Chocolate Mug Cake

OK...I did not come up with this recipe nor have I tried it. But it looks WAY good and I am definitely going to give it a try ASAP!! Thanks, Khristy, for sending it to me!! 5 MINUTE CHOCOLATE MUG CAKE 4 tablespoons flour 4 tablespoons sugar 2 tablespoons cocoa 1 egg 3 tablespoons milk 3 tablespoons oil 3 tablespoons chocolate chips (optional) A small splash of vanilla extract 1 large coffee mug Add dry ingredients to mug, and mix well. Add the egg and mix thoroughly. Pour in the milk and oil and mix well. Add the chocolate chips (if using) and vanilla extract, and mix again. Put your mug in the microwave and cook for 3 minutes at 1000 watts. The cake will rise over the top of the mug, but don't be alarmed! Allow to cool a little, and tip out onto a plate if desired. EAT! (this can serve 2 if you want to feel slightly more virtuous). And why is this the most dangerous cake recipe in the world ? Because now we are all only 5 minutes away from chocolate cake at any time of the day or night!

A penny for your thoughts....

Except I am PRETTY sure you would not want the penny I gave you. Let me explain...

I go to change Caleb's diaper last week and guess what I found?!?! Yep, a penny. Right in the middle of his "shoo shoo" (as we call it). Oh yeah. Mom of the year for me. When did he eat this, you ask. I HAVE NO CLUE!! I thought back over the few days prior and the only time I could think it may have happened was about two days before. Caleb was with me in our room playing - pulling up on anything he could find, crawling all around - while I was getting dressed. Then, he started coughing. Of course, I immediately looked down at him and he spit up some (which is a little odd because he hadn't just eaten and he never spits up anymore) but he seemed to get a hold of himself and go right back to playing. He never even cried or anything. So, I finished getting ready. And then two days later...well, you read the beginning. When Chad got home, which was about 10 minutes after I discovered this, I took the diaper to him and told him I knew how we were going to strike it rich. I opened the diaper and said, "Look!!! Our child poops pennies!!!" We did have a good laugh over it, but boy did I feel like a poopy mom (literally!)

Have you ever done something that made you feel like an awful mom??? PLEASE share your story and let me know I'm not the only one!!!!

Fhoto Friday

A decade ago...

....I was turning 20. I was a sophomore at Winthrop University living in Margaret Nance with my roomie, Lindsay. Oh my how things have changed in the past 10 years, and I'm not talking about little changes, I'm talking about huge, significant changes!! Take a look down memory lane with me:

1. I met another significant person in my life, Janelle, during my sophomore year. She's a dear, dear friend to this day and someone I could not imagine life without. She's the friend you call when you want to chat or when you need the complete honest truth - because she will deliver it to you, but with love.
2. I graduated from Winthrop with a B.S. in Elementary Ed.
3. I graduated from Furman with a Masters in Reading
4. I got my first teaching job at CCES.
5. I met, planned a wedding and married my sweet hubby, Chad.
6. I moved 6 times (Winthrop to home, home to an apt, apt back home, home to Anderson, Anderson to Easley, and Easley back to Anderson!! Makes me tired just typing it!)
7. My family joined an amazing church (Simpsonville First Baptist) where I've been active ever since and have met so many of our "couple friends" there.
8. I had a baby!!!
9. I became a stay at home mom
10. I almost have a 1 year old!!!!

Isn't it amazing to take a look at the road God leads you down in hinesight?? But, although these are all great and wonderful things what matters most is that I pray I was pleasing to God in everything I did in these last 10 years. I know I blew it a WHOLE lot, which is why I am thankful for forgiveness and grace. I am also thankful for the next 10 years ahead. I can't wait to see what my list will hold then and just where God will have led us by then!! I'm going to leave you with the words on the birthday card that my wonderful friend Jennifer gave me because they really spoke volumes to me, and I hope they will to you too:

God is writing a book about you.

The pages tell of your life

and the lives you were created to touch.

No one else will take exactly the same path as you,

meet the same people,

or have a chance to show the love of God in the same way.

You are unique and so is your story...

and it's one of the Author's favorite reads.