Friday's Face # 1

I'm linking up with Chrissy from A Lil Dash of Diva for her new link-up called Friday's Face!

Here is my Friday Face!

It's OK Thursday

I'm linking up with Neely and Amber for It's Ok Thursday, so let's get to the list shall we?

It's OK...

...to adore my grandchildren but be so happy when they go home to their mama's and daddy's

...to take one day a week and not do anything for anyone else but me

...to really enjoy spending time with my daughter just the two of us

I don't have a big list today, and you know what...It's OK!  Now, you go link up with Neely and Amber with your lists!

What I'm Loving Wednesday

I decided to link up with  This Kind of Love for 

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Marriage Monday

I have been following Kirsten from Pure Joy for a few days now and I really love the idea behind Marriage Monday so I wanted to participate.
Being married for 36 years has taught me a little about what works and what doesn't work in a marriage....The big one being when i need to talk i need to keep my emotions out of it and talk about s the facts as i see them...this means keeping words like you, always, never and to include words like i, me, i feel...this keeps it from sounding like an attack and more like wanting to understand the situation.

A Few of My Favorite...

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A few of my favorite places that we have traveled to on our cruises would have to include San Juan Puerto Rico.   We have spend a lot of time in San Juan as it is usually our Port of Call for the cruises.  We usually make sure to pad the trip with a few days before the cruise and a few after it to spend some time just relaxing in San Juan.  On one of our first trips there, we met this cab driver who took us all around.  He gave us his number and told us if we were wanting to go anywhere while we were there to just call him and he would be happy to take us around again.  Each time we would go to San Juan, the Cigar Chairman would call him up and tell him we would be in town and needing his services and he was more than happy to oblige.  On one of our trips, he even took us to meet his family and enjoy a meal with them.  The people were all very friendly in our experience and we can't wait to go back.

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Another of my favorite places is St. Lucia.  We have been to this island a couple of times and it is one of the most beautiful places I've ever seen.  My daughter and son in law went to St Lucia on their honeymoon and came back raving about how beautiful it was and telling us that if we ever had the chance to go we had to!  We took them at their word and were not disappointed.


Do you like to travel?  Where are your favorite places on earth?

A Little About Me

I figure its about time to let you know a little more about me, so pull up a chair and grab your favorite drink!

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I am originally from the east coast, Connecticut.  I come from a really big family with 8 full siblings and 6 more half siblings!  I have been married to my husband {who from here on out will be called Cigar Chairman but more on him later} for 36 years.  We just celebrated our 36th anniversary on Wednesday of this week.  I have two grown children, my daughter who will be known as Christabelle (a nickname she got from her dad when she was young) is a wife and mom to my oldest granddaughter, who we will call Princess Scoob {again a nickname given by her papa). Christabelle has been married for over 7 years to my wonderful son-in-law, whom I will call Bubba.  My son, who we will call Fireman Jr is a husband and father to my younger granddaughter, Princess B {a nickname given to her by her Aunt Christabelle}.  Fireman Jr has been married for almost 3 years to my wonderful daughter-in-law, whom I will call Lindsay Lou.  Lindsay Lou became part of the family with her son, whom I will call Buddy, from a previous relationship, but he is no less my grandson than either of my blood granddaughters.  

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The Cigar Chairman and I met when we were teenagers and married straight out of high school. Lucky for him, I have put up with him all these years!  As our kids have grown and left the house, we have taken up traveling..particularly cruises as a hobby.  We have traveled all over the Caribbean several times over.  It has been a few years since our last cruise thanks to the economy tanking, but we are hopeful to return to this hobby in the near future.  Something else that we have taken up is cigars.  This is especially true for the Cigar Chairman, but I enjoy them as well.  He belongs to a cigar members only club and we enjoy going to cigar tastings and other events.  We have made a lot of friends through both our cruising and cigar hobbies.  


Some things that I enjoy just by myself are; reading, writing, shopping.  I belong to a women's mystery book club and I really enjoy that.  I am a girly girl at heart and I love to decorate my house.  I love makeup, jewelry, clothes, shoes and bags.  


I will talk about all of these things on this blog and I hope you will enjoy what you see here!

True Life: I'm a Beauty Blogger

I'm still really new to the blogosphere, but my intention with this blog is to showcase beauty and fashion and things that I love.  So I am going to link up with Fabulous But Evil and Mrs Monologues for their week 2 of  True Life: I'm a Beauty/Fashion blogger.

Friday Shoegasm

Ahh, shoes!  A favorite topic of mine!  I'm linking up with Terri from Peace Love and Applesauce for this one..

I absolutely LOVE these!  You can find them here

It's OK Thursday

I decided to link up with Amber and Neely for It's Ok Thursday today...so on that note...

It's OK...

- to own more shoes than I can possibly wear..and still buy more

- to spoil my grandkids when their parents aren't around

- to drink a glass of wine or two after said grandkids go home to their parents

- to be a backseat driver 

- to be a New England Patriots fan AND a Miami Dolphins fan

- to worry about my adult children even though they are..adults.  They are still my children.

What do you think is OK? 

Friday's Shoegasm

I'm linking up with Terri from Peace Love and Applesauce for Friday's Shoegasm!

Shoes ~ A sure way to put a smile on any girls face....here is my pick from Charlotte Russe....oh so pretty!

Totally Thursday Blog Hop

 I decided to join this blog hop Totally Thursday blog hop that Jill from Momma Totally in Love is hosting, seems like a great way to find some family friendly blogs to start following and is super easy for someone new to blogging like me!

Wordless Wednesday

Today, I am linking up for Wordless Wednesday with 5 Minutes for Mom

It is Target Tuesday...

I found this fun idea called Target Tuesday by following this blog named Fabulous But Evil...
and oh what fun...here you can have your hearts desire and pick anything you like because money is not a part of the shopping spree....so why don't you all take a Target Tuesday shopping spree and see what you find to put a smile on your face...
here are my Target Tuesday picks which turned out to be Transformation Tuesday(love it)!!!!....

Hey fellow girlie girls....

This is my first post so i wanted to say hi and let you know a little of what i will be doing as i learn ...i will post family photos cuz after all this is such a big part of my life and i will post some of my favorite recipes seeing as i do alot of that too. Now my blog would not be complete without the things that girls love most....anything sparkly and lots of fashion items like shoes, purses and makeup tips...so stay tuned girls

Here is my first pic of family fun with my baby sista...we had a photo shoot done while she was here on vacation in July and we did funny ones, formal ones, and casual...this of course was one of our best funny ones.....we never laughed so much or so hard as when taking these pics....photographer was so patient with our antics and even found herself getting in on the fun and laughter!