Jeanne's Bliss Blog

Wednesday, March 10, 2010

Jennifer"s Joys


Our front door decorated for Springs Arrival

next when pansies are out for sale I will have a pot on our front porch.
Have I ever mentioned how much I love spring?

Daylight savings time begins March 14th




My little friend Billie Bird who lived at the Nursing home where Grandma lives
He died this winter and now sings eternally in Heaven for me.
Free to fly and sing in Heaven all day long.
Sweet little bird I hear you singing to my soul.


Today's Jennifers Joys
From my sweet friend Jennifer in Nova Scotia

"A star's mighty good company."

-Our Town

Much Love Jennifer

What my sweet friend Jennifer shared with me today.

We area penpals and both love the fabric of social networking with regular mail as well as our emails.

I love you my sweet friend Jennifer.

May Angels carry your prayers on their wings.

Jennifer and I have each been watching to see who can spot the first spring robin.
We shall let you know♥

To my sweet friend Jennifer:

A Friend:

A friend is one to whom one may pour out all the contents of one's heart, chaff and
grain together, knowing that teh gentlest of hands will take it and sift it,
keep what is worth keeping, and with a breath of kindness, blow the rest away.

~Arabian Proverb♥

Tuesday, March 09, 2010

Spring Fling



A photograph I took last spring of freshly bloomed poppies in a farm house
very close to our home here in Lakeshore

I love Spring




Flowers in New Zealand
This photograph courtesy of Ahram and Justin
Thank you for sharing♥


Heaven is under our feet as well as over our heads"
~ Henry David Thoreau


What a desolate place would be a world without flowers. It would be
a face without a smile, a feast without a welcome.
Are not flowers the stars of the earth?
And are not our stars the flowers of heaven?"
~ Clara Balfour

Surely the flowers of a hundred springs
Are simply the souls of beautiful things!"
~ Lucy Maud Montgomery

My Sweet Friend Victoria is back to blogging.
If you can visit her that would be great.


I love you my friend



May God grant you always
A sunbeam to warm you,
A moonbeam to charm you,
A sheltering angel, so nothing can harm you.

- An Irish saying

Monday, March 08, 2010

Ooooooh Baby



Thanks Melinda for the link


Babies are bits of stardust hand blown from God's own hands♥

What are your favorite baby books?

Spring Fever


Spring Fever

I cannot tell you how happy I am to welcome Spring in 14 days♥

Spring a time for flower power♥

Bella Pilar Card
I love them all so much♥

Sunday, March 07, 2010

Listen do you want to know a Secret?


Ahram and Justin


My two January Calendar girls
My beautiful cousin Wendy and my beloved Grandmother



Family faces are magic mirrors to be and seeing them and being around them
It is no secret these are my happiest moments in life to share love
with those I love♥



Post Secret thanks to Lance




Listen do you want to know a secret?

The Beatles


The Secret



Nocturne from the Secret Garden


What is your secret to life?

A Prayer in Spring

Oh, give us pleasure in the flowers in the flowers today; And give us not to think so far away As the uncertain harvest; keep us here All simply in the springing of the year. Oh, give us pleasure in the orchard white, Like nothing else by day, like ghosts by night; And make us happy in the happy bees, The swarm dilati...ng round the perfect trees."

~Robert Frost

A Prayer in Spring

Saturday, March 06, 2010

Jennifer I love you


Beautiful Ahram in New Zealand




Sharing a picture of my beautiful future daughter in law with you
While she was in New Zealand
She makes me very very happy♥

and you do too Jennifer.

Celebrate you and surround yourself with people that do♥



Jennifer Juniper by Donovan


Thank you my sweet friend Jennifer for your envelope of love
that arrived yesterday.
Each was deeply touching to my heart,
your letters hand made origami items and poems and all things selected with so much love.

I love the social fabric of hand written letters and greeting cards and sentiments
of love in the mail♥

You made my day
I send you much love and many smiles on this Saturday March 6th.
Love you my lovely♥


In daily life we must see that it is not happiness that makes us grateful, but gratefulness that makes us happy."
- David Steindl-Rast


Love never gives up
Love cares more for others than for self.
Love doesn't want what it doesn't have.
Love doesn't strut,
Doesn't have a swelled head,
Doesn't force itself on others,
Isn't always "me first,"
Doesn't fly off the handle,
Doesn't keep score of the sins of others,
Doesn't revel when others grovel,
Takes pleasure in the flowering of truth,
Puts up with anything,
Trusts God always,
Always looks for the best,
Never looks back,
But keeps going to the end."
1 Cor.13:4-7

