Treasured Moments 10

Do you find yourself falling into a pattern of daily grind, skipping the 'fun' activities because you don't have time or lack energy?Do creative arts, nature walks, drama, read aloud or spontaneous acts seem only a distant dream in your life?
Yet these Treasured Moments shared with loved ones uplift us, nurture our soul, remind us of the beauty and joy in our lives.
We want Treasured Moments for ourselves, for our children, for our families but how can we make it happen?
... Commitment ... Encouragement ... Support ... Ideas ... Plans.

I invite you to join us every Saturday and share your plans and ideas, your targets and goals and your stories ... your 'Treasured Moments'. In this way we may inspire one another, encourage ourselves and start achieving our dreams. Hosted by Erin at Seven Little Australians and Counting

My Treasured Moments this week are:

1.
Seeing Sir N achieve his next progress certificate at swimming.
2.
Hearing that Mr T was offered a position at Mc Donalds.
3.
Learning how to re size graphics for my blog and how to add links to each graphic to a specific blog / page and how to alter the code so that the graphics appear next to one another rather than one below the other.  Heart of the Matter blog hop . Any one interested in a tutorial ??
4.
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Blessings

10 Ways to Nurture Your Children

A book mark to encourage you from over at Time Warp Wife

Blessings

Banana Bread

Banana Bread brings back many many nostalgic memories of my friend Kathy. I met Kathy when we moved into our first rental property in New Zealand. There was a knock at the front door and there stood Kathy with a freshly baked loaf of banana bread and a welcome to Shirley smile. Kathy has been one of God's best gifts to me. We live a few thousand kilometers apart now but we have the kind of friendship that we can pick up where we left off no matter how long it's been. Kathy used to add a cup of baking chocolate to her recipe so if you are in need of a chocolate fix feel free to add it in.

Ingredients

Gather your ingredients and baking equipment.
Sons are an added bonus and great helpers  ;-)

• 1/4 cup butter
• 1 cup Sugar
• 2 eggs
• 5 ml Vanilla Essence
• 4 over ripe banana's mashed
• 3/4 teaspoon Baking Soda
• 2 cups Flour
• 1/2 teaspoon Baking Powder

Method.

Cream butter and sugar

Add eggs and Vanilla Essence
(love the colour of free range egg yolks!!)

Mix till creamy texture
Add mashed banana and mix well

Add Bicarb, flour and baking powder.

Grease and flour your favourite bread tin
Add mix to tin and bake for 1 hour at 160 'C fan forced

Cool on cooling rack

Slice and serve plain or a light spread of butter and enjoy!
Store in an air tight container

 Blessings

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