There are only two ways to live your life. One is as though nothing is a miracle. The other is as though everything is a miracle.
~~~Albert Einstein
Miracles
Gracious Rain Blogiversary!
Now, I figure this is an event worth celebrating–wouldn’t you say? Maintaining a daily blog for one whole year has been a pretty wild experience–and very, very good for my brain. So, since this is my cute little blog and I like to think I’m queen of the whole world–we are going to have a celebration…my kind of celebration.
To thank you all for your kindness and comments, I’d just love to invite you over to my house for cake and ice cream, but alas, I’m quite certain we’d have so much fun and make so much noise that somebody’d get arrested…likely me. So I propose an alternative to anyone doing time on my account. Here it is:
Answer the questions: What has been your favorite post, recipe, or project on Gracious Rain in the last year? and What would you like to see us do in the coming year?
Get this—Each person answering both questions, between now and midnight, TODAY October 20, 2009 will receive a gift from Gracious Rain for our Blogiversary. It could be anything from my favorite book to one of our cute little craft projects all finished–just for you. Perhaps you’ll get a pack or Ding Dongs. Or maybe…just maybe, you’ll receive the very last ticket to the New Moon premiere left in the theater. You never know–until you speak up. Oh, and after you comment, you’ll need to send your name and address to Launi@GraciousRain.com. Yeah, I’ll need that.
It’s such a good day to celebrate.
I hope you’ll join us.
Thanks for being friends with us.
love,
If you’d like—Read the very first post–from back when we were pups and had no clue what we were doing. :]
Playing in the Dirt…
We finally, FINALLY put our cute little garden in last week and just sat back to cross our fingers.
tomatoes
garlic
peas
ornamental white mini pumpkin
ornamental regular mini pumpkin
regular big pumpkin–ok, we’re pumpkin freaks here. I know.
cucumbers
Bless their seedy-planty little hearts—they are growing! For those of you who are thinking, “DUH-what did you expect?” I’d say–whenever we bury a little seed or plant into the ground and it really actually grows–isn’t is still a wonder?
peppers
radishes
Oh, I’m just so proud of you– you cute little radishes!
Tell the truth–when you plant a package of seeds don’t you go check every morning to see if something is poking it’s head up out of the dirt yet? And when you find some brave little sprout…aren’t you so excited and happy and…well….isn’t it just SO COOL?
Ok, I’m done.
My seed-dirt-plant-sprout worship session is over.
“Thanks for noticing me,” and my baby garden.
Tell me–What are YOU planting these days?
Thankful block…
Here is a pretty great thingy that we made a while back–which I positively love—so I want to show it to you. It never hurts to have a reminder to be…
Of course, we didn’t free hand this–fear not. It was a big, old block of wood that we painted, sanded, roughed up a bit, and then “dirtied” with some black stuff–no idea what it was. Then we took a rub-on stencil and a tongue depressor, and applied the sticker. Pretty dang easy.
People ask me all the time where I got it, but since it was an Achievement Night Class project–I have know idea where the stencil came from. However, if you love this and are interested in something like it, I’m just real sure that Katrina– over at Katrina’s Kreations could likely hook you up.
Egg Toast Cups
For Easter morning!!
In case you’re feeling a bit of an Easter candy sugar buzz–here is some nice, soothing, protein to balance things out a bit.
My boys–my GROWN boys–actually fight over these.
Have a good weekend and I promise—no more food for a while. We’re about to burst over here!
Heh, heh.
Egg Toast Cups
Ingredients:
Bread
Eggs
Cheese
Ham or sausage or bacon or NOT
Whatever else you put in scrambled eggs
Butter
Lightly butter each slice of bread and cut off the crusts.
Hold the bread–as shown–over a muffing tin.
Pinch slightly and press the bread down into the muffing cup.
Toast in the oven at 350 for about 15 minutes–until browned.
Fill with a scoop of scrambled eggs mixed with diced ham and a bit of cheese. The cheese is important because it holds the eggs together so that they don’t spill whenever you take a bite.
