A Little Help In My Kitchen...

This week we have been blessed with a  couple of sweet visits in our home!  On Tuesday, we were able to have lunch with the precious Jeff and Meghan Stacy Family!  Meghan and Jeff are one of the sweetest couples you will ever meet!  They prayed and prayed for a family and now they have two beautiful little boys that call them Mama and Daddy!  They are soooo cute!  It made me remember when mine were little!  It feels like only yesterday that mine were that age! 


Meghan, Elijah and I worked on learning to make biscuits and gravy while Anthony, Jeff and Everett visited and waited on lunch! ;) 

After we had lunch, I planned a special treat for Elijah to enjoy...  We made snowmen out of powdered doughnuts!

 Here's what we used:     Mini Powdered Sugar Doughnuts

                                        Candy Corns

                                        Mini Chocolate Chips

                                        Extra Powdered Sugar For Snow

You use the mini chocolate chips for the snowman eyes and mouth. Add the candy corn in the middle of the doughnut for a nose and sprinkle extra powdered sugar for the snow!  He loved these!  Isn't he the CUTEST???

Thank you Meghan, Jeff, Elijah and Everett for sharing the afternoon with us!! <3 Love you!


Then...

Today, we were blessed with another visit from our sweet friends, The Leavens!  The Leavens Family was originally from Georgia, just like us,  but were living in Pennsylvania because of work. We happened to be working in their area and we met them at church!  After talking to them, we found out that we knew so many of the same people and that our paths had probably crossed before, but we just didn't know it!  It's a very small world out there! 

Anyway, they just moved back to Georgia, and started home schooling.  Susan called and asked if her girls could come and learn to make biscuits for a home economics lesson this week too!  I was thrilled to have them!  They did a wonderful job! 





                                                                           

               

 

 

 

Sydney, Ashley and the twins, Carley and Kenzey.  These four girls are not only beautiful, but they are being taught by their sweet mama to be virtuous women one day!  <3  If you girls are anything like her, you will be just fine!!  What a wonderful family!!  Thank y'all for coming!!   Love you all!!

 

 

 

All of these sweet kids in my kitchen, got me to thinking about my three sweet kids in my kitchen through the years.  I have been so blessed to able to be home with my children and do things like cook with them. 

 

Today, I stumbled upon a little jewel from the past...

 

 

 

This is a recipe that my Avery wrote out for his favorite Chocolate Chip Cookies!  He got this recipe from a Weekly Reader Magazine and used to LOVE to make these! <3

 

I decided to make them today...

 

Here are the ingredients:

 

1/2 Cup of Margarine or Butter, Softened

 

1/3 Cup of Sugar

 

1/3 Cup of Brown Sugar

 

1 Egg

 

1 Teaspoon of Vanilla

 

1/2 Cup of Oats

 

1/2 Teaspoon of Baking Soda

 

1/4 Teaspoon of Salt

 

1 Cup of Flour

 

1 Bag of Chocolate Chips

 

First, blend your butter, sugars, egg and vanilla in a mixer.

 

 

 
 
 

Then, blend your Oats, Salt, Baking Soda and Flour in with the other mixture.

 

 

 

 

Last, but not least, add your Chocolate Chips!! 

 

Bake at 350 for about 12 Minutes...

 

 

 

 

 

 
 

 

 

 

YUMMY!! 

 

 

 

 

 

My Little Kitchen Helper

 

Then...

 

 

 

and Now...

 

 

 

I love you Avery! <3

 

 

 

<3 Luke 18:17

 

"Verily I say unto you, Whosoever shall not receive the kingdom of God as a little child shall in no wise enter therein."

 

<3Psalm 127: 3-5

 

"Lo, children are an heritage of the Lord: and the fruit of the womb is his reward.  As arrows are in the hand of a mighty man; so are children of the youth.  Happy is the man that hath his quiver full of them: they shall not be ashamed, but they shall speak with the enemies in the gate."