Chocolate Delight

Lisa over at Stop and Smell the Chocolate is featuring another Chocolate Friday.
So this week Makayla and I made Chocolate Delight. Nothing like Chocolate but better than that is when kids love to cook with you.



Chocolate Delight
2 cups self rising flour
1 stick margarine/butter, melted
1 chopped pecans
2 8-ounce packages cream cheese
2 cups confectioners sugar
3 small boxes chocolate instant pudding
4 1/2 cups milk
1 large tub Cool Whip

Beat flour, melted butter and pecans. Spread out in a 9x13 casserole dish. Bake at 350 until light brown.
It should look like this.



Let the crust cool completely before adding remaining ingredients.
Beat together the cream cheese, confectioners sugar, and 2 cups of the cool whip.

When the crust is completely cool spread cream cheese mixture on the top.



Then spread the chocolate pudding on top of it.



Lastly spread the remaining cool whip on top of the pudding. It's then ready to eat but is so much better once it's refrigerated. But as you can see some around here couldn't wait for the Cool Whip to soften for me to spread it on as the last layer.

We should never forget 9/11

In memory of those who were killed and those who gave their lives unselfishly. Prayers for the survivors and America.


2 Chronicles 7:14 (New International Version)
14 if my people, who are called by my name, will humble themselves and pray and seek my face and turn from their wicked ways, then will I hear from heaven and will forgive their sin and will heal their land.

What could they possible be thinking?

What could possibly be so important that people have to drive dangerously and irresponsible? Is a your job more important than your life? Is your family more important than your life? I wouldn't think so and I don't think they would think so either.
What I'm talking about is yesterday while driving on a 2-lane road with speed limit 55. I was going about 60 with a car in front of me. A truck passed me and then a short time later he passed the other car. No biggie. But then a truck came up behind me and passed all three of us. Crazy, yep. Well hold on it gets worse.
Those two trucks get on down the road because they must be going at least 70 after they pass me and the car in front of me. Well then there's a little pick-up truck and I see him passing me and I'm thinking surely hes going to get in front of me, there's a car coming from the other direction. But no he continues to pass the car in front of me also. The car coming towards him is fastly approaching towards him. Me and the car in front of me put on our brakes trying to give him room to get in front of us. The car coming from the other direction had to of slowed down also or they would have hit head-on. The little truck cut in our lane in front of the car in front of me missing the car coming towards him by about a car length. I'm serious he cut in the lane so close it looked like something you would see in a movie. By then he had to be going at least 70mph. I wonder if he even realizes that if he had hit the other car head on that all involved probably wouldn't have made it. Other than short of a miracle.
So please tell me, what is possibly more important than your life that would cause you to drive so erratically?

9-9-9

Linda over at has posted her dozen random questions. Here are the answers to mine, come join in on the fun.





1. What is something that you have changed your mind about either recently or over a number of years? Probably child-rearing. I seem to get more relaxed by each one. Poor Megan my oldest I was probably the most strict, and now Makayla my youngest is so spoiled it's a shame.


2. Choose either subject, but does your a) church b) job feel more like a dental chair experience or an easy chair (recliner) experience?
Well since Im a stay at home mom as we all know it can go from an easy chair experience to a dental chair experience in record time. lol
Church as I have blogged before we have found a wonderful church here in Statesboro. http://nanathena.blogspot.com/2009/08/were-finally-home.html I miss the people at the church we left. But when you can find a church that still preaches God's word and stands on the truth of it, that's awesome. Even if you are tossed into the dental chair at times it's for our own good.

3. Kisses or hugs? hugs


4. What do you think is the biggest threat to families today? Less and less families are in church so future generations won't know about the love of Jesus.


5. A day after you grocery shop, you open a perishable item that is horribly spoiled. Do you take your receipt back to the store to be reimbursed or just throw it away and forget about it?
Probably just toss it and forget about it.

