I really wanted to make these this afternoon but I don’t have any chocolate chips :o(

No Bake Chocolate Peanut Butter Oat Bars

3/4 cup unsalted butter
1/2 cup packed light brown sugar
1 teaspoon vanilla extract
3 cups quick cooking oats
1 cup semi sweet chocolate chips
2/3 cup creamy peanut butter

In a large saucepan, melt the butter over medium low heat. Add in the brown sugar and vanilla extract. Mix to combine. Add in the quick cooking oats and stir. Cook the oat mixture over medium low heat for 4 minutes.

While the oat mixture is cooking, melt the chocolate chips and peanut butter in a microwavable bowl. Then set aside.

Lightly grease an 8 by 8 inch baking pan. Press 3/4 of the oat mixture in the bottom of the pan. Pour the melted chocolate and peanut butter over the oats.

Take the remaining oat mixture and crumble it over the chocolate/peanut butter. Refrigerate the bars for at least 3 hours. Then cut into squares and enjoy!

At a Fork in the Road

Wow, what a powerful post. 

At a Fork in the Road - http://www.daveblackonline.com/at_a_fork_in_the_road.htm

Since my last bone and CT scans, I have sensed that God has brought my life to a sort of fork in the road. These scans showed that the cancer is continuing to grow in multiple locations in the lungs, that the lymph nodes are now involved, and that the cancer has spread to 3 places in my bones. Humanly-speaking, it is not a “happy” picture.

Compounding this picture is the reality that I’m at the end of proven medicine. True, there are many more chemo therapies that I could take….but none have been studied and shown effective for my kind of cancer. There are no radiation or surgical options open for me.

So, in my mind, God has brought me along in the Journey to the point where Medicine is likely to be ineffective in treatment. The fork in the road before me presents 2 options: healing or transfer (death).

Click on the link above to finish reading Becky’s thoughts.

Part two of the previous article I posted is very good too…

What I Would Do Differently, Part 2  http://www.doorposts.com/blog/2012/03/27/what-i-would-do-differently-part-2/

 

 

 

I really needed to hear this today.  I have been beating myself up over my parenting choices and mistakes and what I would do differently IF I could go back and do it all again.  My prayer is that God has a plan for my kids and even though I can’t see it now that I would have peace as we walk through these teen years.  But I also acknowledge that they have freewill and make their own choices despite God’s plans.