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November 30, 2008

What Child Is This?

What Child Is This?
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This hymn was written in 1865 by William Chatterton Dix.  Dix almost died from an illness, and was bedridden for many long months.  During this time, Dix experienced a deep depression.  He survived these trials to write this and many hymns.  This song was later set to the melody of "Greensleeves".

What Child is this who, laid to rest
On Mary's lap is sleeping?
Whom Angels greet with anthems sweet,
While shepherds watch are keeping?
[CHORUS]  

This, this is Christ the King,
Whom shepherds guard and Angels sing;
Haste, haste, to bring Him laud,
The Babe, the Son of Mary.


Why lies He in such mean estate,
Where ox and ass are feeding?
Good Christians, fear, for sinners here
The silent Word is pleading.
[CHORUS]

Nails, spear shall pierce Him through,
The cross be borne for me, for you.
Hail, hail the Word made flesh,
The Babe, the Son of Mary.
[CHORUS]

So bring Him incense, gold and myrrh,
Come peasant, king to own Him;
The King of kings salvation brings,
Let loving hearts enthrone Him.
[CHORUS]

Raise, raise a song on high,
The virgin sings her lullaby.
Joy, joy for Christ is born,
The Babe, the Son of Mary.

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November 29, 2008

Pink Saturday - November 29

My pink contribution for this Pink Saturday are these three little Santas dressed in pink.  I am in the process of decorating for Christmas, and these are in our half-bath.  I am a traditionalist when it comes to decorating colors for Christmas - red and green.  But, this bath is white with wine and touches of pink ... so we had to put in a few Santas to match.

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This week we have one hundred (100) participants in Pink Saturday.  Wow!!!  It seems that so many of us have fun with the color pink.  I hope you are all enjoying this as much as I am.

Please take the time to visit the other participants, and leave them a comment to let them know you stopped by to enjoy their pink.  Pink Saturday is about having fun, and giving us a chance to meet others in the blogging community.  That is why it is important that we get out and visit each other.  I realize there are a lot of participants, and it is time-consuming to visit.  But, you don't have to visit every one all at once - just as you have time over the next few days.  I promise you it is worth the effort because you will not only see lots of pink, you will meet incredibly nice people.  Everyone likes to receive comments on their contributions.

Please remember that my reminder e-mail stated I needed your plan for participating today no later than 5 p.m. yesterday.  If you don't see your name and link here it is because I did not receive your plan for participating by that time.

I had a question about the order that people appear on this list, and I want to explain.  I have a database that is sorted by the order in which people started participating in Pink Saturday.  I think this is the most fair way to list the participants.

I want to thank those of you that take the time to leave me a comment.  I love reading what you all have to say.

Here are our Pink Saturday participants:

I hope everyone has fun with Pink Saturday.  Even if you couldn't participate today, be sure to go visit those who did, and leave them a comment so they will know you visited.

Get Pink !!!

It's not just a color, it's an attitude.

You are welcome to use the Pink Saturday button to display on your blog.  I've been spotting it on quite a few of your blogs.  Do you have yours yet?  Our numbers are growing. 

Pink Saturday girls are fun.

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November 28, 2008

The Day After

What are you doing today?

Are you shopping?

ChristmasShopping

Or, are you decorating?

Charliebrowntree


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Just a reminder that Pink Saturday is tomorrow.  Please e-mail today by 5 p.m. EST to let me know if you are going to participate.  We are having so much fun.  Our numbers are growing, and we already have one hundred  four participants for tomorrow.

Help yourself to the Pink Saturday button to put on your blogs.  It is at the top of my blog in the right sidebar.

Wondering what Pink Saturday is?  Please refer to the feature in my right sidebar near the top of my blog.

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November 27, 2008

Come Ye Thankful People Come

Come Ye Thankful People Come
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Pilgrims

Come ye thankful people come,
Raise the song of harvest home!
All is safely gathered in,
Ere the winter storms begin;
God our Maker, doth provide
For our wants to be supplied:
Come to God's own temple, come,
Raise the song of harvest home.

All the world is God's own field
Fruit unto his praise to yield;
Wheat and tares together sown
Unto joy or sorrow grown;
First the blade, and then the ear,
Then the full corn shall appear;
Lord of the harvest! grant that we
Wholesome grain and pure may be.

