Wednesday Hodgepodge

1. Let's start things off right...Wednesday is National Dessert Day. What are we having? How often do you  make/serve dessert? Store bought or from scratch? 
Tomorrow I'm making banana pudding for one of the dessert choices for the varsity team meal.    See #2 below!

I need to decide on a dessert for supper now that I'm reading about dessert! 

I will sometimes buy something at the store that looks good, like those frosted cookies at Walmart, just because I like them.  We make cakes and pies somewhat regularly. The boys like angel food cake, and I have a chocolate chip cake recipe made with a cake mix and box of instant pudding that is my husband's favorites. This is very similar to the recipe I use. It is super easy, and I like to make it (especially if it comes out of the Bundt pan in one piece and doesn't stick!)
When I was pregnant with Titus I ate a TON of Rice Krispy treats.  I ask Caleb to make me chocolate chip peanut butter cookies sometimes, they are one of my favorites.  
There is a lady in town that makes homemade treats.  I love to order from her.  She makes coconut or chocolate meringue pies for $10.  They are so delicious!  It's been a while since I've had one.  

2. Slow as molasses, icing on the cake, that's the way the cookie crumbles, have your cake and eat it too, half-baked idea, that takes the cake...which phrase might be applied to something in your life in recent days? Explain. 

That's the way the cookie crumbles....at least in 2020!  We found out yesterday afternoon that our football game this week is cancelled.  The other team has Covid so they cancelled all their games.  It was our homecoming.  I kinda expected a cancellation eventually but it is disappointing.  I'm thankful we've gotten to play as many games as we have and pray we get to play some more.  Cases are going up around here.
So no game, no decorating, no team meal this week. It is what it is!

3. Something that's 'easy as pie' for you to do?
One thing that comes to mind is the list I make for the encouragement committee at our church.  Each month on the 15th I send out a list to those on the committee of names they are to send to for that month.  We have many names that stay on our list year round and then a few are always added as various needs come up.  When I started doing this committee, Caleb helped me come up with the method to keep it all organized and keep track of who was sending to who.  I was working on it a couple days ago to be ready to send out this week and thinking how it's gotten so easy for me to do and I can do it much faster now than when I started.  

4. Are you someone who likes to 'sugarcoat' news you think might not be well received, or are you more of a tell it like it is and let the chips fall where they may? Do you like to receive your news the same way you give it? 

I would say it depends who I am talking to.  I usually think about what to say in my head (sometimes for days) and imagine how it will be received.  Sometimes I just feel like I need to speak up and say something even if it isn't exactly popular.  This happened to me at a fundraiser we had recently. 

I'd rather someone just tell me the truth even if it is not what I want to hear.  Don't beat around the bush, just say it and get it over with! 

5. Something you did recently that made you feel like a 'smart cookie'? 
Learning to quilt and trying new things with it!  It is getting easier for me and I enjoy it so much!

6. Insert your own random thought here. 

Be sure to check out the giveaway in the previous post.  You can enter to win 6 months of Butterfly Box....This was the beautiful box I got in September. 

 It is such a fun thing to get in the mail, and I like how each box has a theme.

What a great giveaway to win a box for 6 months! Be sure to tell me too if you win! Here is the link to enter the giveaway!

Have a day of blessings! 

 Bethany