Recipe

Resurrection Cookies

Read whole recipe before beginning; try to do together Saturday night before Easter Sunday.

Ingredients:
1 cup whole pecans
3 egg whites
1 cup sugar
1 tsp vinegar
pinch salt

You also need:
Wooden spoon
Bible (I think I may print out all the verses on a single sheet for next year.)
Zipploc bag
Tape

Preheat oven to 300°
- Place pecans in zipper baggie and let children beat them up with wooden spoon; John 19: 1-3
- smell the vinegar; John 19:28-30
- add egg whites to vinegar; John 10:10-11
- taste salt; tears & bitterness; Luke 23:27
- add sugar; sweetest part of story is Jesus loving us and wanting us to know Him;
Psalm 34:8 & John 3:16
- beat with mixer for 11-15 min until stiff peaks are formed; white represents purity; Isaiah 1:18 & John 3:1-3
- fold in nuts; drop onto waxed paper-covered cookie sheet; tomb; Matt. 27: 65-66
- cookie sheet in oven, oven OFF; tape to seal oven.
- sadness at leaving cookies; John 16:20 & 22

Sunday morning
- cookies are hollow! Matt. 28: 1-9

We had a big time doing this together - even Aubrie got in on the action this year!

Easter Sunday

We had a great Easter Sunday even though it was a little chilly for the upteenth time in a row! At least it feels like we haven't had a warm, sunny Easter in quite a while.

Anyway, we opened our oven first thing to see our resurrection cookies, and I think I need to turn my oven up higher because ours are never completely hollow on the inside. The girls still got the point, and it was big fun. We've done this three years now, but they forget each year what's going to happen which actually makes it even more fun for me!

I took some pics the day before Easter (sans sweaters), but the family pic was the day of - chilly and a bit windy...

Snow Advisory

I thought it hilarious considering my earlier post today that we are under a snow advisory in MS right now. It is sleeting as I type. Go figure.

Those of you in colder climates might appreciate how our advisory is worded:

AS COLDER AIR MOVES INTO THE AREA LATE THIS AFTERNOON...RAIN WILL MIX WITH AND CHANGE TO SNOW. SNOW WILL CONTINUE THROUGH THE EVENING BEFORE TAPERING OFF TO FLURRIES AFTER MIDNIGHT. TOTAL SNOWFALL ACCUMULATION OF ONE TO TWO INCHES REMAIN POSSIBLE.
A SNOW ADVISORY MEANS THAT PERIODS OF SNOW WILL CAUSE TRAVEL DIFFICULTIES. BE PREPARED FOR SNOW COVERED ROADS AND LIMITED VISIBILITIES. USE CAUTION WHILE DRIVING. (sorry for the all caps - blame it on the Weather Channel.)

The funny part is the one to two inches. We're just such sad winter drivers around here!

Okay, it's already stopped sleeting - I may have to wake up the girls from their nap if it starts to snow, though. I don't think they would know what to do with two snows in one season!

Spring is in the Air

I have to say that I LOVE spring in Mississippi. Some of my favorite things are:

1. forsynthia bushes .

2. all of the tulips that are out at Highland Village.

3. Japanese magnolias . (I really need one of those in my yard.)

4. the daffodils and paperwhites that have already come and are on the way out.

I also love that Emma was born on the first day of spring. As spring brings all kinds of newness, she definitely brought with her a new era of our family life (the kid era) which we thoroughly love!