Are you strong and fierce?
Are you courageous and bold?
Does your roar reach the heavens?
Do the “animals” around you tremble at your nearing?
Or have you become just a legend?
Just a moment in time, wrapped in stone.
The stories of greatness wrapped up in your past, but somewhere along the way, you became lost and undone.
Start again in this new 2020.
Refresh your mind.
Renew your spirit.
Roar again.
…Just a thought for your Whimsical Wednesday…
Since this is the first Friday Fun Day post of 2020, I thought I’d say, Happy New Year!
I hope your Christmas and New Years holidays were amazing, and I hope the rest your 2020 is incredible!
If you’re grieving, my prayer is for comfort.
If you’re sorrowful, my prayer is for joy.
If you’re angry, my prayer is for forgiveness and grace.
If you’re fearful, my prayer is for peace.
If you’re weak, my prayer is for strength.
If you’re just ok, my prayer is for extraordinary.
No matter where you are, who you are, where you’ve been or where you’re going, 2020 can be a fresh start, a new beginning, and a clearer perspective.
There is hope.
Start today. Go have a Friday Fun Day! 😊
It’s hard to believe that this time next week, I’ll be writing the first Friday Fun Day of 2020.
Time to assess, evaluate, process and plan.
What have you done in 2019 that has been fun?
What is one thing you wish you could go back and change?
What is one thing you are thankful for?
What is one improvement you’d like to make in 2020?
Your lists may be long, or they may be short, but it’s good to look at your year and take account of the good, the bad and the ugly. It doesn’t mean you can go back and change it.
However, if we keep doing the things we’ve always done, expecting a different results, we are not wise. I believe Albert Einstein actually said it amounts to INSANITY.
If we expect to see change, we must like a flower bush be pruned, watered and fertilized, and in the spring, growth will appear as a tiny bud. It may seem tiny, but over time, the beautiful fragrance will convince you of the change.
Happy Friday Fun Day! Go have some fun!
Let 2019 go out with a bang and welcome 2020 like a beautiful, sweet fragranced rain.
I didn’t post yesterday; even though, it was Christmas AND Whimsical Wednesday. I do hope everyone had a wonderful Christmas and a very whimsical day!
Overall, it has been a beautiful Christmas season here, as well as, a miserable one for my sweetie. Having the flu on Christmas is absolutely no fun. It was nice to be with his family, and I’m so thankful they treat me as one of their own, but I sure did miss him during all the festivities.
Praying you and yours made lots of happy memories and everyone stayed and stays well! 😉💗🎄
The Grizzle Grist
Location: North Georgia
I know I’m a bit late on posting today, and this is usually my day to review a restaurant, but since it’s Christmas Eve, and I have a short moment here between a family lunch and our evening festivity’s, I thought I’d share a little recipe with you that a family tradition. 😊🎄
I love to bake, and I especially love to bake around the holidays. So often, the calendar is too full to do all the baking I’d like to accomplish, but I always try to get in, at least, a little. There’s one item that is almost always on the list of things I am to bring to a family function. These are called marble-top brownies, but I’m not sure you’ll find this particular recipe anywhere, as I made my own version about 20years ago, and they’ve been a family tradition ever since.
Now, I believe in EASY; so, get ready for a bit of “straight-out-of-the box” instructions, and please, don’t snub your nose if you’re more of a “straight-from-scratch” kind of gal. I’m sure you can modify this to your own desires and likings. 😉
Marble-top Brownie’s (Momma Mia Style)
1 box favorite Brownies Mic (I like Betty C’s)
Ingredients to make the brownies (this will vary – typically egg(s), oil and water)
1 pkg Cream Cheese
1/2 c. Sugar
1/2 tsp. Vanilla
1 egg
Bag of Coconut Flakes
Bag of Semi-Sweet Chocolate Morsels
Preheat oven to 350. Spray the bottom of a 9×13 baking pan with cooking spray. In medium bowl, mix brownie ingredients as directed into he back of the box. Once mixed well, pour batter in bottom of pan. In medium bowl, mix cream cheese, sugar and vanilla until well blended. Add egg and mix just until blended (don’t over mix). Pour over brownie mix and spread till all brownie mix is covered. Take knife and “cut” batter and turn to make swirls of brownie and cream cheese mix. It will have a marble effect. (*Note, don’t make it “dirty;” in other words, don’t over marbleize, or the cream cheese will be more brownie mix than creamy.) Sprinkle coconut over mix, followed by chocolate chips. Bake for 28 mins or until cream cheese is almost set and edges are slightly golden.
