Todays Featured #HolidayDessert #Reciipe is by Ms. Hannah Hogner:Hannah Hogner
Apple Dumplings
2 Whole Granny Smith Apples
2 Cans (8oz. Cans) Crescent Rolls
2 Sticks of Butter
1 1/2 Cups of Sugar
1 Tsp Vanilla
Cinnamon to taste
1 Can(12 oz) Mountain Dew
Peel and Core apples. Cut each apple into 8 slices each. Roll each apple slice in a crescent roll. Place in a 9×13 buttered pan.
Melt butter, then add sugar and barely stir. Add vanilla, stir and pour entire mixture over apples. Pour Mt Dew around the edges of the pan. Sprinkle with cinnamon and bake at 350 degrees for 40 mins. Serve with ice cream and spoon some of the sweet sauces from the pan over the top.
I don’t like pecan pie much or let’s say until I ate this one! #Mommajo AKA Carol Hogner makes an amazing Pecan Pie. Last year she was taking orders for these babies. ?❤️
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Todays Featured Recipe is by #MommaJo aka Carol Hogner!
Pecan Pie
1 C Karo Light Corn Syrup
3 eggs
1 C sugar
2 Tbs butter, melted
1 tsp vanilla extract
1-1/2 c pecans
1. Pillsbury 9-inch deep dish pie crust
Stir the first 5 ingredients thoroughly using a spoon mix in pecans.
Pour into pie crust
BAKE on center rack of oven for 60-70 minutes.
Let cool for 2 hours. lol if you can wait that long to eat it. Im thinking warm sounds good.
Thank you Momma Jo. Looking forward to a piece in couple weeks lol.
Have you ever found yourself at a place in life that you realized you have been holding your breath for days, weeks and maybe months?
Not literally but emotionally and spiritually you have been holding in your breath. You walk around feeling like if you do one thing wrong or take one step in the wrong direction that everything with blow up, disappear or just be ruined. So you walk around tip toeing, holding it all in, carrying around thoughts, concerns and feelings that belong on the weight of your Father God!
Did you ever play that game in the pool where you tried to see who could hold their breath the longest? At first you thought I got this, see I can beat them, I don’t need air one more minute on my own and I am going to make it. Then all of a sudden you find your struggling and even start to feel little bit fearful and you pop up out of the water and take a huge deep breath. When you take that breath your body relaxes, those fears that maye your going to pass out and this is it are gone and you know you made it to the top!
I realized today that I do this very thing. I get really busy and I start competing against the world around me. I start trying to out survive the situation, the tiredness, the emotions etc… The thing to do in these times in our lives is shove ourselves upward just like in the pool. Get our focus at the top where we can breathe in the very life of God!
Job 33:4 “The Spirit of God has made me,And the breath of the Almighty gives me life which inspires me.
You might say how do I breathe in Gods living air? His life?
We do this by letting go of the worries we are carrying. We stop tying to be people pleasers and become God pleasers. We start focusing on what is good and of God!
Philippians 4:6-9 Do not be anxious or worried about anything, but in everything every circumstance and situation by prayer and petition with thanksgiving, continue to make your specific requests known to God. And the peace of God that peace which reassures the heart, that peace which transcends all understanding, that peace which stands guard over your hearts and your minds in Christ Jesus is yours. Finally, believers, whatever is true, whatever is honorable and worthy of respect, whatever is right and confirmed by God’s word, whatever is pure and wholesome, whatever is lovely and brings peace, whatever is admirable and of good repute; if there is any excellence, if there is anything worthy of praise, think continually on these things center your mind on them, and implant them in your heart. The things which you have learned and received and heard and seen in me, practice these things in daily life, and the God who is the source of peace and well-being will be with you.
Are you breathing?
Stop right now and think on how good God is in your life and all around you. Breathe out the old junk and take a deep breath of Gods peace and joy!
Blessings,
When I was growing up my mom would clean house and crank up some old country music on 8 tracks. I guess back then it wasn’t old and today its called Classic Country. I know it was real country for sure. I remember hearing songs by Red Sovine, Hank Williams SR., Patsy Cline and more. See I told you it was real country lol.
