Small Success Thursday

We survived the great internet famine of 2018, two days sans cable, phone or wi-fi. Here's yesterday's posting over at Catholicmom.com. Kids are busy catching up on all the binge screen watching they didn't get for 48 hours. Reclaiming Sunday.On a side note, I loved it. Thinking, there may be trees that fall in the future for another 24-48 hours.

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At the Register

with a story about the Fellowship of the Prayers We See. It segways with another story I'm working on, which reminds me, we can bear almost anything when we do not shoulder it alone. Go check it out, and please share via twitter, facebook, email, etc.

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Ketogenic Birthday Cake!

October is here which means... it’s my birthday month. I want to stay keto strong and in order to do that I will need a keto approved cake that doesn’t taste nasty and secondly is not filled with a hundred crazy steps. Not my style!

So after testing a few combinations, I am here to share the best of the best!

Ingredients

• 1/2 cup of almond flour - 280 Cal, 2 g Net Carb, 24 g Fat, 10 g Protein
• 1/4 cup of unsweetened cocoa powder - 40 Cal, 4 g Net Carb, 2 g Fat, 4 g Protein
• 2 eggs - 154 Cal, 2 g Net Carb, 10.6 g Fat, 12.6 g Protein
• 3/4 teaspoon of vanilla extract - 9 Cal, .4 g Net Carb, 0 g Fat, 0 g Protein
• 1 cup melted butter - 700 Cal, .0g Net Carb, 77 g Fat, 0 g Protein
• 3/4 swerve (or equivalent sweetener) -  0 Cal, 0 g Net Carb, 0 g Fat, 0 g Protein
• Pinch of salt
• Lily’s Chocolate Chips - optional 
• Stevia drops - optional for extra sweetness

How to Make your Cake

1. Preheat oven to 350 degrees F.
2. Mix all of your ingredients in a box until all clumps are removed and the mixture is smooth. For me it was about 2 minutes of hand mixing. 
   
3. Pour your mixture into a greased 5 x 8 baking dish (I used a butter spray). Add optional chocolate chips on top. 
   
4. Bake for 22 minutes. Check with a fork that the cake is baked thoroughly - the fork after puncturing the cake will be clean when ready. 
5. Let the cake cool before serving.

Tips - Sifting the flour, cocoa powder, and sweetener leads to a tastier cake.
Macros - you macros may differ slightly depending on the brand.
Whole Cake: 1,183 Cal, 8.4 Net Carb, 113.6 g Fat, 26.6 g Protein
1/6th of Cake: 197.17 Cal, 1.4 Net Carb, 18.93 g Fat, 4.43 g Protein

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One More!

After a dry spell, three in a row. Here's my latest over at the Register, Today, Tithe Your Time. I hope you like it and share it, and I'll get back to writing more...

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Surprise...at the Register Again

I submitted this piece a while ago, but tinkered with it after the fact which frustrates me from a writing stand point. That being said, you can see the original over at the National Catholic Register...and please share if you liked it. Pray Thy Will Be Done and Mean it.

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Small Success Thursday

I realized I've been writing this thing since some time in 2009 I think...but it's Thursday so you get the link to Catholicmom.com and Small Success Thursday. Sometimes I think I'm just repeating myself, but other times, I remember, I'm writing these so that I can look back at some point (and I should) and know, there were blessings every day, every week, and they weren't just little things,

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It's been a while

However, I have a piece over at the Register, which is an answer to both my melancholy mood of the prior post, and to the actual reality we live. Now is a Time to Go Deeper Into the Faith.

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