It’s Friday Story Time by Lia again and I’ve had such a busy week in South Carolina. I’ve been baking cookies but the other day I made a chocolate cake with raspberry frosting and loaded with chocolate frosting in the middle. I made the chocolate cake from a package but instead of adding water, I added some chocolate coffee creamer to the mix. Once again I baked it on the oven Air Fryer setting and it turned out so moist. Now for the fun decorating part. I made chocolate buttercream
Since today is Throwback Thursday I thought I would share a bit of humor. We had our kitchen remodeled in 2019 and today on this date we had our new stove delivered. It was a Samsung that I almost had to go back to school to learn how to operate it because it has so many settings. LOL Fast forward six, yes SIX years later and I just started using the oven Air Fryer setting! I have used the dehydrator setting a few times and that’s great for flowers and
Last week I was looking out my kitchen window and mentioned to my granddaughter that I was hoping to see a butterfly on our butterfly bush. I planted it a few months ago and it has grown so much and is loaded with bright purple flowers. Not even five minutes later this beautiful yellow Swallow Tail landed on one of the flowers. I started taking pictures through the window but then slowly walked over to the bush and the butterfly stayed there. He went from flower to flower, didn’t land
I recently visited my daughter and son-in-law in Virginia and every time I go up there she has all kinds of goodies in my room. This time she had the mother load all set up to welcome me. I not only had a box of snacks, water, body lotion and fancy soap but she even had a big stuffed monkey for Snowball! There was also a new pair of fuzzy slippers, a bottle storage holder and a Dash Egg Cooker waiting for me! After I got home I found the
Today I have many thoughts running through my head. Many know that July is a tough month for me, it would have been Rich’s and my 58th wedding anniversary on July 29th and his 79th birthday on July 31st. Grief is like an ocean, it comes in waves. Some days I’m fine while others days I can’t even function normally. My brain wanders and wonders and I get to where I constantly over think or don’t think at all. Sleep is out of the question and sometimes I just curl