Sept Sunday Smiles

Happy September Hello

My first smile today is for my blog friend, Buttercup.

She recently had the same surgery that I had in July. Her doctors, like mine, feared that she had ovarian cancer. She has come through the surgery successfully and blessedly, her tumors, like mine, were benign. Her blog is called “Buttercup counts her blessings” ….  she is…counting her blessings and so am I.

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I really can’t believe it is Sept. School has started. It is almost Fall.

Fall birthdays make me smile .

I have 8 family members and several friends who have birthdays in Fall. I look forward to celebrating their lives. I will share them with you as they occur.

Decorating for fall makes me smile.

. I have boxes and boxes of Fall decorations….almost as many as my Christmas decorations. (Much to John’s dismay.)

I may not be up to getting them all out this year… but then… maybe I will.  I still can’t do much with my left arm but it might be good therapy for me to try.  Perhaps the joy of decorating will help me overlook the pain of moving that arm. That would make me smile.

I  will share those smiles with you at a later date. Today I want to share my

Tea Party with Claire Smiles

Claire came over to spend a couple of nights with us. I started out her day with breakfast in bed. She woke up with smiles. After eating, we hurried into the kitchen to start making goodies for our up coming tea party.

Having a tea party is one of our traditions when she comes to visit. We were especially excited this time because we got to use the “Tea party in a box” gifts that Marie had sent us from England. We started out by making and glazing lemon rosette cakes in the little molds Marie sent.

We also made a cinnamon crumb cake and Teacup cakes in the Teacup molds Jan gave me.

I decided it was the perfect time to teach Claire how to do some cake decorating. After a little practice, she did a great job decorating the cupcakes.

Making the goodies took all morning… so…. since it was lunch time …

We decided to add heart shaped egg salad sandwiches and fresh fruit to our tea party menu.

Just as we were setting the table with our finest tea party dishes, including the pretty blue teacup Marie sent me,  my neighbor, Ginger dropped by to see how I was doing. We invited her to stay and share our tea party with us.

We were full of smiles as we ate our goodies and drank our herbal tea.

Ginger asked if I was really feeling well enough to go to the work of making a tea party.  I guess I wasn’t …my face was flushed and I was hurting quite a bit by the time we finished…..but it was so much fun!  I was glad we did it. I can lie in bed any day…. Making a tea party with my granddaughter was special… and worth every minute of the time and effort it took.

My heart was full of smiles.

I hope that you are smiling too. Please tell me about your week.

I am sending my hugs and very best wishes to you.

Have a great week.