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Thursday Thirteen
1. Man’s way leads to a hopeless end – God’s way leads to an endless hope.
2. He who kneels before God can stand before anyone.
3. To be almost saved is to be totally lost.
4. Never put a question mark where God puts a period.
5. We don’t change God’s message – His message changes us.
6. The scriptural church is prayer-conditioned.
7. Plan ahead – It wasn’t raining when Noah built the ark.
8. Never give the devil a ride – he will always want to drive.
9. A clean conscience makes a soft pillow.
10. Nothing ruins the truth like stretching it.
11. He who angers you controls you.
12. Give Satan an inch & he’ll be a ruler.
13. Deciding not to trust Jesus as your Savior is still making a choice.
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Works-For-Me Wednesday: Easter Treats
Here are some special treats for Easter:
Resurrections Rolls
I don’t remember for sure where I first saw the idea for Resurrection Rolls, but we have had them on Easter, and only on Easter, every year since.
The instructions I have are as follows:
Make or buy bread dough (the frozen kind is fine — let it thaw first.) On Saturday night, let the children wrap a piece of bread dough around a large marshmallow. Put them on a cookie sheet in the oven and tape it shut (signifying sealing the empty tomb) and leave them there overnight. The next morning take them out and preheat the oven. Bake the rolls, and when they are done let the children open them. The marshmallow will be gone! The little “tombs” will be empty and hollow. Enjoy the rolls with breakfast; they will have a sweet taste to them.
I use the frozen yeast roll dough rather than bread dough — it’s already the right size and you can take out just as many as you want (be sure and get the dough, not the ready-made heat-and-eat frozen rolls, The brand I use is Rhodes). I usually take them out to thaw the night before and then put the marshmallow in first thing when I get up in the morning, before my shower and breakfast-making — I have always been afraid it would rise too much if I put the marshmallow in the night before. But I might try it that way this year and see what happens.
Here are pictures from last year:
They didn’t get as “poofy” as usual, and this picture turned out blurrier than I thought when I took it, but you get the idea.
My husband played around with it and took some photos on black fabric. I like the way the light behind it looks like it’s coming from inside.
Nests
Our kids’ Easter break from school is usually the week before Easter, and the elementary grades will sometimes have some kind of little party or at least treats the last day before break. One year I saw this idea and used it for one such party.
All you do is make up a batch of the stuff for Rice Krispy Treats (I like to put peanut butter in ours) but shape a handful of it into a flat circle, then put a little indention in the middle of the circle (You could put them in cupcake pans, but that it a little too deep for me and a little less nest-like). I filled that space with jelly beans (to look like eggs), but another year I saw someone put some of the little Peeps chicks in the nests. It helps to grease your hands when shaping the nests. 🙂 I would avoid using the tinted coconut unless you know the recipients will like it (no one I know does).
Basket Cupcakes
This is something else that would be good for an Easter celebration or perhaps a Sunday School class that day. I got this idea from a friend whose daughter’s birthday is in March and sometimes falls near Easter.
Just make your favorite cupcakes and frost, then use a licorice stick (a Twizzler might work, too) for a basket handle — insert each end on opposite sides of the cupcake. Decorate the cupcake with jelly beans or sprinkles, or, if you’re skilled in such things, frosting flowers.
For more great tips, or to share your own, go to Rocks In My Dryer.
I am also resurrecting this post for FiddleDeeDee’s Saturday Stirrings at It Coulda’ Been Worse.
Wordless Wednesday: Pollinated
This is our backyard patio. covered in yellow pollen, though it is not showing up as thick as it looks in real life. Everything stationary is covered. I am staying indoors as much as possible with my AC filter that catches that stuff. 🙂
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Marriage meme
I saw this meme floating around on several blogs this morning, so I thought I’d borrow it. 🙂 I would save it for my anniversary, but that’s not until December.
Marriage meme
1. Where/How did you meet?
In the library, where we both worked, at college.
2. How long have you known each other?
29 years.
3. How long after you met did you start dating?
About four months.
4. How long did you date before you were engaged?
A year and four months.
5. How long was your engagement?
Seven months.
6. How long have you been married?
27 years.
7. What is your anniversary?
12/21.
8. How many people came to your wedding reception?
Oh, my — I have no idea. Somewhere around 100-120 maybe?
9. What kind of cake did you serve?
White cake with white frosting decorated with blue flowers.
10. Where was your wedding?
My home church in Houston, TX.
11. What did you serve for your meal?
We didn’t have a meal — that wasn’t a tradition then, at least not in our area. Just cake, punch, nuts, and mints.
12. How many people were in your wedding party?
We each just had one attendant — most of our friends lived out of state and we got married over Christmas break.
13. Are you still friends with them all?
Yes, though we don’t keep in touch as much as I’d like.
14. Did your spouse cry during the ceremony?
No, I don’t think so.
15. Most special moment of your wedding day?
There’s no one moment that stands out — it was all special. 🙂
16.Any funny moments?
Not really.
17. Any big disasters?
One of the soloists called in sick that morning, and then just before I was to begin walking down the aisle, a garland wrapped around an arch in the middle of the platform came undone and started slowly unwinding from around the arch. A dear lady sitting at the front went up and tucked it back in.
