Well, sometimes I just have to "vent" a little. This time the subject is those who have the mindset of "all about me".......While we need to take care of ourselves physically, emotionally, and spiritually it is never supposed to be "all about me".......
This is a hard lesson to learn, not fun either, but we must learn it if we ever want to be happy in this life. We make decisions in this life and then we better be prepared to deal with the consequences of those decisions. Something goes wrong or things don't turn out as we planned and we want to "bail".
The correct order is God first, others second and me last.......when we do things right everything else seems to fall in to place, not by chance mind you but because we have put things in their respective order. If we don't realize this little fact and decide anyways to make it always "all about me" when we get old no one will be around, because we didn't take the time or effort to "invest" in them. I don't know about anyone else but I cannot think of anything worse than being alone, and no one caring whether I was alive or dead.
That is why we make the effort to love our families and friends. Yes, sometimes it might be hard but our responsibility ( because of the choices we have made) is to love them and show them we care about them. Also, if our kids are still at home-- to make our kids feel that there is NOWHERE safer to be than at home with their parents and that their parents are together on EVERYTHING, and always will be there for them................
You might wonder why in the world I would write something like this, but sometimes a person just sees things going on around them in their family or friends lives and wonders how or why it ever got to this point.
We would all come out better in the end if we could just remember that it is NOT "all about me" !!!
Now that I am thru "venting" I can go on to other things. I baked more breads today:
sourdough english muffins
sourdough loaves
They turned out pretty good. While they were on the last rise the son came in and asked why I never made sweetbreads like cinnamon swirl.....told him I didn't know. I thought well - I have some cinnamon/sugar mixture in the cabinet, I'll just try something. The loaves on the right have caraway seeds on them and I had a plain loaf in a loaf pan, which is the bread on the left. I got the sugar mixture and put it all around the loaf in the pan and on top of the loaf also.
It came out really good. As it was cooling, the son asked if he could cut it and I said it really should cool more but go ahead. He ate a piece and said -"This won't be around very long ;-)"
I tasted it and it was really good!
Guess I will be making some more of that......
After baking the bread, Ritzy and I had a birthday party to attend. Today is one of our Great-Niece's birthdays. She turned 1 year old. When she was born last year she was 10 weeks early and her mama had brain surgery the same day. It was a scary time for all. It was decided the day before to go ahead and deliver the baby and immediately do brain surgery on her mama ( my niece) because of problems the tumor was causing.......Today, a year later, that little girl is doing just fine, and her mama is doing fine also. My niece still has a few more months of chemotherapy left, but things look really good for now.
This hasn't been without it's ups and downs and my niece and her family still need our prayers!!!!!!!
Any time "cancer" is involved it is hard on everyone.........
Even thru all of this we still praise God for this miracle in our family!!!!
God Bless my niece, her husband, and those 4 precious kids!!
Ritzywife out...........................................
