On this Day in History . . .

1066 - Harold Godwineson is crowned King Harold II - King of England.

1327 King Edward II of England is deposed.

1558 The French, under the Duke of Guise, finally take the port of Calais from the English.

1785 Frenchman Jean-Pierre Blanchard and American Dr. John Jeffries make the first crossing of the English Channel in a hydrogen balloon.

1807 Responding to Napoleon Bonaparte's attempted blockade of the British Isles, the British blockade Continental Europe.

1865 Cheyenne and Sioux warriors attack Julesburg, Colo., in retaliation for the Sand Creek Massacre.

1901 New York stock exchange trading exceeds two million shares for the first time in history.

 

1902 Imperial Court of China returns to Peking. The Empress Dowager resumes her reign.

1918 The Germans move 75,000 troops from the Eastern Front to the Western Front.

1934 Six thousand pastors in Berlin defy the Nazis insisting that they will not be silenced.

1944 The U.S. Air Force announces the production of the first jet-fighter, Bell P-59 Airacomet.

1945 U.S. air ace Major Thomas B. McGuire, Jr. is killed in the Pacific.

1952 French forces in Indochina launch Operation Violette in an effort to push Viet Minh forces away from the town of Ba Vi.

 

1955 Marian Anderson becomes the first African American to sing at the Metropolitan Opera House.

1975 Vietnamese troops take Phuoc Binh in new full-scale offensive.

1979 Pol Pot and his Khmer Rouge are overthrown when Vietnamese troops seize the Cambodian capital of Phnom Penh.

1980 US President Jimmy Carter signs legislation providing $1.5 billion in loans to salvage Chrysler Corporation.

1985 Vietnam seizes the Khmer National Liberation Front headquarters near the Thai border.

1985 Japan launches its first interplanetary spacecraft, Sakigake, the first deep space probe launched by any nation other than the US or the USSR.

 

1989 Prince Akihito is sworn in as Emperor of Japan, following the death of his father, Hirohito.

1990 Safety concerns over structural problems force the Leaning Tower of Pisa to be closed to the public.

1993 The Bosnian Army carries out a surprise attack on the village of Kravica in Srebrenica during the Bosnian War.

1999 The impeachment trial of US President Bill Clinton opens in the US Senate.

But the Most Important Event of All Happened in 1978 

 

Eileen Patricia Ramsay Prosser was born!  My oldest daughter Eileen, turns the big Four Oh today!  Its hard to believe that forty years has passed since the Doctor put this beautiful baby girl in my arms.  Weighing only 5 pound 6 ounces she was the tiniest baby I had ever seen, although I do know for sure there are tinier ones.  I had wanted a blond haired little girl with brown eyes since I was a little girl and dreamed of becoming a mother myself. I would call her Honey. Well, I didn't call her honey, but God answered my prayers and made me the mother of a lovely little blonde haired daughter with beautiful brown eyes! 

SHE IS AMAZING! 

 

She is a Special Olympian International Champion having won two golds and a bronze representing Canada at the International Special Olympics Winter Games in Idaho back in 2009. I was privileged to be able to see her compete when my friend Lura and I traveled up to Sun Valley with our friends the MacDonalds to watch her in action. 

 

She did me proud, but I was not surprised.  I have always been proud of our Eileen, no matter what.  She was an amazing little girl, filled with light and love and grew into an amazing adult, filled with light and love, with a smile that can light up a room and a generous, kind and loving heart.  We talk just about every day on the iPad on Messenger and are very close, but no surprise there.  We have always been close. 

 

I had always prayed to have a daughter I could be best friends with, and that prayer was also answered in my Eileen. We are best friends. We tell each other everything, and share everything with each other.  All our ups and all our downs. 

  

Our love of all things pink and sparkly . . . 

 

And Tiaras! 

We even share the Bum Chin.

A Villeneuve family trait!

  

Happy Birthday Eileen!

You only turn 40 once!

I hope you have a day filled with light and love

and Happy Birthday wishes!

On my 40th Birthday I was in Ottawa staying at my ex-in-laws, in the middle the process of moving from New Brunswick to Meaford, Ontario.  My SIL and I decided to go to Bingo that night and I won the Jackpot!  $1000.  I gave half to my SIL because we always had a deal that whoever won would split with the other.  I was convinced because I had won the Jack Pot at Bingo on my 40th, I would win the lottery on my 50th as the draw date for the lottery was on my Birthday. No such luck.  Not with my 60th either, but in thinking on it, I think I have already won the lottery in life.  Lovely children, a wonderful family, great friends, a comfortable home, a pooch exemplar and someone really special to share it all with! 

A thought to carry with you  . . . 

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Its every thing.

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Spiritual Enlightenment 

 

BOOK OF MORMON CORNER - Today's Reading - 2 Nephi 29:1-14   

Question - What is the purpose of the Book of Mormon? Why do we have additional scriptures to the bible? 

My Thoughts - Yesterday and today's readings really made me smile with astonishment. Just because I have heard people say almost exactly what these scriptures say. Or when people make derogatory comments on the church's Instagram feeds that feel like they are quoted directly from Korihor or Sherem! Each time I feel sad but it also hits me with power that this record is a TRUE record. It is 2,616ish years old and it is still ridiculously applicable, almost like it was kept back for our day 😉! Satan is still up to the SAME tricks and lies!! And every time someone says these things, these prophecies are fulfilled in greater measure. 

Also today's reading teaches us the importance of keeping our own record as another witness to our families. I have always been a bit rubbish at keeping a journal, but what I have found works for me is a book where I write down these scripture learnings and others comments each day. A gratitude list, each night I write down five things I'm grateful for from that day, and I also carry a small note book that I write down promptings and impressions. I'm not saying this to boast but more to give alternative ideas to writing a journal.  This is my own manageable way of journaling. My children (and posterity) can have my learnings, my testimonies, my promptings, my gratitudes . . .  a knowledge of our day to day life. They might end up saying "not another book! We have no need for any more books!!". This will be my family record, my testimony of Jesus Christ, pointing them towards Him. 

Tomorrow's Reading (Day 71) - 2 Nephi 30:1-18 

Question - What have you learnt from the reading today? Why do you think Nephi warns his people about self righteousness?  

 

You can't have a birthday without cake, and so in The English Kitchen  today  . . .  Ginger Crumb Cake with a Butter Sauce.  

Have a beautiful Sabbath Day everyone.  Don't forget!

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And I do too!