Shrimp Recipe

Hey everybody!  I posted this lucious sauteed shrimp recipe on Real Women Eat today.   So please be sure to swing on by there and pick up a super-simple-easy recipe for this shrimp dish here! 

See you soon!

PRAYER REQUEST TUESDAY

This is the day set aside for prayer for you.

If you have a prayer request, please list it in the comments below. You don't have to give any information you don't feel comfortable with (a simple "unspoken" comment is sufficient).

If you would like to pray, please pray for the comment above yours.
Also, if you would like to share a "praise" for a blessing you have received, please feel free to list those also! I'd love to hear of it so we can rejoice with you.

My life

This past weekend we spent going through my husband’s grandmother’s estate.  While there were many larger items her other grandchildren were going through, and things already spoken for, my attention was more in her sewing room.
Grandma Ruth used to own her own shop.  I didn’t know her back then, and my husband and I have been together 31 years.   In her modest home, in one of her spare bedrooms, she still had the sewing equipment from those days.  There were monster machines of all types  I couldn’t even begin to know how to operate. But she did.   One of the machines was an old electric sewing machine that was in a gorgeous old, and well worn, cabinet.  I was lucky enough to get that.  Inside were gobs and gobs of buttons.  It was obvious that a lot of these buttons were saved from old clothes.  Just snipped off of the piece of clothing, so as not to waste. 

I just loved these old metal bobbins.

One question I kept hearing from different people as I wandered from room to room “when I’m gone, I wonder what they’ll see of mine”.  I hadn’t really thought about that before, but seeing how I kept hearing it… It made me wonder , what will they conclude about my life when they go through my “things”.
What will my possessions say about me “when I’m gone” ? Will they wonder when they see my quilt collection, my teacup and teapots, my dust (threw that in to see if you were paying attention)…will they say “she sure put a lot of stock in “stuff”, or will they see a home that loved, cared for and prayed for others?  Do my possessions accurately describe the “me” I am?

Be Sweet

PRAYER REQUEST TUESDAY

This is the day set aside for prayer for you.

If you have a prayer request, please list it in the comments below. You don't have to give any information you don't feel comfortable with (a simple "unspoken" comment is sufficient).

If you would like to pray, please pray for the comment above yours.

Also, if you would like to share a "praise" for a blessing you have received, please feel free to list those also! I'd love to hear of it so we can rejoice with you.

Newton’s Fruit Thins review

 
Newtons Fruit Thins…yum!
Have you seen these?  Tried ‘em?   I received a bag of  Newton Fruit Thins in the mail to try and saved them for “girls night in” Tuesday night (so they could help me in my own little “taste test”). 
I was in love at first bite!  Seriously.  One of the ladies said “tastes like you wish the Happy Meal cookies tasted”. 
I worried “what if I don’t like them”?   My mother always quoted to me “better to have a good name that fine riches”… so I couldn’t in good conscience endorse something I didn’t absolutely love.  I’m happy to say my fears vanished at first bite!
There are other flavors too, but the bag I received was the Cranberry Citrus Oat Fruit thins.  You could taste a hint of citrus, and see actual dried cranberries in it.  It’s not a sickening-syrup-sweet cookie (which I appreciate!)  Very crisp and tastes refreshing.  Three cookies equal 140 calories and 8 grams of whole grains.
I was going to save the rest of the cookies to have a “party” with my nieces and nephew and “use” them to do another taste test from a kid’s perspective but they were so good, I actually ate the rest!  (sorry kids!)
I would definitely buy these again.  The are that good!  Don’t take my word for it though, get your own bag. 

*I received a free product from One2One Network for review purposes.  I did not receive any form of compensation from the company.  All opinions are my own and not influenced in any way.  I would not endorse any product or idea that I do not believe in and have tried myself.

Sobering Sugar Facts

Someone sent these pics in an email to my hubby, who in turn sent them to me (being that I'm all "count-those-carbs-cut-that-sugar of late)  So I have no idea where they originated.  Looking at these common items in light of how many sugar cubes they equate to, is... well, sobering to say the least!   I'll just let the pics speak for themselves...

(Bananas are one of my faves, but really???!)

Tempted to make your next meal just water?   I am.  Ok, not really.