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Full Blown Apology is In Order
My blog, of late, has been dark.
I have not been kind
AND
I have not been very grateful.
When I started blogging here, it was strictly for
information.
As I grew "comfortable" I opened up more.
Bad idea!!
So, this blog, "Just Give Me Jesus"
will be a place where I
Ask questions about homesteading
tell what I know about home steading
(that will be short and sweet!)
and
My journey with Jesus.
I have created a second blog for my "dark side".
It's called
"What Personality Are We Talking To Now"
It is 90% for me and 10% for a
few to weigh in on.
There are a handful of gals here that have been
very wise in their advice
and I treasure their opinions.
Otherwise, the general public will not have to be
subjected to my 'vomit stories' any more!!
YEAH!!!!!
ahahhahahhahahhah
Seriously, I do apologize for all the gloom and doom.
From here on out
It will be homesteading and Journey!!
Peppermint Biscotti
Peppermint Biscotti
From Taste of Home's Holiday & Celebrations Cookbook
Dipped in melted chocolate and rolled in crushed peppermint candy, this flavorful biscotti is a favorite. It's one of the many sweets I make for Christmas.
SERVINGS 42
METHOD Baked
PREP 60 min.
COOK 15 min.
TOTAL 75 min.
INGREDIENTS
3/4 cup butter, softened
3/4 cup sugar
3 eggs
2 teaspoons peppermint extract
3-1/4 cups all-purpose flour
1 teaspoon baking powder
1/4 teaspoon salt
1 cup crushed peppermint candies
FROSTING:
2 cups (12 ounces) semisweet chocolate chips
2 tablespoons shortening
1/2 cup crushed peppermint candies
DIRECTIONS
In a large mixing bowl, cream butter and sugar. Add eggs, one at a time, beating well after each addition. Beat in extract. Combine the flour, baking powder and salt; stir in peppermint candy. Gradually add to creamed mixture, beating until blended (dough will be stiff).
Divide dough in half. On an ungreased baking sheet, shape each portion into a 12-in. x 2-1/2-in. rectangle. Bake at 350° for 25-30 minutes or until golden brown. Carefully remove to wire racks; cool for 15 minutes. Transfer to a cutting board; cut diagonally with a sharp knife into 1/2-in. slices. Place cut side down on ungreased baking sheets. Bake for 12-15 minutes or until firm. Remove to wire racks to cool.
In a microwave-safe bowl, melt chocolate chips and shortening; stir until smooth. Drizzle over biscotti; sprinkle with candy. Place on waxed paper until set. Store in an airtight container. Yield: about 3-1/2 dozen.
Printed from tasteofhome.com Dec 3, 2008
Check out this great give away.
I am crazy about vintage linens. This gal is having a great giveaway. Pop over and check it out. Check out her ebay pages and website while you are there.
Christmas Ornament Recipe
Christmas Ornament Recipetasteofhome.
cookie cutters.
1 C corn starch
2 C baking soda (1-lb pkg)
1-1/2 C water
In medium saucepan stir together corn starch and baking soda. Add water all at once and stir until smooth. Add coloring if desired. Cook over medium heat, stirring constantly, until mixture reaches the consistency of slightly dry mashed potatoes. (mixture will come to a boil, then start to thicken first in lumps and then in a thick mass: it should hold it's shape.) Turn out onto a plate and cover with a damp cloth: cool.
When cool enough to handle, knead thoroughly on corn starch dusted surface until smooth and pliable. If not to be used immediately, store completely cooled clay in tightly closed plastic bag or container with tight fitting cover: clay may be kept in a cool place up to two weeks. Knead stored clay thoroughly before using.
One half recipe of clay is enough for about 20 small ornaments. With rolling pin roll out clay to about 1/4 thickness: cut with cutters. With wooden pick or end of straw make a small hole near top edge of ornament: Set shapes aside to dry, turning occasionally. When dry, glue on decorations or paint: add ribbon or string for necklace or package hang tags.
For napkin rings do not make a hole. Roll a small amount of dough into rope. Form into circle and press ends together. Dampen clay at seam before pressing together. Dry around a wax paper covered cardboard tube. (toilet paper roll) Be sure to dry rings thoroughly, when dry glue on desired shapes.
Christmas Magnets - Press dough into clean, dry molds. Tap out & let dry. Paint w/acrylic paint. Attach magnet w/glue.
TODAY'S VERSE from HEARTLIGHT -- This is great
TODAY'S VERSE from HEARTLIGHT -- http://www.heartlight.org/--\/------------------------------------------------------------------
December 2, 2008
VERSE:
And be not conformed to this world: but be ye transformed by the
renewing of your mind, that ye may prove what is that good, and
acceptable, and perfect, will of God.
