Happy 4th of July

Happy 4th of July everyone. Please be careful with your fireworks while celebrating. Please be respectful of others and stopping shooting them at a reasonable hour.

Say thank you to military personal and their families for all they do. Afterall, we live in the land of the free because of the brave men & women.

I don't know yet what we;ll do for CIJ today but will try to celebrate a little at least.

Until next time..

CIJ-Day 3 yummy

It's 12:30 a.m my time so that makes it CIJ Day 3. I'll be going to bed in a few mins so I'll hopefully be able to get up for church. But first I thought I'd share a couple  recipes with you. One recipe comes from a free Nook book. The title of the book is "Christmas Dessert Decadence"


Peanut Butter chip & chocolate chip clusters

1 (10 oz) pk of Reeses Peanut Butter chips

1 (11.5) 0z pk of either Semi-sweet chocalate chips

       or 1 package of milk chocolate chips

1 (12 oz) can cocktail peanuts


Place chips in a microwave safe bowl. Microwave on high for 1 min. Stir. Microwave for another 1-1 1/2 min to be completely melted. After chips are melted stir the mixture until smooth. Stir in peanuts.

Spoon heaping tablespoon of mixture onto wax paper.

Makes app 20 big pieces. Candy will be hard enough to remove from wax paper in about 4 mins. Store in refrigerator.


I've heard Diedra talk on the board about:

Frozen Hot Chocolate

3 Tablespoons Granulated Sugar


1 package Hot Cocoa Mix (about 3 Tablespoons)

2 Tablespoons Unsalted Butter

⅓ cups Semi-Sweet Chocolate Chips

⅓ cups White Chocolate Chips

12 ounces, fluid Can Evaporated Milk, Divided

4-½ cups Ice

Whipped Cream, To Taste

Mini Marshmallows, To Taste

Combine sugar, cocoa mix, and butter in the top of a double boiler that is set over gently boiling water. Stir often until melted and a smooth paste forms. Add semi-sweet & white chocolate chips; stir. When chips begin to melt, slowly stir in 1/2 cup of evaporated milk. Stir until smooth. Cool to room temperature.

Combine the chocolate base mixture, the remaining evaporated milk and ice in a blender (you can do this in batches) and cover. Blend until smooth. Pour into frosty glasses. Top each with whipped cream. Sprinkle with additional chopped chocolate chips & mini marshmallows, if desired.

http://tastykitchen.com/recipes/drinks/frozen-hot-chocolate-2/

If you go to the site and see the pic of this you'll be drooling:)

Until next time...

CIJ-Day 2

I've managed to life my mood a little bit, altho my prayers are still with folks hurting in our town.. I thought I'd share our plans for today with you.

Since it's pretty warm outside today we decided to watch a Christmas movie tonight. We will watch "Deck the Halls." I haven't seen it but DGD has. She said it's a good movie. The plan is to shut down the pc, put the cell on silent and enjoy the movie together. Of course, we'll have some snacks to enjoy while we watch it.

At the moment I'm looking around some new(to me) blogs and getting ideas. Isn't it funny how blogs are like Lays potato chips, you look at one and usually(at least for me) that leads to another, then  another, another and so on and on lol. Some time this month we hope to make some paper candy canes:)

Thought to ponder:

Count your blessings, not your problems.
 
Until next time...

Christmas in July-CIJ

Today is the first day of July. Anyone who knows me knows I dislike this heat. But one of the great things about July is alot of folks celebrate Christmas in July(CIJ).

DGD(dear granddaughter) & I like to do alot of things together including celebrating CIJ. Today already we've listened to CIJ music on pandora.com  It's fun to hear old as well as new songs and sing along. I don't know what/if we'll do tonight. Which brings me to what we plan to do one day this month...

I'm the type that likes to put my own spin on things when possible. While looking around blogs yesterday I saw the idea for an outside movie as well as talk about drive inns, which there are none close to here. But my brain goes ah ha we can do our own drive in:)

I have 2  laptops, 1 a full size and the other a smaller netbook which doesn't have a CD ROM drive. I prefer to use the netbook if I can find a place online to watch free movies/cartoons. One evening when it gets dusky dark we're going to take a laptop and our treats(soda, popcorn, candy bars etc) to our car. Set the netbook on the dash and watch our movie outside...Our own personal drive in:) I have battery operated fans if needed.

