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Happy Mothers Day – 2022!

5/7/2022

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Mothers Day is a holiday honoring motherhood that is observed throughout the world. The American origin of Mothers Day was created by Anna Jarvis in 1908 and became an official U.S. holiday in 1914.

While dates and celebrations vary, Mother’s Day most commonly falls on the second Sunday in May. It traditionally involves presenting mothers with flowers, cards and other gifts.


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​Anna Jarvis also began the custom of wearing a carnation on Mother’s Day. A colored carnation if your mother is living and white if she’s not. It was intended to be a simple, inexpensive symbol of love and respect for the person who loved you before you even knew how to spell the word.

Unfortunately, the story of Anna Jarvis has a bittersweet ending. At first, people observed Mother’s Day by attending church, writing letters to their mothers, and spending time together.

As the years passed though, more people began buying cards, presents, and flowers. Anna felt that Mother’s Day became much too commercialized. She was outraged when the price of carnations rose significantly and attacked florists as “profiteers.”

Jarvis filed a lawsuit to stop a 1923 Mother’s Day festival. She was even arrested for disturbing the peace at a war mothers’ convention where women were selling carnations to raise money. Said Anna: “This is not what I intended. I wanted a day of sentiment, not profit.”


Thank You, Mother 
Once upon a memory 
Someone wiped away a tear 
Held me close and loved me, 
Thank you, Mother dear.
~ Anon
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Happy Mothers Day from Colorado Springs Over 50!


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Mothers Day Cookies – A Special Treat

4/28/2022

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Who doesn’t love Mothers Day Cookies?

​So many of us associate cookies with our mothers baking cookies for special occasions and after-school treats. We have a few ideas for you that makes a plain sugar cookie into a “master piece.”

But first a little history about Mother’s Day…

Mother’s Day is a holiday honoring motherhood that is observed throughout the world. The American origin of Mother’s Day was created by Anna Jarvis in 1908 and became an official U.S. holiday in 1914. While dates and celebrations vary, Mother’s Day most commonly falls on the second Sunday in May and traditionally involves presenting mothers with flowers, cards and other gifts.
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To make these Mothers Day cookies, use your favorite sugar cookie recipe. Then, decorate them as you see in the photos. This is a great time for your creativity to shine!

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Mothers Day Cookies #2
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Mothers Day Cookies #3 
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A tip for decorating sugar cookies: Make icing with confectioners’ sugar and milk. Make it fairly thin and ‘paint’ the icing on the cookies with a pastry brush. Thin enough to spread easily but not so thin that it just makes your cookies wet and runs off. For Cookies 2 & 3 above, you might want the frosting a little thicker.

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Easter Umbrella Door Decoration

3/25/2022

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It’s time to decorate your front door for spring and the upcoming Easter celebrations with this easy, creative umbrella door decoration.

By using spring colors and items associated with springtime, you will have a great addition to your front door.

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Directions:

* A bouquet of pink tulips, along with greenery and dyed eggshells filled with daffodils. They are tucked neatly into an umbrella for a unique Easter door decoration.

* To make, tie a pretty pink ribbon halfway up a closed umbrella to create a makeshift vase for your arrangement.

* Create pockets between front ribs and tuck in tissue paper to support a crafts-store bird’s nest. Use blown-out dyed Easter eggs, fresh flowers, and greenery such as ferns and moss.

* When you’re finished, wire the arrangement to a hook to hang on your front door.

* You now have a door umbrella decoration that is just right for spring and Easter!

Editor’s Tip:

To keep flowers fresh, put the stems in water vials or heavy plastic bags filled with floral foam powder which is available at floral supply stores. Source...

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St. Patrick’s Day Food Ideas!

3/12/2022

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Are you looking for St. Patrick’s Day food ideas? Well, we have just what you need.

Fruit Rainbow

Olives, blueberries, green grapes, pineapple, orange slices, strawberries, small marshmallows and  gold foil wrapped candy.

And, the rainbow has a pot of gold at the end of it!


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Chocolate Cupcakes w/ Green Frosting and Gold Foil Wrapped Coins
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This is an easy way to make any cupcakes into St. Patrick’s Day cupcakes. Chocolate and white cake mixes or recipes work well with the green frosting.

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​Shamrock Smoothie w/ Gold Coins

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These are easy to make and will be enjoyed by young and old alike!
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St. Patrick’s Day Food Ideas – Make it a Fun and Memorable Irish Day!
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Happy Valentines Day

2/13/2022

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Happy Valentines Day 2022!

This is a special day to send love to those special people in your life.

Enjoy this Valentines Day poem to celebrate this special day.
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A Valentine is Nothing Like

A Valentine is nothing like
A chocolate or a rose.
For in a week these shall be gone,
But Valentines remain.


If love were always sweet to tongue
Or fragrant to the nose,
Each day would be like Valentine’s,
And we would go insane.


A Valentine just hangs around
Waiting to be kissed
Long after special days have passed
And every days are here.
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So one is wise to choose one well
And chocolates to resist.
For in the midst of mania
It’s nice to have one near.


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Related Post: Valentine Cupcakes

Enjoy ~ Happy Valentines Day 2022
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Clever Snack Ideas for Valentines Day

2/12/2022

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Just in time for Valentines Day…clever snack ideas for Valentines Day are easy to make. Add a festive touch to this special day with these snack ideas for Valentines Day that even the kids and grand kids can help make.

1) Easy Marshmallow Valentine Treats

Use strawberry marshmallows, dip them in melted chocolate and sprinkle them with little nonpareils. Decorate them with heart picks. So easy and fun!

