Selling Spelling Manor

Oh my goodness. I've been wanting to watch this special that was featured on HGTV for years, and I finally found the whole version, without commercials.

 

Grab a cup of tea, and give me a high five!

 

 

I love Candy. She's so poised, graceful and looks so modern for someone whose now sixty-seven years of age.

 


It seems like Candy was ready to downsize and both her children mention in the video that the 56,000 square foot home was a lot of maintenance, but it would have been nice to become a museum of sorts. They could have done tours, and decorated the home for the Holiday's and done a once a year charity gala. I'm thinking along the lines of Graceland.

What do you think?

I'll be following her new journey with her show The Manor in The Sky!
 

Second Ever Menu Monday

Today, I'm linking up with Make the Scene Monday at Alderberry Hill

 

Lately, I've not been doing so well with menu planning, my mind has just been so consumed with other things. But on a whim, I have been getting back into my Menu Monday routine.

 

On Mondays, I print out the weeks menu planner, and write down meals that would fit in and around our weeks schedule. I take some time on my delicious Pinterest board, to see if I've pinned any new recipe ideas, that I'd like to try for the week also.

 

I found this planner to be useful.

Then I compile my grocery list {here's the one I used} from my meal planner, taking into account what we already may have. During this process, I clean out the fridge of anything that has perished.

 

Here are this weeks dinners

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Monday

 

Taco Salad
Lettuce, minced beef in taco seasoning, tomatoes, cheese, sour cream. We've also added black eyed peas in the past.

 

Tuesday

We're going to the beach, so we'll get Chic-Fil-A for lunch
 

Chicken Kabobs with green peppers over a wild rice.

 

Wednesday

 

Lunch at Panera and then a movie date to see Meet the Millers

 

Thursday

 

I'm going to try the Asparagus tart recipe for the first time

and make my Strawberry pie recipe.

 

Friday

 

 Baked potatoes with sour cream and bacon bits served with creamy tomato soup

 

Saturday

Broccoli soup

 Cream of broccoli, and cream of celery, water, on one stove top. On the other suttee broccoli, onion, garlic and carrots. Mix together and serve.

Broccoli lovers need only apply.

 

Sunday

 

Roast Pork with Rosemary and gravy

 

Side dishes: roasted baby potatoes, asparagus, and oven baked broccoli bake

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From all that dwell below the skies, Let songs of hope and faith arise

 

 

From all that dwell below the skies
Let songs of hope and faith arise;
Let peace, good will, on earth be sung
Through every land by every tongue.
 
— adapted from words by Isaac Watts
sung to the tune “Old Hundredth

Art by Vladimir Volegov

 

 

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Sentimental Tea Party

You're welcome to have a seat, and pour yourself a cup of tea as we talk about weddings this sentimental Saturday.

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This day, twenty-eight years ago was my parents wedding day in South Africa.

 

August 10th, 1985

 

They were twenty-seven and twenty-four.

 Left to right: My paternal Granny, my Dad, my Mom, my paternal Grandpa, my maternal Nana

Front: bridesmaids Amanda and Michelle

 

 

They were married by a Evangelical Pastor who was one of my dad's best friends at the time.  My mom called the church 'happy-clappy' because the congregation would stand up and sing with so much enthusiasm.

 

My Nana flew out from England for the wedding, and helped my mom make the wedding cake, and with wedding planning. My mom wore a tea-length dress, and peep toe shoes, very similar to my wedding dress and shoes.

 

After the ceremony, they had a reception at the boat club, and they spent their honeymoon in Victoria Falls, Zimbabwe...and that is how I became the honeymoon baby.

 

 My Dad with Amanda and Michelle

Weddings were so different back then, and even more so in my grandparents generation. I remember my Nana sharing a story about how my Grandad took her on a honeymoon in a motorcycle and sidecar...it was during 1950's.

Ha ha!

I encourage you to invite your parents, and grandparents to a sentimental tea, and ask them to tell you about their wedding stories.

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