*Once out of oven, use a plastic knife to cut into brownies. This makes cutting so much easier and less messy.
Hope you enjoy these! Merry Christmas!🎄
*Sorry for the Saran wrap pic below. They’re already readied for Christmas lunch tomorrow! 😉
Get out and enjoy a Friday Fun Day today.
If you’re cooped up at work, then, plan for tomorrow.
But get out and do something different.
Change the atmosphere. Change the routine.
Get out and remember why you’re alive.
You have a purpose. You have a significance.
Remember what, why and who.
Move beyond the mundane and into the extraordinary.
You can do this! Now, go have some fun! 🎉
Sometimes, you must make your own whimsical moment.
Like stepping on (packing) bubbles and becoming a child again.
Like doing a jig on those bubbles as if you’re Mr. Magorium from Mr. Magorium’s Wonder Emporium.
Like stepping out in the rain and not running from the pain.
Like doing a dance right in the middle of the waterspout just to say you did.
Yeah, sometimes, you just have to make your own whimsical moments.
La Trattoria
Location: Carrollton, Ga
*I will begin by giving my apologies for the pic. It’s not the best in presentation, but it’s all I’ve got, because we gobbled down that pizza so fast, and the place was pretty busy; so, I didn’t get a good shot. Maybe this will give you an indication of the yummy topping you can get. 😋
This place was great. Nice atmosphere, pleasant wait staff, and delicious pizza. We had salad and pizza, but they have many more items on the menu.
You’ll not regret a nice lunch here,l but be sure to arrive a little early. It was pretty busy when we arrived and never stopped with customers coming and going. It’s not a huge restaurant, but what they have they do well.
As a parent of two older teen sons, there are often times, I wonder if we’ve raised them right.
When their attitudes are stinky, and their relationships are floundering. When they’d rather threaten to “punch you in the face” to show brotherly love than express a kind word. When they’d rather goof off and smart off than do what they’re told and help out around the house.
As a parent, you work real hard to train up your children in the way they should go. You work real hard, constantly hoping your words are matching your own deeds, and somehow, that example is being seen by the tiny feet (now big feet) that follow.
As a parent, you spend long hours teaching the hard lessons, conveying life truths and praying, “Dear Lord, help this child to hear and understand what I’m trying to tell him.”
As a parent, you’re continually pleading with God to protect, guide and help, give grace, and most importantly, to love and help them to realize just how much.
And you wonder…
Are they getting it?
Will they hear it?
Much more, will they believe, receive and repeat it?
Then, in one brief moment, one twinkling of an eye, you get a glimpse…
You and your sons are sitting in a restaurant, awaiting your food, and an elderly couple pulls up in the rain. The husband is bent over in stature, trying desperately to help his wife, who is just as feeble, to get to the door and out of the downpour.
All of this has been in your peripheral vision, not completely cognizant of the events, until at the same split second, you hear your 18 year old’s chair loudly scrape the floor, and by the time you turn to see him, he’s already at the door.
He proceeds to hold the door, take the lady’s hand from her husband (so he can go park the car that’s been running on the curb) and he proceeds to walk the little lady to her table and make sure she’s alright.
Wow. He’s gonna be okay. Not just ok, he’s already become an amazing young man, and I just got to see the proof of it.
This momma’s heart is full. ❤️
Sometimes, you have to choose to dance in the rain.
Life isn’t going to always be what you want.
Circumstances aren’t always going to be what you like.
These things may laugh and mock at you while you faulted and flop.
What you choose in that moment will often determine your destiny.
Choose life. Choose joy. Choose peace.
Choose love over hate.
Choose truth over lies.
Choose a smile. Choose fun.
These things might not change your event, but they will change your perspective.
They will change your heart.
They will change your mind and your eyes.
Fund Days are happenstance.
Sometimes, you stand to make it happen.
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