Give Thanks for Food and Family

Happy Thanksgiving my friends. I hope you find the time to enjoy your friends and family and have the opportunity to eat some really good food. I found 2 tempting salad recipes right Here. I can't wait to try them. One is made with toasted pecans, cooked in a sugar glaze and topped off with cranberries and Gorgonzola cheese. YUM! The other is made with toasted almonds, strawberries and feta cheese. They both take a homemade dressing and romaine lettuce. Pass the wine please.
So yesterday was a success with a couple great new salad recipes and fabulous hair. Thanks Tyler and Madison you girls always know just how to whip my hair into shape.
Have a beautiful holiday but don't eat so much that you're too slow for the bargains on Friday. Meet me at the mall :)

XO-Mya

Unexpected Gifts

This butterfly was an unexpected visitor that dropped by and took a seat on the foot of Miss Brittany. He stayed for 20 mintues or so and seemed perfectly content to just stretch his wings while taking a little rest. A woman passing by commented that it was a blessing that we were witnessing. Whatever you call it it was an unexpected gift for the day.

Just like the next two gifts from a couple of fellow bloggers.

The first gift is a blog award from fellow blogger Chriss Rollins. Thank you Chriss. I love your blog too!

What a cute award.


The rules of the award are:
1. The winner can put the logo on her blog.
2. Link the person you received your award from.
3. Nominate at least 7 other blogs.
4. Put links of those blogs on yours.
5. Leave a message on the blogs of the girls you’ve nominated...


I will be back to hand this sweet little award out later this week.







This little beauty was given to me by Diane from A Pictures Worth a Thousand Words.
Thank you Diane you are so sweet!


The recipient of this award is supposed to tell 6 things that make them happy and pass the award on.



I will list my favorite things and pass this one on later this week as well.



Thank you to my wonderful blogging friends for these wonderful unexpected gifts!


Take care :)
-Mya

You are so Sweet Award

I am so greatful for the wonderful friends I have met here in blog land. Today I would like to give out a
"You are so sweet award" to my friend Karen from
ColoursForYou and CiderAntiques

Karen went out of her way to help me with my blog background. It was a boring brown and now it is a fabulous pink.

Don't you just love it?

I really appreciate all the time she took with me.

Karen you are a Sweet Heart and you deserve this award.

I chose a picture of my little angel because nothing could be sweeter than that.

Visit Karen at the two links above. She has beautiful free wallpaper backgrounds and instructions on how to add them to your blog.

You will also find a link to CountingYourBlessings and her fabulous free blog banners. Polly is a sweet heart too. There is nothing better than free except for the wonderful guidance of a blog friend when you are not a computer geek.

Thank you so much Karen. I love being in the Pink!

XO-Mya

Girls Night

Family is essential and the most important thing but friends are priceless. Friday I spent several hours with my former work buddies hooping it up at a local bar/restaurant. It was great fun and sad at the same time. We said our goodbyes and then vowed to get together again soon. Great plan but usually doesn't happen. Faced with this situation years ago when my middle child graduated and my friends were his friend's moms, I decided to make sure that we stayed in contact. This is how the "Black Bag Bitches" were born. BBB's for short. Yes I know the name, who would want to be called Black Bag Bitches? Well, this was purely by accident. We couldn't come up with a name that fit. But one of the husbands starting referring to us as the BBB's because we always passed on a black bag to the next hostess with all the contact info and girl's night ideas. So you know where the black bag part came from as for the bitches, well I think he meant it in an endearing way. Don't you? Oh well, the name is beside the point we have a great time together. Sometimes we just get together, do a little wine tasting and complain. Other times we indulge in a craft project. We have gone on big shopping trips, girls weekend at the cottage and sometimes we just eat. Whatever we do it is a great way to spend a monday night and very therapeutic. I would love to start an artsy group, to share projects with. Maybe I'll work on that with all of my spare "Breathing Room" previous blog.
Has anyone out there joined a friend group? What do you do? Is anyone out there? I don't think anyone can find my blog, help!