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Thursday’s Thought (by Helen Keller)

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I long to accomplish great and noble tasks, but it is my chief duty to accomplish humble tasks as though they were great and noble. The world is moved along, not only by the mighty shoves of its heroes, but also by the aggregate of the tiny pushes of each honest worker. Helen Keller

This quote reminded me of a couple of scriptures I memorized recently (did you catch my post on the AWESOME memorization program?…I’ve memorized 83 so far! :o)

The scripture that today’s quote reminded me of is Alma 37:6-7:  Now ye may suppose that this is foolishness in me; but behold I say unto you, that by small and simple things are great things brought to pass; and small means in many instances doth confound the wise. (7) And the Lord God doth work by means to bring about his great and eternal purposes and by very small means the Lord doth confound the wise and bringeth about the salvation of many souls.

Have a GREAT day everyone!  DO or LEARN something NEW!

my NEW genealogical excitement

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As a family historian, I love, loVE, LOVE living in this day and age of computers, scanners, optical character recognition readers etc!  Isn’t it sooo great?!?  Are you wondering what’s in the box?  Well…let me tell you!  They are bunches of old will documents that have been stored away in Maryland for over ONE HUNDRED YEARS….maybe not even opened for that long…who knows!   But now, these records are being scanned and available  for use/research.  Click the ‘source’ link next to the picture to read the article.  It really is an EXCITING time for genealogical research!  If you missed my post about the War of  1812 Project, be sure to check it out too!

I’ve been busy lately with plenty of family history research…mainly USA research.  However I do have English ancestors and I {eventually} would like to get going on researching those lines!

I recently went to a short workshop on how to use FindMyPast at a nearby Family History Center.  Since I’m busy with other research, I don’t really want to pay the money to have access to this database at home (Ancestry.com’s subscription alone about breaks the bank!), so I’m sooooo glad I can go somewhere to use it without signing up and paying yet.  Maybe when I’m REALLY seriously studying those English lines I will, but not now :o)

Just so you know, there is no cost to visit a FamilySearch Center, and they are open to anyone with an interest in genealogical research. There are more than 4,600 Family History Centers in 134 countries – so find one near you!!! Family History Centers provide free access to quite a few subscription genealogy websites.  It’s soooo GREAT!

family communication and a NEW funny video

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How is the communication in your family? Typically, at our house, ours is pretty average…meaning we could do better but we could also do a lot worse 🙂 BUT…on two difference occasions this week I was quite irritated with a couple of my family members! I had to ‘read through the lines’ to know what was going on…and even then, I was just guessing because these two individuals did NOT effectively communicate. I won’t bore you with the details, but one good thing about having ”issues” now and again is the side-effect of trying to do a better job at communicating….so we definitely had our little reminder this week!

It’s funny that this same week, my husband sent me a link to this YouTube video! I thought it was quite ironic because of the week I had with our ‘communication issues :o)!

Check this video out….it’s PRETTY FUNNY! I LOL! 🙂 Have a great day everyone and DO or LEARN something NEW!

NEW cookie recipe…tried and true from off the back of the bag!

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I tried a NEW cookie recipe….right off the back of the bag of butterscotch chips!  I figured it was most likely a tried and true recipe and wouldn’t let me down! Right-O!  They were YUMMY!  So…..what do you think?  Should they be called Oatmeal Scotties….OR Oatmeal Scotchies?

Of course, I wanted to learn something NEW today, so I researched BUTTERSCOTCH!  It’s funny…it seems the historians can’t really agree on where the term came from.  Usually when I research something, there’s TONS of information.  Not so with Butterscotch!  Hmmmm…is it named butterscotch because the confectionaries had to scorch the butter and sugar?  I looked up toffee too, since butterscotch is similar to toffee but is only boiled to the soft-stage and not the hard crack stage that toffee is.  Well…the origin of the word toffee is UNKNOWN also!  I’m striking out today!  I think I’ll go have some milk and cookies!

Learn or DO something NEW today!

NEW F & F Time!

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I had a great time yesterday with my good friend. We spent some time chit-chatting and catching up with each other…BUT we were multi-tasking and being domestically productive AT THE SAME TIME! You’ve all heard of getting some R & R time?…Well, we had some great F & F time!  FREEZER AND FRIENDSHIP TIME!

We each chose three meals and bought all the ingredients then helped each other put the meals together. We both now have 6 meals in our freezer. SUCH a good thing!!! Yes,  I know some women do the OAMC thing, but this was our first go at this, so we started small. Next time we’ll probably each do 4 meals and work our way up from there.

NEW photo of my week #23

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Can you tell where we went Friday evening?!?  My husband’s work helped sponsor this event, so we got free tickets and went and had some fun!!!  If you’ve never been to a Demolition Derby, you should find one and go.  Everyone should have that unique experience at least once in their life.  It’s pretty interesting 😮 !  Smash, Bang, Crash!!!

a NEW Delicious Drink…Peach Flavor!

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We tried a NEW specialty drink recipe a while ago.  My husband brought the recipe home from work and said, “This tastes just like the specialty drinks at Olive Garden!”   It’s super easy and we tried it with just the Torani flavoring they had at our local grocery store.  But since I’m in love with anything peach, I ordered peach flavoring from amazon and have been making a few PEACH batches this week.   It’s REALLY yummy! Try it!

Homemade Italian Soda

Pour ingredients into a glass in this order

4 ice cubes

3 tablespoons Torani flavoring (any flavor)

1/4 cup heavy cream

Fill to top of glass with creme soda

Thursday’s Thought

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As I’ve previously mentioned, I’ve made a goal to use photos from my own stash to post along with quotes I love.  Well, I really like this photo of a rodeo clown, but as you can imagine, I haven’t come up with any good quotes to go along with it! 😮 !!!  So, for today’s THURSDAY THOUGHT, I attempted a Haiku:

THE RODEO CLOWN

Warm Summer Evening

The Clown Elicits A Smile

Do Unto Others