Last September Jeanine Byers and myself had a vision to start yet another blog challenge. The idea was to have it the month before the Ultimate Blog Challenge to get bloggers geared up and ready to begin writing for the upcoming challenge. We started with a few members and a list of topics for each day. It was exciting especially since the members were those that we had already known from the UBC. Our second Cornerstone challenge was in December 2020. Again we had a good turnout and the bloggers
Today is May 31st, the last day of the May Ultimate Blog Challenge! A few years ago I wrote a poem for the beginning of the challenge. I used the same poem and added a few extra lines for the ending of the challenge. So since the end is here, it’s time to share my poem once again! I started the Ultimate Blog Challenge in January 2016 and I completed each challenge since then, 22 to be exact! I have met so many wonderful bloggers over the years and many
Yes, today is NATIONAL CREATIVITY DAY and everyone is creative in their on way. If something inspires your or motivates you let your creative energy shine through. According to the National Calendar Day website, back in 2018 Hal Croasmun and ScreenwritingU.com founded National Creativity Day to celebrate the imaginative spirits everywhere and to keep encourage them to keep creating what they love to do. May 30th was the day proclaimed to celebrate this day each year. I’m not an educator or teacher, just a mom, grandmother and great grandmother but
Since it’s the weekend and the weather is getting nice Lia decided to make copycat Sonic slushes. Slushes are easy to make and refreshing on a hot day. But a word of warning, they are overly sweet! These are easy to make with only four ingredients, ice water, crushed ice, sugar and powdered drink mix. We divided the ingredients in fourths for our trial slushes. We put the crushed ice and water in the blender cup then added strawberry Kool-Aid. Next Lia sprinkled the sugar over the Kool-Aid and blended
I posted about the pizza I made and the delicious no-bake cookies for our Deflecto Clean up the Clutter party but I didn’t mention the turkey wraps until Ma posted about our successful Deflecto party. Some of the readers were asking about them so I thought I would tell you how quick and easy they are to put together for my Friday Story Time by Lia. Turkey wraps are quick and easy to make, each wrap takes: 1 flour tortilla, 2-3 thin slices of turkey, 1 1/2 slices American cheese,