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Source: Marshmallow Valentine Treats


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2) Cupid’s Arrows: candy hearts + pretzel sticks
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Source: Cupid’s Arrows

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3) Heart Kabobs – Made with strawberries, cantaloupe, pineapple, watermelon and black olives.
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4) Valentine Cinnamon Cookie Crunch Popcorn Mix
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Source: Cinnamon Cookie Crunch Popcorn Mix
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This is a printable and can also be used on a tin can treat…for complete instructions:

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Snack Ideas for Valentines Day at Your Fingertips!
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Celebrating Martin Luther King Jr. Day

1/16/2022

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Today we celebrate the birthday of Martin Luther King, Jr., the historical civil rights leader. His birthday is actually on January 15, but is observed on the third Monday of January each year. King was an American Baptist minister and a leader in the Civil Rights Movement.

King is best known for his role in civil rights in using nonviolent civil disobedience which were based on his Christian beliefs. He led the 1955 Montgomery bus boycott. King helped found the Southern Christian Leadership Conference in 1957 and served as its first president.

He helped organize the 1963 nonviolent protests in Birmingham, Alabama. In 1963 he helped organize the March on Washington where he delivered his famous “I Have a Dream” speech.

In October 1964, King was honored with the Nobel Peace Prize for combating racial inequality through nonviolent resistance. During the final years of his life, he expanded his focus towards improving poverty levels and the Vietnam War.
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Martin Luther King, Jr.
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King was planning a national occupation of Washington, D.C., called the Poor Peoples Campaign. However, he was assassinated on April 4, 1968 in Memphis, Tennessee before that event took place.

Martin Luther King was awarded two honors posthumously – the Presidential Medal of Freedom and the Congressional Gold Medal.

The federal holiday to honor Dr. King was created by a bill signed by President Ronald Reagan on November 2, 1983.

The Martin Luther King Jr. Memorial on the National Mall in Washington, D.C., was dedicated in 2011.

A point of interest – King’s legal name at birth was Michael instead of Martin (his father’s name was Michael as well). The elder King changed his and his son’s name in honor of the German reformer Martin Luther after attending the Fifth Baptist World Alliance Congress in Berlin in 1943.

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To celebrate this special day, King’s iconic “I Have a Dream” speech text can be found by clicking the link provided below.
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Click Link for “I Have a Dream” speech.
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Happy New Year to You & Yours!

12/30/2021

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                                         Happy New Year 2022 from Colorado Springs Over 50!

We are looking forward to a happy, healthy, and successful 2022 and wish the same for you and yours.

Here is a list of Quotes for the New Year by renowned people that will guide you as you traverse through the 365 days of 2022 – Enjoy!



1) “Every time you tear a leaf off a calendar, you present a new place for new ideas and progress.”  Charles Kettering

2) “Write it on your heart that every day is the best day in the year.”  Ralph Waldo Emerson

3) “Let this coming year be better than all the others. Vow to do some of the things you have always wanted to do but could not find the time. Call up a forgotten friend. Drop an old grudge, and replace it with some pleasant memories. Vow not to make a promise you do not think you can keep. Walk tall, and smile more. You will look 10 years younger. Do not be afraid to say, I love you. Say it again. They are the sweetest words in the world.”  Ann Landers

4) “Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things that you didn’t do than by the ones you did do. So throw off the bowlines. Sail away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore. Dream. Discover.”  Mark Twain

5) “Glory to God in highest heaven, Who unto man His Son hath given; While angels sing with tender mirth, A glad new year to all the earth.”  Martin Luther


6) “All of us every single year, we are a different person. I do not think we are the same person all our lives.”  Steven Speilberg

7) “Be always at War with your vices, at peace with your neighbors, and let each New Year find you, a better person.”  Benjamin Franklin
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                                        Happy New Year 2022 – Make It A Great Year!
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Merry Christmas to All!

12/24/2021

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Have a Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year!

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Enjoy this beautiful rendition of Carol of the Bells and Christmas Light Show!
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Interesting facts about Christmas:

Christmas Day is celebrated as a major festival and public holiday in countries around the world. This includes many whose populations are mostly non-Christian.

For Christians, participating in a religious service plays an important part in the recognition of the season. Christmas, along with Easter, is the period of highest annual church attendance.
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The practice of putting up special decorations at Christmas has a long history.

The modern Christmas tree tradition is believed to have begun in Germany in the 18th century.

Since the 19th century, the poinsettia, a native plant from Mexico, has been associated with Christmas.

Traditionally, Christmas carols have often been based on medieval chord patterns. This is what gives them their uniquely characteristic musical sound.

Christmas carols such as, “Good King Wenceslas” and “The Holly and the Ivy” can be traced directly back to the Middle Ages.

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NORAD Santa Tracker

12/23/2021

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Are you Ready?  Santa Claus is coming to town.

You can track him coming into your city!
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NORAD Deploys their NORAD Santa Tracker! 


NORAD will be tracking Santa (like they do every year) so get on board and watch when and where Santa Claus arrives in various parts of the world.

Go to the NORAD Santa Tracker web page and watch Santa in real time: 
​http://www.noradsanta.org
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The NORAD Tracks Santa program began as an annual event on December 24, 1955. According to legend, a Sears department store placed an advertisement in a Colorado Springs, Colorado, newspaper which told children that they could place a call to Santa Claus. It included the number ME 2-6681. A call allegedly came through to Colorado Springs’ Continental Air Defense Command (CONAD) Center as one digit was misprinted.

In some versions of the story, the calls were coming in to the “red telephone” hotline that connected CONAD directly to command authorities at the Strategic Air Command. Colonel Harry Shoup, who was a Crew Commander on duty, answered the first call and supposedly told his staff to give all children who called in later a “current location” for Santa Claus. 

NORAD Santa Tracker, it’s Fun!

Merry Christmas!


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