The night before Jesus came..

I got this from a friend. Very touching.

"Twas the night before Jesus came and all through the house

Not a creature was praying, not one in the house.

Their Bibles were lain on the shelf without care

In hopes that Jesus would not come there.

The children were dressing to crawl into bed,

Not once ever kneeling or bowing a head.

And Mom in her rocker with baby on her lap

Was watching the Late Show while I took a nap.

When out of the East there arose such a clatter,

I sprang to my feet to see what was the matter.

Away to the window I flew like a flash

Tore open the shutters and threw up the sash!

When what to my wondering eyes should appear

But angels proclaiming that Jesus was here.

With a light like the sun sending forth a bright ray

I knew in a moment this must be The Day!

The light of His face made me cover my head

It was Jesus!  Returning just like He said.

And though I possessed worldly wisdom and wealth,

I cried when I saw Him in spite of myself.

In the Book of Life which He held in His hand

Was written the name of every saved man.

He spoke not a word as He searched for my name;

When He said, “It’s not here my head hung in shame

The people whose names had been written with love

He gathered to take to His Father above.

With those who were ready He rose without a sound

While all the rest were left standing around.

I fell to my knees, but it was too late;

I had waited too long and thus sealed my fate.

I stood and I cried as they rose out of sight

Oh, if only I had been ready tonight.

In the words of this poem the meaning is clear;

The coming of Jesus is drawing near.

There’s only one life and when comes the last call

We’ll find that the Bible was true after all!"

Do you know where you're going when Jesus comes?

Much Love,

TessieB

Chicken and Mashed Potato's.

This is probably gonna get a little boring because I again want to tell you all about dinner tonight! Maybe next time I will wait a few days and do more than one dinner in one blog post.
      But I didn't only make dinner tonight, noo!  I made breakfast and lunch too!  That's quite alota meals from someone who doesn't like to cook.  I would say I'm definitely warming up to it :)
      Today for breakfast I made eggs for myself.  Simple, scrambled eggs.  Everyone knows how to make that, right?  Yes.  But, instead of grating the chunk of cheese, I put already grated cheese on it.  Which never turns out well.   Never again. If you are ever wondering whether to use already grated cheese that comes in a packet or to  grate cheese to put it on your eggs, grate the cheese yourself!! It just tastes better.  Alot better.
      For lunch mom asked me to make her a quesadilla.  So I made two. One for her, one for me.  I asked my brother Andrew for tips since he is the best quesadilla maker ever!  They didn't quite turn out how I wanted them to.  I think I used too much cheese (if that's even possible!).

     All day I'd kinda been wondering what we'd have for dinner.  Mom was too busy all day to get groceries and so was I.  But mom stopped by the store on her way home from bible study and grabbed a Ready-made chicken.  The chicken is all cooked and ready to eat, all you have to do is cut it up!  Of course mashed potato's go best with chicken so mom had me make homemade mashed potato's! (Instead of the ready-in-a-minute kind of mashed potato's.)  What I did was peel the potato's (which I'm painfully slow at) and chop 'em up and put them in a pot that has water in it. (I was also so very painfully slow at chopping up the potato's) Once that's done you just put it on the stove and let it boil for about 15-20 min. While that was going I got some french styled green beans in a can and dumped the contents of that can in a small pot.  Actually I used two cans. I also let that boil for a bit.  Once that potato's were done I drained them and put them back in the pot.  Then added milk butter and garlic salt and mashed it up with our potato masher! It doesn't really matter how much milk and butter you add, just as long as it's enough. No need to measure. Then I got some garlic cloves, crushed them up and put them in a little pan that had melted butter in it.  Let them cook for a little then put it in the mashed potato's. You can also cut up the garlic cloves, cook them and put them in.  (I think I will do that next time)
The mashed potato's were ready.
When the green beans were done boiling I drained them and put them back in the pot. Then, (surprise!) I added an egg.  Yes an egg.  You kinda just stir it around until the egg looks cooked.  Then its ready!
       Tonight's dinner wasn't as simple as last night's but it was oh so good! :)  Mom says garlic goes with everything.  She is right. I put a little garlic salt on the green beans and it tasted better!

MmmMmmm :]

Thanks for reading!

Much Love,
TessieB