Here are a few pictures from Christmas 2019

Grands from my family and siblings grands.

Sunday Stealing, Looking Back
This is my first time doing this on Blogger so not sure about the linking.

1.First things first, did you have a good year? The year did not start out well. I got acid reflux really bad. I had to give up coffee, chocolate and many other things. I lost a lot of weight. I got better in the summer and have gained a few pounds back.

2. If you traveled, where did you go? I went to Cayucos California with 6 friends. We stayed at a place on the beach. We also stopped in Pismo Beach. In October hubby and I went to Lake Tahoe and Yosemite and a night in Pismo Beach.

3. Which fashion trends did you love? High waist pants coming back. I like the skinny jeans that fit to my skin. I am more about comfort.

4. Which fashion trends did you hate? Wide pant legs.

5. What was your favorite article of clothing this year? My leggings

6. What song sums up this year for you? Rollercoaster

7. What was your favorite movie of the year Disney movies that I saw with my grandkids.

8. Did an actor/actress catch your attention for the first time this year?

9. Favorite new TV show? All Rise

10. Did you make any big permanent changes this year? No

11. What was one nice thing you did for yourself? Went away for a few days with friends.

12. Did you develop a new obsession? Yes, Bible dex cards, similar to Rolodex with art and Bible verses.

13. Did you vote? No

14. Did you move? No 15. Did you get a job? No I am retired.

16. Did you get a pet? No, but I do have a long hair mini doxie that is 3.

17. Do you regret not doing anything? Yes, I wish I had learned to ski.

18. Do you regret doing something? Yes several things like selling my home.

19. Have you done anything that scared you? Yes

20. Did anyone/thing make you so mad it stayed with you for days? Maybe more hurt than mad and yes it has stayed with me.

21. Did you lose anyone close to you? Yes but not by death, but circumstance. Also two online friends and it makes me sad.

22. Who was important to you this year but wasn’t important last year?

23. Who wasn’t as important to you this year as they were last year? 24. If you could have a do over on one thing you did, would you take it? Yes 25. What was the best moment of the year for you?

26. What was the worst? The stress I went through in losing a close friend.

27. What are you most proud of accomplishing? This year it would be sharing my love of Bible journaling. Working on Bible dex cards and encouraging the women to be themselves.

28. What have you learned about yourself this year that you didn’t know in the years prior? That I am more of the real me, something I wanted to be though I don’. t like how sensitive I am.

29.What do you wish for others for the coming year? To continue to grow in my faith and share with others through Bible journaling.

30. What do you wish for yourself? Good health and spending quality time with loved ones.

Life has been so busy the past few months! Christmas has now come and gone. One thing has really made me think about life lately and that is the loss of a couple of online friends. I never met them, but I knew them for over 15 years because of this thing we call the computer. Back in the day we all had our little country web homes on the net. We shared stories about our life, encouraged one another had did fun things with our pages. Then Facebook came along and it took over our country webhomes. So many went to Blogger to have a home, after all it was free. Toni was a graphic artist and did great things with her Blogger page. Marge missed her web home and brought it back and she and I visited each other's pages and talked about the fun we had and the friends we net.

Toni really took to Facebook and was a great at sharing the Word, inspirational things. She loved the Peanuts Gang just like me. Toni shared her story of cancer. She shared her faith in God and her struggle with it through her many poems. I enjoyed reading them at her blog and on Instagram and saved many of them. I was so sad when I heard she had past. She had just emailed me her address to send her a Christmas card and I did. Sadly she died around the time the card was delivered and never saw it. She was a special lady and I will miss her.

When I was trying to sell my home back in 2015, Marge sent me a little statuette and told me to bury it. I thought it was so thoughtful my house did sell. I noticed that Marge was not posting as much and tagged her a few times. Then one day I got a response from her son she passed in November. I was so sad that I did not know she was sick. I wish I would have sent her a card sooner.

Now that the business of Christmas is over, I want to reflect and take note about the important things in life. Spending time with the Lord and sharing His story with my family, most importantly with my grandkids. I got them all Bibles for Christmas and I plan to spend time with them reading it and illustrating our faith(Bible Journaling). I pray the Lord will help me prioritize my time as we enter the new year. I won't focus as much on how much time I have left. I will try to make the most of the time the Lord gives me. I told my family on Christmas morning, there is only one thing we take when we leave this earth, the Word of God that we have hidden in our hearts. Here is a graphic Toni sent me and poem she shared on Instagram

My regular blog is at Susan's Garden of Friendship The link is to the right. Lots of inspirational pages too. I hope to see you there! I plan to start blogging here more in 2020. I have had my website for almost 20 years. There my be over 200 pages filled with inspirational poems, recipes, family events and trips. Time is going by way to fast now. I am spending more time with my family and church friends. I love working on my various Bible studies and Bible journaling/ Bibledex cards. Blogger is just more user friendly and it is easy to post a picture. At my website, I have to first resize my picture before I can upload it. So you may ask what is Bible journaling. It is taking what you learn in the Bible and illustrating it in the Bible or a journal. Bibledex cards come from the idea of Rolodex cards. I think the best way I can explain it is show you.

I showed my lifegroup how to do this and now we meet weekly to work together on it. I first showed them at our get away I mentioned in the previous post.

In October hubby and I went to Lake Tahoe and Yosemite. A few days latter it was Halloween. The days just fly!

My regular blog is at Susan's Garden of Friendship The link is to the right. Lots of inspirational pages too. I hope to see you there!

The summer heat is in full swing and we are going on week two with weather in the high 90's. I have been enjoying my spa these past few days. I love watching the hummingbirds and bees enjoying our flowers. My plumerias are growing well in front yard but not in the backyard. They are going to be moved soon. This past week I went to the movies with friends from church and we saw Overcomer. It was such a great movie and I want my husband and grandkids to see it Have a great holiday weekend! .

My regular blog is at Susan's Garden of Friendship The link is to the right. Lots of inspirational pages too. I hope to see you there!

The days just seem to fly bye! Hubby and I just celebrated our 45th wedding anniversary on August 10. We have been trying to get reservations for NY with our time share, but they seemed to be booked. We did spend our day at Laguna Beach and that was fun. My grand daughter Jazmyn and I celebrated out birthdays on August 12, the first day back at school. I have been busy working on my various Bible studies and just stared one at church on King David. It will be hot here in So California through October so it is still summer here.

My regular blog is at Susan's Garden of Friendship The link is to the right. Lots of inspirational pages too. I hope to see you there!

Happy Summer!

I have had a blog for 17 years and a website for 19. The link is to the right. But the comment board is no longer working. I have also been busy with online camps and studies. During the summer we have the grandkids for several days. So my time at my website has declined. There was a time when there was a large community of people that had websites like mine using country graphics. There were lots of graphic artist making graphics to decorate our pages. We would all visit each other's web homes and signed a guestbook to leave a message. Later a tag board/comment board was added. Then came Facebook, a great social network that is free. So lots of my friend eventually let their webhomes go. I am a dinosaur. It is hard to let go a site that has more than 200 pages of journaling, vacations, birthdays, poems, holidays and fun things we did as a country friends community. I think it is time for me to make the move. So little by little I will be printing out my pages before I close my site down in a year because I had just renewed my webhost for another year.

My regular blog is at Susan's Garden of Friendship The link is to the right. Lots of inspirational pages too. I hope to see you there! I did the Saturday Nine at my blog linked to the right.