918596143821300650noreply@blogger.com5tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3755599066469805465.post-10210097918064816162016-04-07T21:09:00.000-04:002016-04-07T21:09:06.349-04:00Turning Tables or Rather Furniture<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">My family didn't believe me at first when I mentioned that it was time to send my white couch away...</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">After all they likely have gotten used to hearing my occasional whims somewhere in the recesses of their brains...</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">But this time I may have meant it because one day it was sitting there in the middle of the piano room, looking just a little forlorn and out of place, and I was singing <i>we had joy we had fun, we had seasons in the sun..</i></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">It began on that sunny Monday morning in March when suddenly I wondered if I could move the chaise from the family room into the living room/piano room. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">I began the search for two chairs for the space in the family room where the chaise had been. I had considered doing this for some time to accommodate a better conversational/sitting area...</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">After a relatively easy search I found two chairs that were perfect in my opinion for the family room. I loved the French country feel they have and the way they complimented the rest of the room, (<span style="font-size: x-small;">and quite honestly the sale price.)</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">One day shortly after finding my chairs I stumbled upon this little side table.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">a future paint project perhaps but perfect just the way it is...nestled between my chairs it made just the right spot to set a cup of coffee down while reading.</span><br />
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Lucy@heart and hearthhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15918596143821300650noreply@blogger.com5tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3755599066469805465.post-76769345965336237412016-03-30T14:26:00.000-04:002016-04-07T04:44:49.883-04:00March Au revoir and Hello Again<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">all preceding photos are from the most recent ice storm, which once again knocked down trees and hydro poles, leaving many 'in the dark..' ours came back on in time for Easter!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Hello, it's been a while! Where have I been? you ask...</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">The weeks just seem to roll by, not paying any heed to blog posts or lack of time...</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: x-small;">this is our yard...so sad to see trees break...but I guess they're only trees..</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Although I have been busy, I am not actually <i>that </i>busy! I simply have felt myself drawn to other pursuits sometimes let's say.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">This morning while chatting and having coffee with a few friends one girl mentioned that her sister is SO busy that she admitted she would never have 'time' to visit with anyone for an hour. I don't know about you but in my opinion that is simply too busy!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">I have to say that although I am the kind of person who thrives on a day brimming with activity, I hope I am never too busy to stop a while and chat with someone, or to call my mother, or to send a card to a friend.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Although I know I've missed opportunities at times, I hope also I have seized opportunity.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">I hope I notice people's eyes and expressions...</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">I hope I remember to care and pray...</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">I had a birthday recently, and everyone was home...gathered around the table, making conversation, and laughing...Special times are treasured, but every day I can choose to hurry, or to make haste slowly.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Those of us who enjoy decorating know the impact and satisfaction in creating vignettes, or switching up pictures or chairs or lamps...<span style="font-size: x-small;">you know what I mean...</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Lately I have enjoyed adding a bit more greenery around my home..</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">The landscape outdoors can feel bleak and lack lustre so plants indoors help to add a garden feel...</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">A few weeks ago I picked up this magazine called English Homes. Every page is filled with dreamy and idyllic photographs...I can almost pretend I too am planning a trip to England like <a href="http://beautiful.wordfromhome.com/">Brenda...</a></span> </div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Speaking of dreaming a little, I've been watching the last <span style="font-size: x-small;">(sniffle)</span> season of Downton...I ordered the DVD so we could watch at our leisure. It's such a different world and also such a similar world is it not? People are people no matter when or where they live.. Humans all have idiosyncrasies it seems..</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Well I wrap up my week remembering how blessed I am. Yesterday I watched a young girl walking home from school. She had two crippled feet and walking was an awkward hobble. </span><br />
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><b>I knew I was supposed to see her...</b></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Sometimes I get wrapped up in my own worries or concerns about my children or family when suddenly I am jolted into the realization of my gifts of health, strength and all sorts of providential blessings...</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">With this as my focus I wish you a blessed weekend.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">Soon the yellow school bus will stop and drop off my last elementary child. The two little girls who normally come after school are sick today, so there won't be the usual shrieks as they run in the lane. Leaving a composed 13 year old to herself as her siblings arrive home ahead of her. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">Today like many days, didn't go as planned. The original plan to go downhill skiing today was eradicated when the forecast was for unusually warm temperatures.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">Aligning our agenda with The Designer of our souls is a life long learning. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">When I began my love affair of painting furniture, I had no idea what I was getting into. Little did I know that I would no longer see a plain chair, or a simple table the same way. </span><br />
