Sweet Adeleine

I have a class for school called Speech. This is supposed to help me learn how to stand properly while speaking, pronounce words properly, and so on. The most recent section is on how to give meaning and feeling to a  poem when reading one out loud. My teacher, Mrs. Autrey, has been reciting poems to us as examples, and she uses a variety such as happy poems, sad poems, thoughtful and so on. One of them that caught my attention was a funny remake of the famous poem "Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening" by Robert Frost.   The original is one of my favorite poems, and I have always loved the other poetic works of Robert Frost. Here is the original poem: Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening By Robert Frost   Whose woods these are I think I know.    His house is in the village though;    He will not see me stopping here    To watch his woods fill up with sn...

Recently, I started my driving class: a home-taught driver education package that I received from my parents for Christmas. So, I started the book work, took the test, and I got my learner's license. Yay!😃   Now comes the next step: more reading, but then applying what I read to actual driving. This

Today I have a very sweet strawberry cream cheese pie recipe that one of the ladies from church shared with us. It is one of my favorite pie recipes, and is very simple to make. Here is what you will need for the pie:

Before the weather turns warm, I want to share another chili recipe that I personally loved when we fixed it. This is a very simple recipe, with only three major steps involved; it also only takes about 30 minutes to make! Here are the ingredients for the recipe:

Today's recipe has a little more work involved than some of my recipes I've shared, but the result is worth the effort. The ingredients for these cookies are as follows:

Today, I have one of my Dad's favorite recipes, something similar to a food from Taco Bell but with a different name. This is actually very simple to make, with just a little cooking and some assembly. You will need these ingredients:

Soon, my Dad will be celebrating his birthday, and whenever someone has a birthday, we have many decorations to think about. Should we put up streamers? balloons? banners? And of course we always have a birthday cake to decorate. However, have you ever stopped to wonder where some of our traditions originated? Well, today I am going to give you a tid-bit of information on the tradition of birthday cake candles. It turns out this tradition goes back many years. After checking with multiple sources, I discovered the tradition of candles on cake dates back to Ancient Greece. Whenever the people decided to honor the Greek goddess Artemis, goddess of the hunt, they would place candles on a round cake to symbolize the moon shining. The smoke of the candles was supposed to carry up their prayers to her. Of course, we don't believe in the Greek gods and goddesses; however, this tradition was not for birthdays anyways. Fast forward to the Germanic people of the 1700's, as they cele...