I just wanted to pose a question for all my fellow bloggers!
What do you do about all that SPAM?! I mean seriously it’s getting out of hand.
I’ve installed a Plugin, but I still have to go through the majority of the SPAM and comments being very careful not to erase comments from “real” people.
If you’ve ever made a comments and it was not approved, I might have accidentally erased it on one of my select all and trash rampages! :/
Most times I log on to my dashboard dreading the amount of SPAM, I’ll be greeted by.
I want comments to be posted as soon as there made, without moderator approval. If you have any good spam checker comment plugins please let me know. It would be greatly appreciated :)
Is “just fine” enough? I mean we talk, we have no major issues, we kiss in passing, and routinely say “I love you”, but I want our love to be extraordinary not ordinary. I’m big enough to understand it’s not reasonable to expect college years carefree love. Because we have a bunch of care now. However, I think we can conjure up a bit more passion within our marriage.
Between practices, homework, cooking and cleaning, I feel a bit anxious at home, like there is always something I need to be doing. It’s best I remove myself from the environment to get fully relaxed.
So for our date, to grandparents house we go. Luckily my peoples live about an hour up the road. So the plan was dropping the little ones off at my parents house and the hubs and I having a foodie adventure in Washington DC.
We wanted to take the metro from Springfield, VA which is how we normally do it, but it was almost 8 PM when we reached the metro station, and the cupcake shop I just had to go to closes at 9pm.
Without taking the chance of getting there too late we decided to drive into Georgetown, and hoped to find some sort of parking.
Well we made it in time but the line was wrapped around the building. When I first saw this line I thought to myself “ain’t no way”!
Although I had no interest in waiting in line, I did want to take a picture of all the other silly folks waiting for a CUPCAKE! I reached for my DSLR and strategically positioned my camera to get a high view of all the waiting cupcake lovers, picture perfect with one mistake. I left my memory card at home! Well at least I could still use my cell phone…not!
My phone was completely dead and I had no way to charge my phone in the car.
Without my camera and phone I had no way to document our foodie adventures and no way to reach our planned food spots without the GPS. I couldn’t waist an entire night so I figured I might as well get some famous cupcakes.
Now I was one of those “silly folks” waiting for the cupcakes! We waited over an hour for a Georgetown Cupcake.
More importantly after being completely disconnected from all technology I was able to talk and connect with my husband while waiting in that line. We just talked, and laughed and laughed and laughed.
We have a great time together and he cracks me up! My husband could care less about some cupcakes but he waited in that line with me and didn’t complain. He cracked a few jokes on me and the rest of the cupcakes geeks but he never complained. I could tell he was enjoying me as well.
He did request that we make one more stop to The Famous Ben Chili Bowl. We had just enough charge on his phone to get there and we made it. I had a chili cheese hot dog and he had a chili cheeseburger with chili cheese fries. My husband said it was good but not as good as mines, he’s such a sweet talker. He knows just how to get me going.
After we ate at Ben Chili Bowl we rushed back to our car, it was sort of unclear whether it was parked illegally or not, but we took the chance and parked there anyways. Well DC parking enforcement made it clear when they slapped a $100 parking ticket on our windshield that we were illegally parked. They even checked the “towing requested” box! A couple more minutes and we would have been stranded in DC without a car.
Connecting one-on-one without distraction was refreshing.
When I explained all of the nights occurrences in the most dramatic way possible to my parents my father very subtly pointed out the hickey on my neck. Then he joked that the date couldn’t have been THAT bad! Embarrassing!
Luckily despite our late night we got up in time for church. My brother and his fiance received the right hand of fellowship at church, which was awesome. They are still dating and watching them gives me a reminder of how my husband and I used to be and how “I want that old thing back!”
I’m happy we are realizing how important it is to stay connected. Rather than waiting for the kids to go off to college, I plan to live my best married life right now in the present with my main man.
I ate cupcakes for breakfast the next morning! They were greatly deserved :)
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]]>Not only do I love the taste of sweet potato, the amount of nutritional benefits you can get from sweet potatoes are simple astounding. I have switched out the white potatoes in many recipes and now use a sweet potato in its place.
Sweet potatoes work well in almost any dish, it adds subtle sweet & earthy notes while providing valuable nutrition! How can you say no to that?
There is a difference between a yam and a sweet potato but I use the word interchangeable. Yams have more health benefits than sweet potatoes but they are more difficult to find. If you do find them however try the red yam which is so yum. I buy organic which have to be used more promptly than a non organic potato, because they will go bad faster.
Check out of some of my other sweet potato recipes like this apple upside down sweet potato cake, and these egg free flax-seed sweet potato muffins, or you can just keep it traditional and try these candied yams, or the stove top sauteed version. You can also try this healthy version of candied yams which has nuts and apples to boot!
Here’s some more sweet potato recipes to try!
Sweet Potato Pancakes with Ginger Pear Topping
Sweet and Spicy Sweet Potato Chips
I’m currently perfecting a healthy sweet potato recipe for later in the week so watch out for that one.
In the meantime enjoy this delicious Sweet Potato French toast recipe perfect for a weekend brunch.
Enjoy!