Of course we could watch the movie inside, but this is something different to experience. I'm old enough(birthday next week too) to have experienced drive inns. But DGD never has so we'll do our own version.

Don't be afraid to think outside the box.

Until next time...

DRAMA, DRAMA, DRAMA

There is SO much drama in this world. Anyone ever wonder why? Read on for my thoughts. To me it's because we CHOOSE to be involved in it. To me DRAMA reminds me of high school, he said, she said, be on my side, be mad at him/her and it goes on and on and on!

I'm not talking about when we're angry, hurt, or life is getting us down and we need to vent. I'm talking about when the "thing" whatever it is keeps getting told, told & retold by us and others. We react in pain or anger and all the negative energy involved in DRAMA.

Instead of taking a break to calm down and searching for a more positive way to deal with our situations. I feel when we stay in DRAMA we block the good things from coming to us and those we love. Often times, we're so wrapped up in the DRAMA that's all we see, hear, thing about, talk about.

Personally, I feel we can't fix other's problems and while it's ok for them to talk to me, all I can try to do is give them a more positive way to look at/handle it. It's their CHOICE to stay in the DRAMA or remove theirselves from it. And enjoy their life and the love ones in it. And it's my CHOICE to say I'm sorry but all I have to offer is my advice, prayers and encouragement that you'll find a peaceful, calming way for you to handle that DRAMA.

Adults high school is over, let's show the younger generation more positive way's to enjoy & live life.

Until next time...

A little something for now

It's the last day of June. I don't have much to say right now. I'm on my way to check out Christmas in July blogs. I might be bback later to share any ideas I find that I like. Until then here's a quote to ponder

Looking forward to things is half the pleasure of them.- Lucy Maud Montgomery

Copy and paste

I'm trying to figure out why I couldn't copy, & paste so after a google search. I'm trying some of the suggestions...

Ok folks here is what I've done tonight. I made a mistake in the first line of this post. My cursor jumped on me so I copied my words to move them, when I hit paste it popped up a box I clickd allow & alot of this post is copied & pasted.


The paragraph with the " was copied from a page I found in my search. I was actually going to try that next if needed.


"It could be because of your web browser.  I had to put my IE 8 into compatability mode ( a button just to the right of your address bar) before i could paste into the field.It could be because of your web browser.  I had to put my IE 8 into compatability mode ( a button just to the right of your address bar) before i could paste into the field."

The quote below was c &  p.

Everything you do can be done better from a place of relaxation.- Stephen C. Paul

It's been awhile

As you can see it's been awhile since I posted. I hope to revive this blog, I started to make a new one but after re-reading through some of the post I realized there is some good stuff here :) And why bother starting another one since this one was started about life & all the possibilties in it. So as before you will read about my life here. What I see, feel, think, do, expereience. Nothing is ever written to offend anyone but with the hope another can relate and hopefully learn as well as find encouragement.

I asked a question on one of the boards I go to this morning that I'm sure other's can relate to-Do you ever feel no-one is listening? Sometimes I feel like I talk out in public, at home and online too but no-one is listening. To be truthful when this happens I often become frustrated, because I know I'd be one of the first to help another anyway I could. And it's not always about helping with a problem sometimes I just want to be acknowledged and responded to.

My granddaughter is enjoying her WII game again. It's been packed away for 2 months. We took it with us when we left home for 6 days in May to go stay with my son & DIL. But the Mississippi River is backing in it's banks and thank God our town wasn't flooded like so many others were along the river.

My hubby has been on vacation since last Wednesday evening, he goes back to work tomorrow.We didn't have the money to go away but we've had a nice staycation. We went to visit my stepmom and took her out to eat, then enjoyed a cool breeze on her lovely porch. Our son and DIL came in from out of town to go to a favorite little cafe. As well as doing things around the house so it's been nice.

July 1st will be here Friday. My granddaughter and I hope to do some celebrating of Christmas in July. July 6th is my birthday, we have no plans but a nice, relaxing day sounds good to me :)

We'll I was going to end the post with a quote to ponder but for some reason blogger isn't letting me copy & paste.

So till next time....

A winter Hug for my friends

Send this eCard !



Sending a big bear hug
to keep u warm and cozy
this winter

I knitted this hat last night with my round knifty knitter. It is the 1st one I made. It was simple to make using my knifty knitter. I used the blue one to make this hat. The one I'm making now will be made on the red one so it will be larger. I like how easy these are to do.

The picture is a little blurry because I had to use my DGD phone to take the picture.