I seek You with all of my heart; do not let me stray from Your commands. Your Word I have treasured in my heart, that I may not sin against You. Ps 119:10-11
My son (age 15): Today (Tuesday) is Christmas Adam!
Me: Huh?
My son: Yeah, Adam came before Eve. and tomorrow is Christmas Eve!
Sometimes kids are so clever!
Christmas Eve is usually the day my family celebrates the Christmas holiday with my husbands side of the family. We have Grandma and Uncles and Aunts and cousins, etc over to our house and we have a gift exchange and a big pitch in. We exchange names on Thanksgiving, by drawing names out of a hat and that way each adult only buys for one person. All kids that don’t drive or have a job get presents from their Grandma, Uncles and Aunts. This year there are 11 adults and 5 kids and we have a lot of fun. We are celebrating Christmas tonight, because of course, Christmas Eve (tomorrow) is on a Wednesday this year. Just learned we have to cancel because of the weather. Bummer! Better safe than sorry.
LOL...we always called today "Christmas Eve Eve," but I think I like Christmas Adam even better. Rob got a HUGE kick out of that when Jadon shared with him. ;-)
Oh, and ♥
Hope your celebration is lovely, and that everyone travels safely. Can't tell you how many cars we've had to push back onto the road out of the ditch across the street today.
I was about to say that you needed to tell every one that the weather was bad LAST night! You did it already. Oh well, hope you had a good time with grandma ya all.
OK Friends, this is my holiday gift to you all! Before I shared this recipe with you all, I wanted to make it, to make sure that it was legitimate and tasty. And it is! It is so easy to make and although a real baked chocolate cake tastes better, this is the next best thing because it truly is quick and easy. Abby loves to make it! Bachelors – even if you can’t cook, you can easily make yourself this simple chocolate cake! I would advise that you use a tablespoon less sugar if you add the chocolate chips.
Pour in the milk and oil and MIX WELL. (You might want to mix this all up in a small bowl first).
Add the chocolate chips (if using) and vanilla, and mix again.
Put your mug in the microwave and cook for 3 minutes at 1000 watts. The cake will rise and fall several times while cooking and this is normal. The cake may also rise over the top of the mug, but don’t be alarmed! Continue cooking until toothpick inserted into center comes out clean.
Allow to cool a little, and tip out onto a plate if desired. You can sprinkle powered sugar over the top as "Snow". Or top with whip cream!
Serve while still warm and ENJOY!
This can serve 2 if you want to share!
Any why is this the most dangerous cake recipe in the world? Because now we are all only 4 minutes away from chocolate cake at any time of the day or night! SMILES
Also, here is a great website for Christmas. This particular link is to a "LARGE ASSORTMENT" of yummy CANDY/COOKIE recipies.
Oh, dear! I don't know whether to hug you or...well, I'll just hug you! Chocolate and I are best buds! You are invited into our friendship circle, too. My hips are officially UNinvited, though!
^The smallest mug we used was a 12 oz. While baking it rises almost 2 inches over the top. At first we thought it was going to overflow, but it didn't. 14 oz. mugs make me feel less nervous. Also, the cake is great with whip cream on it!
I checked the recipe to see if I left out any ingredients, and I didn't. I don't know what went wrong. Abby and I made it several times and it came out fine. Maybe you should try it again. Check the wattage on your microwave. That might have something to do with it. Ours is a 1200 watt and we had to lower the power setting to 1000. Please, let me know it you have any success
I used a recipe that is just like yours. the Miller girls spent a weekend with us and I wanted to try it with them. I might have to try it again. It could be the watts on the microwave. Thanks!
I have had this several times- I don't do the baking powder, and I make it in a soup mug because it makes me feel better about it- and then I don't bother turning it out. I just eat it with a spoon. Mmmmm.
The older I get the less satisfied I am with this world! As a Christian this is a good thing, but I can’t help but think of all the people who are living for what this world has to offer them. They think that they can make their own truth and live their own dreams, not caring about others, and especially not caring about God. I find it hard to be around people who I know have deliberately chosen to reject God because they have “reasoned” that He doesn’t exist. They think that their sense of truth on this matter is what’s “right for them” and therefore it is “right“ because it is reasonable to them. But as Christians we know that truth is right because it is from God, and because God, is truth. (John 14:6)
I just read her blog and she has a lot of interesting things about the deceptions in our world. Of course, deception is the opposite of truth. That is the main way that Satan opposes God. Satan is the deceiver. (John 8:44) It seems to me that all things are either a “Truth” or a “Lie”. Reality and God are a “truth”. But the world, in league with Satan, wants to turn them both into a lie. (Rom 1:25)
Our culture has embraced a more subjectivist, relativistic perception of reality (postmodernism). The world says: “Well, Christianity is your truth, but not my truth; there are no such things as absolutes; Christianity is an intolerant, bigoted view; your view is just culturally derived or conditioned; other cultures have their own different truths.”
Truth has now become “relative” to the situation. Young people are studying all things through the eye of postmodernism, and postmodernism has killed truth!
I find this cultural shift so disturbing that I long for the time when God will make all things “New” (Rev 21:5) (2 Peter 3:13)
In Bible class once, after studying the Proverbs, we were asked to make our own proverb. The proverb I composed was: “The unrighteous fear death because it is their end, but to the righteous death is merely a doorway that leads to the fulfillment of all that they have lived for.”
When I was writing this proverb I was thinking of how people of the world will work their whole life and save their money for the “ultimate vacation”. They put posters on the wall and scenes on their refrigerator visualizing this dream vacation, while they wait and save for it. Thinking and hoping that when many years have passed and they have retired, they will have all the time and money that they will need to begin their vacation. They can’t wait until the day that they can purchase the tickets and begin their dream.
