We Have A Winner: Sense and Sensibility Giveaway....Drumroll Please!

Jennie over at Sense and Sensibility has graciously offered up a wonderful give-away for my readers, one Sense and Sensibility E-Pattern. She has a wonderful site that offers georgious historical patterns. But wait that's not the best part. She now offers these patterns as a download. Isn't that amazing. The patterns are beautiful and are from different time periods.

To see the original post of the giveaway go here
Thank you so much for all who entered this giveaway.
Now for the winner:
The envelope please...................Sue D
Sue, I will pop you an email, you'll need to contact me with in 72 hours...if not we draw again.

Be sure to check back with Sense and Sensibility for your pattern needs and bookmark this site for the future...Tell all your friends too.

Thankful Thursday: Mercy and Grace

I am thankful first of all for this meme...It really helps me to focus on what I am thankful for on a regular basis and is very encouraging.

I am so thankful for "GRACE" and "MERCY" that God gives me on a daily basis. I am so undeserving. I think of what the Apostle Paul says: The things he should do, he does not and the things he should not do, he does....But God Loves Us anyway. With his grace and mercy we can come to his throne and ask for forgiveness and He will forgive.

I am thankful for the knowledge that when I pray for God's protection on my family...God will provide.

I am thankful for miracles! You can see more of one specific miracle here. You will be blessed.

I am also thankful that my daughters and I have the opportunity to go on a missions trip to mexico. You can read more about this here.

God Bless and Have a wonderful week ladies.
Lynne

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Works for Me Wednesday:Excercizing is Good!

In thinking of what I could post about that works for me....I can tell you that I used to be close to 40 lbs heavier...I felt not so good all the time...tired and yuck.

The first step the worked for me in a great way and is still working for me is Weight Watchers...This is a wonderful program. I posted previously on works for me Wednesday on Weight watchers...You can see that post plus another one with helpful links here.

I droped 35 lbs and felt so much better. I basically lost the weight by diet...which was good. I did some exercising but not really.

Then several years ago my daughters and I joined Curves. This got us going on a routine to excercising. We liked it and were members for 2 years.

Then we wanted some change and we joined our local YMCA. This has been so awesome. We can excercise in so many ways, change up what we do. I feel better and have so much more energy than I used to . It has been so awesome. The first years I paid with the membership with money I made in a side venture breeding German Shepherd Dogs. After that we realized it need to be part of the budget.

Excercise works for me...You don't need to attend a gym to get excercize but it helps in our case because all three of us can get a workout in at the same time and we love it.

If you don't have an excercize program....start one....do it regular, and find someone you can do it with...maybe not together but report to. Good Luck!