Launi

March 10, 2009July 5, 2020

Saving Baby Kisses

So, it’s been roughly two months and a week since New Year’s and the goals that I puttered around with, during the month of January. In the interest of personal accountability, I am forcing myself to evaluate my progress…or–in some cases–lack thereof. Necessary adjustments will be made accordingly. Kinda scary…

Never fear. I’ll look at the goals one at a time to save the sanity of all involved.

This could be painful, but being a sturdy mountain woman, I intend to forge ahead..

“Ahhh…be brave, little piglet.”

So I shall.

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New Year’s Goal #1 Gratitude.

“I will keep a gratitude journal and each day record at least one blessing, one joy or one example of ‘the Lord’s hand in my life.'”

How am I doing?

My very first goal has been more challenging than I expected. Not so much because I don’t recognize my blessings–I do–but more because I fall into bed each night, when I can no longer function with my eyes open. It makes it difficult to remember all the sweet baby kisses when you can’t remember how to hold a pen.

I did go to bed earlier last night and actually wrote down a few things, but, alas, it has not been anywhere near a daily thing, like I’d planned.

THEREFORE the adjustment I will make is to put the Gratitude Journal on the desk next to my bed. If my night memory doesn’t work–I’ll jot things down first thing in the morning. The point will be to leave it out where it’s easier to see. That should do it–because I truly enjoy this goal.

Gratitude makes the heart happy.

March 9, 2009July 5, 2020

Pecan Sandies

…you know, like Keebler makes. Yummmm. Sadly, one of the more expensive cookies. But wait—we’ve found the recipe!

Pretty darn easy too. I had no idea. So–prepare to be thrilled…

Ingredients

1 cup butter

1 cup sugar

1 cup powdered sugar

2 eggs

2 tsp. vanilla

1/2 tsp. salt

1 tsp. baking soda

3-1/2 cups flour

1 cup pecans–finely chopped

Directions

Preheat oven to 350 degrees. Measure dry ingredients together and set aside. Beat butter and sugars together until fluffy. Add eggs and vanilla and mix well. Add dry ingredients slowly and mix well, then add nuts. Scoop or roll dough into 1 inch balls and place on ungreased cookie sheet. If you like your Sandies crunchy then flatten each one with the bottom of a glass dipped in cold water. If you like them softer then leave them alone. Bake for about 12-14 minutes.

Milk and cookies and saving tons of money all at the same time! Wahooooo!

Unless, of course, you open the door to those cute little Girl Scouts that are out and about this time of year.

dun-dun-dun…

I’m going on a sugar fast…

soon….

any time now…

Really.

Blast those darn girl scouts…

Pecan Sandies

Ingredients

1 cup butter
1 cup sugar
1 cup powdered sugar
2 eggs
2 tsp. vanilla
½ tsp. salt
1 tsp. baking soda
3-1/2 cups flour
1 cup pecans--finely chopped

Instructions

Preheat oven to 350 degrees.
Measure dry ingredients together and set aside.
Beat butter and sugars together until fluffy.
Add eggs and vanilla and mix well. Add dry ingredients slowly and mix well, then add nuts. Scoop or roll dough into 1 inch balls and place on ungreased cookie sheet.
If you like your Sandies crunchy then flatten each one with the bottom of a glass dipped in cold water. If you like them softer then leave them alone.
Bake for about 12-14 minutes.

March 8, 2009July 5, 2020

Family ‘Success’

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“Families unite when they do meaningful things together. Children should work together under the leadership of parents. Common employment, even on a part-time basis, is valuable. So is a family garden. Common projects to help others are also desirable. Families may establish a perpetual missionary fund. They can research and write family histories and share them with others. They can organize family reunions. They can educate family members in the basic skills of living, including managing finances, maintaining property, and broadening their general education. The learning of languages is a useful preparation for missionary service and modern life. The teachers of these subjects can be parents or grandparents or other members of the extended family.

“Some may say, ‘But we have no time for that.’ As for time to do what is truly worthwhile, I suggest that many parents will find that they can turn their family on if they will turn their television off. . . .

“President David O. McKay taught:

” ‘The home is the first and most effective place for children to learn the lessons of life: truth, honor, virtue, self-control; the value of education, honest work, and the purpose and privilege of life. Nothing can take the place of home in rearing and teaching children, and no other success can compensate for failure in the home.’

Dallin H. Oaks

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March 7, 2009July 5, 2020

Kitty Humor

Beany–who thinks he runs the joint

I imagine that plenty of people have already seen the story below–maybe a million times. The story has been passed around for so long that I seriously have no idea where it comes from. But being a cat-type person–well, it still makes me laugh.

So, please–just humor me.

Besides, who doesn’t love a good cat joke?

“The Line Cut Kitty”

My sister-in law is from Oklahoma and has a slight accent. She has cats and when she lived in the south she would take them to the groomers and have what is called a Line Cut. To her a line cut is when all of the fur hanging down below the cat’s tummy is taken off (because it gets matted or snarled).
When she moved to Chicago with my brother, some of the cats fur got all tangled up so she took it in for a line cut. She was quite surprised when she heard the price as it was twice as much as it was down south. She confirmed with the groomer that he understood what a line cut was and he said “Yes, I know what a LION cut is.” It seems her accent came out sounding like LION not LINE and this is how her cat was returned to her.