Thought I'd share! Its the BEST!! we make it every year for Christmas. I don't why we don't make it other times, but it is always a Christmas staple in our house.
VIP Holiday Cookbook Vol 6
Submitted by Susan Inskeep Gray/Burke VA
Preheat oven at 350.
Dry ingredients:
• 1 1/2 cups flour
• 1/2 teas baking soda
• 1/2 teas salt
• 1 cup sugar
• 1 cup chopped pecans
Liquid ingredients:
• 1/2 teas vanilla extract
• 1/2 teas almond extract
• 1 1/4 cups strawberries (fresh or frozen)
• 2 eggs, well beaten
• 2/3 cup oil
Sift dry ingredients in a large bowl. Mix remaining ingredients in separate bowl well. Add liquid ingredients to dry ingredients and mix just until the liquids coat the flour. Pour into greased loaf pan (9x5) and bake approximately 1 hour.
12.22.2008
12.16.2008
40 Years
In the day and age that we live, anybody being anywhere or doing anything for 40 years is an achievement. You just don't hear of that kind of dedication and loyalty anymore. We career-hop, house-hop, relationship-hop, car-hop, church-hop... we're just a bunch of rabbits hopping from one thing to the next in search of something. We live among a generation that lives out the phrase, "if I don't like this, I'll just find something different" with the assumption that the something different will be better. But by doing this, I think we miss out on a completely different kind of satisfaction. The satisfaction of perseverance. There is a HUGE reward that we are completely missing and don't even know it.
Today, however, my family is celebrating that reward. 40 years ago today, out of circumstances that they didn't ask for or, at times, probably even questioned if this was the right decision, my parents got married. My parents were high school sweethearts. But life threw a kink in their high school lives. I was on the way. What would life look like if life had not been breathed into my mother's womb, well, we'll never know. But I think they loved each other at the very core and knew this was "the right thing to do." Its not always been happy. Its not always been pretty. Its not always looked like perseverance would triumph. But there has also been tons of laughter. And tons of fun. And tons of memories. And there is love... and Love.
So, Mom and Dad, thanks. Thanks for getting married. Thanks for hanging in there and persevering for our family. Thanks for knowing that divorce was not an option. Thanks for letting Love love through you to those around you. Bud and I (and now Kim and Kayla) have an amazing example of what real love looks like. Its not the fairy tale, pretty, rose-colored glasses kind of love. But it is totally worth investing our all in.
Thanks for loving each other and loving us. We love you!!
Today, however, my family is celebrating that reward. 40 years ago today, out of circumstances that they didn't ask for or, at times, probably even questioned if this was the right decision, my parents got married. My parents were high school sweethearts. But life threw a kink in their high school lives. I was on the way. What would life look like if life had not been breathed into my mother's womb, well, we'll never know. But I think they loved each other at the very core and knew this was "the right thing to do." Its not always been happy. Its not always been pretty. Its not always looked like perseverance would triumph. But there has also been tons of laughter. And tons of fun. And tons of memories. And there is love... and Love.
So, Mom and Dad, thanks. Thanks for getting married. Thanks for hanging in there and persevering for our family. Thanks for knowing that divorce was not an option. Thanks for letting Love love through you to those around you. Bud and I (and now Kim and Kayla) have an amazing example of what real love looks like. Its not the fairy tale, pretty, rose-colored glasses kind of love. But it is totally worth investing our all in.
Thanks for loving each other and loving us. We love you!!
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