As Christians our dream vacation is Heaven. But we won’t ever have to come back! If we are God’s children we already have our tickets and we should be ready to leave whenever God calls us to go. But we should also be looking forward to this day and setting our hopes on it. Excitedly telling our friends about it, and putting “pictures on our refrigerator”. We should visualize Heaven and be excited for that day when we will get to begin that wonderful journey. This is what I think about when a loved one, who is in Christ, dies. They are beginning a long awaited journey that is a fulfillment of all that they have lived for.”
Daughters vs. sons leaving the nest: I'm sure there is someone Out There in Pleoland who can give a more evenhanded response, but I do have a theory. I might blog about it, so expect a rerun before too long.
A son's way is pretty well-defined and he is expected to learn, then earn, then support a family. Somewhere along the way, he'll find the love of his life and they will journey on together. This minidream might derail if he doesn't choose wisely in the wife department, but overall, a man's choices (I think) lead him along a straight enough path.
Girls are being sent a lot of different messages. The path from Point A to Point B is not well-defined and it's fraught with dangers. Career or stay-at-home? How to get from high school graduation to marriage, but also have in the back of your mind that marriage might not happen. How to consider studies and a career important enough to pursue, but not so important that your willing to give it up without regrets if necessary.
yep...we have a pretty big back yard with a built in garden so I wanted to try it this year. I loved it!!! Next year I will do more pumpkins because they are too fun!!! Hope you are well. And for Gracie our dog...she is so sweet. A very good...we are working on some new tricks for her...we are getting bored with the old ones!ha!
I'm just Curious!
Does anyone know the history of Pleonast? I mean when it was started? Where or who started it? Do you know anyone who has been on Pleo since the beginning? What was it’s original intent? As I said above, I’m just curious if anyone knows about these things.
sorry for just getting back with you. Our internet has been weird. It is okay about sending that email to me. I just got it off of here! Thanks so much though. That was sweet to offer.
BARACK OBAMA: The chicken crossed the road because it was time for change! The chicken wanted change!
JOHN MC CAIN: My friends, that chicken crossed the road because he recognized the need to engage in cooperation and dialogue with all the chickens on the other side of the road.
SARAH PALIN: The chicken had to cross the road because he was not able to find a bridge. Alaskans do not build bridges to nowhere. If he wanted a bridge, he'd have to build it himself.
HILLARY CLINTON: When I was First Lady, I personally helped that little chicken to cross the road. This experience makes me uniquely qualified to ensure right from Day One that every chicken in this country gets the chance it deserves to cross the road. But then, this really isn't about me.
GEORGE W. BUSH: We don't really care why the chicken crossed the road. We just want to know if the chicken is on our side of the road, or not. The chicken is either against us, or for us. There is no middle ground here.
DICK CHENEY: Where's my gun?
COLIN POWELL: Now to the left of the screen, you can clearly see the satellite image of the chicken crossing the road.
BILL CLINTON: I did not cross the road with that chicken. What is your
definition of chicken?
AL GORE: I invented the chicken.
JOHN KERRY: Although I voted to let the chicken cross the road, I am now against it! It was the wrong road to cross, and I was misled about the chicken's intentions. I am not for it now, and will remain against it.
AL SHARPTON: Why are all the chickens white? We need some black chickens.
DR. PHIL: The problem we have here is that this chicken won't realize that he must first deal with the problem on this side of the road before it goes after the problem on the other side of the road. What we need to do is help him realize how stupid he's acting by not taking on his current problems before adding new problems.
OPRAH: Well, I understand that the chicken is having problems, which is why he wants to cross this road so bad. So instead of having the chicken learn from his mistakes and take falls, which is a part of life, I'm going to give this chicken a car so that he can just drive across the road and not live his life like the rest of the chickens.
PAT BUCHANAN: To steal the job of a decent, hardworking American.
DR SEUSS: Did the chicken cross the road? Did he cross it with a toad?
Yes, the chicken crossed the road, but why it crossed I've not been told.
ERNEST HEMINGWAY: To die in the rain, alone.
GRANDPA: In my day we didn't ask why the chicken crossed the road. Somebody told us the chicken crossed the road, and that was good enough.
BARBARA WALTERS: Isn't that interesting? In a few moments, we will be
listening to the chicken tell, for the first time, the heart warming story of how it experienced a serious case of molting, and went onto accomplish its lifelong dream of crossing the road.
ARISTOTLE: It is the nature of chickens to cross the road.
JOHN LENNON: Imagine all the chickens in the world crossing roads together, in peace.
BILL GATES: I have just released eChicken2008, which will not only cross roads, but will lay eggs, file your important documents, and balance your checkbook. Internet Explorer is an integral part of eChicken2008. This new platform is much more stable and will never reboot.
ALBERT EINSTEIN: Did the chicken really cross the road, or did the road move beneath the chicken?
Why did the chicken cross the road you ask? Well the chicken crossed the road because its head was choped of and in its mind before it got detached it was thinking "if they kill me I'll make sure they don't get the prise!" so with the thought formly in place in its heart his head was chopped off and he did the (headless) chicken dance all the way to the road and got hit by a truck and flew all the way across and over to the other side of the road and a near by lake! And that was chicken tale!
I just took a little break from my work (we have a home business) and read ALL of your posts. You really need to post a picture of your 3 John 4 wall hanging. That sounds really neat. I also like your newbies to pleo list. One other thing to mention is that you're the only one whose name isn't gold. My kids gave me gold for Christmas last year.
If you think what is on MY blog is scary, go and check her blog. Short, true, frightening, and was probably at least SOMEWHAT obvious to anyone who did their homework BEFORE voting.
