#1: Snickerdoodle Strawberry Ice Cream Sandwich: Yes, yes, yes! This is the BEST summer treat. It is light, and just sweet enough to satisfy. Not only that its cheap and easy. Make or buy your favorite snickerdoodle recipe (the Softer, the better!) and buy some strawberry ice cream (we like Blue Bunny). You will not be disappointed.
#2: FREE Kraft Magazine: Every three months I get a free magazine full of new recipes for the season. I like this magazine because its
FREE, and because the ingredients for all the recipes are practical and inexpensive. Its always great to try out some new recipes. Go to the link here to sign up for your free magazine -
Kraft#3: Food for Thought: We recently had a lesson Elder Bednar's CES Fireside address
Things As They Really Are (click
here for the full address). It really made me stop and think about my time on the computer blogging, facebooking, emailing, etc. He did not say these things are bad, or should be done avoided, rather that we need to beware of the way these activities can distract us from things that are REAL!
How much more connected to my friends and family am I? It is really easy for me to send an email or leave a comment on a blog, but how often do I talk or visit them? It's much more convienient for me to do that then actually have a conversation. Also I can choose to put what I want on my blog or facebook, I can "edit" my life to be whatever I want it. Is that real? Please, don't misunderstand or feel offended at all by any of my comments today, but it was really something that made me stop and think about what my purposes and time spent are really accomplishing. He gave two questions to consider when pondering our use:
1. Does the use of various technologies and media invite or impede the constant companionship of the Holy Ghost in your life?
2. Does the time you spend using various technologies and media enlarge or restrict your capacity to live, to love, and to serve in meaningful ways?
You will receive answers, inspiration, and instruction from the Holy Ghost suited to your individual circumstances and needs.
Here are a few of the thoughts I really liked:
"Please be careful of becoming so immersed and engrossed in pixels, texting, ear buds, twittering, online social networking, and potentially addictive uses of media and the Internet that you fail to recognize the importance of your physical body and miss the richness of person-to-person communication. Beware of digital displays and data in many forms of computer-mediated interaction that can displace the full range of physical capacity and experience.
Initially the investment of time may seem relatively harmless, rationalized as a few minutes of needed relief from the demands of a hectic daily schedule. But important opportunities are missed for developing and improving interpersonal skills, for laughing and crying together, and for creating a rich and enduring bond of emotional intimacy. Progressively, seemingly innocent entertainment can become a form of pernicious enslavement.
To feel the warmth of a tender hug from an eternal companion or to see the sincerity in the eyes of another person as testimony is shared—all of these things experienced as they really are through the instrument of our physical body—could be sacrificed for a high fidelity fantasy that has no lasting value. If you and I are not vigilant, we can become “past feeling” (1 Nephi 17:45), as did Laman and Lemuel long ago."
