What's for Breakfast?

What do you eat for breakfast?

Sunday we went out for breakfast, and I splurged and had french toast, bacon and eggs.

Splurged in calories, that is!

 Usually I have a bowl of  granola
 while I read, or check email and blogs from my iPad

I like to make my own granola so I can control the sweetness

I mix oats, chopped walnuts, cinnamon, just a bit of brown sugar

and a little drizzle of melted butter

 

and toast it for 20 minutes at 350



 I add unsweetened almond milk and fruit

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Sometimes I sit and eat in my tiny 1930's breakfast room

This cute clock on the table, with AWAKEN on it,

 was a gift at our Women's Conference ~ that was the theme

 

The EAT MORE CHICKEN cow was left over from a

 Chick-fil-A Leadercast event we had at church

It's since gone on to another home. 

The room has two corner shelves

 full of the birds and the bees

and pretty pottery

and of course some Roseville

Sitting in my cozy little breakfast room

and looking out to our cozy little courtyard

is a nice way to start the day.

Counting My Blessings

xo  Susy

For the very first time I'm joining the party at
Rednesday
and
Vintage Inspiration Friday 

Bee Happy

On another visit to our favorite apple orchard a few years ago, I was enjoying a chat with Mrs. W. while browsing her charming antique store.  It's a small converted house, and she has furniture and treasures artfully tucked into every corner.  She  mentioned that their crop had been small that year because of a Spring frost, and that the frost had occurred two years in a row on exactly the same date.  I could tell she was concerned - - this was their livelihood, and I promised to pray for them.

When that date approached the following year, I began praying - determined that there wasn't going to be a crop-destroying frost.  Part of my prayer was that the harvest would be the BEST they'd ever had.

That Fall, on our annual pilgrimage to the orchards, I asked about the harvest.    "Oh, it was the BEST we've ever had.  No one else in the valley had a crop like ours."   I'm smiling.  "So, what do you think made the difference?", I asked.

"It was the bees.  We had thousands of bees."

Now isn't that just like God.



He that diligently seeks good, finds favor   Proverbs 11:27

 

Here's a little friend that sits on the breakfast room shelf.

He's a News Bee (:

 

near the vintage mustache cup that says "Be happy"

on a book about bees

 

bzzzz

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