I saw this adorable recipe and it looked to be pretty simple to make so I purchased the ingredients and told a few people about this fun recipe. I began putting 1 together thought it did not look in proportion to the rest of the tree. I am a person that will find a solution if I don't like something or something is not working the way it should. The recipe just says a Reese cup as one of the ingredients. I double checked the recipe, and it does not say to use either regular or snack size Reese cup. It does tell you to use Reese miniature and Hershey kisses but not specification of the size of actual Reese cup. I made both and let me tell you it is nicely proportioned as a Christmas tree when using snack size Reese cup as opposed to full sized Reese cup.
Then it showed using that frosting in a bag you can get down the baking aisle. Well, it worked at first then it stopped coming out of the tip on top and came out of a seam in the bag, I used some as the glue needed to put the pieces together to create the tree. The recipe actually called for melting some chocolate chips to use as the adhesive. I tried both and guess what? One of each came unglued while decorating the trees. I still decorated the 2 trees and then re-glued the bottom miniature Reese cup back to the tree. I like to get creative so I thought I would like decorating with my home-made butter cream frosting, so I made some and colored some frosting red and some green. Then I had some decorating sprinkles already but found a really cute sprinkle combo @ Michael's craft store and utilized that also. I was shopping at a grocery outlet, and they had sugar cookie Hershey's kisses, so I bought a bag to change the style of some trees. How fun is that. When I first saw this recipe idea, I shared it with a co-worker and on my lunch break I went and bought some of the ingredients I could find and then came back, and we tried to see if it would actually work. That is called trying out a rough draft before delving into a project.
I tried decorating the first tree I made with the frosting in a bag and did not like the look so that is when I began to think what it would look like with my home-made frosting. Well, let me tell you this there really is no comparison of the taste of frosting in a bag/tube compared to the flavor of my frosting. That is personal preference, and you may like the flavor of one over the other. This is America and that is the beauty in living here we have choices to make. Do not let others try to coerce you into something when you just know deep down inside of you that what they are trying to force you to do, say, think is just not right. I call that Holy Spirit guidance/direction, or you may refer to it as deep down inside of you, gut instinct.
So, the disproportioned Christmas trees I have some miniature cupcake liners and it fits perfectly in one, so it now looks proportioned.
I saw another intriguing recipe and I think I may want to try it also, Menorah shaped Challah bread. I do not think it is a complicated recipe. I may make in advance and freeze for Christmas dinner. Can you tell I like creative projects? Oddly enough I found a mistake in the recipe. It states as an ingredient water but the actual direction states in step one "in bowl of stand mixer, combine yeast, milk ...."
I am not just like this in my personal life, but it spills over into my professional life also. I saw something not working like it should and I reached out to the creator of the program and inquired. Guess what? They found a fix for the glitch I happened to find while using the program and they fixed it. I was most thankful for the assistance. I do not need recognition for this, but I do wonder if/why others using the same program didn't catch this? Maybe that is because I have this attention to detail built inside of me. I just finished reading another ministry book and sure enough I think I found a typo error. I think this book was self-published and I am not going to reach out to this minister. Time is too short, and I think there are other much more important things in life to deal with and prayers that need to be prayed and fasting coupled with that prayer also.
As each day gets closer to 12/14, I wonder now and then if my mother knew she was going to have a stroke and then die 1 month later. I think about random things like that. This time last year I was getting my place ready for my mom and 2 children to come and visit and spend Christmas with me. It never happened and I know my mom was excited to come and spend time with us together. Instead, she laid in a hospital bed and then off to 2 different rehab type of places to assist her in recovering from the stroke that kept her left side from full functioning. She was a food snob (in a good way I mean this) she knew a lot about cooking, baking, and how to make something taste wonderful when she cooked/baked. She still in my opinion made the best ever pie crust. With this new place in her life, she was now not able to eat without someone assisting her and not regular food we may eat but food that when she swallowed because of the left side of her body from the stroke it also affected her left side of swallowing, she did not choke. How can a wonderful cook be brought down to this in her life?
This morning in time with Holy Spirit I inquired of things like this. He so lovingly assured me that her 93 years living here on earth are just a drop in a bucket compared to the glorious life she is living in heaven for all eternity. There is no comparison of time like we know it here on earth. I asked Him why she had such a hard life here on earth and He assured me once again, that time on earth is nothing in comparison to the wonderful life she lives in heaven now and that is for eternity, not just a mere 93 years on earth. My mother was a giver, encourager and she knew how to love. See, what you do on earth for others with a heart filled with love really does matter when you invite Jesus into your heart to be the love of your life. He died for you and me so we will not live in a living hell for all eternity but in heaven with Him for all eternity. The choice is truly yours, really think about this most important decision in your life that you will ever make. Choose wisely because once you draw your last breath here on earth there is no going back on that decision. You decide where you will live for all eternity, either heaven or hell. There is no in-between limbo/purgatory like some would like to think. No, if you choose to take innocent lives and think that is your grand prize when you draw your last breath, you will be sorely surprised when you meet the fate of your final demise in hell. Do not listen to the lies out there being told to people. Repent of your sins and ask Jesus into your heart and to cover your sins with the precious blood He shed on Calvary for you and me.
I have been burning the candles each night of the Menorah. Last night I tuned into Marty Goetz and his wife. I wonder if when I attended my university right in the heart of a large Jewish community if Marty still lived in Ohio during those years with his family. Imagine that a Jesuit university that welcomed Mother Teresa on a visit to the campus while I attended the university right in the midst of a Jewish community. Only to find out my true heritage a few years ago. Do you think that was a design in my life by God Almighty. That is not a coincidence but called divine destiny. So, I love the way they sing, pray, worship together as a couple. I would like that in a marriage. Where the couple genuinely like/love/respect and treat each other with loving manners and words of love. You can tell they really like being together. Isn't that something worth waiting for in a marriage.
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