Sweets For Your Sweetie!

This post is just tooooooo sweet! It is from a site I frequent called "I Am Baker", and let me tell you, she is!
Enjoy, and make something sweet for your sweetie!!!!!

Jan 19, 2011
White Chocolate Dippers {Valentines Edition}
This is probably the easiest thing I have ever made.


Scratch that... easiest thing I have ever assembled.

The only requirement is that you love white chocolate. Still on board? Lets go!
These are white chocolate dippers... made to be dunked in a nice mug of warm milk, or, if you are a chocolate maniac like me, a nice cup of hot cocoa!


Yes. All it is is a huge glob of chocolate on a stick. Whoever thought of these is my best friend for life.
They are so easy to do its not even funny.
Get bag of white chocolate chips.
Melt them.
Put them into a small cup. (I used mini plastic cups)
Insert popsicle stick or spoon.
Place in refrigerator for about one hour (or as long as you want) then remove from cup.
You can add strawberry extract, or almond, or vanilla, or coconut, or banana, or lemon, or... uh.., whatever other extracts are made!


You could even put them in a sweet little bag and present them to your friends and family for Valentines Day.
Whatever you do... just make sure you save one for yourself!



Thank you to I Am Baker for this Sweet idea!!!!

Sewing, Crafting, Creating!!!!

Our little Livi is sooooooooooooooooo into bows and big flowers in her hair. We have been pinning flowers (that I made) onto head bands and she wears them with such great joy....so, I decided to put up a link here for you to get a few ideas of your own.
Ucreate!
http://www.u-createcrafts.com/

Hope you like it!!!!
Happy Thursday!!!!!!

Wow, how life changes!!!

Well, our big news is that our sweet son, delightful daughter in law and the 3 munchkins are back!!! They were living in New Orleans for the past 3 years, and the Lord used and grew them greatly in that time, at a wonderful church, with wonderful people and an amazing Pastor.
Life changes often and the Lord makes our plans His plans. Sooooo, they have moved back to thier home town to pursue the next chapter!
We could not be more happy or to some extent, more sorrowful for thier return. Happy, because we can physically wrap our arms around them, sorrowful for thier having to leave such a wonderful church.
Of course, we also have a wonderful church, so the transition should be a bit less painful for them, and being right with God will always make things joyful and less sorrowful.
So, our home is zoo at the moment
....wound up children who have spent the past 16 hours in a moving van, our dogs in a state of confusion and a blowing yucky snow storm spewing outside....but boy, is life grand!!!!

The Papers Are Laughing At Me!!!!

But I, by your great love, can come into your house; in reverence I bow down toward your holy temple. Lead me, LORD, in your righteousness....Psalm 5:7-8a
My life is over full. Alot by MY own choices, but much by HIS choices. A phone call from a frustrated wife who wants to just walk out of her marriage, an unexpected call, and I am to be the advice giver...that is from God, not from me. But on the other hand, the need to put my home back into some semblance of organization is all on my shoulders, as I let the piles grow during the holidays, and now they stare me in the face...almost grinning and I swear (you know, the good kind of swearing, not the awful words kind of swearing :)] I can almost hear those piles of papers laughing at me when I walk into the room!!!!
I guess, that every new year, we all must on some level, feel the need to "get organized" as is evident in every store that you walk into during the month of Jan. with all the bins, tubs, drawer units, etc. that are filling their isles, all shiny bright colored and suggestive of the major "life change" that you can have if you will only purchase these products right now!!!

Well, as I have been reading through a psalm or two this week, the above one stood out to me. LEAD me Lord, in YOUR righteousness. Hmmmmm, nothing about ME taking the lead. Nothing about how I can make my life less full, crazy, overwhelming. Just God, taking the lead. So simple, yet so difficult for our human egos, minds, attitudes or what ever it is, to grab hold of.
I believe that if God (and I do) has put all this in my life, HE will lead me in the paths of ability, workmanship and righteousness. He will be the strength to endure. He will be the joy and laughter in the midst of an overwhelmingly full day. He will be the endurance to run the race. He will be my All in All.
So, even though I am still going to have to tackle that pile of laughing at me papers, even though I am still going to have to do laundry, teach Sunday School, work, cook, clean, help with Awana, etc....it WILL be the Lord who directs and leads me to HIS righteousness. And THAT makes me breath a huge sigh of relief.