Hip, Hip, Hooray!
In a few days, I will be getting a new hip. I am ready! I would love for all your prayers and well wishes to continue, please. It means so much to me. It brings me comfort and strength, and I appreciate each of you. Thank you!
Our Roses Continue to Bloom
The roses were quite content after the soft rain we had this past weekend.
Carefree, AZ
This past week, I had the opportunity to spend some special girl time with a friend in Carefree, AZ.
Are you able to see the shadow? It was a little after 1:00 when I took this photo. So it was accurate.
Walking through this part of Carefree, you’re surrounded by beauty. Across the street, you’ll find charming shops, boutiques, and restaurants.
My friend and I had lunch at a small outdoor café and enjoyed a delicious salad while taking in the beautiful cactus garden.
A favorite place that has been in Carefree for over twenty years is the English Rose Tea Room in Carefree. A beautiful place to enjoy a lovely tea time.
My Collections
My Tomato Servers and Bon Bon Servers got a festive touch of Christmas.
My tea cart is ready for Christmas!
Not a fan of tea? Well grab a Santa Mug and you can help yourself to some coffee or cocoa.
I do enjoy my collections, and I make sure to display them because it gives them a place to shine. Most of the items have a story behind them or a sweet memory associated with them.
I would enjoy hearing about your collections. What are they? Why do you collect them?
Thank You
Thank you all so much for your thoughts, prayers, and kindness as I get ready for my upcoming surgery.
I hope to have a brief blog post next week to update you on how the surgery went and how I am doing.
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The tea cart is absolutely beautiful, but if you don’t mind, I’ll grab a Santa mug and some coffee. 🙂 Hope your surgery goes well, and you have a smooth recovery. Take care.
The coffee is ready! Thanks so much Judy! 🥰😘
Sending all good wishes for a successful hip surgery and quick and complete recovery. I do love seeing your collections. The silver servers are lovely. And that tea cart/cocoa bar area is perfect. You take care, have lots of tea and thinking lovely thoughts for you.
Thank you so much Jeanie. Hugs! 🥰😘
Good luck with your hip! I had one replaced after a bad dislocation eight years go, and the experience was amazing. It really is a wonder what they can do now, and they had me climbing stairs, pain free, the next day! You’re going to be great!
Thank you so much for letting me know about your experience. And thanks so much for the well wishes! 🥰😘
This post is a true feast for the eyes, with so much beauty! Wishing you much luck with your hip surgery. So many of my friends have had this surgery and the difference it has made to their comfort is life changing. Listen to everything your physiotherapist tells you in recovery and you’ll be skipping in no time.
Thank you so much for your lovely well wishes. I appreciate them very much. 😘😘
Nancy, wishing you a successful surgery and a very speedy recovery! You have a beautiful place to recover. Sending prayers for you!
Thank you Beth! I appreciate you! 😘🥰
I’m in another one of my purging moods and doing some “Swedish death cleaning”. Thus, no more specialty collections for this gal as I embrace more minimalism. I’ll just rely on you for all the holiday decor. 😄Hoping all goes well with the surgery and you’ll be hiking ready in no time. 🙏🏻
I have purged as well but I love my special little things that have so much meaning behind them.
Thank you so much for the well wishes. 🥰😘
Sending healing thoughts and prayers, XOOX
Thank you so much, Jodie! I hope to see you as soon as I am recovered. 🥰😘
Carefree – what a sweet place to live! Your roses are picture perfect, and they will be smiling at you when you return from a successful hip surgery. Prayers and blessing to you my dear one!
Thank you Mary! I so appreciate you. 🥰😘
“Hip, Hip” Hooray gave me such a giggle, Nancy. Speedy Recovery and healing wishes and prayers for you…
Your Christmas collections are so joyful❣️ It’s so nice you have them all set up and ready to enjoy as you recover. I have a St. Lucia collection that my family enjoys as well as the tradition of the oldest daughter making and serving Lucia buns. We have a Christmas Tree Soup tradition too and I love getting out the Christmas Tree dishes and green soup bowls. There’s more…if you can believe it❣️ I know you understand this. 🤣
Thank you for introducing us to Carefree, Arizona. That looks like a wonderful spot to visit, especially when we in the mountains are in the snow…
Take good care❣️
Oh Sue! You must send me pictures of your soup night and your St. Lucia collections! How delightful to have those traditions with your family.