<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Little did I know that thrift store hunting and garage saleing <span style="font-size: x-small;">(I say it's a word.) </span>would ever be quite as redundant. Suddenly everything seemed to brim with the potential of change..</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">This wooden clock was given to me by my dear hubby while we were dating. It was an extravagant gift and I appreciated the sentiment it presented. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><i>The clock has been silenced for some years now due to it's some what persistent ticking and chiming keeping children awake..</i></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Somehow I couldn't keep myself from seeing this clock in a new light, or shade at least...It took me a long time to gather up the courage to actually paint it, <span style="font-size: x-small;">(way another story!)</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Time was beginning to run out on me, so about a month ago I resolutely took it down and began the face lift...</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">There was no 'turning back' once I had started. I really am quite pleased with the transformation, and happy too that I could use paint I already had and not need to buy any.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Suddenly like laundry piles on the floor, the ideas have run a muck and I can't seem to make heads or tails of them any more.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Leaving things doesn't seem to lessen the loads waiting to be addressed.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">Lovely in their frail vulnerability</span><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"> and last days...</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">Purchased at the grocery store before love's official day, they seemed to want to come home with me and rest in my newest purchase from the thrift store..</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">February hasn't offered too much change on the home front. My firstborn; the country girl is happily married and establishing her own farm life..filled with horses, goats and one dog. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">Son and youngest two girls keep the nest feathered here at home and give me lots of reason to keep the cookie box replenished along with all of those we entertain in life's spontaneous moments. ( which can be many)</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">I made this favourite recipe last week. As I was sharing the cookies with my Mom and sisters I reminisced a little and realized I have been making them for about 23 years! Wow! I know this because I remember taking them to prenatal classes for snack, and that would have been 23 years ago! Yes time moves along..</span><br />
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Lucy@heart and hearthhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15918596143821300650noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3755599066469805465.post-7649210481525075982016-02-05T14:47:00.001-05:002016-02-05T21:51:37.804-05:00Growing Into After A While<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="color: #20124d; font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">For some reason certain lines have resonated with me recently..once when I woke up a few weeks ago to see Jasmine skating before the sun had risen...<b><i>you plant your own garden, and decorate your own soul..</i></b></span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="color: #20124d; font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"> One day I watched 'the end of an era' with the horses that had boarded here...<b><i>with every good bye you learn..</i></b></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">After a while you learn that love's give and take i</span><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">s worth it</span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">and even though you make old mistakes, you learn they are a bridge to new lessons .</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">After a while you learn to expect some clouds and you are grateful for the shadows that come into your life.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">After a while you learn to risk and try.. and you learn to drive in the city, and water ski and knit, and sing loudly sometimes, and love unconditionally.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">After a while you learn the only person you can change is yourself,and it too is worth it.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">After a while you learn to forgive sooner than you thought possible, and you learn to treat not only others but your own soul with dignity.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">After awhile you learn that grace is a flame that must never be quenched.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">and flowers and gardens grow where they are planted and tended.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">After a while you learn that kisses and presents can't replace devotion and communication, and that beauty found in diversity defeats the trap of comparison.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">After a while you learn you can always give a little more than you thought possible...</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">and wait a little longer than you knew you could.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">and you never stop learning the meaning of good bye, but also hello </span><br />
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">and you keep believing in a future brimming with possibility.</span><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"> </span><br />
