Cheaters Never Prosper

I decided to make Pumpkin Cream Cheese Muffins this morning, but felt too lazy to measure put all the ingredients, so I decided to use a box cake mix (gasp!). 

There it is...in all it's evil glory

Any of you who  have known me for even, let's say a week, know my feelings about boxed cake mix....it's from the devil. However, I convinced myself that if I used white cake mix, it was just like using already up mixed dry ingredients (maybe it was too early in the morning or maybe I hadn't had enough coffee yet...) Anyway, the muffins turned out beautiful to look at and yet tasted like, well, someone had been to lazy to actually mix up good ingredients.

And of course, I couldn't help but think that this is what sin looks like in our life...it looks sooooo good UNTIL we bite. Then it leaves us unsatisfied, wanting something better. 

My food critics were happy, so it wasn't a total loss.

Pure cuteness 

Sayings to Live By

I recently came across this awesome little sign, which now has found it's home on my kitchen window sill. (please disregard the coffee splatters on the blinds...I am so embarrassed...I am a wild coffee drinker, what can I say?). Every time I look at this sign, it reminds me of the simple truth that I can change the world if only for one person. Sometimes I am overwhelmed by the evil and sadness in the world and I think that the situation is hopeless 
-  143 million orphans - how can this be?! But the saying on my window sill is truth and one life changed, changes another and another until the world changes.

When I look at my life, I can daily see and touch the evidence that I can be the change I want to see in the world. May I never be content with an unchanged world.

New Best Friend

I apologize to all of you who thought that you were my best friend...maybe you were at one time, however, I have a new best friend....Excedrin Migraine. Yes, it's true, we only just met, but the bond we have is truly remarkable.

 I was always taught that HAPPINESS can't be bought, but alas, I was taught wrong. Indeed happiness can be bought. And suprisingly for only $5.89 + tax. 

Enough already about the Excedrin Migraine - my new BFF (okay....really stopping now). This weekend I was down with a migraine with a capital M and I thought I might never be able to hold my head up again. And then....enter Excedrin Migraine...my hero.
Long story short...I am back to life and thus back to blogging...HOORAY!

Back in the Saddle Again...

After a very long break, I am back to blogging. Only I am a different me and on a different blog. After two long years of adjusting to my new life as mom of five kids, I finally am ready to put my thoughts "out there" on a blog. Truthfully, my thoughts over the last two years have been non-sharable however, now that I am healthy, HAPPY and sane (well...the sane part might be up for debate) I am ready to share my thoughts with anyone who will listen (or in this case, read).
Welcome to my CASTLE!