The Habit of Thankfulness: A Few of My Favorite Things

Mar 13th- A few of my favorite things...
~Watching a hawk circling over the snow-free area of the fields
~Shaniah pointing out a piece of a rainbow in the sky on our way home this afternoon
~Watching the Orion the Hunter move further west in the sky...his winter hunting nights are coming to a close...spring is coming smile emoticon

The Habit of Thankfulness: A Few of my Favorite Things

Mar 12th- A few of my favorite things...
~Celebrating Chris actually being with us for supper for the first time in 6 weeks at Johnny Angels...Yumm!
~Watching a Jeep off-roading in 1.5 ft of heavy packed snow and watching it get stuck (common sense would have stayed out)
~Seeing 20+ deer enjoying a patch of grass on the hillside smile emoticon

The Habit of Thankfulness: A Few of My Favorite Things

Mar 11th- A few of my favorite things...
~Watching Lissie silently learning Gwyn's lessons...I can see her mouth move silently repeating them
~The girlies watching the all fish channel, aka the fish tank
~Warm temps allowing us to finally take down the Christmas swags from the windows...although with all that snow, they looked prettier this last month then they did all of December....

The Habit of Homemade: 4 Minute Brownie Pie

Years ago I came across this recipe for quick and easy brownies from scratch. It's easy enough to make with kids and tasty enough for adults, especially is you need a chocolate fix!

4 Minute Brownie Pie

(maybe 8 minute if you make it with kids)

Preheat oven to 350*F

Grease a pie pan (I uses Pam baking spray)

2 eggs

1 c. sugar

1/2 c. butter(one stick) 

1/2 c flour

3-4 TB of baking cocoa

1 tsp vanilla

Pinch of salt (optional)

Toppings and or stir-ins of your choice (nuts, chocolate chips, sprinkles, etc...)

**Note: You can use baking cocoa of your choice. I've used regular, dark chocolate and semi-sweet...they all taste good! )

Blend together the butter sugar and eggs. Then mix in the flour, cocoa, vanilla, salt, and "stir-ins". Pour into greased  9 in. pie pan. Bake for 30 minutes. Pie will settle a bit when cool. Enjoy! 

This is just as easy as making a boxed mix and even better to eat...Go forth and bake!

The Habit of Thankfulness: A Few of My Favorite Things

Mar 10th- A few of my favorite things...
~Catching rainbows in the fish tank from the early morning rays- light lava
~Temps in the 40's...we can see the concrete for the first time since January
~4 Minute Brownies (which usually take 8 minutes to make if I have little helpers) with shamrock sprinkles

The Habit of Thankfulness: A Few of My Favorite Things

Mar 9th- A few of my favorite things...
~The fun, limitless possibilities of a new play scarf
~Sunlight catching the water droplets 
~Growing pineapple plants...a mini tropical vacation for the eyes smile emoticon

The Habit of Thankfulness: A Few of My Favorite Things

Mar 8th- A few of my favorite things...
~Looking out the window on the way to church on Sunday morning
~The variety of snowflakes we've had this winter....today's are delicate as paper thin glass
~The setting sun to reveal who's been by in a white landscape