Just a Daisy in the Meadow

This is one of my favorite treats!!! . . . though it’s been a year or two since I made it!  (Edited to add, yes I just made it again yesterday . . . If you’re on a diet, you can do like I did and give most of it away,(otherwise I’m tempted to pig out!)  but you still get a taste and can even save a few servings for the freezer)  You might want to give it a try . . .

Cream Cheese Roll

Combine in saucepan: 1 cup sour cream, 1\2 cup sugar, 1/2 cup butter and 1 tsp. salt.  Cook over lot heat stirring constantly until well blended. Cool.

In a mixing bowl, dissolve  2 pkgs active dry yeast in 1\2 cup warm water.  Add sour cream mixture and 2 eggs beaten;  mix well.  Gradually stir in 4 cups all purpose flour (Dough will be very soft)  Cover and refrigerate overnight.

Next day, combine filling ingredients – 2 pkgs. cream cheese softened, 3\4 cup sugar, 1 egg beaten, 2 tsp vanilla extract, and 1\8 tsp salt, mix until blended well.

Turn dough onto floured board; Knead 5-6 times.  Divide into 4 equal portions.  Roll each portion into a 12″x8″ rectangle.  Spread 1\4 of the filling on each to within 1 inch of the edges.  Roll up jelly-roll style from long side;  pinch seams and ends to seal.  Place seam side down on greased baking sheet.  Cut 6 x’s on top of loaves.  Cover -n- let rise until nearly doubled, about 1 hour.  Bake @ 375 for 20-25 minutes or until golden brown

It does call for a glaze and sliced almonds, but I think it’s rich enough that I don’t bother with the extra sugar . . . The almonds would be delectable, but I never have them on hand

One of the best things about being home alot is that you have time to do these kind of things  . . . (Ok, maybe I took the time, it wasn’t that easy to FIND , but is was fun to do somthing more creative than the norm . . .  I don’t usually even take the time to make bread . . .  Aunti has big intentions of teaching Little Japheth this winter to become our bread baker . . . we shall see . . . )

And today I got to smell the pork roast simmering in mushroom and onion soup all day . . . just another benefit to being at home . . .

Being there to greet my husband at the door . . . what could be better than that???

I love my occupation . . . a homemaker!

I love projects\crafts . . .  working with my hands . . . and so . . .

This is one of my favorite parts of the day . . . reading time . . . I “weave” a homemade rug out of scraps and listen to a Bible story

I call it my Shaggy Rug cause I’m using mostly drapery fabric that come unraveled easily . . . I kinda like the look that way . . . They are not crocheted or braided but are called Toothbrush Rugs . . . a few years ago I picked up a little booklet showing how to make them at a quilt show. Japheth made me a really dandy little wooden tool, that works better for me than my original toothbrush thingy because my strips weren’t fitting very well with the other one.

If you want to see more go to www.auntphillys.com  I like the oval ones the best . . . for at the bottom of our basement stairs, in front of my kitchen sink etc.

I just had to chuckle in my Bible reading the other morning . . .

“Blessed be the Lord my Rock

Who trains my hands for war,

And my fingers for battle.

My Lovingkindness,

And My
Fortress,

My High Tower,

And My Deliverer,

My Shield,

An the One in whom I take refuge,

Who SUBDUES my people
under me . . . ” – Psalm 144:1-2

Ok, me being a mom I think of “training my hands for war and my fingers for
battle” as knowing when to administer discipline, when to not to, when to snap
little fingers, when to overlook those chubby little hands that are creating
chaos . . . 

He’s my Fortress, the place I go to kneel in prayer, My High Tower
- the place I run to for help to see the bigger picture than only this day
before me, etc  . . . .

And then I come to this phrase “who subdues my people
under me”, Yes, God, please, It would be so much easier to be the loving, kind
mother that you expect if my little people were a bit more subdued . . . I just
had to laugh . . .

I’m trying to spend more time in prayer . . . I am so needy . . . The song that keeps running through my mind is

“He is all my righteousness, I stand complete in Him and worship Him . . . “

. . . And ya know what . . . I’m telling ya, that extra prayer gives extra power to my life . . .  It makes it easier to have my days crowned with lovingkindness that I talked about before.

. . . And some day when I make it, when my race is done, I will place my crown before Him . . . Him who made it all possible . . . and say I did it all for you . . .

Just a side note . . . awhile back our pastor preached about running the race.  And I found it interesting to note that when the winner was crowned, he’d take that crown and lay (Ok, my memory is bad, I might have some of this mixed up)it down at the feet of the King and say I did it all for you . . . and if that that runner didn’t exert his all – do his VERY BEST- he was in disgrace , kicked out or maybe even put to death (ARHG, I can’t remember, anyone want to help me out here and researth this? ) . . . Please excuse me, my hair is starting to gray!

“He is all my righteousness, I stand complete in Him and worship Him . . . “

“In His days Judah will be saved,

And Israel will dwell safely;

Now this is His name by which He will be called:

‘THE LORD OUR RIGHEOUSNESS’.”

Running, running, running, “God I need your help, You are all my righeousness and in You I can be complete and I worship You . . . For You are Worthy!!!”