Reading the bible in 90 days, sounds like a huge undertaking for me..especially the more I think about it...in fact, if I were to think about it long enough I could talk myself right out of it!

But I won't. at least that is the plan right now.

Silly Fun..Nothing Better

Great thing is that these guys are that way most of the time! I love thier joy and their happiness!

Wanna Try a Magic Trick?

I have a magic trick to share with you!

Looks like a tray of saltines, huh?

I cannot turn water into wine...but I CAN turn crackers into candy!

And I will share my magic trick with you

First cover your Buttered, (or Pammed) cookie sheet, or sheet cake pan, with Saltines. Salt side up. Fill in any gaps with broken crackers.

Alternative; Use Cheese Its--really! These are fantatstic, get the big sized. Or you can use Club crackers too.

Once your pan is covered with a layer of crackers set it aside. Preheat your oven to 400. In a heavy bottomed sauce pan melt 2 sticks of butter, when melted add 1 packed cup of brown sugar. Blend together and bring to a bubbly boil. Cool for 3-4 minutes stirring now and then.

Pour hot mixture slowly over the sheet of crackers -----really, this will turn out!

Put in oven for 7 minutes. Make sure the liquid is all bubbly before you take it out. DO NOT touch the stuff----you will loose 9 layers of skin! (spoken from experience!)

Sprinkle one bag of chocolate chips over the top. You can use semi sweet, milk or my favorite is Hersheys Special Dark. Let set for 5- 10 minutes and then with a spatula spread the chips like you are frosting a cake. At this point you can top the candy with chopped nuts, crushed crackers, sprinkles....what ever you would like.

You can let this set out, but we generally put it in the freezer for 20 minutes. When it is cold you can pry up one corner and start breaking into chunks. Some people actually cut it, but that is far too sophisticated for me!

So your magic trick really will work..... You can turn crackers into candy

Christmas Cracker Candy

Saltines, (Club, or Big Cheese Its work Great too)

2 sticks of butter

1 cup of brown sugar packed

1 bag of chocolate chips

Nuts optional

Preheat oven to 400 degrees

Line butter cookie sheet with crackers till covered completely. Melt butter in sauce pan, add brown sugar and stir till bubbly, cook 3 -5 minutes. Slowly pour over crackers, put in oven for about 7 minutes, making sure liquid is bubbly. Remove from oven and sprinkle chips ontop. Wait 5 minutes and smooth out the chocolate chips, like frosting a cake, you can add any nuts if you would like to at this time. Cool, and cut or crack into small pieces. Store in air tight container!!! My favorite version is Cheese its with Special Dark Chocolate Chips and chopped Cashews on top!

forgetfulness

As I write that title I realize that I have even forgot how to spell that word properly!

So it has taken several days for me to finally admit that I really did forget my blog account password, and I had to email for a reminder. How sad is that?

I forget far too much, and I would like to forget that another birthday is quickly approaching, but I dont see that happening anytime soon.

So in the hustle and bustle of forgetfulness, I have found things that I DO remember:

I remember when my mother added food coloring to her canned pears once. She used yellow, red, green, and blue.......all in seperate batches of course. Two years later, after she died, the blue ones were still there, no one found thoe very appealing!

I remember the last New Years Eve my mother was alive. She must have known that it would be her last. She pushed to come home from the hospital, and had a portable bed put in the living room, and we stayed up and celebrated together. Having just turned 11 that month, I had no idea what was really going on. Today I can only image the heart ache she was going through knowing that this would be the last hear she would celebrate with her children.

I remember being so anxious to see my babies, the time seemed like it would never come! And I only carried both of them for 8 months instead of 9. I loved being pregnant, I loved the excitement of it all. How I long for that kind of joy again.

What will my children remember? Thats a sobering thought right now. I need to give them more memories of happiness, love, joy, .......

I have a percription I need to fill. No, I am not sick, well not terminally that is. It's more like I have a 'condition' that this perscription can take care of. You see..... to feel better, to be cured, I need to move forward and grow in God. This prescription for achieving this is found in 2 Peter 1:3-10. There is an interesting progressive perscription that leads to true love and growth.

1 part Faith
1 part Goodness
1 part Knowledge
1 part Self Control
1 part Perseverance
1 part Godliness
1 part Brotherly Love
1 part Love

8 simple ingredients to grow in God and to grow His Kingdom. When was the last time you built something grand with 8 simple steps? These baby steps are the prescription for keeping me from stumbling in my relationships and my life. If I am practicing this progression in every area of my life, I am ultimately operating in His divine nature that has been given to me--and YOU too (2 Pet. 1:3-4). I just want to love God, love His people, and love the world He died for and this simple progressive perscription is the key.

This Imperfect Soul on a Path with Perfect Love

This imperfect soul, perfected by the blood of the Saviour is trying very hard to get back on track. That track focuses on consistant quiet time with God and His word. The track itself is perfect, God the Father set it up and laid it out. He put me, the imperfect, willful, stumbling child on that perfect track with these reminders:

(1) He is in absolute control of every circumstance in my life - (1Chronicles 29;11,12). He is my God, my Father. He knows me – (John 10:14), because He made me – (Psalm 139:13). He loves me - (Romans 5:8). I am His child – (Galatians 4:4-7), redeemed by the blood of the Lamb – (Ephesians 1:3-7).

(2) All that I am and have are from his generous hand – (James 1:17) and I am not to be a slave to either my personal tendencies or my earthly possessions. Instead, He expects me to be a good and faithful steward of my time, my gifts and my talents.

(3) As I weave my way through the varying seasons and circumstances of my life, though the way may be rocky, stormy and uncertain sometimes, I need not be anxious – (Matthew 6:25-34), because He has already designed the path of my life - (Proverbs 20:24). Moreover, He walks beside me, holds my hand, carries my burdens, steadies me when I stumble and lifts me up when I fall - (Psalm 37:23,24; 40:2; 68:19)