Simple Weekend Beauty

Enjoy some of the seasonal beauty from your yard! Happy weekend friends!

Beauty for Being in the Hospital

We have a young friend who is having surgery this week and I wanted to put together some goodies for both her and her mama for their time in the hospital. A hospital is not a homey place and I hope this will provide a little beauty in their time as well as some encouragement for their hearts.

I confess that I actually Googled this and looked on Pinterest and most of the ideas I found were for new moms, which is great, but doesn't fit the need I was looking for. What do you do for an almost teen going to the hospital? This is very personalized to what I know suits them - but maybe could be a good jump off point for ideas if you are able to serve in this way as well!

The printable is from Hymns From a Hospital Room. I also wanted to make a little garland to add beauty and truth to her room. I'm sharing it as a printable in case you can use it for the same reason - to bless someone else and I made both a boys and girls version.

Other things I thought of: a tiny bottle of Essential Oils - especially Thieves to protect from other germs, a CD of worship songs, a magazine for the waiting, foods that can be easily eaten or heated away from a kitchen, cute socks, blank note cards.

What other ideas do you have?

Slow Morning

The rest of the day was slow too - but I got to working on my book and didn't take any more pictures!

Loving both of these books right now:
* Dear Mama study from Well-Watered Women
* The Next Right Thing by Emily Freeman (affiliate link)

Pardon the Dust!

Good afternoon!

Popping in to let you know that I'm going to be working on refreshing my blog in the days ahead just in case things get a little wonky unexpectedly! I hope to have things smoothed out as soon as possible!

Meanwhile, my domain has changed to www.monicalwilkinson.com and while it should auto re-direct, I just want to let you all know!

Thanks for visiting here!

Popsicles

With my kids gone from home, I've been trying to work ahead on some things for when they return. One of those is currently making popsicles! Twice a day, I pull frozen goodness from the freezer and slide them out of molds and into ziploc bags awaiting children who will be looking for the refreshment of a frozen treat!

So far, I've made lemonade pops, chocolate fudge pops {below}, peach berry smoothie pops,  and orange cream pops. Next us is banana pudding pops - Samuel loves banana pudding!

I wanted to do juice and just freeze it in molds but one of their favorites is grape juice {the purple kind!} and I'm fearful of stains and white grape juice just doesn't taste the same. My molds are Tupperware similar to these.

After that I'm wondering about something cookies and cream? Herbal teas? What popsicles do your kids love? If you have tried and true recipes or ideas, please share!

Here's a recipe that my Mom made for us when we were kids and I still make for my kids!

Fudgesicles
1 box instant chocolate pudding
1 can evaporated milk
2 c. milk
2-3 Tbsp. sugar

Mix everything together and pour into popsicle molds to freeze! I like to pour the mix into a pitcher and keep it in the fridge. Twice a day {morning and evening} I will pull out molded popsicles and re-freeze the next batch.


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