Color My Fun

Stake claim
High atop
Come round
Trip me up
Slip a notch
Not by much


Batter up
Another batch
Whip up
Some more
By out
The store


Run wild
Swing about
Wind whispers
Scream aloud
Dream catcher
Life watcher


Game stopper
Dice tosser
Big drama
Simmer down

Skipping all the way to Serene

Young school days
Delivered at chime
Manage our manners
Butterfly minds

Expressing ways
Finger painting
Stick writing
Smiles arise

Acting out plays
Story telling
Puddle jumping
Splashing some

Hazy Days

Call me Crazy
Dial, ring, and waiting
Our communication is hazy
Resist all the chasing


Drive by and guess
Turn around pull over
Step up under duress
Knock, sigh, roll over



Walk away willing
Stroll, skip, run
Lean up panting
Go farther for fun




Cats cradle yarn
Games for one
Jacks to be worn
Creating days won

Please Your Self Mamacita

Storing all these moments
Saving all these memories
Marking every movement
Savoring all our stories


Making all these tokens
Baking all our favorites
Churning everyone's emotions
Raking in every recipe


Holding all our hearts
Mending all our homes
Shaking out every doubt
Warming all chilled bodies


Raving all our starts
Ironing all our stops
Sticking every applaud
Embracing each with charity



Mexican Wedding cakes > Russian Tea cakes > Snowball cookies:

Oven: 300*F

1 stick of butter + 2 table spoon of sugar = blend to fluffy

Add the rest and mix well:
1 cup flour
1 cup crushed pecans
1/4 teaspoon salt
2 teaspoons of vanilla

Scoop and roll into yolk size balls = 32 approx.
Lay out on vellum lined cookie sheet, one inch apart
Bake: 45 minutes

While still hot:
Set a bowl full of powdered sugar and roll each ball in, one by one and back to the cookie sheet to cool. A second coat of powdered sugar can be sifted across the top.

Note: These are traditionally made with walnuts but, I prefer the pecans. Mi familia recipe album recalls them as "Almond Christmas Balls". Make you choice your own.
My Mamacita preferred them to be rolled to the size and shape of your pinkie finger and then crescent bent at the middle, allowing it to be a little more "Lady-like" and a little less "Ho-bag" on approach. You never know who's spying while you pop one in.
Enjoy ;<>

Gratitude

Gratitude unlocks the fullness of life.
It turns what we have into enough, and more.
It turns denial into acceptance, chaos to order,
confusion to clarity.

It can turn a meal into a feast,
a house into a home,
a stranger into a friend.

Gratitude makes sense of our past,
brings peace for today, and
crates a vision for tomorrow.
-Melody Beattie

Pre Pear to Fall

Pre pear to fall to our knees.
Surrender the urge to please.
Accept to our Self we appease.
Reveal and receive all we need.


Amber burnt and golden butter brown.
Fragrant stems lean in and surround.
Petals and leaves fall to dark ground.
Our ears flutter with humming sound.


Fire dancing under the harvest moon.
Drums of the warm night tell our tune.
An island rum bath soaking since noon.
Stir our tongue around a cinnamon spoon.


Wild and restless and quick to our feet.
We lean forward pointing to what we seek.
All that we want is with a willing reach.
We feel our thoughts falling back into our seat.

Winter Tropic Exotic

Winter Tropic Exotic Fruit Salad:
Pomegranate
Cucumber
Pink Lady Apple
Purple Grapes
Mango
Mint
Dressing is a squeeze of a juicing orange.