Household Hint Monday

Household Hint Monday

Did you know there is such a thing as stainless steel cleaner wipes?  

Once a month, I use them.  I wipe down the stainless steel pieces in the house with the wipe, then wipe the item down with a kitchen towel.  It takes away all the streaks and water marks, making these items look brand new.  I use this product on my refrigerator, dish washer, oven, sink faucets, shower faucet, and dorm sized mini-fridge. It's quick. It's easy. And it looks REAL good.

Verse

Proverbs 1:24-27 

But since you refuse to listen when I call and no one pays attention when I stretch out my hand, since you disregard all my advice and do not accept my rebuke, I in turn will laugh when disaster strikes you; I will mock when calamity overtakes you — when calamity overtakes you like a storm, when disaster sweeps over you like a whirlwind,
 when distress and trouble overwhelm you.

Prayer

Dear Heavenly Father,

Please allow me to listen to You.  Let me pay attention and hear Your Words, Lord.  Let me be the one to laugh when the world is in chaos.  Do not let me join in the storm and be the laughing stock of the fool. 

In Jesus Name, Amen.

Family Dinner Sunday - A day for a recipe or two.

Wouldn't it be wonderful if I could cook like this?  This is the dessert dish served at our church's "Let Your Heart Find Christmas."  They really fancied it up this year. And yes, it tasted as good as it looks.

Family Dinner Sunday - A day for a recipe or two.  

You can find my cookbook at: http://www.lulu.com/spotlight/cbright123 

Sugar Biscuits

1 package of whomp biscuits (aka canned biscuits. Don’t use flaky biscuits on this recipe, it’s better to use the regular kind)

Butter

Sugar

Cinnamon

1.     Smash each biscuit in your hand until it’s pressed down and looks like a flat oval. 

2.     On each biscuit, place a pat of butter, 1 tsp. of sugar and ¼ tsp. cinnamon.

3.     Pinch each biscuit closed.  With the pinch part facing upward to the sky.

4.     Pop in the oven and cook according to biscuit package directions.  Usually 400 degrees for 10 minutes.

Icing:

½ package of powder sugar

¼- ½ cup of milk

1.     In a bowl, put the powder sugar.  Slowly pour and mix in the milk.  Mix until it’s like thick syrup.

2.     Pour over the biscuits as soon as they come out of the oven. Yum!

Italian Sausage Sandwiches

Smoked sausage links (one per person)

Potatoes (on and one half per person)

Small onion (one per person)

Vegetable oil

1 teaspoon or oregano

1 teaspoon garlic salt

French roll (one per person)

Mustard

Ketchup

1. Warm up about one inch of vegetable oil in a frying pan on the stove while you slice up the potatoes and onions.  Place one piece of potato in the frying pan to see when the oil is warm enough.  The potato will begin bubbling from underneath when the oil is warm enough. 
2. Add in the potatoes and onions.  Sprinkle with 1 teaspoon of oregano and 1 teaspoon of garlic salt.  Cover with a lid and let them cook by themselves for about 7 minutes (or until the onions become translucent).  Stir at least twice. 
3. Add in the sausages.  Cover back with the lid. 
4. Toast your bread. 
5. Place bread on plates and put mustard on one side and ketchup on the other. 

Turn off stove and put one sausage and some potatoes and onions on each piece of bread.  (You may want to drain the oil off the sausage, potatoes and onions on a paper plate with paper towels, before you put it on the bread.)

Verse

Proverbs 1:20-23

Out in the open wisdom calls aloud, she raises her voice in the public square; on top of the wall she cries out,
 at the city gate she makes her speech: “How long will you who are simple love your simple ways?  How long will mockers delight in mockery and fools hate knowledge? Repent at my rebuke!  Then I will pour out my thoughts to you, I will make known to you my teachings.

Prayer

Dear Heavenly Father, 

Thank you for loving me.  Help me to turn from the simple ways of the world.  Help me to see that you are telling me everyday that you love me and want to teach me.  Open my eyes to see you, Lord.  Open my ears to hear you, Lord.  Let me speak your words of love to others, so they may see and hear You, Lord. 

In Jesus Name, Amen.  

Seasonal Saturday

String is a favorite toy.

Seasonal Saturday

The week after Christmas can be a let down or it can be a perk-up!  I like to wait until my kids go back to school to put away the Christmas decorations.  This is the week that I just stop and enjoy.  I drink more cups of coffee. I stop and listen to the conversations that my children want to have with me.  I watch more of the television shows with my husband which means more football, Pawn Stars, and Ancient Aliens.  I relax and stare at the Christmas lights on the dried up tree.  I eat left-over candies and cookies, because it's not January 1st yet.  And I daydream about the coming year and the good it can bring.

Verse

Proverbs 1:17-19

How useless to spread a net
 where every bird can see it!  These men lie in wait for their own blood; they ambush only themselves! Such are the paths of all who go after ill-gotten gain; it takes away the life of those who get it.

Prayer

Dear God,

Please let me remember to keep You first in my life.  When life is good and full of abundance, do not let me turn from You.  When life is bad and there is famine, do not let me turn from You.  For You and You alone, provide what I really need…Your Love.  Thank You, Lord. 

In Jesus Name, Amen. 

Fri-day, Par-tay!

The Houston Zoo Lights were amazing! And very crowded.

Fri-day, Par-tay!

Okay, so it's a couple days after Christmas, you can still do this.  Your decorations are probably still up. Even if you've taken them down, you can still celebrate...all..year...long.  

Christmas Movie Night! No scheduling required.  All that is needed, tune into ABC Family Channel or rent your favorite Christmas movie or dig out that ole DVD, pop some popcorn, and make hot chocolate!  If you have a fireplace stoke the fire.  Turn on your Christmas lights.  Get out some blankets for lying around on the couch.  Wa-La!  Fun, relaxing night. 

Verse

Proverbs 1:10-16

My son, if sinful men entice you, do not give in to them.   If they say, “Come along with us; let’s lie in wait for innocent blood, let’s ambush some harmless soul; let’s swallow them alive, like the grave, and whole, like those who go down to the pit; we will get all sorts of valuable things
and fill our houses with plunder; cast lots with us;
we will all share the loot ”— my son, do not go along with them, do not set foot on their paths;  for their feet rush into evil, they are swift to shed blood.

Prayer

Dear Heavenly Father, 

Help me to go against the crowd.  Help me to love my neighbor enough to have Your Courage.  Help me to see the wrong and be a part of the right.  Thank You for watching over me and protecting me.  Thank You for loving the world, Lord. 

In Jesus Name, Amen

Thursday Thoughts

Thursday  Thoughts

You cannot do it all every year, but some years you can.  Be happy with what you can do today.

Decorating the front yard for Christmas. 

Verse

Proverbs 1:8-9

Listen, my son, to your father’s instruction and do not forsake your mother’s teaching.  They are a garland to grace your head and a chain to adorn your neck.

Prayer

Dear God,

Thank you for the wise words of friends and family.  Thank you for providing someone to look to for wise words and council.  Please watch over them and guide them.  And in turn guide me to serve You better, Lord.  Thank you.

In Jesus Name, Amen.