This song right here was one of my favorites
The other song that I loved so much and still do was Kaw-Liga
Man I want to dance around when I hear this song. My point is these were fond memories. My mom would put her hair back in a bandanna and get to cleaning the house and it just made such a neat atmosphere in the house. You know I really do not remember helping her but I am sure I did. What I do know is I learned by watching her and I started enjoying those days.
When I was in Jr High we moved across the street from Pat Nigh from Bluejacket OK. AKA MAMA PAT. Pat hired me to help her spring clean one year and she trained me to do things such as washing down walls, pulling curtains off the walls and taking cushions off couch to clean. I would take the cushions and put them in a large strong trash bag and stick the vacuum hose down in the bag. If you hold it tight around the hose it will collapse the cushion sucking out all the air and removing dust and dead skin cells…ewe…
I got to going over to Mama Pats on Saturdays which was her cleaning days. At this time in my life my mom was working at the family feed store which they later owned and ran. Anyways on those days guess what we had that good ol country music playing on cassette tapes and even cds as the years passed. We played some of the classics and we listened to a lot of George Straight and Reba. Songs such as the Chair and Whoever s in New England
I lived across from her from 8th grade till I graduated. I continued to work for her and even still do from time to time.
So as you can see I have had two amazing women inspire me and teach me to clean…
Cleaning…well cleaning makes me feel good. It has great memories connected to it. I get a good work out, feel I accomplished something and help someone else.
I have been cleaning homes for a living or extra money now for 27 years. WOW… I once had a full time job in the corporate world. I cleaned the office floors, kitchens, fitness center, and corporate apartment. I have to say even with the great benefits that it was not the same feeling. I really did not see the faces of the people I was helping and it was not personal at all. I love developing relationships and friendships with my clients. I still have some here or there that really are not any more than business at least on their end of it. I still feel like I am somehow making their lives better by just doing my job.
KL Cleaning N More
You know I have tried out a couple of different names and this one stuck. What is funny is my name is Cassie Gilman so that would be CG. In all these years since I started using this name(I think 2007) I have only had two people ask me what does KL stand for?. OKAY SO HERE IT IS!!! LOL
Kingdom
Living
KL
Cleaning N More=care giving, errands, windows, etc…
So what does Kingdom Living mean to me where this business is concerned? Good question…
It also is Matthew 6:33 Seek the Kingdom of God above all else, and live righteously, and he will give you everything you need.
I believe if I keep my focus on God, He will bring me into the right clients lives, businesses, and homes. He will also be the One meeting my needs financially through the hands of my clients.
Now today when I clean houses I listen to Reba still but I mainly listen to these two artist…Wyatt Nations and Carol Hogner.
So now you know where KL Cleaning N More Comes from.
Thank you mom and mama Pat for inspiring part of my purpose.
True love is when you care about someone else’s needs more than you do your own.
“I pray for you more than I do myself” Diary Of The Mad Black Woman
Love is not WAM. What About Me?
It has taken me a long time to know what real love is. I was more concerned with feeling loved and getting shown love than showing it!
I found out what love is! It is God! It is John 3:16
John 3:16 God so loved the world that he gave his only Son, so that everyone who believes in him won’t perish but will have eternal life.
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I was watching Wynonna one day on a show and the power of God came into my apartment and the Love of God. I realized that so many selfish and crazy choices I had made was me looking for love. I am so grateful He has shown me and continues to show me through His grace and those He has placed in my life for me to love.
Did you know this “Love Holiday” that we all get so worked up about because we are not receiving flowers or candy or have a “Valentine” was originated in honor of a St Valentine? I did a study on the history of this Holiday. There are many encounters and each one I read was a selfless story of a man who did acts of kidneys and shared Gods love in “secret”. One encounter I read said that he was beheaded for marrying Christian Couples. Back during these ages the Roman Catholic Church and the Christian Church were enemies.
Now that you think about Valentines the “Love” Holiday in this manner and see that it was in honor of a selfless love based on Gods love, mayb we can decide to be a Valentine!
So let’s make this Valentines a true Love Holiday and carry it into everyday life. No more WAM!
Dream Catcher 3:20