18. Where did you go on your honeymoon?
We spent the first night in a nice hotel in Houston, but didn’t have an extended honeymoon — time and money were tight (we were both still students). Though it wasn’t planned this way, we spent our second night at my folks’ home in my old bedroom because something with our car needed to be worked on and we couldn’t leave that day. I’ll tell you, it felt mighty strange bringing a man into my bedroom! We spent the next day driving (with a U-Haul with my stuff) back to Greenville, SC, to set up housekeeping and get ready for second semester.
19. How long were you gone?
See above.
20. If you were to do your wedding over, what would you change?
My veil. I wanted to look kind of like a Southern bell, but later I thought the veil looked more Spanish.
21. What side of the bed do you sleep on?
Left.
22. What size is your bed?
Queen
23. Greatest strength as a couple?
Commitment.
24. Greatest challenge as a couple?
My husband’s traveling.
25. Who literally pays the bills?
He does.
26. What is your song?
We don’t have one.
27. What did you dance your first dance to?
We’ve never danced. 🙂
28. Describe your wedding dress:
How about if I just show you instead?
29. What kind of flowers did you have at your wedding?
This is terrible, but I don’t really remember, and I can’t tell from the picture what was in my bouquet. I think there were white roses and blue-tinted carnations. I had wanted more blue, but there weren’t many blue flowers, especially in December.
30. Are your wedding bands engraved?
No.
31. How old were you when you got married?
I was 22 and my husband was 21.
Feel free to grab this meme and play along — let me know if you do.
The Wiki Meme
Saw this over at Melli’s and thought it looked like fun. The instructions are:
The rules are:
1) Go to Wikipedia
2) In the search box, type your birth month and day but not the year.
3) List three events that happened on your birthday
4) List two important birthdays and one death
5) One holiday or observance (if any)
6) Tag 5 other bloggers to complete
Three events:
- 1841 – The Venetian blind is first patented in the United States by John Hampson.
- 1858 – The Lincoln–Douglas debates begin.
- 1959 – President Dwight D. Eisenhower signs an executive order proclaiming Hawaii the 50th state of the union.
Two Birthdays:
- 1921 – Winnie-the-Pooh, a (fictional) bear of small brain belonging to Christopher Robin
- 1936 – Wilt Chamberlain, American basketball player (d. 1999)
One death:
One holiday or observance:
Five tags:
- Carol @ She Lives
- Jen at Joyful Notes
- Bet at Dappled Things
- Linda @ 2nd cup of coffee
- Laurel @ Laurel Wreath
- And anyone else who’d like to
Works-For-Me Wednesday: Overactive automatic toilets
You know how some public restrooms have toilets that automatically flush themselves. Some of them don’t work very well, but some of them flush at the smallest provocation — some have flushed even when I first opened the door of the stall to come in. And they’re usually pretty…vigorous in their flushing. I’m a bit germophobic and really don’t want to be splashed from a public toilet. So one day it occurred to me that if I could cover up the sensor that triggers the flushing, I wouldn’t have to worry about it. I took a couple of squares of toilet paper and draped it over the sensor, and voila — no flushing until I was ready. And that works for me. 🙂
To read other tips that work for others or to share your own, go to Rocks In My Dryer.
Thursday Thirteen #24: Favorite Irish Songs
I mentioned a few weeks ago that the owners of Thursday Thirteen were closing down shop, but someone else bought the rights to it and it has been carrying on as usual without missing a beat.
Folks music of the British Isles is one of our favorite genres. We enjoy the Irish Tenors and the King’s Singers (Annie Laurie and Watching the White Wheat)as well as an old Robert Shaw Chorale recording I have of Irish folk songs. Today, for St. Patrick’s Day, I want to list some of my favorite Irish songs (I wonder how many people will do the same. 🙂 ) Most are folk songs; the last one is a hymn.
1. Star of the County Down (I like the King’s Singers’ version of this much better than the Irish Tenors.)
3. Molly Malone
8. Bantry Bay
9. How Are Things in Glocca Morra? (This isn’t a true folk song, but it has an Irish flavor.)
10. Red Is the Rose
Updated: I put YouTube links to both the King’s Singers and the Irish Tenors in my next post)
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Wordless Wednesday: Suzie the dog
Works-for-Me Wednesday: Prescriptions
In our family of five, three of us take regular prescription medications, two of us more than one. When one prescription is running low, I check some of the others and call in refills for many of them at one time if possible. Sounds kinda like a “Well, duh” thing, but when it first occurred to me to do that, it saved a lot of time waiting in line at the pharmacy to pick up a few refills at once.
Speaking of waiting in line at the pharmacy, I used to always call in a refill in the morning and pick it up while getting my son from school, and there always seemed to be a long line. For some reason one day I called at night for a refill to be picked up in the morning after I dropped him off at school, and…no line. I sailed right through. So I am going to aim for morning pick-up times!
Saving time in getting prescription refills works for me. To find more tips or share something that works for you, go to Shannon’s at Rocks In My Dryer.
Stray Thoughts 