delicious recipe – apple dapple cake

25 Wednesday Jan 2012

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Remember the post a little while ago about the  variety of southern cookbooks I purchased with birthday money? Well, I am enjoying them, to say the very least. I love cooking through the recipes and sharing them with my husband, family, and friends.

This recipe – the one for the Apple Dapple Cake – is a must try, must make again recipe.

My mom came over and I said, no matter what crazy diet you are on – really, y’all, she’s done a tremendous job of diligently taking care of her body through good eating and exercise and as a reward to herself, she’s lost weight – you MUST try this cake! Thankfully, she thought the cake was worth straying from her healthy eating regime.

I told her I practically licked the batter bowl clean after pouring the majority of it into the Bundt pan. Delish!

This is the one! From A-Z (apples to zucchini!), this cookbook is a collection of southern recipes

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we could all use a bath

24 Tuesday Jan 2012

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Yesterday I was sick. It really started Sunday evening. I just could not get warm. I drank a cup of hot cocoa, snuggled into bed underneath all the covers and my winter fur blanket. I still was chilly.

Tyler brought me the thermometer and I checked my temperature. Sure enough, I had a low-grade fever. With Tylenol in me, I fell asleep.

In the morning I let my sweet friend, Lauren, know I had a fever. She has been nursing everyone under her roof back to health. Even her parents and the in-laws came into town, promptly fell ill, and she became nurse to them, too.

She immediately offered all of her loving care and help. Yesterday afternoon, she brought over a cleansing bath potion. It wasn’t hard to follow her advice : Take a hot bath in a calming, cleansing solution. No problem!

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preparation – is freedom

19 Thursday Jan 2012

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Let me continue with the same thought from yesterday’s post. I wrote, “When you are prepared, this is the truth, you are available to help and to love others around you.”

Preparation – the physical conditioning of life – provides you with the flexibility and freedom to love and to help others around you well.

When you are prepared you can open your arms, your home, your lives, to those around you – family, friends, neighbors, strangers.

If you are not prepared – if you are not ready – if you do not have any of it all together, then you cannot easily help anyone else. You are the one who needs help.

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prepare – the physical conditioning of life

18 Wednesday Jan 2012

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purpose. plan. prepare.

here we are at the prepare part of life.

we’ve stated our purpose.

purpose – to glorify the Lord and to enjoy Him forever. to love Him most and to love others well.

plan – JOY – Jesus, Others, You.

prepare.

When I think of preparing, I think of packing for a trip. We know why and where we are going, what we are going to do. With packing, you are getting ready what you want to talk along for the ride. When you pack, you have your essentials. You take a few what-ifs. You fold your clothes well, you remember your toothbrush. I pack all of my books on top.

Preparation is packing for life. I think that sounds funny – like you are carrying a gun.

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quick & yummy stick-with-you dinner

17 Tuesday Jan 2012

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I got this Italian Chicken recipe from Pinterest. Just get out your crockpot, line it with the chicken breasts, mix the ingredients in a bowl, pour the mixture over the chicken in the crockpot and let it cook on low all day long. Serve the creamy chicken over egg noodles sprinkled with some parsley and voila! you have a delicious hot dinner that will stick to your bones.

 

Italian Chicken

4 chicken breasts, 1 packet Zesty Italian dressing seasoning, 1 8 oz. cream cheese (softened), 2 cans cream of chicken soup; Cook on low for 4 hours. If sauce is too thick, add a little milk. Serve over pasta.

This photograph is from a blog, Homemade by Holman, but the recipe does not match the photo - The recipe above is easier :) and yummy. My husband loved it!

 

patchwork

16 Monday Jan 2012

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Yesterday’s sermon was so inspiring. The word of God was preached over me – Russ went through scripture and talked about doing what the Lord has called you to do. All of the message was right in line with and added even more to all that the Lord has already been teaching me, walking me through. With ease I planned out my Monday.

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a wintry warm recipe

13 Friday Jan 2012

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From one of my southern cookbooks, At My Grandmother’s Knee, I baked this delicious Pumpkin Bread.

I appreciated that this recipe was the kind that you just do a quick mix of all of the ingredients and bake it. It came out perfectly and we enjoyed it many mornings for breakfast. Tyler and I made this bread and delivered it to friends of ours who had just had their second son. I think pumpkin bread is the kind of delicious treat, breakfast, or snack that is everyone’s favorite comfort food.

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hierarchy of priorities – a real life example

12 Thursday Jan 2012

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Sometimes your relationships and your planner can collide. This is when it is so very important to let the Lord take the front seat, to remember who comes first in your personal “OTHERS” aspect of JOY, and to remember that your planner is to help you keep your relationships in order.

Here’s a very recent real life example in my life ::

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planning – hierarchy of priorities

11 Wednesday Jan 2012

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Planning includes dealing with hierarchy of priorities. Do you know what I mean when I say this? It may seem like a mouthful, but it’s a discipline that once you get under your belt, it’s simple to maintain. Please realize that when I use the word simple, I do not mean “easy.” Relating to yesterday’s post, running is simple – but running is not easy. Especially not at first!

Ohk, so hierarchy of priorities has to do with ordering your world, ordering your relationships. We look to Scripture to know order – God is the God of order – and to know what our world should center around. Scripture tells us from the very beginning – in Genesis before the Fall, that our worlds should be ordered around

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