Recent ideas in baking

So a few weeks ago, I let my dumb and silly self get ideas about making cookies for the 4th. We normally go over to the Davis' every year for the 4th, or they come here. It's a splendid time. :)

Anywho, I decided that I wanted to make sugar cookies. (Am I dumb, or what?) So I thought it over, drew up cookie plans, Mama bought me meringue powder, and I'm due to make these cookies on Friday. And I'm pretty much scared to death. I just know I'll completely screw the whole deal up and we'll have crummy cookies. Then I'll cry. For a very long time.

I've been doing gobs of research. You see, this is my first time making royal icing. And seeing as I over whipped the meringue for Daddy's Lemon Meringue Pie on his birthday, I'm worried that I'll either over or under whip the stuff and then I'll either have broken icing once it dries, or runny and horrible stuff... ARGH!!!

I'm making the cookie dough tomorrow, getting it made, rolled, and cut into the shapes I want. I'm going with circles and stars at this moment... I think I'm going to be freaking out on Friday. But everybody messes up, right? And this IS my first time of ever doing it... :S

I'll be taking pictures, don't worry. Even if they turn out to be messy gobs of nastiness, I'll have pictures. :P



Also, I have 7 1/2 lessons of Geometry to do tomorrow.

Pray for me.

The Boy in the Striped Pajamas.

We just finished watching it a few minutes ago. It was so sad... :'( It made me even more thankful for the veterans who risked and gave their lives to help save them. And it hurts me so badly when people slam them. How could you say horrible things to people who helped free them? Who stopped the gassings, the burnings, the torture, the starvation? They're so, so selfish. How could someone do that? We're such *horrible* people. Only by the grace of God are we to have anything good! We deserve hell. God is so gracious to us. We're so, so, so undeserving. We're so unthankful so much of the time.

"I believe in the doctrine of election, because I am quite sure that if God had not chosen me I never would have chosen him; and I am sure he chose me before I was born, or else he never would have chosen me afterward." --C. H. Spurgeon

"For by grace are ye saved through faith; and that not of yourselves: it is the gift of God: Not of works, lest any man should boast. For we are his workmanship, created in Christ Jesus unto good works, which God hath before ordained that we should walk in them."-Ephesians 2:8-10

The summer season of hay

So my blogger was being *really* wacky and it was making the font bold and blue and underlined, like I was linking or something... It was strange. I tried several times to get it to change, but it always went back to that. Huh...

Anyhow, here's some more hay pictures. :)

Hay!

The untitled one

Happy Birthday, Daddy! I love you sosososososo much! <3 Thank you for being so wonderful, teaching me of Christ, and loving me so much!

I've been thinking

I don't think I should blog when I'm lonely. It only results in sad posts. :(

Like this one.

I hate the feeling that you miss someone so much, and you can only wish that they would miss you back half as much.

It'd be cool if the college siblings missed me half as much as I missed them.

'Cause I miss them. A lot.

Thoughts tonight

I made the dreadful mistake of looking at camp pictures. That should be very, very strictly off limits this close to camp. Because it reminds me of the ickiness of camp.

Not exactly ickiness...

I just don't want to go without my sisters. I miss them.

And I don't want to play the dumb sports.

I always get nervous like this. I know I'll have a great time. But I also know that I'll miss my family. And I'm so not outgoing.

I'm not in my element when I'm at camp.

But, Kay and Addy will be there. And they're practically sisters, so I'll be ok.

I'm dreading dance night the most, though. *shiver*

*think happy thoughts*

I'll get to spend the week away from a lot of worldy junk. Not all of it, but some!

I get to hear sermons TWICE a day!!

I get to have group studying.

I get to have devotional time in the morning.

I get to spend a Monday through Friday with Kayla, Adalie, Kerra, Caitlin, Corinne, and Justine!

I think that I should be praying about camp right now. That I should keep focused on the good things about camp, not the bad. Pray for the ones I'm struggling with. That I'll be kind in both actions and thoughts. And that I won't be judgmental of others. Because I don't know their heart.

"Be careful for nothing; but in every thing by prayer and supplication with thanksgiving let your requests be made known unto God. And the peace of God, which passeth all understanding, shall keep your hearts and minds through Christ Jesus." Philippians 4:6

Lifehouse

By Your Side

All I want now is to be with you
Cause you know I've been everywhere else
Looking back at what you got me through
You knew me better than I knew myself

When I feel lost and I can't find my way
When words are at a loss I can hear you say

I'll be by your side, when all hope has died
I will still be around oh and I, I'm still on your side
When everything's wrong, I will still be around
By your side

Fighting my way back to where you are
The only place I ever felt at home
Stumbling backwards through the dark
I know how it feels to be alone
And where we go is where I wanna be
And in the silence I hear you say to me

I'll be by your side, when all hope has died
I will still be around, oh and I, I'm still on your side
When everything's wrong, I will still be around

I can't wait another day to show my space between
Your heart and mine, and you're all that I need
You say I

I'll be by your side, when all hope has died
I will still be around, oh and I, I'm still on your side
When everything's wrong, I will still be around
By your side, by your side, by your side, by your side, by your side

Here's the Youtube!

Nightminds

Nightminds

By Missy Higgins.

Just lay it all down. Put your face into my neck and let it fall out.
I know
I know
I know.
I knew before you got home.
This world you're in now,
It doesn't have to be alone,
I'll get there somehow, 'cos
I know I know I know
When, even springtime feels cold.

But I will learn to breathe this ugliness you see,
So we can both be there and we can both share the dark.
And in our honesty, together we will rise,
Out of our nightminds, and into the light
At the end of the fight...

You were blessed by a different kind of inner view: it's all magnified.
The highs would make you fly, and the lows make you want to die.
And I was once there, hanging from that very ledge where you are standing.
So I know
I know
I know,
It's easier to let go.

But I will learn to breathe this ugliness you see,
So we can both be there and we can both share the dark.
And in our honesty, together we will rise out of our nightminds
And into the light at the end of the fight.

...and in our honesty, together we will rise out of our nightminds
And into the light... at the end of the fight...

I can't decide if I love or dislike this song... Hmm.

Here's the Youtube of it.


What do *you* think?