A Southern Life: my take on traditions, food, sights and more.
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Southern Tour of Christmas Lights
I love going out in the cold December nights to drive around and look at Christmas lights. Here are a few pics I snapped this past week: When we got home from checking out the lights it was such a clear and beautiful night that I decided to get a picture of the stars. After…
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Southern Christmas Tree
Oh, Christmas Tree Oh, Christmas Tree How lovely are thy branches For unto us a child is born, unto us a son is given: and the government shall be upon his shoulder: and his name shall be called Wonderful, Counsellor, The mighty God, The everlasting Father, The Prince of Peace. Merry Christmas to all! Check…
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Southern Christmas Goodies
I’ve been really busy this weekend. I’ve turned this: Into this: Now, we can enjoy time with our family with the goodies and their wonderful loving company. What could be better than that? I’ll be posting Christmas things all week. Hope you’ll come back! Merry Christmas!!! Today’s Lagniappe: Broccoli Gratin After all those sweets, I…
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Southern Merry Christmas
Join Chari at Happy to Design for Sunday favorites and Charlotte and Ginger at Blogger Spirit for Spiritual Sunday and enjoy your Sunday From Christmas Day, December 25, 2008: Luke 2:11 For unto you is born this day in the city of David a Savior, which is Christ the Lord. I am grateful for the…
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Southern Memories
A Christmas memory for Pink Saturday at How Sweet the Sound! The house I grew up in as a young child was near our local college. Every year around Christmas, the college put up a display with a large string of lights in the shape of a Christmas tree and on top of one of…
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Southern Fun in the Kitchen
Let’s have some fun in the kitchen for Foodie Friday at Designs by Gollum and a first for me with Show and Tell Friday with My Romantic Home. Some of the best recipes I have found come on the label of the package for one of the ingredients. I love the chocolate chip cookie recipe…
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Southern Blogversary!
Wow, Thursday, December 17th is my 1 year blogversary. One year ago, I had never heard the term blogversary! A little over a year ago, I had been thinking that I would like to have a blog. I had taught etiquette courses and I collect etiquette books and cookbooks and have a pretty good collection…
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Southern Christmas Visits
et’s do a little more visiting tonight with some of the family and see what kind of Christmas decorations they’ve got going on. First, we’ll check out an outside picture from Mama’s house. Verry pretty! Let’s go inside and have a look at their tree: Oh, and are those nutcrackers up on the shelf? Hmmm,…
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Southern Christmas Cookies
I love Christmas cookies and candy. They are fun to make and even more fun to eat. We can worry about the pounds in January! These are a couple of my favorite cookbooks for Christmas treats. Peppermint Meringues 2 egg whites 1/2 teaspoon peppermint extract 1/2 cup sugar 6 drops red food coloring (optional) 1…
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More Southern Christmas
In 9 days it will be Christmas! Can you believe it? I can’t. We have plenty of decorations around here, but, alas, no large tree. We love the large trees but we just have a little one this year. We love to visit with family that have decorations! Here is some more from Mama: It’s…
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Southern Reflections
Join Chari at Happy to Design for Sunday favorites and Charlotte and Ginger at Blogger Spirit for Spiritual Sunday and enjoy your Sunday This post is from December 29th of last year. At that time, I had recently lost my job. Something that I had never had to deal with before. It turns out, it…
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Southern Furry Friends
Today, for Pink Saturday, I want to show you a couple of special Christmas Stockings in our home. There are no children in our home, but we still hang stockings, and, we fill them. One of my favorite stocking stuffers was from my husband. The year had been pretty lean and we really didn’t have…
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Southern Home Tour
It is so much fun to see all the Christmas decorations. In the store windows, on the street, and in the homes of people we love as well as our own homes. When the days are short, it certainly brightens up not only the landscape, but our moods as well (at least mine)! It is…
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Southern Party at the Mansion
What mansion would that be? The Palace on the Prairie, the Marland Mansion in Ponca City Oklahoma. My mother and her husband, Chester hosted a party for all the church staff in the Kay Baptist Association at the Marland Mansion this week. Chester is the Director of Missions for the association. They have had this…
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Southern Holiday
What a fun week this has been. Seeing how everyone is celebrating Christmas! Something short and sweet (and spicy) tonight. Here is what is going on outside! I have more shots to share but, I’m trying to space them out this month. I’ll probably end up at the end of the month with dozens I…