Last week I came up with the idea of Spiritual Sunday and I shared photos to reflect our blessings. Spiritual does not mean you have to be religious, it can include meditation, mindfulness, and prayer. I love going out to Mom’s Memory Garden to meditate and pray. It’s quiet and peaceful with the birds chirping and it’s the perfect way to start my day. I can feel my mom’s presence and there are times I even see a butterfly or cardinal that tells me mom is near. Mom loved flowers and
Got stale donuts? Don’t toss them, re-invent something new! Sometimes it’s hard to pass up a deal on buy one dozen get the second for a dollar. But even after passing donuts around to our neighbors we still end up with extra donuts. These are a few ideas to salvage the stale donuts! This glazed donut wasn’t too stale so I microwaved it for 15 seconds and turned it into a layer cake topped with a mini brownie, whipped topping and a dollop of brownie batter. Lia has a new
It’s Friday Story Time by Lia and the past few times I’ve baked I came up with my own recipes. I would pull the ingredients out of the cupboard and start mixing everything together. Ma would watch me and write down the recipe as best as she could. A new thing I do when baking is add a special ingredient, yellow sugar sprinkles to everything because that’s adding sunshine to my recipes. So today is baking with Sunshine. Lia’s Sunshine Blueberry Cake It was Thanksgiving and everyone was stuffed from
Most of my readers know I love coming up with different ideas for leftovers. Some are the basic, but I like to think outside the pan for ideas! LOL Here are a few ideas for leftover ham and meat sauce. We had a delicious Christmas dinner with Rich’s famous meatballs plus ham, sweet potatoes, scalloped potatoes with sides. Rich made over 200 meatballs since our daughter and her family were down from Virginia and she loves meatballs! Our two granddaughters also love them so I made “to go containers” for
Today is Wordless Wednesday plus the daily suggested topic is to share a video. Since Rich and I just came back from a long walk on the beach with 38 degree weather and very windy I thought I would combine the two! So I’m sharing a video of the ocean waves AND a mini sand storm plus photos of our walk. Bundle up, it’s cold! I know it’s WORDLESS but I need to add a few. Can you see the rays around the sun in the first photo and the