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Monday, August 27, 2012

Dessert Alert! ~ Rum Balls ~

 
Here is a quick and super easy dessert recipe that is sure to please the adults!
It’s called Rum balls, and yes they contain alcohol so keep away from the kids.
Here’s the line up only 4 ingredients I promise.
Vanilla Wafers, Butter, Rum and powdered sugar.
Rum Ball Ingredients
Crush up your vanilla wafers in a blender, food processer or chopper whatever you have. If you don’t have any of those and you’re desperate banging the heck out of them in the bag works too… trust me I know. *wink*
vanilla cookies
When you’re cookies are crushed till they are pretty uniform but not into cookie dust add in a tablespoon of butter and 1/4 cup of rum and mix with the cookies.
Rum
Keep adding butter and rum little by little until you get a chunky sort of sticky batter like it looks below.
dough
It’s not an exact science, add more rum if you want them stronger and more butter if you would rather then not so strong, but why would you not want them strong with a kick?
As long as the texture is moist enough to roll up in a ball with your hands like below.
Rum Ball
After that I usually roll it around in some powdered sugar to keep the outside from being too sticky and what doesn’t taste good with powdered sugar on top of it, you just can’t go wrong.
Rumball
After they are all done, I like them up and dust a little more powdered sugar on top right before I serve them.
Rumball and powdered sugar
Enjoy and don’t forget to have a designated driver!!
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Tuesday, August 14, 2012

Coming to the realization he’s not a baby anymore

(Yes, I know I’ve been absent, I wont make excuses… so on with my post….)
It is happening to me right now and I don’t know how to feel about it.
I swear I feel like this was just last week
1 week old baby
And before I knew it I was going back to work and this was the last day mommy and her lil guy had together.
7 week old baby
Then the big boy was going out to dinner.
out to dinner
And eating in his own highchair.
highchair
In a blink of an eye it was his first birthday.
first birthday
And yup, blink again it was his 2nd birthday.
second birthday
Three weeks ago, I find out that he got accepted into Pre School.
We had been waiting for it for a while and we weren’t sure if he would get in.
Now that its real and my baby is going to preschool, I feel so emotional. How did he grow up so fast, how is it that my baby is old enough to go to school?!?!
All these crazy emotions are going through me right now.
The other morning I picked him up out of bed and just wanted to carry him like a baby. I hugged and squeezed him just a little tighter and longer than I normally would have that day and it brought a tear to my eye. (mind you he is more than half my size) It reminded me to make sure to tell my son I love you about a hundred times a day.
He’s been in school for over a week now and he loves it. I see my little boy maturing right in front of my eyes! I have anxiety about will he be a good boy, will he listen, I hope he doesn’t make trouble. Then I have anxiety over will he be the kid that gets picked on? Will he be a follower or a leader? I really do make myself crazy…. he’s a great kid and I love him. His teachers say hes doing great in school and loves problem solving and outdoor play.
Getting him to eat whatever they give him… now that’s a different story.
preschool
 
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Monday, July 16, 2012

Hellooooo out there....

Hi Guys!
I'm still here... I'm still alive.
Sorry for the SERIOUS absence lately.
I haven't been well and I thank you guys for sticking around still, you're the bestest!

I'm trying to get back on track, I'm trying a new medicine from the dr's and it seems to be helping me feel way better.

Tomorrow I have a fab guest post from Natalie from North Shore Days so come back again to check it out!

Also don't forget to come by and 'like me' on Facebook!
If that link doesnt work search for 'From the Heart'
I seem to update that more frequently.

In the meantime here a just a few pix from our family vacay last month....


Please do not call CPS on me, my child is NOT actually touching the mermaid's breast it's just a camera trick!

Dont forget to come back tomorrow!!!!

Thursday, July 12, 2012

Guest Post from {North Shore Days}

Hi guys today I hae Natalie visiting as promised! Give her a big welcome and thanks so much for guest posting for me today!! Take it away Natalie....
Hello Everyone, I'm Natalie from Northshore Days

I'm the lucky mum of 3 sweet kiddos who keep me very busy. We live on the beautiful NorthShore of Auckland in New Zealand and I get to see or be on the beach everyday, how awesome it that? 



I am super excited about being here at From the Heart while

Today I'm going to share a very easy jewelry project that took me about 5 minutes to make.

Sometimes I'm lucky enough to find pieces that work really well together and in this case I had an old ring which had a missing charm and an old necklace with bronze findings and beads that matched perfectly


I attached 2 beads to the charm link on the ring and snipped off a part of the "flower" charm


Then I simply looped brown cord through the flower charm and the ring and attached clasps. 

So cute.... 



I hope you enjoyed my post and I hope I inspired you to upcycle some old pieces you have lying around.

Thanks for having me. 

Take care

xxx


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Friday, July 6, 2012

my 4th in instagram

Hope everyone had a great Independance Day.
If you don't follow me on Instagram you must do it now! LOL
If you do, you've seen pix of our little family enjoying the 4th.

Here's a recap.


The military base on our island, PMRF, put on a free fireworks show on Tuesday night. We parked on the side of the road and packed a picnic. When the show was over we jumped in the front of the car and took off before traffic even started!


My son LOVES his pop pops!
We went through almost a whole case in a few hours.


Does anyone remember these?
Super old sku!


Here's to the land of the free and home of the brave!
Hope you all had a great holiday!







Monday, July 2, 2012

Friday, June 29, 2012

{Second Chance to Dream} Guest Post

Hey guys!
While I was away on vacation Barb was sweet enough to guest post for me so that ya'll would still be entertained while I was gone.
Well thanks to technology, or maybe my lack of understanding it, none of my guests posts got published!
I was super bummed especially since I had a couple of great posts.
So anyway, Barb's post is finally making it's debut!

Hope you all enjoy her post! I love her pergola swing!!
She totally needs to make one for me too!
Thanks Barb again.... take it away!





Hi! I'm Barb Camp from Second Chance to Dream. I want to say Thank You to Rhiannon for having me here today.
A little about me, I'm a wife of 34 years, a mom to 6 kids ages 33-13, 3 married and 3 still at home. I have 3 grandchildren.  I'm a life coach who wants to encourage women to live their dreams and passions and help them to grow creatively as well as spiritually. Stop on over and check out my blog Second Chance to Dream.
My project today is  a pair of DIY All Weather Pillows.
  My husband made me a beautiful pergola swing.  You can see it here which I LOVE!!!  I wanted some fun pillows for it.  I wanted some that if they got wet, wouldn't take forever to dry.  I thought I'd try a vinyl table cloth after I saw a really fun one at Walmart.   
To begin gather your supplies:
Note:  I first did this project with a glue gun, but it doesn't work well  with the vinyl.  So take out the glue gun and add a sewing machine.
I spread the tablecloth out and laid my pillow out to measure where to cut.  I then cut what I needed.  The next step is to sew up the sides and slide the pillow form in.  I am including a couple good tutorials on how to make it an envelope pillow.Here is a video on how to make an envelope pillow.  Or here is a blog that shares a good tutorial.  
These both took less than 30 min. to make and I have some fun pillows for my new swing.
Thanks again Rhiannon for allowing me to guest post.
If you enjoyed this tutorial why don't you come on over to Second Chance to Dream to say Hi! Or can subscribe via Facebook, RSS Feed or Email.

   

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