Lets Jump Together

The end of another year is upon us and I just want to take a minute to thank all my readers and friends who have visited and left comments over the past year.
The internet stretches far and wide to make our planet seem so much smaller.
I have met many wonderful people across the globe and [...]

May the spirit of the season fill your hearts with joy!
Merry Christmas and Happy Holidays, to you, my friends!
Hope they are filled with love and all that is good!

I had made a post on one of my other blogs and I used a photo of chocolate fudge I had taken a while back.
One of my reader’s, Anna, over at My Only Photo, requested the recipe.
I have been busily making quite a few batches of this fudge and peanut butter fudge too.
Before I file [...]

Almost time to trim the tree for Christmas this year.
Lights and handmade ornaments have been the decorations for years on our tree.
All of the ornaments were made by my mother-in-law and myself, so they all have special stories and meanings behind them.
The kids loved to hear them as they put them on the tree each [...]

Not what we say about our blessings, but how we use them, is the true measure of our thanksgiving.
-by W.T. Purkiser

And thanking the loved ones that make up our blessings is one good way of using them.
Hope all my readers have a blessed and safe Thanksgiving with the ones they love the most!

For it was not into my ear you whispered, but into my heart. It was not my lips you kissed, but my soul.
-by Judy Garland

We will be celebrating our wedding anniversary shortly, and I thought this quote was quite appropriate.
I am not sure if this quote came from her or from a part she played [...]

Happy July 4th to all my American readers!
Keep safe and enjoy this celebration of our Nation’s Birthday.

I like this quote by Jimmy Carter and today is a good day to share it:

The best way to enhance freedom in other lands is to demonstrate here that our democratic system is worthy of emulation.