Put some blinders on

 Last night, as I was impatiently waiting for Greys Anatomy to be on there was a commercial for some eye contacts or glasses or something, one of the lines they used went along the lines of  "protect those two little miracles in your head" and it got me to thinking, #1 that I had never heard anyone refer to eyes as miracles, and #2 at how true that is. The gift of sight is pretty awesome, like could you imagine just living, with out seeing colors,or patterns, but then I thought a bit deeper, I turned down the t.v, closed my eyes and just listened, no one was home so I didn't hear anything, but I did get to thinking about other things we wouldn't be able to see, like insecurity.
   Imagine, none of us could see, you meet someone new, you can tell from her voice and they way he/she talks she has a beautiful spirit, is caring, makes you laugh, and is someone you would like to be friends with, that and probably more are the things we can see with out seeing. Unfortunately sometimes the gift of sight is influenced by petty, judgmental attitudes, that nice person you just met is a little over weight, maybe even a lot over weight, maybe they don't dress like they're hip with the times, they're "nerdy" "uncool" etc.
they now turn  into someone you maybe wouldn't even talk to all based on looks.
   These types of scenes have become far to common,one example is kids these days (yea I sound old)  skinny kids won't talk to fat kids, fat kids feel bad about themselves, Cool" kids don't talk to "nerd" kids etc, why are kids even being encouraged to think this way, who cares! People are people, that "cool" kid is being judged just as that and nothing more,they could be hurting or sad, or just fine, same with the Nerd, You get the picture.  Imagine all these kids, or anyone really  put their blinders on against this social self made mess and met people for who they were, I bet we would all be surprised about the things we would learn about each other.    A trending topic lately has been this Abercrombie and Fitch president guy, I can now fit in to those clothes, and I even have a shirt from there, and guess what, its makes me no better, then anyone, its just clothes, and for him to say that they make their clothes a certain way just to attracted "attractive, cool ( who even says cool anymore in reference to a person, get with the times Mr.CEO)
types of people is just, ridicules. In my mind most business  people  would  who cares WHO or what TYPE of people by my crap just as long as it sells right, so the fact that he feels he needs to single people out based on something as irrelevant as looks, and size means he of all people needs US to view him with some blinders, those types of people really need some listening. A person is still a person sometimes we all need to look at people with our ears.

Life and yuminess

Well it's been an Interesting time lately. Trying to get into school, lets hope I can do it! I've been working hard to lose weight but Sundays are my cheat day so I made these delicious sweet and salty bars. Like really delicious and so easy!

Ingredients:
1box ritz crackers(I used a store brand, they were on sale:)
1 bag skor bits
1 can condensed milk
Directions:
Crush crackers in bag until fine
Pour into a bowl and add skor bits, then add condensed milk and stir until moistened.
Press mixture into a buttered 9x13 pan bake at 350 for 18-20 minutes!
Prepare for goodness

Reese peanut butter cheesecake

For The Crust
4 1/2 cups crushed Oreo cookies(cream included)
1 cup chopped roasted peanuts
1/2 cup butter, melted
For The Filling
2 lbs cream cheese, softened (4 blocks)
5 eggs, at room temperature
1 1/2 cups firmly packed brown sugar
1 cup smooth peanut butter (not natural-style)
1/2 cup whipping cream
1 teaspoon vanilla extract
12 Reese's Peanut Butter cups, broken into small pieces

Directions:

preheat oven to 275

Cookies,peanuts,butter, crush em all up together, I had to use a blender, but I think a food processor would be better!

press into a greased spring form pan.

Mix together( with electric mixer): cream cheese,5 eggs,brown sugar, peanut butter, 1/2 cup whipping cream, vanilla, mix until smooth(mine always has a few lumps of cream cheese, don't worry) after mixed  use wooden spoon to fold in peanut butter cup pieces, poor batter onto the crust prepared pan. Bake for 11/2 hours.

chill for at least 5 hours, I spruced my cheesecake up with extra reese pieces and carmel.

Easter Snickerdoodles

Well its pretty close to easter time, the little sisters and I decided to bake some cookies and give them to our neighbors:) This recipe is an oldy but awesome, to make them more easterish we colored them pink:)


Snicker Doodles
1.Preheat oven to 400.f
2. Cream together 11/2 cups sugar
  1 cup shortening
2 eggs
2 TBLS milk
1 TSP Vanila
Then add: 23/4 cups flour
2 TSP cream of tar tar
1 TSP baking soda
3/4 TSP salt
 Roll into balls and roll in 1/2 cups sugar and 2 tsp of cinnamon,
place on ungreased cookie sheet and bake for 8 minutes, do not over bake!
cool and enjoy!

 

Bowling

My dad and I took the kids bowling and they had a blast!

Year 2.

Year 2, all I can say is I miss you, that will never change. Rest in peace, smart kid.

Pizza rolls

A few weekends ago....(ok more like late last year) I was watching my siblings for the weekend while the parents were away. We all love pizza so we decided to try this method out, results.... Deliciousness, and convenient. These can even be frozen.