Slow Easter

Easter event at church.
Twice Baked Potatoes.
Resurrection Biscuits.
Free Easter Printables.

Busy Mama's "Hot Cross Buns"

I woke up Saturday morning and was checking my email, scanning a few blogs and such and came across PW's post on Hot Cross Buns. My first thought was in scanning mentally through our schedule for the day to see how I could fit in time to make these for afternoon tea time or something. But, we had a host of other things that needed to be done and I was a tad irritated that I hadn't thought of it on Good Friday!

So, I just sat for a moment on my couch and wondered if I had anything on hand that I could make these more quickly for breakfast. I sort of mentally went through a few options and then realized I could make biscuits quickly and just do a little bit of frosting on the top and call it good!

After all, the memory making is not in how long it took me to prepare but in the special moments that we choose to celebrate, right?!

I dashed into the kitchen and set the oven to preheat and pulled out {gasp!} a box of Bisquick {don't judge} and came up with these biscuits in very short order. I was pleased that these turned out to be tasty as well as a lovely tradition for Easter Weekend.

Busy Mama's "Hot Cross Buns"

Double recipe Bisquick or homemade biscuit recipe of choice
1/4 c. sugar
1 tsp. cinnamon
Raisins {optional, I don't care for them so we didn't have any!}

Mix, press flat and cut with biscuit cutter. Spread butter on tops and sprinkle with a little sugar. Marvel at the fact that you just made those in the time it took to preheat your oven! Bake at 450 about 9 minutes.

Frosting:
1 1/2 c. powdered sugar
2 1/2 Tbsp. milk
Made about twice as much frosting as needed, but since these are the measurements I tested I don't want to half them without trying it! I put the frosting in a small ziploc and just cut the corner and "piped" onto the warm biscuits {no, I didn't wait very long for them to cool!}

Now, proceed with the rest of your day! If only I could've figured out a Busy Mama's Speedy Wheat Grass for Easter! Once again, I forgot - so I wrote it on the calendar to remind myself to jot it on my calendar one week ahead next year!!!

A good day...

Friday started with me feeling weary before we even began. We have had a very hard year with one cute ten year old and her Math, it is nearing the end of the school year and my motivation has gone down hill in a huge way and I'm just the kind of tired that one good night of sleep won't even begin to fix.

But as I started with God and my quiet time, He reminded me that His mercies have been new every morning in the past and they will continue. He is with me in this and I felt encouraged in that as we began the day.

It's almost like my eyes were watching for the blessing of His mercies for this day to be made visible to me. And, they were.

Emily did her Math with a happy heart and in a timely manner and she.got.a.one.hundred. Oh yes. This was a huge blessing and encouragement! I was so excited I announced we were all going out to breakfast!

Sharing cinnamon rolls and hash browns and chicken biscuits, Samuel announced, "This is the best breakfast day ever!" His mercies are new.

We read our current breakfast book - Thoughts to Make Your Heart Sing {love this book!} and Rachel fed her elephant, blueberry. Oh, these precious moments. His mercies are new.

The gift of these blessings helps sustain me through a day when I don't want to keep on keeping on pursuing truth, goodness and beauty with my children. I just want a nap. But then the mercies of God open my eyes to what I would miss if I check out and step away from the beauty of life that surrounds me. We took a nature walk, we admired moss and blooms and bark on old trees. We collected nature goodies and generally put on an attitude to explore. His mercies are new.

Lamentations 3:22-23, "Because of the Lord's great love we are not consumed, for his compassions never fail. They are new every morning; great is your faithfulness."

Slow Day

Truly a slow Slow Day! I woke up getting on with our normal day and started not feeling too good as the day went on - Emily snuck this photo of me sleeping on the couch! I have been making this PW Zesty Lime Rice a lot! It is soooooo good! It was perfect on a day that I wanted something fairly plain but it has great flavor too alongside Mexican food or even in a quesadilla. Yum!