For the Lord our God shall come,
And shall take his harvest home;
From his field shall in that day
All offenses purge away,
Give his angels charge at last
In the fire the tares to cast;
But the fruitful ears to store
In his garner evermore.

Even so, Lord, quickly come,
Bring thy final harvest home;
Gather thou thy people in,
Free from sorrow, free from sin,
There, forever purified,
in thy presence to abide;
Come, with all thine angels, come,
Raise the glorious harvest home.

~Sir George J. Elvey (1816-1893), organist at St. George's Chapel,
Windsor Castle for nearly fifty years, wrote the music
to the well-loved Thanksgiving hymn about 1844.
The lyrics are by Henry Alford (1810-1871)~

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Just a reminder that Pink Saturday is only two days away.  Please e-mail me by 5 p.m. EST Friday (that's tomorrow) to let me know if you are going to participate.  Our numbers are growing, and I need your e-mail to help me manage.

Wondering what Pink Saturday is?  Please refer to the feature button in my right sidebar near the top of my blog.  And, please display the Pink Saturday button on your blog.

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November 26, 2008

What's My Question Wednesday

My question for today is ...

Are you having Thanksgiving dinner at your home

or

somewhere else?

And,

what's on the menu?

Thanksgiving-dinner-4-clipart

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November 25, 2008

T is for the trust the pilgrims had so many years ago
H is for the harvest the settlers learnt to grow
A is for America, the land in which we live
N is for nature and beauty which she gives
K is for kindness, gentle words, thoughtful deeds
S is for smiles, the sunshine everyone needs
G is for gratitude... our blessings big and small
I is for ideas, letting wisdom grow tall
V is for voices, singing, laughing, always caring
I is for Indians, who taught them about sharing
N is for neighbors, across the street, over the sea
G is for giving of myself to make a better me

by Judith.A. Lindberg


Thanksgiving_feast

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November 24, 2008

Turkeys

Thankful

Week before Thanksgiving,
I limp around real strange.
Huddle in the corner,
As though I have the mange.
All the other turkeys,
Just gobble, gobble on.
I'm silent, and I act
As if my gobbler's gone. Everyone is thankful
On Thanksgiving Day.
Friday it's forgotten.
You all go on your way.
I know what thankful is
So listen when I say.
"It's great to be a turkey,
After Thanksgiving Day."

Unknown

Turkey 1

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November 23, 2008

We Gather Together

We Gather Together
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We gather together to ask the Lord's blessing;
he chastens and hastens his will to make known;
the wicked oppressing now cease from distressing:
sing praise to his Name, he forgets not his own.

Beside us to guide us, our God with us joining,
ordaining, maintaining his kingdom divine;
so from the beginning the fight we were winning:
thou, Lord, wast at our side: all glory be thine!

We all do extol thee, thou leader triumphant,
and pray that thou still our defender wilt be.
Let thy congregation escape tribulation:
thy Name be ever praised! O Lord, make us free!

We Gather Together is a Christian hymn of Netherlands origin written in 1597 by Adrianus Lalerius to celebrate Dutch victory over Spanish forces in the Battle of Turnhout.  In the United States, it is popularly associated with Thanksgiving Day and is often sung at family meals and at religious services on that day.

At the time the hymn was written, the Dutch were engaged in a war of national liberation against the Catholic King Philip II of Spain. "Wilt heden nu treden," "We gather together" resonated because under the Spanish King, Dutch Protestants were forbidden to gather for worship. The hymn first appeared in print in a 1626 collection of Dutch patriotic songs, "Nederlandtsch Gedencklanck."

According to the Hymn Society in the United States and Canada, We Gather Together first appeared in an American hymnal in 1903.  The hymn gained popularity, especially in services of Thanksgiving.

Cornucopia

"For wherever two or more are gathered in my name, there am I in the midst of them."
      --Matthew 18:20

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November 22, 2008

Pink Saturday - November 22

My pink contribution for this Pink Saturday is lovely dish.  It measures 6 1/2 inches at the widest point, and is marked Prussia over a crown over a B within a double u-shaped shield.  The plate sits on my mother's dresser in her bedroom.  I think the roses are lovely, and it is trimmed in gold.  The picture has a bit of glare on the bottom.

