Sepia Saturday

Betsy requested I participate in Sepia Saturday, so here goes.....
I hope you like these photos as much as I do


This is Charley and Fay, my grandparents, in 1949, on their anniversary.
Grandma does look really young to of been married for 33 years, the women in our family all got that young-looking gene, and since Grandma got married when she was just 16, she does look great.
Grandpa was 24 when they got married.

This is Tom and Carrie, my great uncle and aunt. Aunt Carrie and my grandma were sisters.
Both families were farmers and lived in Breckinridge Oklahoma most all of their lives.

I think this note from the back of this photo explains the occasion. Is this sweet or what?

Pillsbury Orange Sweet Rolls Giveaway

BlogSpark and Pillsbury have asked me to host a giveaway for them. The winner will receive a VIP pack for Pillsbury Orange Sweet Rolls. Pillsbury says family breakfasts are a great time to make good famiy memories. So, they will also give the winner a photo album to store their photos in, to remind them of happy memories.
Pillsbury is looking for pictures of families enjoying breakfast together, so if you post a family picture on your blog, be sure to tell me about it in the comment so Pillsbury and Blogspark will know too.

I've always served breakfast to my family - they especially liked pancakes, waffles, coffeecake, biscuits with gravy, eggs in a basket and Dutch babies.


Here are some vintage pictures of my children and some children I cared for enjoying breakfast - approximately 1990.



To enter, just leave a comment with your favorite breakfast - I'll draw a winner Monday, Feb. 8.

click here to print a 95 cent coupon on Pillsbury orange cinnamon rolls

USMC humor

unless you know a Marine, you won't get the humor in this - but since I know several Marines really well, it made me laugh out loud

Hello again! I'm fine....

and thank you to everyone who has left comments and sent emails asking about my whereabouts and/or health. I am fine, just busy with stuff and circumstances.
Hopefully I will be back blogging on a more regular basis now.

I stopped blogging at first because our desktop computer had a bug, my pictures are all on it, and what is a blogpost without some pictures? It took more than a week and Jeff has since fixed it.

I've also been spending most weekdays with GS Gavin while his mommy is teaching. He is a doll and I love him dearly but he prefers me to play with him when he awake and hold him while he sleeps instead of blogging. Gavin likes to crawl into and then just sit in my bottom kitchen drawer. His bottles and dishes were already in this drawer before he claimed it as his playspace.



My sweet Aunt Evelyn passed away last week. She was just 10 days short of her 88th birthday. She was my mother's sister and a wonderful mother, wife, aunt, grandmother, woman. She will be missed by all of us.



Aunt Evelyn was a wonderful cook and I think this photo of her with a meal she cooked and served is a perfect memory. Aunt Evelyn is on the left. The man in all the pictures is her husband, Uncle Jarvis. They got married right at the end of WWII.
He passed away 5 years ago.

staying busy on these cold days

I don't enjoy being outside on these very cold days so I've been finding things at home to keep me busy.

Using up supplies I already had, including this vintage rick rack, some plain tea towels and fabric print made by Debbie Mumm years ago.......

I added decorations to these towels and have 7 new kitchen towels.

We've worked one jig-saw puzzle - it really enjoyable too

and have 2 more to put together.

and I cleaned under the hall bathroom sink, put down some wallpaper to line the shelf and added a new toilet brush - not an especially fun job but one that needs done every so often.


Are you staying busy at home or are you just out in this cold weather not letting it bother you?