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<i style="font-family: georgia, 'times new roman', serif;">To read the original After A while and a beautiful sequel click <a href="http://realisticdreamer.blogspot.ca/2007/02/after-while.html">here.</a></i><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Like plants need air and oxygen, so people need other people around them breathing life into their souls.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">No man is an island. So true. Is anything an island really? </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">I had been experiencing some back pain recently.It seems my alignment was off...This landed me in an office where I was shown a replica of a spine, and could see how intricately connected our design in anatomy is as well. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">The refugee crisis recently again was a powerful reminder of how key connections have become..what importance they play universally.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">I came across this amazing old Celtic quote in a newspaper recently..</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Reaching around the globe to care, pray, lift and love...hearts relating to each other connecting us all into a large small world.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><i>This fact was evident as I sorted some photos recently.. Come join me as we peek into a few of the many I photographed this past summer in Old Montreal, Quebec and area...</i></span><br />
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Lucy@heart and hearthhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15918596143821300650noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3755599066469805465.post-28215471420017059732016-01-24T08:47:00.001-05:002016-01-24T09:05:54.258-05:00Inspirational Song<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">This is one of those songs for me...my prayer always..</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">To live a faithful life. To one day hear the words..</span></div>
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Lucy@heart and hearthhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15918596143821300650noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3755599066469805465.post-46924413397218297142016-01-18T19:00:00.000-05:002016-01-18T19:00:54.387-05:00Mid Life Afternoon<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">It was the perfect winter afternoon. After yesterday's busy day of hosting and the previous one of preparing, she carefully stacked and placed the Sunday china back into the painted hutch. The good flatware, saved for those special occasions was tucked away...</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">The bouquet of carnations purchased at half price as a gift to herself when buying groceries last week looked promising,a little like afternoon...</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">She'd had a difficult time choosing a bouquet. She was bent over examining each hue and colour, when an older gentleman came by, confidently picked up a red bouquet and left.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Outside the snow drifted down. The whole world felt muffled and under warm wraps... She boiled more water for tea, and nibbled on a dark chocolate.</span><br />
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Lucy@heart and hearthhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15918596143821300650noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3755599066469805465.post-14511691746075205312016-01-14T09:45:00.000-05:002016-01-14T09:45:45.856-05:00Domestic Detox<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Yes, I am odd that way,but somehow when I am folding a basket full of clothes, or ironing a shirt to it's crispest best. I feel a sense of relief, like somehow I have helped the old world become a better place.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Got me thinking about how misunderstood softness can be. after all don't we all crave a soft place, a comforting place to land with whatever we may be carrying?</span><br />
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Lucy@heart and hearthhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15918596143821300650noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3755599066469805465.post-81426716135839636042016-01-04T09:30:00.000-05:002016-01-04T09:30:23.068-05:00Settling On My Word Here<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">It's the first Monday of the new year. Routine has showed up and mornings made sweet and special by lack there of, have been replaced by it's stout greeting. I welcome it back as I sip my coffee and revel in some solitude.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">The temperatures are frigid here, and I began the year a little under the weather too, with a terrible cold....</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">It was a good weekend to read alot, so I did...</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">I read this book. I was immediately intrigued by the forth rightness of her writing. I borrowed the book, but if I hadn't it would of been filled with highlighting...</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">and I've decided it will be <b>renew.</b></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Renew a right spirit within me..(Psalm 51:10)</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">and to renew my mind daily in the Word.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">I also discovered <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mary_Oliver">Mary Oliver</a> please tell me where I've been! Such lovely writing.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Bring on 2016, come what may I say. My prayer is to live renewed and alive!</span><br />
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Lucy@heart and hearthhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15918596143821300650noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3755599066469805465.post-33877651076981655912016-01-01T13:49:00.000-05:002016-01-01T14:03:58.627-05:00It's The Little Things...<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Call me old fashioned, but I still like having a calendar hanging up in my kitchen.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Of course this can't be just any old calendar...it must meld into the decor, and suit my style, just so...</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Of course this hanging of the calendar than becomes more than just hanging up a calendar..</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">It's a pursuit and an event....</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">and then it stays, quietly recording life's dates and times...for <b>one whole year...</b> unless of course I decide to change it half way through...but that's another story:)</span><br />
