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Boxed up Giggles!

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it’s the monday giggles….

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And we’ve so greatly enjoyed all the giggles shared, as we have prepared to host YOU!

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Two special ‘gigglers’ busy preparing Hotel Hospitality Boxes!

We are meant to show loving-kindness not only to people we know, but to strangers as well.

We are to be there for the cares and needs of others and always put out a helping hand.

Is hospitality fading?

I think not!

Just like many people welcomed Jesus in their homes with open arms, we should do the same! When we serve others we are serving Christ.

Hospitality is when someone feels at Home in your presence.

Hospitality isn’t about your house, it’s about your heart!

And we are so very grateful to be sharing our hearts with many throughout the duration of this Special Occassion!

We cannot wait until you discover what we have in store for you!!

Let brotherly love continue, Do not neglect to show hospitality to strangers, for thereby some have entertained angels unawares.

-Hebrews 13:1-2

Uh, oh.

“Helen, what’s the matter????”

(Giggle. Giggle.)

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Please don’t be sad there are no cookies in the box!

I promise we’ll talk about the cookies tomorrow!!

hugs n’ blessings to all those spreading hospitality around the world!

(With or without a cookie!)

 

 

itsy-bitsy-spider.

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it’s the monday giggles…

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Why does this always happens to me when I’m outside raking?!?Photo courtesy of Pinterest

(Fingers-crossed) Spring sprung this Weekend in our NW area of Pa!

And in my local neighborhood…

kids were outside playing until way past dusk,

people of ALL ages were seen bike riding,

every breed of dog could be found being walked,

and Cuppycake raked the yard!

(Yep, it’s official…the rake is out.)

I wish I’d have taken a picture of He and Helen out there together…

Cuppycake would rake a pile of fallen sticks & Helen would carry the pile, stick by stick,  back out into the yard to be scattered once again.

(As you might imagine Helen & I were the only two who thought it was adorable.)

Yard work is a serious order of business in our household.  Every member of our family owned their own personal rake while living at True North.  Most kids around the age of 3 or 4 get a red-rider wagon in the fall…ours received toddler sized rakes instead.

We had them in every size & width. Flat edged, scooped, tightly tined to loosely fitted, (which always had a nice bounce as it scraped across the ground surface I might add.) I never knew they made rakes in so many different materials either until I met Cuppycake.  Metal, plastic, willow, & bamboo to name just a few.  And every year, without fail, he’d arrive home from a hardware store visit with “the Best Rake ever invented.” Guarnateed to cut yard-work in half (for all of us…)

Things have improved, mind you, since our move to North Star…we have downsized to 3 hand-chosen rakes which remain.  But not to worry, Cuppycake makes certain the matter is still handled with authority & laser-beam focus.  You can always be assured that at the end of the day’s task there will not only be neatly raked, all in a row, perfectly-proportional in every way piles, BUT there will also be another compiled list of 3 more (until recently unthought of) NEW projects to complete this summer as a result!

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This year it looks like concrete will be involved.

I think I need to begin training Helen to carry the rake away instead….

hugs n’ blessings to all the idea makers out there!

(And those who contend with them all!)

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bUBBLY smiles!

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it’s the monday giggles….

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“Create in me a clean heart, O God, and put a new and right spirit within me.”  Psalm 51:10

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Our youngest son celebrated a birthday recently.

And both Cuppycake & I were so very grateful he invited us to share this special day with him.

(At least we were invited to parts of it!)

Whenever we are together there are so many smiles to go around it is like a bathtub filled with bubbles!  And always one must check themselves at the end of the night to remember & take their smile off at the departure door.  I’ve caught myself, on occassion, wearing the same smile hours after we’ve left him!  (Removing a frozen smile can be a painful experience, although who can complain?)

I decided however, this time as we said our good-byes, to leave the smile in place for the  Monday giggles which were just around the corner!

So today I dedicate these special giggles to my tender-hearted-little-boy-now-turned-creative-young-adult-man and thank him for all the smiles he so generously provides to all whom he meets!

My dear son,

in honor of the bubbles you chase & those you create…

I feel so blessed God gifted you to our family!

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Never sing in the bath!  Singing leads to dancing.  Dancing leads to slipping. Slipping leads to falling.  Falling leads to Paramedics coming and seeing you have no dance-moves. So, don’t sing in the bath!

 

The following bath bomb products were created by our son & his business partner, who recently started providing these lovely products to others through their company,

“this is BOMB!” 

(You may find these and other soothing bath products at their website!)

I promise using or gifting  them will definitely make you smile!

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hugs n’ bubbly blessings covered in smiles!

“let us draw near with a true heart in full assurance of faith, with our hearts sprinkled clean…and our bodies washed with pure water.”  Hebrews 10:22