Thank you for the well wishes. I appreciate you! 🥰😘
Oh Miss Nancy, a new hip. I will be thinking of you. I cannot imagine how things have been for you, but I have a few friends who are walking around on new hips and new knees and they are so appreciative of modern medicine giving them a new lease on life. As I said, I will be thinking of you and wishing you all the best for a speedy recovery. ❤️🩹
So good to hear from you Clare! Thank you so much for your well wishes. I so appreciate you! 🥰😘
Lovely post, Nancy, with the views of Carefree. You remind me of my SIL, she decorates to the max for each season. Like you, as you get ready for your surgery, she laid out her Christmas decor already to have it all up in time for Thanksgiving. Her dad is visiting from San Diego and he loves Christmas. They spent 3 weeks in Italy so she wanted to be ready. I’ll be praying for an easy and successful surgery, my friend! Love your closing avatar image, very cute! ❤️❤️
Thank you Terri! I love your avatars so I decided to do the same.
Thank you always for your kindness! 😘🥰
Beautiful roses. Ours are all frozen.
Oh no!
Thank you Tim!
Nancy, your roses are gorgeous! Carefree looks and sounds like a carefree place. The tea room would be a wonderful place to spend an afternoon. You are getting Christmas ready before your surgery! I love the tea cart and the Santa mugs.
You are in my prayers sweet friend for a great outcome and quick recovery for the hip replacement. Take care of yourself. Sending love and prayers!
Thank you Pam! How kind of you. Your prayers are so appreciated!
And yes, I am ready for Christmas. I love it!
Happy Thanksgiving!
I love that you had a special girl time in Carefree. It looks so beautiful–almost as enchanting as your roses! I’ll be praying for you this week as you have your surgery. I pray that it goes smoothly and that your recovery is quick.🙏
Thank you so much! I appreciate all the prayers!
Happy Thanksgiving!
Happy Tuesday, Nancy! Your roses are gorgeous, and that tea room looks so lovely. I love to visit a good tearoom. Your tea cart decorated for Christmas is so pretty. Dear friend, I will keep you in my prayers as you go through surgery and recover. I’m sending love and hugs your way! Take care!
Oh thank you, thank you dear Shannon. I appreciated all the prayers! So good to hear from you!
Happy Thanksgiving!
Good morning Nancy, sending prayers your way for your hip surgery and speedy recovery! The roses are beautiful and enjoy seeing your collections highlighted for some Christmas cheer. You make me want to seek out tomato servers and start a collection. 😊 Love your festive tea cart! I have a similar cardinal teapot that is a favorite. Thinking of you! ♥
Thank you so much, Mary! I appreciate your prayers and well wishes. I am ready!
I started two friends on the hunt for tomato servers. They too have now started a collection. 🥰
Thank you always for your sweet comments.
Happy Thanksgiving!
I will be thinking of you in this big week, Nance. Here’s to the great things that will come from this Hip, Hip Hooray as you’ll walk around wonderfully to new adventures in Arizona and Pennsylvania!
I so appreciate you Mr. Mark! Thank you! 🙏
Nancy, wishing all the best in prayerful thought for you and your medical team! As for collections, the better question may be, “what don’t you collect?” lol My favorite collections are my antique beaded and mesh purses, and my dishes, of course! Love your Christmas decor and blooming roses.
Thank you Rita. We all love our dishes, don’t we? Your Beaded purses collection sounds delightful.
Thank you so much for the well wishes. I am ready! 🥰❤️
Fab pics…love the sundial! Super cool! And… sending big hugs and love to you, Nancy Lou, for an easy procedure and a speedy recovery. xoxoxox! 😊❤️😊
Thank you, Vicki Lou! I am ready! 🥰❤️
Keep us posted! Sending love, love, love! ❤️😊❤️
I shall!
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I smiled at your beginning sentence. You’re very clever! Hip, hip, hooray for you. I hope all goes well. Your roses are gorgeous!
Thank-you Lenore! I am ready! 🥰❤️
So much beauty in this post! The roses, the adorable town you went to with your friend and the beauty there, your tea cart, the tea place in town- I was swooning over it all. I hope that everything goes with your hip surgery and the recovery. I will try to remember to pray for you (I´m just being honest- I will make an effort to pray for you but I don´t want to say that I will just to say it if that makes sense). Looking forward to hearing how it went and how you´re feeling.
Your thoughts right now have been heard by God. So, you have already prayed for me and my procedure. Thank you! 🥰❤️
Thank you also for enjoying my pictures. It was a great week.
Happy Thanksgiving!
I hope all goes well with your surgery! Your roses are beautiful.
Thank You Joanne!