-- Romans 12:2
http://www.SearchGodsWord.org/desk/?query=Romans+12:2&translation=kjv
THOUGHT:
Sooner or later we all have to make a decision: Will I be a
nonconformist? Will I refuse to be squeezed into the mold of the
world? (J.B. Phillips terminology.) Will I be part of a Christian
counter-culture? (John R.W. Stott terminology.) Will I be God's own
person, an alien and an exile in the world, put here to have a
redemptive influence? (The apostle Peter's terminology.) Jesus
simply calls us his disciples. Bottom line: until we are really
ready to cross the line and live totally for the Lord, we're not
going to be able to fully recognize God's will for us. There are no
arm-chair quarterback Christians. There are no sideline disciples.
There are no back-seat driver Christians. We either chose the
Lordship of Jesus, or else we reject it. So what's your decision?
PRAYER:
Holy God, I believe that Jesus Christ is Lord and Savior. I
believe that he came to earth as a human, lived an exemplary life
of grace and power, and died for my sins so I could live for you,
and with you, forever. Please forgive me, O God, for the times that
I have hedged on my commitment to you and flirted with the
darkness. I want to live for you with passion, joy, and
fulfillment. I want to be transformed to be like Christ. In his
name, Jesus the Lord, I pray. Amen.
http://www.heartlight.org/cgi-shl/todaysverse.cgi?day=20081202&ver=kjv
What did the first day of December bring?
Freezing cold.
26 degrees with wind chill of 13
Snow.
About an inch or so but the wind
blew it all night
drifting it all over.
Grey Day. No Sunshine.
Bill paying, checkbook reconciling
grocery shopping, laundry doing,
calendar fixing, menu making,
kitchen cleaning.
Then
drive to lesson, drive to friends while lesson takes place.
Friend has emergency asks if I will work
for her.....tonight.
I say yes.
Pick up kid from lesson, drive home, flip laundry
jump in shower, get ready
flip laundry
Jump in car, head for work
Eat dinner at work
Work.
Come home.
Run puppies to the potty. Burrrrr the wind is wicked.
Come in
OOOOO Left my cell in my car.
Burrr the wind is wicked cold.
Come in.
Need more wood for the fire.
BURRRR the wind is wicked crazy cold.
Come in.
Not going back out.
Try to sit down with Bible study.
Can't focus.
Too much noise in my head and in my heart.
This is a gruleing week for me.
Double today, work Wed, thur, fri.
Go on road trip Friday, Sat Sun.
I am tired.
This sucks.
'Under God' pastor dead at 97
She said her husband of 36 years had been in failing health for about three years.
"George said he was going to live to be a hundred and he was determined," she said in a telephone interview Saturday. "It's amazing that he was with us this long."
Docherty, then pastor of the New York Avenue Presbyterian Church in Washington, just blocks from the White House, gave a sermon in 1952 saying the pledge should acknowledge God.
He was born in Glasgow, Scotland, and was unfamiliar with the pledge until he heard it recited by his 7-year-old son, Garth.
"I didn't know that the Pledge of Allegiance was, and he recited it, 'one nation, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all,'" he recalled in an interview with The Associated Press in 2004. "I came from Scotland, where we said 'God save our gracious queen,' 'God save our gracious king.' Here was the Pledge of Allegiance, and God wasn't in it at all."
There was little effect from that initial sermon, but he delivered it again on Feb. 7, 1954, after learning that President Dwight Eisenhower would be at the church.
The next day, Rep. Charles G. Oakman, R-Mich., introduced a bill to add the phrase "under God" to the pledge, and a companion bill was introduced in the Senate. Eisenhower signed the law on Flag Day that year.
Todays Quote......Thomas Watson
is a storm without, He will make peace within. The world can
create trouble in peace, but God can create peace in trouble.
-- Thomas Watson
Mixed bag of blatherings and emotions
It is official.
Winter really is here.
I think, I am going to cry.
I should love the winter.
It is created by God.
I just don't like the cold.
I just don't.
Black Friday
Every year my oldest goes with me.
SO
when I have bought her gifts, she is with me.
THIS YEAR I bought her gift...
When we got home, she wanted to open it
and play with it.
So I asked all 3 kids this question
"Are you saying to me, that it is NOT important that you have a gift to open on 'christmas morning'?"
They said, "No, it's not important".
Hmmmmmmmm
Now. I can say that this answer is part
greed.
I want it now.
However, what they didn't say, spoke volumes.
They didn't say:
"It wouldn't be christmas without presents".
I think, and I could be wrong,
But
I think only giving them 3 presents for years
has kept them from the
"gimme more / is that it"
mentality.
So I told them
Ok so we can call off 'christmas'?
They didn't mind.
Their not hung up on it.
Maybe this is the year to eliminate tradition
and start celebrating.
Maybe.
I waited on a family birthday party last night.
It was Mrs. ______ 90th birthday.
