No Place Like Home

Welcome ladies to No Place Like Home! I hope you all enjoyed your weekend.

Home; the place where our stomachs get three square meals a day and our hearts a thousand. ~ Charles M Crowe

As I mentioned in my last post, Hubby and I had a big weekend. We celebrated our anniversary, his birthday, and Mother's Day.

I usually make him an apple pie for his birthday but I had sprained a couple of fingers the other day so I decided to make something a little easier but something I knew he would love. This is my Quick and Easy Lemon Trifle. 

He loved it! It is simply an angel food cake torn into pieces, whipped topping, and lemon pie filling arranged in layers and refrigerated. Yum! I was hoping to make Mrs. T's Lemon trifle but because of my fingers, I had to simplify.

We joined my mother for a Mother's Day Tea at the nursing home and it was a great success. The picture is not very clear because Hubby took the picture with his phone and I took a picture of that so...As you can see, there were three kinds of tea sandwiches; egg salad, chicken salad, and lobster. Three kinds of squares; date, carrot cake, and lemon as well sweet breads; pound cake and banana bread. Tea and coffee.

Hubby and I also went out to a lobster supper on Sunday to celebrate our anniversary, his birthday and Mother's Day. It was quite the feast and I will be having lettuce and water for the next week or so.

This was what I had; breaded scallops, home made rolls and biscuits, seafood chowder, assortment of salads, and dessert. Well, Hubby had the strawberry shortcake. Actually, he had pie too. I was simply too full to eat anything for dessert.

It was a lovely weekend.

Last week's party served up a plethora of ideas and recipes. They were all fabulous and thank you so much for sharing. You are a wonderfully talented group of ladies! I have broken my features down into categories and I hope you enjoy them! 

Home Decor- 
Chloe @ Celebrate and Decorate with Chloe Crabtree shared a wonderful nautical nursery for her little granddaughters.

Recipes-
Jean @ Delightful Repast shared her delicious pasta and chicken with spring vegetables dish. Yum!

Tablescapes-
Jocelyn @ Just a Little Southern Hospitality shared her elegant tablescape set with pink depression glass and china. So pretty!

Tea Time-
Gina @ Victorian Wanna Be shared her beautiful Lily-of-the-Valley teacup and some vintage post cards.

Thrifting-
Cathy @ 1929 Charmer Cottage shared her fabulous finds while out thrifting with her sister. 

Thank you everyone for participating last week. As a courtesy, and if you would like to be featured, you should have a link back to my party.

Now let's see what you are creating in your home to make it a cozy place to come home to for your family, your friends, and yourself. 


Lord, this humble house we'd keep 
Sweet with play and calm with sleep. 
Help us so that we may give 
Beauty to the lives we live. 
Let Thy love and let Thy grace
Shine upon our dwelling place. - Edgar A. Guest 

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 Sharing from my heart ~ Sandi

Celebrations Galore!

Sweet May hath come to love us,

Flowers, trees, their blossoms don;

And through the blue heavens above us

The very clouds move on. - Heinrich Heine

Hello dear friends! This weekend, like many of you, Hubby and I will be celebrating Mother's Day. But we will also celebrate our anniversary and his birthday. 

Saturday afternoon we will join my mother for a Mother's Day Tea at the nursing home. 

There will be treats such as assorted tea sandwiches and sweets as well as live music. 

An anniversary is a time to celebrate the joy of today, the memories of yesterday, and the hopes of tomorrow. ~ Unknown

And because our anniversary lands on the same weekend as Hubby's birthday and Mother's Day, we are planning to go out for a lobster supper. It makes more sense to combine all three special occasions. This supper will include an entree as well as a sixty foot salad bar with all the home made biscuits, rolls, seafood chowder, mussels, and desserts you can eat. It is going to be a feast! My waistline will surely take a hit on Sunday.

For his birthday, I will be baking Hubby something different this year. He's not a big cake lover so I usually bake him his favourite apple pie.

But this year it will be a surprise. I will share that on Monday at No Place Like Home.

Today is our anniversary and we will be enjoying a little tea time using this pretty Royal Kendal Lily-of-the Valley teacup that Gina of A Victorian Wanna Be blog sent me. 

This teacup was made in Staffordshire, England and I love it! When Gina found out that my hubby's birthday was in May and I was searching for a May teacup, she sent me one of hers. I appreciate this so much because May is also our anniversary month. Blog friends are some of the most special folks I know. Thank you, Gina!

So here is my little table set with the Lily of the Valley teacup as well as a green Colclough.  

I do love the colour green, in fact it is one of my favourites. It is so fresh and always reminds me of springtime which is my favourite season.

I believe I could be a model child if I were just invited out to tea every day. ~ Anne of Green Gables - LM Montgomery

My anniversary roses. I love white roses. In fact I carried white roses when we got married. But I love pale pink as well.

...t'is my faith that every flower enjoys the air it breathes. ~ William Wordsworth

With our tea we will share this little cake.

I just love this guy so much and I am blessed to have him as my mate and best friend. God knew what He was doing when He brought us together. You see his smile? He always looks like that. He's a very pleasant guy and he could probably run for mayor. In fact I often call him that because he talks to everybody we meet when we're out and about.

Thank you for your visit and I wish all you beautiful moms out there a Happy Mother's Day! The Lord bless you.

Many waters cannot quench love,
Nor will rivers overflow it. ~ Song of Solomon 8:7


I am joining the following parties as well~

Tuesday Cuppa Tea
Bernideen's TTCG Blog Party
Tea Cup Tuesday
The Art of Home-Making Mondays
Share Your Cup Thursday
Home Sweet Home

Sharing from my heart ~ Sandi