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In My Other Life …

February 12, 2013Nicky4 Comments

I had three children who requested red velvet cupcakes with homemade butter-cream frosting for their friends and teachers for Valentines Day. 😛

In this life, cupcakes are cooling, waiting for the homemade butter-cream frosting to be packaged in the love bags with some homemade peppermint patties for my co-workers. The cupcakes were not made from scratch, but I know they’ll enjoy them anyway. I used the good ole Duncan Hines mix. I’ll make the frosting from scratch, that should make up for it! 😀 The peppermint patties are currently cooling in the fridge waiting for me to melt the chocolate, dip, then they’ll be finito!

The end. 😛

Quiet Healing

February 12, 2013February 12, 2013Nicky3 Comments

In the perfect stillness of the night
Some artistic sense inspires me
And makes me think that one day I just might
Reach out from daily, dull monotony –
Achieve some lasting goal, some burning aim –
And then I wake and go to work again…

Tim Woodhouse ~ In The Perfect Stillness Of The Night

I had a dental appt this morning and decided to take the day to recuperate. An email on my Blackberry is a noisy reminder of an unwanted but necessary meeting I’ll have at work on Friday coming. But the click of needles, the “artistic sense” which inspires me and the achieving of “some lasting goal” helped me finish the square I started in the “perfect stillness of the night.” The thought of that lasting goal, the feeling of love and accomplishment for such a worthy cause was enough to quell that noisy reminder and fill my heart with hope and love. It was enough to provide some quiet healing.