The Little Issues E-newsletter #466 – Life, laughter, and plenty of nice meals!

Welcome to the weekend, my mates! I got here house to a wonderful sundown the opposite day and couldn’t resist pausing within the driveway to take a photograph. What an incredible world we reside in, mates. Even when life throws us curveballs, the solar nonetheless rises and units in moments of magnificence.

As I write this, the birds are singing at full quantity outdoors my window and the solar hasn’t even risen. I like it. We’ve had a enjoyable week over right here. My mother is visiting and my youngest son is in his first faculty play. Who knew highschool theater could possibly be this a lot enjoyable??

ON THE BLOGS THIS WEEK: Full of creamy oats, candy bananas, berries, a touch of brown sugar, and spices, this Crockpot Oatmeal is a breakfast that my entire household enjoys. Better of all, this crave-worthy oatmeal will be made in only one hour with none stirring in any respect!

Spicy, candy, and barely tangy Glazed Salmon with Broccoli is one in every of my favourite methods to cook dinner and serve fish. One delightfully easy sauce does double responsibility as marinade for the fish and taste booster for the contemporary broccoli.

Crab Stuffed Mushrooms full of tender cream cheese, contemporary inexperienced onions, and candy crab meat hold you coming again for extra. These two-bite appetizers are exhausting to cease consuming.

In the event you’re fortunate sufficient to have some further mushrooms left within the fridge, garlicky Marinated Mushrooms are nice to have readily available so as to add some pizzazz to salads, sandwiches, pizzas, snacks, and extra! This easy recipe makes it straightforward to maintain a jar of them within the fridge always.

Barely candy and tangy, Apple Grape Salad is a quick and fresh-as-can-be fruit salad with a creamy dressing that you just’ll need all summer time lengthy. You’ll be able to’t go unsuitable pairing this with any and all grilled and roasted meats or with a sandwich for a fast meal that satisfies.

Italian Chocolate Salami is product of crumbled cookies, chopped, and toasted nuts, suspended in creamy chocolate that resembles salami. This delightfully totally different dessert is served in lots of elements of the world.

Creamy, actual banana ice cream studded with items of vanilla cookie and pockets of candy whipped cream mix to make Banana Pudding Ice Cream. In the event you like banana pudding, you’ll go wild for this!

What I’m CRAVING: All the salads! From the Italian grinder salad to cheeseburger salad, California spaghetti salad to cauliflower, bacon, and broccoli salad, I’m able to make and eat all of them!

My FAVORITE THINGS this week are this hand cream and this cuticle oil. My palms have been nearly unbelievably dry this winter and I lastly began utilizing each of those merchandise recurrently once more. My palms appear and feel dramatically higher after only a few days of standard use.

What I’m LISTENING to: To The End by Ghost Ship. I’ve been having fun with this group for months, and this complete album has been a win for me. I can’t even decide a favourite tune!

What I’m READING: As soon as once more, I’m studying Man’s Search for Meaning by Viktor Frankl. I don’t know if there’s a e-book I’ve ever beneficial to mates extra typically. I’d in all probability reward it to everybody I do know, given the chance. what, I’ll ship a duplicate of this e-book to the primary 20 individuals who e-mail me to say that they’d wish to learn it. 

Viktor Frankl was an Austrian psychiatrist and neurologist, in addition to a Holocaust survivor. He believed that we can not keep away from struggling however can select how to deal with it, discover which means in it, and transfer ahead with renewed objective.

“All the pieces will be taken from a person however one factor: the final of the human freedoms—to decide on one’s angle in any given set of circumstances, to decide on one’s personal method.” – Viktor Frankl

“Stay as in case you had been dwelling a second time, and as if you had acted wrongly the primary time.” – Viktor Frankl

 “For I’m satisfied that neither loss of life nor life, neither angels nor demons,[a] neither the current nor the longer term, nor any powers, neither peak nor depth, nor the rest in all creation, will be capable to separate us from the love of God that’s in Christ Jesus our Lord.” Romans 8:38-39 NIV

Wishing you a stunning week stuffed with little issues that make you smile!

Mary