Update, Holy Week & a Recycle

Hello, Doctors! I used to call y’all stalkers, then I called you rovers, and now I think I’m going to call you DOCTORS because you are a wealth of knowledge and beneficial to my health and well being! Thanks for your help with my craters. I don’t have any stitches and I believe this is because my teeth were all in and had been in for 7+ years. So they were yanked out and there was nothing to sew shut. I’m still feeling good. A little tender but NO dry sockets and it was so much easier than I thought it would be. My only real pains are HUNGER pains.  🙂 Which is why I see fit to talk about food today.

Every Monday night we host our small group which affords me the opportunity to try new desserts weekly. I’ve been meaning to tell y’all for months now that I was the proud recipient of a fabulous Christmas present {thank you & HAPPY BIRTHDAY!!!, Mimi} a PERFECT BROWNIE PAN. You may have seen the infomercials? Well, let me tell you, it’s just as revolutionary as they say it is. It makes PERFECT brownies and it makes PERFECT rice crispies and it makes PERFECT bars.  I don’t want to sound like an infomercial but I do feel obligated to let y’all know it’s as wonderful as they make it sound. If you’ve ever cut bars of any kind, you know it’s the same ordeal… they crumble, they stick to the knife… over and over. Well this thing is magic. Yesterday I made PW’s Creamy Lemon Crumb Squares that she posted last week and used my perfect pan and let me tell you, it’s the perfect combination for crumb squares that don’t crumble into 1,938 pieces… and after making these I don’t think I’ll ever make lemon bars again!

Ok, now for the even better stuff… my parents are here! We are so thrilled to have them. We usually only get to host them at our house a couple times a year. Of course, we decided to take on a MAJOR project… have you ever had the pleasure of assembling a swing set? This one came in two boxes and has approximately 30,000 parts, nuts, & bolts. And could drive a person to drink. We called it a day after working for 6 hours and only made it about 1/2 way. But I know when it’s done it will be worth the sweat equity.

And… I’ve saved the best for last… Happy HOLY WEEK. As you may or may not know, this is Holy Week, which gives us great reason to celebrate and reflect on the life, death, and resurrection of Jesus Christ. The week was kicked off when the children graced us with their presence at church waving palm branches.

Look Laura, there are your parents.

And in light of it being Holy Week I am reposting a post from last Spring, I know a lot of you have already seen this… but for the readers who weren’t around last year this time, this wonderful recipe/project you can do with your children to teach them more about the events that unfolded long ago. We did it last year and hope to do it again before the week’s end. The girls loved it last year and it was a powerful way to bring the death & resurrection to life. I have turned the entire recipe/project into a PDF so you can easily print it off. Click HERE for the printable version. All the scriptures are included on the document so you don’t even have to have a Bible.