Giving Credit

Yesterday I got what I deserved. Both times in jest, I was called a nerd and weird by my two daughters. The first time, I was spouting off on the fact I drank too much coffee. Who didn't get the credit HE deserved was God! Last night in bed my mental activity was popping, not on bad things but on good, yet I wasn't drifting off to sleep. It wasn't until I turned my undivided attention to Him, giving him praise, making specific prayer requests for anyone and everyone I could think of, that I drifted to sleep.

So God...thanks again!!!
Thank you there have been arrests of gangs and child abusers!

Thank you I never finished my prayers! I never do...yet He knows the pain and suffering years ago when the only way I did sleep was through the prescription of sleep aids.

Thank you for the unlimited opportunities I now possess to make others happy!

Like this!!!!


Ewwww!!!! But this is the before picture of Grandma's sugar cookie recipe

Here is the after...


When I got my hands on this recipe, I failed numerous attempts to get them to rise and be fluffy. Actually they don't even taste like a normal sugar cookie and not everyone LOVES them like we do. Currently I am the only one in my husband's family who makes these after the passing of Grandma. This batch took 3 hours to make. Once you make the initial batter, you must continuously add flour bit by bit until the gooey, sticky feeling disappears. Then they must be rolled to the proper thickness, placed on only my bottom rack of the oven, frosted while still hot and yet I still mess up a tray here and there. It's a slow go, as cookie making goes but those who LOVE them soon become addicted. One of my daughter's friends in college told her she had to wrestle the last one from a friend of hers, she loved them so. This Christmas I am hoping to have a cookie day with my sisters-in-law. Their kids devour these like candy every year. My husband gives me guff if I put too many out to share!
When I was still in depression years ago...I fought myself every Christmas to get these buggers out. Now I have made these three times already since the new year started.

For that...God I love you!