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    Your Heart and that Energy Drink

    March 5, 2013 /

    Too much of a “good thing” I bought myself a tray of bakery cookies at the grocery store the other day under the guise that they were ‘peanut free’ so my 2 year old (with major confirmed allergies) could enjoy them while the rest of us dined on a nut-cake I bought for a group of friends. Here’s the problem.  I have no self-control.  And I’ve been eating the cookies. all. week.  I stepped on the scale last night and Wowzers… I know who was eating the cookies. The point… one cookie? No problem.  Two cookies? eh.  Three cookies?  Not healthy! So how about those Energy Drinks you are consuming? Nutritionist Explains…

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    Rum Cake Recipe

    April 25, 2012 /

    Moist Rich Rum Cake Company is coming! Now there’s a reason to make dessert. A box yellow cake fancied up creates a cake rich in flavor and pretty as a picture! Back in the storage closet I have a Bundt pan that I save for special occasions… or just when I can THINK of some way to use it. This is perfection.Cake serves 12 Cake ingredients: 1 c chopped or walnuts 1 (18 ½ oz.) yellow cake mix 1 (3 ¾ oz.) package Jell-O vanilla instant pudding & pie filling4 eggs ½ c cold water ½ c vegetable oil ½ c rum Glaze ingredients: 1 stick butter ¼ c water…

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    How do you describe your military-child? Month of the Military Child Giveaway

    April 5, 2012 /

    There are many words I use to describe a cake: delicious, moist, sweet.  However, if you ask any of my four military-brats they would probably tell you YUMMY!  And seriously what better adjective is out there for food?! We want to send your military-children a cake to celebrate Month of the Military Child.  Debora from Wire A Cake has donated her time, talent and resources to this giveaway.  All you have to do to enter is answer the question … Tell usWhat word best describes your military child or children?Cool, Resilient, Sympathetic, Smoochable would be choices for my own.Just a little Housekeeping: * Please leave your email address in your comment, or send and email…

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    Grandma’s Thunder Cake

    November 21, 2011 /

    Tomorrow is Grandparent day in my 1st graders class.  Can you tell we aren’t near a military base?  Clearly, this isn’t something I grew up with when I was in 1st grade, stationed at Sheppard AFB thousands of miles from either of my grandparents. My first grader is fortunate.  His Grandpa and Grandma Kocsis live close enough that they are going to join him in his class for the morning.  I am filled with a sense of love.  Then at the same time I have a sense of some sadness.  My parents (his Grandpa and Grandma Kissinger) don’t live close.  They don’t get to see each other often enough in my…

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    The Game of Life Has a Coach: Sister Elizabeth

    November 10, 2011 /

    Goals and principles, guidelines and pathways; no dice to roll or spinner to click but a level headed approach to an end game.  Those who enter the game plan of The Mission Continues come with heart in hand, a desire for direction and a dream to be attained.  Recovery from injury is not a cake walk.  The time it takes to heal is not laid out in blocks with an easy view to end.  But the desire to get in the game is real with each member of the group.  And each member has their own story, a true character and a real life. Sister ElizabethLet’s get started!  Enter Sister…

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    Disappointments

    August 6, 2011 /

    Disappointment… we all face them.  A promised PCS to a base close to ‘home’ changed at the last minute to clear across the country.  R&R or Homecoming pushed back days or even weeks.  A savings account depleted to pay for unexpected household expenses.  The question is how do you handle them? Yesterday, my 8 year old, *E*, was asked to go to a semi-professional baseball game with a mutual friend of my 6 year old, *C*.  Talk about disappointment for *C*.  There was much heartache.  A few tears.  A longing to be with his brother and friend and her family.  How did we handle the disappointment?  First we talked about the…

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    Norwegian Waffles for Syttende Mai

    May 17, 2011 /

    It is almost time to say “Hurra for syttende mai”! I can hear the old ladies in my childhood church chatting and clacking… most of them had dentures that didn’t fit quite so well. They had stamina, girth and a love for breads. Yes, these were Norwegian women. They were a tad formal, my Grandma referred to her best friends as Mrs. Otto Andersen, Mrs. Moy, or Mrs. H. C. Andersen. This made me smile, as I can picture these women in sensible shoes, baggy hose, blue suits of every shade, clutch purses and a handkerchief in hand. Each had an open house policy… come on over and have a…

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    Win a Gift from Wire-A-Cake for your Military-Child

    April 8, 2011 /

    Doesn’t it feel good to receive a gift?Children find a lot of joy in the act of giving.  I have homemade necklaces, paintings, and home decor from my boys as proof-positive!  They light up as I marvel at the beauty of my newest gift; beaded necklaces, hand-drawn art for the frig, even painted rocks from the garden.  Those gifts are a tangible expression of their love for me. With this in mind we, MilitaryAvenue, have partnered with Wire-A-Cake, a great military-support company, to help celebrate the Month of the Military Child!  We want to send a military-child a cake as a thank you for their sacrifices!  What do you have to do to win a cake for…

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    Tasty Tuesday Christmas Tree Coffee Cake

    December 17, 2010 /

    Have you ever looked at something year after year and yet never seen something, a treasure within an article? Each year this has been our Christmas breakfast. From the look of the page that has this cut out pasted upon it, you can tell it is a loved article.I cut the edible Christmas tree recipe out of a commissary handout over 31 years ago! And use it every year.This year I read the first two paragraphs and burst out laughing. The wonderful lady who sent this in was stationed with us in Iceland 20 years ago. At that time her son was in high school with our son and daughter.…

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    A Walk in the Shoes of a Wounded Warrior

    July 25, 2010 /

    Have you ever been confined to a wheel chair? Recently, I had to have surgery on a foot and the doctor prescribed no weight on the foot for a month. Easy enough, let me have those crutches and I will move around I thought! Then came the devastating news! I just didn’t have a lump removed from my foot it was cancer. I visited a couple of doctors for care and one took the cake for lack of patient comfort and bedside manner! Ok, this is an almost exact quote if not the exact words. I have to say I was in a bit of shock but I did have…

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