Tuesday and Todays Happiness Challenge

I am 20 pages from finishing Harry Potter & The Half Blood Prince. So what am I doing here writing to all of you instead of in the familyroom reading? Well, you see, once I finsih the book, it’s over, and I will have to wait another year or two until we get the last story in this tale of our hero, Harry.

My Happiness Challenge for today is my eye doctor’s visit. As I told you all before, I know that the debris is pretty much gone from my eye. Today I got to share the news with the man responsible for my recovery. Four and a half years ago another eye doctor removed a cataract and messed up my eye. My current doctor has repaired it all and although it has taken three years, he never gave up. So I am happy and grateful for the vision I have and the end of surgeries.

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Blueberry Muffins

I’m putting both the regular recipe and the one I have altered for my diabetic Hubby on the page. The alterations for a diabetic muffin are the changes in ( ). So please don’t add both 1 cup lemon yogurt and 1 cup fat free lemon yogurt. It is just 1 cup of lemon yogurt. K?

Blueberry Muffins

2 eggs
1/2 cup oil
1 cup lemon yogurt (fat free lemon yogurt)
The grated rind from 1 lemon
2/3 cup sugar (1/2 cup Splenda Sugarblend)
2 cups flour
1/2 tsp Baking Soda
1 1/2 tsp Baking Powder
1 cup Blueberries

Beat eggs, oil, sugar and yogurt. Add lemon peel and mix well. Mix dry ingredients in separate bowl. Slowly add them to yogurt mixture. Then with a wooden spoon, gently fold in berries.
Spray muffin tin or tin with liners with Pam. Bake at 375 degrees (F) for 25-35 minutes or until lightly browned and done.

**Note** If blueberries are very big snip them in half.

Makes about a dozen.

Mondays Happiness Challenge

Mondays tend to be nothing type of days. But today is a good day. So the day itself, will go down in my Happiness Challenge.
I went shopping for the kids. (my neighbors grandchildren) Unfortunately they leave on Saturday to go home to Oregon. Each year I try to get some little thing for each of them, to remind them of their visit. Last year I got a book for Kamari, a truck for James and a stuffed wirehaired dachshund just like Greta for Matina. I also made a book of pictures from their summer trip.
This year I got Kamari a journal. She’s old enough now so that she can write her thoughts her dreams and her hopes. Like all young girls.
For James, who is 5, I got a Red Sox action figure. One of those indestructible sort of things. I think he will like that as he has a Red Sox shirt just like the figure does.
For my dachshund loving Matina I have gotten a Wirehaired Dachshund 2006 Calendar and a small Beanie Baby Dachshund.
It’ll be so quiet when they leave and I will miss them terribly. But today, I had fun shopping for them. I hope they get as many smiles on their faces from the things I gotthem, as the smiles they have given me over the last few weeks.

Being a Genius and Other Things

My Happiness Challenge for today:

It’s nice, once in a while, for someone to think you are a genius. Yesterday I had an idea. I thought I would make Matina and her brother James their own coloring books. I started with pictures I took of them and went into a program I have and turned them into coloring book type pictures. See:
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They were so impressed and they think this is so cool. Me too! I plan to make similar books for my grandnephews and grandniece.

Yesterday we also went and picked blueberries. Oh my goodness, you would not believe how heavy the bushes are! We picked and picked and picked and hardly made a dent! I have frozen a ton, and I’ve already made a blueberry cobbler. Later today I plan to make blueberry muffins. I just love summer harvests!

Saturday Thoughts

There is nothing worse than waiting for two week for an order of stuff you got on sale, only to find that it doesn’t fit right! After struggling with a diet and maintenance program, I am a perfect size medium. Everywhere I go, I pick up a medium and it fits perfectly. Not so this one sweater. Oh well, I am not crazy about the color now I have seen it in real life. Somehow colors look decidedly different on a computer screen.
And I ordered boots for winter. I ordered a half size larger thinking that with extra socks I would need the extra room. Well guess what? The boots are too small with just one pair of socks on! Disaster #2.
At least the third item, a shirt, size MEDIUM fits perfectly! And the color is the prettiest robins egg blue.
There is at least one up side to all of this. I didn’t have to pay for shipping, and I can return it to the local outlet store nearby. So it’s a wash monetarily.

Here is todays Happiness Challenge:
Seeing my neighbor at the Post Office, giving him a hug, (he is 87 1/2 years old) and knowing that I made his day!

Meg’s Friday Questions

* What’s on your key chain? Too many keys and a silver dachshund.
* How many pairs of shoes do you own and what’s your favorite pair? Too many, but my favorite are my Easy Spirit Suede Loafers
* What’s your #1 wardrobe staple? [Thanks Loosy Loohan] Mmmmm, jeans. I live in them.
* Who do you most look up to? The big guy upstairs! (as in G.O.D.!!)
* If you had $100 and the day off what would you do? Save the $100.00 for a rainy day and just do what I normally do walking the dogs.
* Fill in the blank. Age is ___46____
* What are your plans for the weekend? For the first weekend in a while I don’t have any.
Questions by:
http://www.divinereality.com