ACORN DONUT- HOLES



Isn't this just the cutest

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Here are the ingredients.



Tah Dah! You have Acorn Donut-holes.

One of my daughters favorite sweets is donuts, so when I saw this recipe in a magazine, (Sorry, I forgot which one.) it was a "doer".  We made some today, and I swear it only took 5 minutes to do this. Plus who doesn't like the ingredients!


So run to the store and buy pretzels sticks, English toffee bits, chocolate bar, and of course donut-holes.


Break pretzels in half, melt chocolate, pour the toffee bits into a bowl, then dip away. It's that easy!

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CUT, PIECED, SEWN, AND MAILED!

This was truly a labor of love making this. I now have one more quilt to make for my son's dorm room. I just want my kids to feel like mom and dad are with them, holding them when they curl up in their blankets.

The color of the blades look brownish here, but they are actually red with gold in them




 


 Each end of the quilt has a red strip of material and I placed four stars in each panel. The white pattern here is the star I used to trace around. (I pulled the star off the Internet.)



I also added anchors to the boarders. This is actually the same  anchor pattern my daughter used for her Navy fondant cake. I just pulled it off the computer  then traced around it also with tailors chalk.



If you look closely at the curved piece of binding I used a decorative stitch
 to sew it down to the quilt.



WHERE HAS THE TIME GONE?!



This is my son at about 3 wks. old. I was 32 when I had him.




This is that same boy at 22 yrs. old with his dad.

   When my son was born I bought him a journal, I even had his name engraved in gold leaf on the front of it. Inside, I wrote my thoughts and my love for him, even how we named him after my father and his father, so he would do good deeds and follow in their footprints of good works.
   I have sat and read this journal today. My eyes are full of tears at how time has flown and what a wonderful child he has always been.
   I remember how when he was  little and  still on a bottle, how he would take me by my hand, and walk to the couch then crawl up in my lap for his nap. This was done EVERY DAY!! Being an older mother nothing else seemed important enough to not stop everything I was doing, and sit down and cuddle with my little guy.
   Now, that little guy is about to go off into this big ole world and finish his college degree. Where did all the time go?

I'M WORKING MYSELF RIGHT OUT OF A JOB!

My daughter's graduation from college

My daughter's gradutation from boot camp.

As a mother our jobs are to raise our children to be self-sufficient, and ready to go out into the world and be successful. Well, I did do that. Now I'm not sure I'm ready to let them go! My sweet daughter did running start, that is were she did high school and college at the same time. OMG she did so well. A week after she graduated she left for the Navy. She is so strong and determined, I wish I had half of her strength and brains.
Now my son goes off for his junior year of college, he is doing a dual major of Physics-Engineering. I will only have one child left at home. My career as a stay at home mom is about to be finished. This has been one of the most rewarding careers of my life. Yes, I loved aviation, I actually wanted to be an airline pilot, but ya know, motherhood was and is far more exciting than I could ever have dreamed.



Here's the key, "When you know who you are and recognize the gifts you have been given, it is easy to make an impact on the world. Yet, when you can see potential in others and play a role in helping them grow..... it is exponentially rewarding."