This is my second attempt at blogging. Last year Darren tried to get me to do a blog and I did one and gave it up. So here I am again trying to see if I can get the blogging thing down (not to mention that Darren promised me something really cool if I could do it for a year).
I thought a lot about what to blog about each week or day. I have so much that I love to do or things that interest me, that I have decided that this will be a diverse amount of things. Things such as my couponing adventures, goat raising and showing, gardening adventures, traveling adventures, cooking adventures, video games, movies, music, tv, life, basically anything that interests me that day I'm writing my blog ;-)
I was trying to think about something to blog about today, and I noticed a post on Facebook from Cold Stone Creamery, on it was this title “Practice Random Acts of Kindness”. I was intrigued and read more, they wanted people to write on their wall any random acts of kindness this week. They are randomly giving out things to people that are posting about what they or someone else did for them this week in celebration of Random Acts of Kindness week. This made me think of a very special act of kindness that someone did for Darren and I last night. I don't think people realize just in one small or big act they can impact someone's life in such a positive way. Darren was having such a hard day with finding out about his Grandpa but I will say that he didn't complain nor did he let his clients know. He was just finishing up a clients project at around 5:00pm when he got this amazing call. The person on the other end asked if Darren could use 4 tickets to the Portland Trailblazer game. Game started at 7:00pm and Darren had a client coming in to sign a contract at 6:00pm. He looked at me and said do you think we can make it? Well I knew that it would be close but I thought that it would be an amazing time for him in this sad difficult time, so I told him not to worry about anything I would arrange to get the tickets in Portland and come back to get him and get back to the game by 7:00pm. Amazing that it was Darren's client was really hungry so they just wanted to sign papers and get to dinner. Needless to say we were able to get to Rose Garden and walking to were we needed to go listening to the National Anthem. What I haven't said yet is what kind of tickets these were, these were tickets for the 5th. Floor which are for what is called the Executive Suites. Executive Suites are where they are enclosed with a balcony to go sit and watch the game on. They are fully catered and have TV's everywhere!! (Even in the private bathroom). For Darren and myself this was a once in a lifetime chance and it was amazing!!! This maybe a big random act of kindness but it will be a memory that will be with us forever!! Thanks so much again for EVERYTHING!!! (and by the way the chocolate cake was yummy).
To close this off I wanted to share a dessert that I made for Darren for valentine's day. It's not fancy but he really liked it. It's called a Peppermint Cream Brownie Torte. All you have to do is make some brownies in a cake pan. Cut the brownies up into 3 even sections after they are cooked and cooled. Set one layer down on a dish and put some of cream cheese whipped topping on that layer. Put the 2nd brownie part on top of that and drizzle the chocolate sauce on top of that. Next put the last layer of brownie on top of that and frost with the last of the cream cheese whipped topping. I used chocolate and red sprinkles for the finishing touches. If anyone wants the actual recipe I would be happy to send them a copy :-).
