peanut butter brownies

brownie:

1 C butter or margarine

1 C sugar

1 C brown sugar

2/3 C peanut butter

2 eggs

2 C flour

1 tsp soda

1/2 tsp salt

2 C oatmeal

1 tsp vanilla

 

directions: cream butter, sugar, and brown sugar; add peanut butter and eggs; combine flour, soda, salt, oatmeal, and vanilla; add dry ingredients to peanut butter mix; mix well; spread onto greased jelly roll pan; bake at 350 for 20-25 mins; frost with topping when cool.

 

frosting:

5 C powdered sugar

4 T butter or margarine

1 C peanut butter

1 sm (5 oz) can evaporated milk

1/2 C chocolate chips

 

directions: cream all ingredients together and spread on top of cookie; drizzle melted chocolate on top.

 

The mess...

I had to leave a section without chocolate
for my crazy chocolate hating friend, Carly 

 

I really struggled with melting the chocolate,
burnt in pan, who knows what in white bowl,
and finally melted in red bowl!!

FINAL PRODUCT!  Yummy..or so I hear..

So, listen.  Here's the story of why I made these absolutely delicious peanut butter brownies, when I can't even eat them.

I've been noticing there's a lot of bad stuff in the world.  And it's been hitting close to home a lot lately, me, my friends, my family, my neighbors.

Heartbreak.
Divorce.
Sickness.
Hypocrisy.
Lies.
Stress.
Not loyal people.
Peer pressure.

I could go on.  But you get the picture, and I'm sure there's stuff you could add.  Bad stuff.

So I decided to try to cheer some people up.  I wrote little cards to my friends and took them some brownies, and chatted if they needed to.  For some of them, it was no more than just telling me about school, for others it was more.  And for me, doing that cheered me up. 

Even though my night of service kinda took a detour, it still made me feel better for a while. 

But, you see, the bad stuff didn't go away.  And it's not going to.  Life's hard.  And you're strong.  So you put on a happy face and make the best of it.  And you learn.  And you grow.  You fix your mistakes and you become better.

Life's not perfect and it's not meant to be.  You just have to trust that God has a plan special for Y.O.U.  That everything that's happened, that's happening, and that will happen is part of that.  You've got to have faith that it will work out how it's meant to be.
 
So it's your turn.  Go make someone's day!  Make yourself an army of good things to kill all of those bad ones.

The End.

Until next time,

A

p.s. the brownies really are amazing! try 'em out!