6. What personality trait (feel free to address good or bad or both) do you notice yourself adopting from your parents?

My Dad: I'm relatively quiet and laid-back. His looks, I've been told I look like him and his Mom.

My Mom: None really, that I can think of other than speaking our mind. When were pushed against a wall we say whats on our mind. I wish I had her trait of cleaning. Her house is spotless and always have been even when there was six of us children at home.


7. How many slices of bread do you leave in the bottom of the bag when you throw it away? Two? Three? Just the heel? None? (I really want to know if you eat the heel.)
Just the heel. Always just toss it.

8. What mispronunciation or usage error really irritates you? That the kids these days are writing the cell phone lingo. My worry is will they eventually think that's the correct way of spelling. I don't think that lingo will work in the job world.

9. In honor of the uniqueness of today's date, what does the numeral 9 mean to you? (Any special life moments attached to the 9Th? Are you the 9Th kid in your family? Can you count by 9s really fast? etc.)

All I have is that Makayla is 9 right now! The number 19 now that's a whole different story in itself.

10. Does the general color palette in your closet match the colors you chose to decorate your home with?

No most everything in my closet is black. My home is more neutral colors with some bright ones thrown in in the bedrooms.

11. When you're hanging out with friends in the kitchen, do you automatically ask to help, or do you sit there and chat until the host asks if you'd like to help? I'm not implying that the 2ND choice stems from rudeness or laziness, just not a first-response like it is for some people.

I always offer to help, whether they accept it or not is their choosing. Then if it seems to be taking a while or they're overwhelmed I will offer again.

12. Let's end on a pleasant note: What do you enjoy about September the most?

The beginning of cooler weather. After heat indexes of up to 110 I'm definetly ready for at least some temps around 70.

No Bake Cookies

Every Tuesday over at http://thissoutherngirlsnest.blogspot.com/
Joanna is doing 52 weeks of cookies. This is only week 5 so you have plenty of time to join us. What a great way of finding new recipes especially now with the holidays right around the corner.
Mine for this week is one of my favorites. I remember my Mom teaching me how to make them and then every time we had unexpected company to drop in guess what I got to make. They are so quick and simple.



No Bake Cookies
2 cups sugar
2 tbsp cocoa
1 stick margarine
1/2 cup milk
1 cup peanut butter (smooth)
3 cups quick oatmeal
1 tsp. vanilla
1 cup chopped pecans (optional)

Boil sugar, cocoa, margarine, and milk. Add peanut butter, vanilla, and pecans. Remove from heat. Stir until peanut butter is melted and smooth. Stir in oatmeal. Drop by spoonfuls on waxed paper to set.

Great Weekend

Don't Give Up

Don’t give up trying to find your way. But do remember that sometimes it takes bending to avoid breaking.” – Katinka Hesselink

Never give up, for that is just the place and time that the tide will turn.” – Harriet Beecher Stowe

“Never give up. And never, under any circumstances, face the facts.” – Ruth Gordon

“Just don’t give up trying to do what you really want to do.Where there is love and inspiration, I don’t think you can go wrong.” – Ella Fitzgerald

“Hope begins in the dark, the stubborn hope that if you just show up and try to do the right thing,the dawn will come. You wait and watch and work: You don’t give up.” – Anne Lamott

Fall seven times, stand up eight! – Japanese Proverbs

“It matters if you just don’t give up.” – Stephen Hawking

“The man who wins may have been counted out several times,but he didn’t hear the referee.Never quit or give up… never… never give up.” – H.E. Janson

“Never give in, never give in, never; never; never; never – in nothing, great or small, large or petty -never give in except to convictions of honor and good sense” – Winston Churchill

“It’s not whether you get knocked down; it’s whether you get back up.” – Vince Lombardi

“Don’t give up at half-time. Concentrate on winning the second half.” – Coach Paul “Bear” Bryant

“Don’t let what you cannot do interfere with what you can do.” – John Wooden