Burnt Chocolate

Over the holidays I was in a baking mood, which happens during Christmas time because I love making, decorating, and eating cutouts, fudge, and all the other yummy goodies that it brings =)

I was a little ambitious and thought I really wanted to make some peanut butter balls. As I had the night off I woke up at around 5 am (so did Josh) decided that this would be the opportune moment. I found a recipe online that didn't look too hard and started baking away.

Let me pause to say that 1. the A-team was on tv so I was slightly distracted and 2. I didn't realize the recipe had a typo

Since I have a bad habit of not following recipes (which gets me into trouble) I followed this one to a t, not questioning anything, being slightly naive, and distracted.

This ended up with a fire in my oven.... flames shooting out and me telling Josh (who was playing video games now) that we had a fire. Apparently I've cried wolf too many times and he didn't respond right away. But when he did come in.... it was bad. I ran for a fire extinguisher and Josh just took the chocolate chips on the pan, opened our door to the landing and threw them into the snow.....

Just another day at the Creed residence =)

Deeper In

There has been a lot on my mind lately and while I'm not going to go into all that I can say that I've also never felt God's presence so real in my life. No matter what happens God is there. Through pain, tears, joys, and triumphs He will always be by your side. He's the friend that always has your back.
Starting school back up again has been bitter sweet. It's good to see the end result, but the process getting there has been rough. I know I'm not even close to being finished, but at least I'm pressing on and not giving up. And I'm reminded again that without Him I wouldn't have made it this far.
Through all of this, I hear Him calling me and drawing me deeper.