Category: Light Shine University

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There Is Love

Beauty.

Faith.

Peace.

Hopes.

Family.

Dreams.

Joy.

Love.

Congratulations my sweethearts–on your new, beautiful life together!!

May you find all the joy and happiness that you’ve both been dreaming of for so long!

All my love…

always.

Mom

 

 

See Pucker Up

 

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Leprechaun Garland

I had this idea that for each of Dane’s Birthday and Christmas presents I would just make him a fireplace garland for a different holiday.

Trouble is, whenever I make a new one, I usually love it so much that instead of putting it in a “Save for Christmas” box…

I get so excited to show it off…

that I just…

you know…

give it to him.

Now I need to think of something else for Christmas. Ha,ha.

 

 

Original Leprechaun Pattern @ Crochet365knittoo

Original Shamrock Pattern @ BagoDayCrochet

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Chocolate Chocolate Chip Cookies

…straight from Heaven.

Yep, you heard me right. These little lovelies are soft and chewy and so, SO chocolaty that you’ll think you died and went straight to heaven.

You’ll be in a chocolate STUPOR I tell you.

Make them and see for yourself.

You’ll never be the same.

I swear it on a stack of chocolate chips.

Heh, heh.

 

 

Chocolate Chocolate Chip Cookies

Ingredients:

1 cup butter

1-1/2 cups sugar

2 eggs

2 tsps vanilla

2-1/2 cups flour

3/4 cup cocoa

1 tsp baking soda

1/2 tsp salt

1-1/2 cups chocolate chips (milk or semisweet)

Directions:

In large mixing bowl, cream butter and sugar about 5 minutes or until light and fluffy. Add eggs one at a time. Add vanilla.

In a separate bowl, combine flour, cocoa, baking soda and salt. Slowly add to the creamed mixture and mix well. Add chocolate chips and stir.

Drop by tablespoons about 2 inches apart onto a greased baking pan. Bake at 350 degrees for 9 minutes. Cool slightly before removing from pan.

Chocolate Chocolate Chip Cookies
 
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Ingredients
  • 1 cup butter
  • 1-1/2 cups sugar
  • 2 eggs
  • 2 tsps vanilla
  • 2-1/2 cups flour
  • ¾ cup cocoa
  • 1 tsp baking soda
  • ½ tsp salt
  • 1-1/2 cups chocolate chips (milk or semisweet)
Instructions
  1. In large mixing bowl, cream butter and sugar about 5 minutes or until light and fluffy.
  2. Add eggs one at a time.
  3. Add vanilla.
  4. In a separate bowl, combine flour, cocoa, baking soda and salt.
  5. Slowly add to the creamed mixture and mix well.
  6. Mix in chocolate chips.
  7. Drop by tablespoons about 2 inches apart onto a greased baking pan.
  8. Bake at 350 degrees for 9 minutes.
  9. Cool slightly before removing from pan.

 

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Wintery Stuff

I grew up in L. A. and in case you didn’t know–we didn’t get any snow there.

In fact, when we would read about other kids making snowmen or shoveling snow, in our early readers, we would all just laugh.

We know-it-all First Graders were perfectly sure that someone had made all that up. Snow wasn’t real. HA! How ridiculous.

I positively LOVE snow now. My family moved here on purpose so that we could have all four magical, beautiful seasons.

Now if the weather would just cooperate…that’d be swell.

Where’s our SNOW?!!!

Sheesh.