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This week we have one hundred eighteen (118) participants in Pink Saturday.  Wow!!!  It seems that so many of us have fun with the color pink.  I hope you are all enjoying this as much as I am.

Please take the time to visit the other participants, and leave them a comment to let them know you stopped by to enjoy their pink.  Pink Saturday is about having fun, and giving us a chance to meet others in the blogging community.  That is why it is important that we get out and visit each other.  I realize there are a lot of participants, and it is time-consuming to visit.  But, you don't have to visit every one all at once - just as you have time over the next few days.  I promise you it is worth the effort because you will not only see lots of pink, you will meet incredibly nice people.  Everyone likes to receive comments on their contributions.  I am hosting a bridal shower today, so I will not be able to visit today.  I will be visiting beginning tomorrow.

Please remember that my reminder e-mail and my posts Thursday and yesterday stated I needed your plan for participating today no later than 3 p.m. yesterday.  If you don't see your name and link here it is because I did not receive your plan for participating by that time.  I have been very busy preparing for the shower I am hosting today, and I did not have time to change my post after that time.

I had a question about the order that people appear on this list, and I want to explain.  I have a database that is sorted by the order in which people started participating in Pink Saturday.  I think this is the most fair way to list the participants.

I want to thank those of you that take the time to leave me a comment.  I love reading what you all have to say.

Here are our Pink Saturday participants:

I hope everyone has fun with Pink Saturday.  Even if you couldn't participate today, be sure to go visit those who did, and leave them a comment so they will know you visited.

Get Pink !!!

It's not just a color, it's an attitude.

You are welcome to use the Pink Saturday button to display on your blog.  I've been spotting it on quite a few of your blogs.  Do you have yours yet?  Our numbers are growing. 

Pink Saturday girls are fun.

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November 21, 2008

A Christmas Fair

Our very own lovely and talented Karen at A Scrapbook of Inspiration is hosting A Christmas Fair today.  Karen has beautiful and magical things she is sharing with us today, so please treat yourself by going to visit.

I thought I wouldn't be able to participate because I am not very talented, but then I noticed Karen said we could include a recipe we love for the holidays.  I am sharing the recipe for Tea Time Tassies.  We have had these in our family since I was a young child.  I don't really even have a recipe, I just know how to make them.  I searched the web to find an "official" recipe to share with you.

Tea Time Tassies

Prep: 45 min., Chill: one hour., Bake: twenty minutes., Cool: thirty minutes. Keep the extra dough chilled until you're ready to use.  This recipe makes about four dozen.

  • 2 1/2 cups all-purpose flour
  • 1 1/2 cups firmly packed brown sugar
  • 1 1/2 cups chopped pecans
  • 2  large eggs
  • 2  tablespoons butter, melted
  • 2  teaspoons vanilla extract
  • 1/8  teaspoon salt
  • 1 8 ounce package cream cheese, softened
  • 1 cup butter, softened
Beat butter and cream cheese at medium speed with mixer until creamy. Gradually add flour to butter mixture, beating at low speed. Shape mixture into 48 balls, and place on baking sheet; cover and chill one hour.

Place one dough ball into each lightly greased muffin cup in mini muffin pans, shaping each into a shell.

Whisk together brown sugar and next five ingredients. Spoon into tart shells.

Bake at 350° for twenty minutes or until set. Cool in pans on wire racks ten minutes. Remove from pans; cool on wire racks twenty minutes or until completely cool.

Tea Time Tassies

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Just a reminder that Pink Saturday is tomorrow.  Please e-mail today by 3 p.m. EST to let me know if you are going to participate.  We are having so much fun.  Our numbers are growing, and we already have one hundred  four participants for tomorrow.

Help yourself to the Pink Saturday button to put on your blogs.  It is at the top of my blog in the right sidebar.

Wondering what Pink Saturday is?  Please refer to the feature in my right sidebar near the top of my blog.

***Please note that I need you to e-mail me no later than 3 p.m. today if you plan to participate in Pink Saturday this week.***

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