A Croissant Experiment

I love chocolate croissants. I love them. Seriously, flaky pastry and dark chocolate, should be against the law. I buy frozen chocolate croissants from Trader Joe's that are incredible but you have to plan ahead, thaw, rise, bake, all this means you have to plan 5 or 6 hours. I decided to try my hand at a quick substitute. Yesterday while I was shopping at Wally, I happened up on some croissants. The ingredients were decent, nothing artificial. There were 6 to a box. A box came home with me.
First step was to mix up a sugar glaze. Powdered sugar, vanilla and hot water. Coated the croissants with this and set them on a cookie rack to dry. Next, I mixed up a chocolate ganache. I poured and spread this on the croissants. I set them in the oven (turned off) to dry a bit. I heated two of them up a while later. I had to threaten myself to keep from eating the other 4. Will I do this again? Oh, yeah. This demands a repeat performance.

They could have been prettier but I don't think they could have tasted any better. Unless they had more chocolate on them...
Thank You, Father, for chocolate!

Penny Box

In honor of our 30th anniversary I had a friend make us a "Penny Box." What's a Penny Box? Well, it's a beautiful, custom decorated box to keep pennies in, pennies that were minted in certain years. In our case I started with pennies dated 1951 and 1957, the years of our births. The next year would be 1978, the year we met, and so on. We think back on the milestones of our 33 years together and find a penny to remind us of that year.
Our Penny Box was made by Ginny. She handmade all of the tiles on the top! I told her the occasion and what I kind of wanted it to look like. She did a remarkable job! The top says "you and me" "1981" and she even made me a beautiful calla lily tile.
This past Christmas I gave a penny box to TD and MA so they could go ahead and start their collection of copper memories. I hope they will both feel as blessed as I do when I look at my pile of pennies. God is good.

I waited 30+ years for this talk

The Hub and i had a talk last night. A really good talk. We talked about Heaven and Hell and where we were and where we are and all sorts of tidbits in between. It was so good I cannot begin to describe how good it was. I said things that I had wanted to have the courage to say for a very long time. I felt loved. Loved by my Hub and loved by my LORD. My cup and my eyes runneth over!

10,957 Days

May 9, 2011, The Hub and I have been married 30 years. Thirty Years!?! That cannot be possible... but it is. We have experienced so much, endured so much, enjoyed so much in 30 short/long years. We have grown so much from the 23 and 29 year old kids we were on that May day in 1981. Yet in some ways it feels we have just begun. Love feels better now than it did even 10 years ago. In fact, it feels so good I cannot imagine it being any better. He is mine and I am his.
He gave me the sweetest card and in it he wrote "With all my love. Forever." Just what I wanted to hear and better yet, I have it in writing.
Here's a pic from our wanderings today. I love it when the journey is a lovely, shady path beside still waters...

Thank You, Father, for blessing our marriage so perfectly.