Can you imagine what that woman has seen?
She will have seen more in her first 40 years
than I will see in my life time
(unless Jesus comes back)
I would LOVE to sit and chat with her for hours.
Imagine the stories she would tell.
My camera arrived yesterday
OOOOOOO
I can't wait to use it.
It's gonna be SO cool.
I wish there were good deeds I could do
that didn't involve people.
:-)
I am peopled out.
I want to be a big ole bear and hibernate
for the next 5 months.
I do not choose friends well,
and I don't want my kids to follow that pattern.
I don't know why I don't
have healthy relationships.....
Maybe they don't exist?
I wonder what a 'healthy friendship' looks like?
This situation in India.
muslim extremist.
They carefully planned what they did.
They knew who they wanted to kill.
Americans, Brit's, Jews.
How can the media portray these people as
anything other than
je-hadist?
It is a Holy War.
I saw a bumper sticker yesterday.
It read:
If you can read this, thank a teacher.
If you can read this in English, thank a soldier.
Amen.
I wonder, when God gave the Jews the Promised Land
if they felt guilty for being so blessed?
I wonder if they totally bad mouthed the Holy Land
that God blessed them with?
I wonder if they cursed the abundance He blessed
them with?
He turned the desert into fertile soil for His Chosen.
Do you think they say to one another
"We are gluttons, look! at our neighbors who
want to destroy us, they are poor
and we a rich, shame on us?"
Or did they say
"Thank you Lord for your abundance and your Blessing
and your protection"?
Is this where the "remnant" comes in?
This small amount of people who realize it is God
who gives this blessing
and
it is God who chooses who He will bless
and
it is God who provides us with protection?
I don't know about anyone else,
But
I am so thankful for God's Blessing.
He said in Genesis 12
He would bless those who blessed Israel
and
He would curse those who cursed Israel.
I am so thankful for a God who keeps His Word.
I am so thankful that I live in the
United States of America.
I am so thankful I am free.
And
I am so thankful for the men and women who
willing
sign up to protect her.
Not only do they protect me, and my rights, and my
freedoms.........
But they fight for those who bad mouth America.
Who bad mouth our blessing.
Who try to make other feel guilty about
our abundance.
They fight for those who do not
appreciate what they do.
They fight for those who wish them ill.
They fight for those who curse the land
they protect.....
And they protect, fight and even die for
those who hate them.
God Bless our Soldiers.
Thank you.
Black Friday Observations
Reflecting on the last two days.
Thanksgiving was 'different' but in a good
kind of way.
Just us, no stress, no 'putting on airs'.
Something I have to 'get comfortable with' is the fact
I do not have a 'big family'.
I do not have a big circle of 'friends'.
I need to be content with what God has blessed me with.
1 dh, 3 kids, 2 dogs, and an old cat.
We have plenty of leftovers, and will be
creating new meals with all of the extra meat.
My local grocery had turkey on sale, so I bought a 22lb
bird, for the left overs!
Went to bed Thursday night at a decent hour, and woke
up at 4:30 am for the sales.
My daughter and I have done this for 12 years.
Let me tell you what I saw in "my town".
To the north of me is a town, hurting.
75% of the people who live in this town
(6 figure population)
work in the Big 3 auto factories.
That is what keeps this town afloat.
When we went to Kohl's, I didn't see the crazed
harried people searching for the latest "what everyone else has".
I saw carts full of every day clothes.
Bath towels.
Blankets, pillows.
Sure, those things were on sale....
but my point is they were not buying the silly stuff.
They were buying necessities.
It was busy, had a long line....but nothing like
years past.
Ok onto the next town (6 figures too).
My "usual haunts" are not packed to capacity with people.
All day, we never parked more than 10 spaces from the front
doors of where we were shopping.
Dicks Sporting goods..........empty.
Best Buy......busy, but not insane.
Michael's, Petsmart, Barnes and Noble?
NOT busy at all.
Not even "Saturday after noon busy".
My daughter and I went to the NEXT town
of 6 figures +
THERE they have a HUGE shopping mall
Miles and miles of strips malls.
SURELY, SURELY we will hit traffic.........
Nope.
The busiest store we shopped at?
The music store.
Not Target, Not Kohl's, Not Michael's.
The sales this year?
Lame.
Every year they are less and less enticing.
Unless you are buying eletronics.
THEN
You can just shop on line and not mess with the crowds.
I bought my camcorder on line Thanksgivng Day,
for the Black Friday price.
It shipped, on black friday.
I can wait!! It's worth the wait!!
So my observation of black friday is this.
Either everyone shopped on line
or
The sales were not what the consumer is looking for
or
the economy REALLY is bad.
I am going to be sad when this weekend is over.
Reality will stand and scream in my face Monday morning.
Deep breath in.............Deep breath out.
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