Blue Ball jars

These are the jars I told you about! The lighting is not good, as you see it was 603 am, so maybe it was camera operator trouble!

Guess who got asked out on a 2nd date

ME!!!!! It's the guy from the Friday before Valentine's. He seems like a nice guy. He went thru a bad divorce and is gun shy but I think at least I have made a good friend...time will tell...God is so good at least I am not so lonely now!

Thank you Rechelle!!

I received an Award from Rechelle at http://walnuthavencottage.blogspot.com/

that is an awesome award and I am forever grateful!! I loooooove shoes! And this shoe is so cute!!

I was suppose to pass this on so here goes...

Deb (when she is well enough) http://garagesalegal.blogspot.com/2009/02/not-feeling-so-good.html

Tootsie(when she gets out of the garden)http://tootsietime.blogspot.com/

Jeannette (when she is taking a break from making her home beautiful)http://sincerelyyoursjeannette.blogspot.com/

Roberta Anne (when she is taking a break from being so sweet!) http://booposo.blogspot.com/

Please visit these wonderful ladies!!

Okay believe this or not, LOL batteries are dead again in camera!!! AND I found NO cast iron frying pans (gasp!)

I did find 3 of the blue Mason jars I have been hunting for!! They are so cute, I will post a picture as soon as I get more batteries. We need to invest in battery stock as much as I go thru them!! I am not to upset about the cast iron, I will find some eventually when it warms up here!! Have a fabulous day!

Have a wonderful weekend!

Hello fellow bloggers! It is finally Friday!! I hope it will be nice enough to find a treasure or two tomorrow! I am looking for cast iron frying pans so wish me luck!
See ya Monday! God Bless you all!
Love Lilly

This is the day the Lord has made!

Sometimes I feel like these birds...just sitting waiting for the next thing but it is not always about feelings...it is about Faith. The substance of things hoped for and not yet seen.
I love the Lord and I trust Him with all of my heart and I believe that all things work for the good of those that love Him.This country has gotten itself into a terrible situation, the news is so bad I don't even want to listen to the t.v. but all I can do is pray. I know God will take care of His children.

I appreciate all of my blogging friends and ask God's many blessings on all of you. Have a wonderful day!!
Love Lilly

Pretty roses from my date Friday night!!!

My son got me these gifts for Valentine's Day.

Look at this cutie!

Sweet card...made me cry!!

Tagged!!

I was tagged by "Little House in the desert" http://booposo.blogspot.com/ and I am supposed to reveal 7 secrets about myself...let's see...

1. I am a romantic
2.I love flowers, Dahlia amaze me and Roses make me smile!
3. I have a heart for helping others . I love God's people, my church feels like my 2nd home.
4.I don't like Ophra. I pray for her but don't watch her.
5. I love to bake and cook
6. I want to write 2 books one day. One recipe book and one Christian encouragement book
7.My little house is clean but my car is always a mess. I am so ashamed!!! Maybe this self exposure will shame me into getting better!
8. I hate imposing on people...
Oh my! I gave one too many see I can't keep a secret LOL
If you want to play this tag let me know...tag you are it!!!

I do not

know who to give credit to for this picture but she looks like I feel right now!
I have deleted this post in hopes of...well you know...just hope LOL

Happy Valentine's Day!!!

My prayer is that all of you have a wonderful Valentine's Day filled with kind words, beautiful memories and lots of goodies!
Love Lilly!!


p.s. fyi: I had such a good time on the date!!Perfect gentleman!! Cross your fingers and toes he will call again and again. I liked him (He brought beautiful roses!!!) We laughed and talked and enjoyed the company!! Dinner was good and I really enjoyed myself! If he doesn't call then I know that is the good Lord's way of taking care of me...but between us girls...I hope he calls ;)

A tribute to Beverly Eckert/Reunited with Sean

WASHINGTON – One of the victims of the Buffalo commuter plane crash, Beverly Eckert, was a Sept. 11 widow who put her never-ending grief to good use to make the country safer.
President Barack Obama, speaking in the White House's East Room, said Eckert "was an inspiration to me and to so many others, and I pray that her family finds peace and comfort in the hard days ahead."
A week before her death, Eckert met with Obama at the White House as part of a group of 9/11 families and relatives of those killed in the bombing of the USS Cole, discussing how the new administration would handle terror suspects.
Eckert was flying to Buffalo Thursday night to celebrate what would have been her husband Sean Rooney's 58th birthday.
When he died in the World Trade Center, she became one of the most visible, tearful faces in the aftermath of the terror attacks.

She carried that grief to Congress as she tried to make the government do a better job protecting its citizens from terrorism.
Her husband worked at Aon Corp., a risk management firm, at the 98th floor of the south tower.
Eckert would cry when she told the story about how her husband — who was her high school sweetheart — called her on the morning of the attacks, and told her he loved her just before there was a loud explosion and nothing more.
She became part of a small group of Sept. 11 widows, mothers, and children who became amateur lobbyists, ultimately forcing lawmakers in 2004 to pass sweeping reforms of the U.S. intelligence apparatus.
They spent months walking the halls of Congress. All of the women were grieving, but Eckert seemed unable or uninterested in holding back her tears.
When it was over and they'd won passage of the intelligence reform law, Eckert vowed to quit her high-profile role "cold turkey." All she wanted, she said, was to go home, buy groceries, and return to something like a regular life.
"I did all of this for Sean's memory, I did it for him," she said, crying again. "There is a euphoria in knowing that we reached the top of the hill. ... I just wanted Sean to come home from work. Maybe now, someone else's Sean will get to come home."
Eckert was flying to her hometown Thursday night when the plane crashed on approach to the Buffalo airport.
After the 2001 attacks, she co-chaired the 9/11 Family Steering Committee, a group of activists devoted to exposing government failures that led up to the 2001 attacks, and fixing them.
She pushed for a 9/11 Commission. She pushed the Bush administration to provide more information to the commission. And when the commission's work was over, she pushed Congress to adopt their recommendations.
For Eckert, the public role was not easy.
One night after a long day at Congress, she found herself in the New York City train station, without a connecting train to her home in Stamford, Connecticut.
"We slept in the train station. We had no place else to go. That's when you look at yourself and say, 'What am I doing? How can we possibly get this done?'."
As Congress hemmed and hawed, Eckert vowed to sleep there, too, if it would get the law passed.
After the law passed, Eckert turned her energies to Habitat for Humanity, helping build homes for low-income families.
"I'm in shock, I just can't believe it," said Carie Lemack, whose mother died Sept. 11 on one of the hijacked planes. "Beverly had a can-do attitude about everything, and she never gave up."