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Our favorite Panther!

Published on September 2, 2016November 30, 2016 by Dawn Marie4 Comments

This Weekend begins the start of one of Cuppycake & my favorite times of year.

The start of College Football Season!

And the season returns with one of the most loaded opening weekends in a long time!

Which has led to a lot of discussion regarding which games we shall watch and those we may need to DVR. However, a few don’t even need to be discussed because of the deep-rooted fanaticism
/fəˈnætɪˌsɪzəm/
noun
wildly excessive or irrational devotion, dedication, or enthusiasm

& personal affection!

300240_735695508420_329301770_n — GO ARMY!

And this year we’ve added one more favorite team to our list, due in part to our favorite Pitt Panther!

It may be hard to tell but..The Panther is on the left.

So this Weekend we will not only be glued to all the major Sports Channels, but we will be setting aside a little time to give thanks that our favorite Pitt Panther (and stellar son-in-law) has helped us to add one more team to our “favorites to watch” list! I’m sure we will also take some important time to raise our tailgating-beers (wrapped in cozies) in thanksgiving to have Jake in our lives and for ALL the MANY blessings & sincere joy he has brought to our family already!

Can you tell we’re just a little fanatic over him!

Jake is the one on the right. Hard to tell, right????

The name Jacob is defined in many ways. The biblical definition explains: In the Old Testament, Jacob (later called Israel) is the son of Isaac and Rebecca and the father of the twelve founders of the twelve tribes of Israel. He was born holding his twin brother Esau’s heel, and his name is explained as meaning “holder of the heel” or “supplanter”. Other theories claim that it is in fact derived from a hypothetical name like יַעֲקֹבְאֵל (Ya’aqov’el) meaning “may God protect”.

And several other on-line dictionaries define those with the name of Jacob as:
very kind hearted
a fighter and a lover
bold
never scared of anybody
and loves loves loves sports!

If we were to add to these definitions we would simply say:

the one most suited to love & care for our daughter,

a heart large enough to love not only her but her entire family unconditionally,

an infectious laugh,

and the biggest Pittsburgh Panther fan we know!

hugs n’ blessings to our favorite Pitt Panther fanatic and to all the fans celebrating the start of another College Football Season!

God Bless Our Love.

Published on August 23, 2016November 30, 2016 by Dawn Marie10 Comments

(Music by: John Lennon)

_MG_2573 - Version 3 — Grow old along with me
The best is yet to be
When our time has come
We will be as one
God bless our love
God bless our love

I searched all the

dictionaries to find

the meaning of life

but I found nothing.

But when we got

married and I looked

into your eyes, I

found everything.

_MG_2573 - Version 4 — *Spending our lives together*
*Man and wife together*
*World without end*
*World without end*

To my wonderful husband…

Who has shown me

what love really is.

Who is the reason for my happy days

& the comfort in my sad ones.

Who cheers my successes

& comforts me in my failures.

I am so proud to be your wife.

And…I LOVE YOU.

_MG_2554 - Version 2 — Grow old along with me
Whatever fate decrees
We will see it through
For our love is true
God bless our love
God bless our love

these 30 (anniversary) hugs n’ blessings are just for you!

forever and always…

(Photos taken by Jared Don at Maynard Vineyards in Northeast, Pa!)

joyful mother!

Published on August 15, 2016August 15, 2016 by Dawn Marie6 Comments

it’s the monday giggles…

and what joyful ones they are!

“Only if God is great is humankind also great. With Mary, we must begin to understand that this is so. We must not drift away from God but make God present; we must ensure that he is great in our lives. Thus, we too will become divine; all the splendour of the divine dignity will then be ours. Let us apply this to our own lives.

Thus, Mary speaks with us, speaks to us, invites us to know the Word of God, to love the Word of God, to live with the Word of God, to think with the Word of God. And we can do so in many different ways: by reading Sacred Scripture, by participating especially in the Liturgy, in which Holy Church throughout the year opens the entire book of Sacred Scripture to us. She opens it to our lives and makes it present in our lives.

The Assumption of Mary, Photo courtesy of Pinterest

Mary is taken up body and soul into the glory of Heaven, and with God and in God she is Queen of Heaven and earth. And is she really so remote from us?

While she lived on this earth she could only be close to a few people. Being in God, who is close to us, actually, “within” all of us, Mary shares in this closeness of God. Being in God and with God, she is close to each one of us, knows our hearts, can hear our prayers, can help us with her motherly kindness and has been given to us, as the Lord said, precisely as a “mother” to whom we can turn at every moment.

She always listens to us, she is always close to us, and being Mother of the Son, participates in the power of the Son and in his goodness. We can always entrust the whole of our lives to this Mother, who is not far from any one of us.

On this feast day, let us thank the Lord for the gift of the Mother, and let us pray to Mary to help us find the right path every day. Amen.”

MASS ON THE SOLEMNITY OF THE ASSUMPTION
OF THE BLESSED VIRGIN MARY

HOMILY OF HIS HOLINESS BENEDICT XVI

Parish Church of Castel Gandolfo
Monday, 15 August 2005

“We never give more honour to Jesus than when we honour his Mother, and we honour her simply and solely to honour him all the more perfectly. We go to her only as a way leading to the goal we seek – Jesus, her Son.”
–Saint Louis Marie de Montfort

“Never be afraid of loving the Blessed Virgin too much. You can never love her more than Jesus did.”
–Saint Maximilian Kolbe