Friday, March 05, 2010

Glitz and Glamor of March



A Fuji Mum on the table♥



Flowers in New Zealand

Thank you Ahram and Justin for sharing all your photographs
but most of all your hearts and love
We all love each other so well.
We are blessed♥







Ahram and Justin Put on their Penguin Faces in New Zealand♥





Ahram loves Penguins
These photograph are so precious indeed♥

"You know you're in love when you can't fall asleep,
because reality is finally better than your dreams"

~Dr. Seuss♥




March bustles in on windy feet, and sweeps my doorstep and my street. She washes and cleans with pounding rains, scrubbing the earth of winter stains. She shakes the grime from carpet green till naught but fresh new blades are seen. Then, house in order, all neat as a pin, she ushers gentle springtime in." ~Susan Reiner, Spring Cleaning
Thanks Dani~



Oscars



Audrey Hephurn

Famous Hollywood actress Audrey Hepburn was an iconic beauty of the sixties. She won the Academy Award for her role in Roman Holiday.

•I was born with an enormous need for affection, and a terrible need to give it.


•Remember, if you ever need a helping hand, it's at the end of your arm, as you get older, remember you have another hand: The first is to help yourself, the second is to help others.


•People, even more than things, have to be restored, renewed, revived, reclaimed, and redeemed; never throw out anyone.


•Success is like reaching an important birthday and finding you're exactly the same.
All quotes by Audrey Hephurn

My Next book I plan to read
Thanks Marilyn I love you ♥

Ask almost any woman about her first best friend, and you will most likely experience a moment of silence, then a burst of memories of what her childhood was like. Whispering and giggling, hand in hand, young girlfriends entertain, comfort, enlighten, and shape each other at a precious time when their self-images are just being formed.

In My First Best Friend Nancy Lindemeyer, the founding editor of Victoria magazine, gathers thirty intimate and touching stories of these early friendships. Whether the girlhood bonds survived into adulthood or dissolved because of unbridgeable separations, each story reminds us that however far we travel in life, we remain close to the roots of our childhood. As readers get to know the subjects of these stories—women of all ages, from all over the United States—they will inevitably be carried back to their own youth and recall the freshness of that once-in-a-lifetime first friendship
About the Author
Nancy Lindemeyer was the founding editor of Victoria magazine. A career journalist, writer, and editor, Lindemeyer began her career at American Heritage and was at Better Homes and Gardens before launching Victoria. She lives in Ames, Iowa, and Ardsley-on-Hudson, New York.


In the car
CD Playing
Soldier of Love by Sade♥

The Glitz the Glamor the Academy Awards



From my beautiful friends Blog

I love you Hurry back♥




Famous Hollywood actress Audrey Hepburn was an iconic beauty of the sixties. She won the Academy Award for her role in Roman Holiday

•People, even more than things, have to be restored, renewed, revived, reclaimed, and redeemed; never throw out anyone.


•Success is like reaching an important birthday and finding you're exactly the same.


Above Quotes by Audrey Hephurn



Quote below by Billy Cyrstal

Billy Crystal, 76th Academy Awards

The Passion of the Christ opened up on Ash Wednesday, had a Good Friday.

I love watching the Academy Awards

Thursday, March 04, 2010

March






Photographs of Ahram and Justin
and some of mine as well for the montage

Sheep on the road in New Zealand (above)
Thank you both for sharing everything with me
especially your hearts and love♥

Today is a day of bright beautiful beginnings so
MARCH 4th♥





My precious Grandmother taken on our back porch on Campbell Avenue
The Home I grew up in

I had a lovely visit with her yesterday and she had on a lavender dress♥




It is the first mild day of March.
Each minute sweeter than before.
There is a blessing in the air.
William Wordsworth

March arrives the last hurrah of winter and the first whisper of Spring.
Slowly our spirits awaken, along with the natural world, from a long winters slumber.
Branches that just days ago were bare, now blossom with new growth. Deep within we feel stirrings of hope. Turn over the earth in the inner garden. This month we plant seeds of simplicity into the fertile soils of our souls.

Excerpt from the book
Simple Abundance
by Sarah Ban Breathnach




En Istenem Jo Istenem Leesudodik mar a szemen De a Tied mindig nyitva Vigyazz a kis Mire a nap ujra felket
Csokolhassuk egymast reggel
Amen
Prayer in Hungarian
In English it Translates to

My God My Good God. My eyes are closing, but yours are always open.
Watch over all of my beloveds. When the sun rises again may we kiss each other,
May we bless each other.
Amen

As sent to me by my Sister Debbie♥

Let your light shine
Be a source of strength and courage
Share your wisdom
Radiate love♥
Wilfred Peterson