food, crochet, merriment
Sometime ago I said I
Loved you sixty ways
And counted them
To you.
But now I know I cannot
Count my love by
Any days.
My very breath is mine
Because you dared
To give your life that I might
Live.
Each day you gave to
Me that I might give
To mine
In my appointed time.
I cannot give to you
What you gave me
But to my own I pass
The torch
Then anxious, wait to
See
If they will pass to theirs
What you gave me
S. Dillworth Young
From my boy…long ago…age 6
“A bird in the hand is soft.”
“Let a umbrella be your umbrella.”
“A rolling stone gathers no love.”
“All that glitters is not rock.”
“Silence is sleeping.”
“When the cat’s away it is funr.”
“Every cloud has a rain drop in it.”
“Don’t cry over a crayon.”
“If you can’t stand the heat get a popsicle.”
“People who live in glass houses get light.”
It’s as simple as that.
If you’ve every wanted to say the words, “Mom loves me the best…” and mean it, here’s your chance to make it happen. No lie.
Just give her these, and she’ll forget she even has other kids.
Try to remain calm…
1 cup butter
1 cup sugar
1 cup brown sugar
2 eggs
2 tsp. vanilla
2-1/2 cups flour
3/4 cup cocoa
1 tsp. baking soda
3 Heath candy bars (chocolate covered toffee)
1- 12 oz bag Rolos
Preheat oven to 375 degrees. Beat butter and sugars until fluffy, then add eggs and vanilla and beat well. In a separate bowl, mix flour, cocoa and baking soda. Add flour mixture to sugar mixture a little bit at a time and blend well. Cover and chill dough for about 30 minutes.
Chop Heath bars into small pieces. Place in a small bowl and toss with 1 Tbsp sugar.
Once the dough has chilled, wrap a piece around each unwrapped caramel…
forming a 1 inch ball and covering the candy completely.
Roll dough ball into the candy topping—
then place on parchment -lined baking sheet.
Bake for 7-10 minutes. Cookies will look quite soft, but do not over bake.
Cool in pan slightly, then move to a counter to finish cooling. Store in a covered container.
Makes about 4 dozen of the most decadent little things you’ve ever tasted…in your livin’Â life.
…track and field, that is.
We are—even the shortest of us–very good spectators…
…as long as there is decent entertainment to keep us awake…
…and of course, plenty of snacks on this perfectly warm, breezy spring day.
A good time to try out the new hats…
even if some aren’t quite finished yet…
and some may be a tiny bit too big. The main thing is that we are finally, finally all outside in the fresh air and we’re together—watching our guy throw that funny little disk around…
Oh, and to pick up…
his…
medal.
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