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Birthday Thoughts
Thinking of my dad on the anniversary of his birth
What Is A Dad?
A dad is someone who
wants to catch you before you fall
but instead picks you up,
brushes you off,
and lets you try again.
A dad is someone who
wants to keep you from making mistakes
but instead lets you find your own way,
even though his heart [...]
4 Comments CherryPie on Jul 15th 2015
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A Fresh Start
After my fresh start after Easter I have been making slow but steady progress in losing my excess baggage. My Belgian holiday put a small blip in my weight loss but I was back on track with a downward trend the following week. One of the lovely ladies made this heart plaque which is bound [...]
15 Comments CherryPie on Jul 7th 2015
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A Week of Surprises
On Saturday we took my Mum out to choose some wallpaper and ended up with a television and a cordless vacuum cleaner but no wallpaper. We were unable to find the required wallpaper book and the wallpaper expert wasn’t in so we left the details so she could hunt it down on her return to [...]
6 Comments CherryPie on Jul 6th 2015
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Cherie’s Place – Thought for the Week
All that is sweet, delightful, and amiable in this world, in the serenity of the air, the fineness of seasons, the joy of light, the melody of sounds, the beauty of colors, the fragrancy of smells, the splendor of precious stones, is nothing else but Heaven breaking through the veil of this world, manifesting itself [...]
6 Comments CherryPie on Jun 7th 2015
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With Love…
…from Me to You xx
Friendship Hearts: At the end of their working day the Glass Blowers would use up the molten glass by blowing these small ornamental hearts to be given as tokens of friendship on special occasions. This ancient tradition is carried on today.
19 Comments CherryPie on Feb 14th 2015
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Happiness Jars – Update
I must have blinked… January has been and gone and I hardly noticed it. That means it is one month since I started writing down my ‘Happiness Moments’ of the day. I have stayed on track and placed at least one thought in there each day.
When I look at the box it makes me smile [...]
18 Comments CherryPie on Feb 2nd 2015
