Merry Christmas Cookie Plate

So I decided to do the Peppermint plate from Pinterest. Super easy! Arrange peppermints  on wax paper.  Cook for 4 minutes on 350°...  tada! A beautiful edible cookie plate. 

How to cook a Pumpkin

Grab that sucker...

Remove the stem

Muscle up and cut it in half...

Remove all that stringy stuff and the seeds

Fair warning, it smells weird and it's kinda slimy. Hey we are all big girls here...

Place face down in a casserole dish

Bake at 350° for about and hour or till soft...

Tada!

Are you willing to wait for your Promise Land?

Many times I think about the children of Israel wandering through the desert. We think of how they were delivered and how God gave then visual signs of His presence. We think "how silly where they to keep doubting."  I don't know about you but I find myself many times doing the very same thing. Wishing I was back in "Egypt" where I "thought" I was happy.
God just looks on shaking His head and thinking, she wants the crumbs when I have the promised land. A land flowing with milk and honey. He has our promised land. Do we dare to venture far enough to reach it, to grasp what He had for us? Will we last the trying and the testing that it takes to reach this land? Or will we give up or settle for what we thought would make us happy or not be willing to go through what it takes to get there? Jeremiah 29:11, God has promised good things. I don't know about you, but I'm ready to claim this promise and hold onto that when the storms come.  I definitely don't always feel this confident but I'm working on that. Because I don't want to quit or settle. I want to finish and to take hold of my promise land.

It's the simple things

So life is teaching me more and more that it's the every day things that can make my day. The simple things... also the frustrating and everyday seemingly monotonous things that make life what it is. This is life... how will we do it? How will we see it? Another opportunity to talk to that hurting person or a inconvenience in my day? Life is truly "what you make it" . It can be fabulous or boring. It's all up to you. Make it fabulous. Everyday...