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Lucy@heart and hearthhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15918596143821300650noreply@blogger.com6tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3755599066469805465.post-37233670719035129972016-01-01T11:27:00.000-05:002016-01-01T11:27:31.526-05:00A Glance Back To See Ahead<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">As each year closes, inevitably I seem to find myself in contemplation of sorts.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Life is busy, but at the close of a year I find myself craving the luxury of contemplation and commiseration.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">A year has a way of changing things, and in the process we are changed. Our carefully executed lives are no match to God's plans and purpose.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">One can only glance into life's rear view mirror to know that very often we hear ourselves ask, "how did I get here?" </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">The good and not so good at the time experiences in a fleeting year make me feel small. I would almost feel insignificant were at not for God's undulating grace that flows in and through every place I have been in the past year.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">This grace is the current that propels me forward in place of looking back too long and dwelling on situations that must pass like water under the proverbial bridge. </span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">I read recently that the reason the windshield is much bigger than the rear view mirror is because we are going forward not back. <b>Life is always a forward motion.</b> But there is a mirror to glance back into. I think it may be there to let us know where we have come from. To remind us and help us remember experiences and lessons learned at times along the hard road.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"> The other day as I pulled into the driveway I caught the line of a song playing low on the radio. The unshakable lyrics from Meghan Trainor's catchy song played through my head for the rest of the day...</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"> </span><span style="font-family: inherit;"><b>I'm gonna love you like I'm gonna lose you</b></span><br />
<span style="font-family: inherit;"><b> I'm gonna hold you like we're saying good bye</b></span><br />
<span style="font-family: inherit;"><b> Where ever we're standing I won't take you for granted,</b></span><br />
<span style="font-family: inherit;"><b> Cos we'll never know when we'll run out of time.</b></span><br />
<span style="font-family: inherit;"><b> So I'm gonna love you like I'm gonna lose you..</b></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Life holds no guarantees, and in almost an instant can at times change what once we were. I observe people whom I know and love lose their spouses, their careers or their health. Children keep wanting to grow up and try on independence and I keep needing to adjust with every facet of change. </span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">I am glad my heart doesn't know what 2016 holds. Like this past year it will surge and ripple until it too passes away. So let's love intensely like we are saying good bye, <b>because we never know when we'll run out of time.</b></span><br />
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Lucy@heart and hearthhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15918596143821300650noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3755599066469805465.post-67267676543185468492015-12-23T22:32:00.000-05:002015-12-24T08:36:59.935-05:00A Few Favourite Christmas Things<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Whether it is the touches placed about a home, the Merry Christmas from a stranger, or the look in the eyes of the people you hold most dear...</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Christmas has a way of making even the simplest of things special and treasured.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">These happy snowman are the closest thing to snow we'll be having this yea</span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">r..</span><span style="font-family: inherit;">Very mild temperatures are setting new records..</span><br />
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Don't you love cards?<br />
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Especially the ones that arrive in the mail a few weeks early..so special.<br />
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It's not fancy, but is filled with sentimental treasures..<br />
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A simple display on an end table...<br />
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My kitchen window. I added a string of lights after I took this photo:)<br />
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A display behind my couch. The Christmas Box Collection by Richard Paul Evans is a favourite book of mine..<br />
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Baking...Every year I bake cinnamon buns for Christmas morning...<br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">My spontaneous nature seems to go into over drive at Christmas time...I love to prepare little impromptu gifts for whoever comes to my mind..</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"> </span><span style="font-family: inherit;">This is <a href="http://www.bettycrocker.com/recipes/ginger-honey-crunch-chex-mix/9b4b3570-4110-4d3e-b3a1-10e8e4d125f1">ginger honey chex mix</a></span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"> nice to give for gifts in a jar or tin. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">I must wrap this up...no really I have some wrapping still left to do..shhhh!</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">It's okay I'll make a nice cup of tea and listen to some Josh Groban I think...</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> Please listen to this song...It echoes my heart...</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><b><i>Merry Christmas, Good night!</i></b></span> </div>
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