It’s A Small World After All

Because of the World Wide Web and also how easy it is to travel these days, we are all now more connected than ever before.  I keep meeting people from the same small areas where I have lived and really, it’s amazing how much we all move around.  (By the way, on planes, you can meet the nicest people and it’s encouraging to know the world isn’t all so bad as the news media wants you to think.)  There are still plenty of normal, nice people out there.

If you haven’t flown lately, I highly recommend it.  It always gives me such appreciation for my home when I get back from a trip.  I just love my home in TN.  Last week, while we were on Mount Veeder in Napa, Ca, we were at the heart of a small earth quake in the middle of the night.  I was woken up to rattling of the windows loud enough to make me think there was a BEAR trying to get in!  Funny thing was- there are no bears in Napa, my husband reminded me.  The weird things you think when woken out of a sleep!

Anyway, here’s my tip for the day: I get on Priceline and get the special rate where you don’t know what airport will be your transfer spot or what time. It’s so much cheaper to get where you are going.  You fill in where you want to go and the date and they find you the deal.  Plus, it’s a surprise what you will be flying over.  Here’s a beautiful picture of our take-off from San Fran.  Oh, I had a good laugh because our flight from Sacramento to San Francisco was a whopping 28 minutes.  It took longer to check in, board and wait for luggage than it would have been to drive there, but that’s where our transfer was.  It’s all an adventure!

I hope you all have a beautiful day and can ignore all the bad news you hear this morning because God says “Finally, brethren, whatsoever things are true, whatsoever things are honest, whatsoever things are just, whatsoever things are pure, whatsoever things are lovely, whatsoever things are of good report; if there be any virtue, and if there be any praise, think on these things.” 
King James Version (KJV)

Spiced Latte at Home

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Spiced Latte at Home

Skip the lines for coffee and make this in your cozy kitchen.  Easy and delicious!

Course Drinks
Keyword Coffee
Prep Time 10 minutes
Cook Time 3 minutes
Total Time 13 minutes
Servings 4 people
Author Jenny Lee in Tennessee

Ingredients

  • 1 1/2 cups strong coffee
  • 1 1/3 cups milk
  • 3 Tbsp. honey
  • 1 Tbsp. molasses
  • 1 tsp. sugar
  • 1/2 tsp. vanilla extract
  • 1/2 tsp. cinnamon
  • 1/8 tsp. ground cloves
  • 1/8 tsp. allspice

Instructions

  1. Whisk the ingredients in a pan and heat until steaming.  Pour into your favorite cup and enjoy. 

Old Fashioned Easy Lemonade

I am ready for spring!  This recipe is as easy as it gets and it tastes amazing and fresh and so full of sunshine!

I used a half gallon jar.

Pour in 3/4 cup of lemon juice.

Add 3/4 cup of sugar.  (I always use unbleached sugar)

Fill with water and ice and stir.  That’s it!  The main trick is to use equal parts lemon and sugar.  I also like to throw frozen raspberries on top for an extra pop of flavor!

Grandma Shirley’s Cold Tonic

If you catch a cold or just feel a little under the weather, this is the perfect recipe.  My boys learned this from their Grandmother, Shirley.  It also helps soothe a sore throat.  Honey has B vitamins in it naturally!

COLD TONIC

1 cup hot water

1 TBSP lemon juice

1 TBSP honey

(And of course, I use essential oils, so I add a drop of Thieves oil to it. This part is optional but if it helped the thieves during the Bubonic plague not to get sick, I think it can help me too.)