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Hooray For The Red White and Blue was a featured post at Snickerdoodle@My Autoimmune Life. So excited!

Enjoy this post from the past…we are in full Fall busy mode this weekend! Sassy Princess picture included

Sing To Me, Autumn

Sing to me, Autumn, with the rustle of your leaves.

Breathe on me your spicy scents that flow within your breeze.

Dance with me, Autumn, your waltz that bends the boughs of trees.

Now tell me all the secrets you’ve whispered to the seas.

Sleep with me, Autumn, beneath your starlit skies.

Let your yellow harvest moon shimmer in our eyes.

Kiss me, Autumn, with your enchanting spellbound ways

That changes all you touch into crimson golden days.

Love me, Autumn, and behold this love so true

That I’ll be waiting faithfully each year to be with you.

By Patricia L. Cisco

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So proud to have my Patriotic Pride featured at Best of the weekend@ Love my Little Cottage.

Feeling a little Fall like today and it makes me want to bake! Thinking about coconuts and it makes me want to bake Coconut Pound Cake…why not. It’s sweet, moist, tender and oh so delicious. It is also wonderful to tuck into a lunchbox for a small sweet treat. It is kind of perfect, matter of fact. I may just have to try another piece…just to make sure.

The Usual Cast Of Characters

3/4 cup softened butter
3/4 cup coconut milk
1 1/2 cups sugar
3 eggs (lightly beaten)
4 – 6 Tablespoons shredded coconut, depending on how you like it!
1 3/4 cups All purpose flour
1 tsp baking powder
1/2 tsp salt

The Steps to Glory

• Preheat over to 350 degrees.
• Greese and flour 1 loaf pan, set aside.
• In a mixing bowl, mix softened butter and sugar together until fluffy.
• In a seperate small bowl, mix together flour, salt, baking powder, and shredded coconut.
• Add eggs, one at a time into butter/sugar mixture. Mix well.
• Add coconut milk, alternating with flour/coconut mixture (this will prevent lumps).
• Pour batter into loaf pan and bake for 1 – 1 1/4 hours.

So soft and delicious!

Enjoy with your favorite First Grader!

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This is what I shared this week to celebrate back to school

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My post, Land That I Love, was featured on Vintage Charm party@ Our Hopeful Home and Make it Pretty Monday@ The Dedicated House. Such an honor!

It’s that time again. In our household, a uniform is laid out, lunches planned, new backpacks are prepared and everything that leaves the house is labeled. Yes, that school bell is about to ring for both me and my Princess. Technically, it rang several weeks ago for my hero as the Naval Academy welcomed Midshipmen back for a new year.

First Grade! How did that happen? Next thing you know we will be dropping her off at some dorm somewhere…not really, but it sure feels that way to this Mama.

I love school and I love vintage school things…one of my favorite things to celebrate with decor is the start of school. It makes me smile to think of children now long, long grown answering that school bell so long ago.

School bells, ink wells and vintage flash cards brighten up an early Fall mantel.

Curious George and some vintage books and toys are waiting for little hands to play with them again.

An antique chalkboard join some apples, sunflowers and original crayons in front of the fireplace.

More Antique books and rulers to welcome scholars back to class.

How sweet is this lunchbox topped with blocks?

Speaking of sweet…how cute is the Princess at the opening Navy football game!

Go Navy…Beat Army

Inspire me Monday. Tuesday at our house. Inspire me Tuesday. Make it pretty. Made by you. Metamorphosis. You’re the Star. Tuesday with a twist. Wonderful Wednesday. Talk Of The town. Keep in touch. Party in your pjs. Wednesday blog hop. Your whim. Share your style. Home and garden. Waste not. Grandma’s House DIY. Vintage charm. Friday features. Friendship Friday. Funtastic Friday. Grace at Home. Pit Stop. Thursday favorites. BFF open house. Morning Cup Of Joe. Home matters.Best of the weekend. Create bake grow. Faith and family. Snickerdoodle. Happiness is homemade. Saturday shuffle. Silver pennies. Create with joy. Over the Moon Creatively crafty Senior salon. Turn about Tuesday Wednesday Aim Home style gathering celebrate your story Little cottage Saturday Sparks Farmhouse Friday All About Home

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