We Want To Know #27

1. What is your favorite cookie to eat?
Hmmm... I love cookies! I love! love! LOVE! cookies! But my favorite cookie has probably got to be No Bake cookies. They are to die for, I believe. I love to make them. I have even got the recipe memorized and I shall share my recipe with you. They are great and easy to make. Even late at night. 
No Bake Cookies

• 1 3/4 cups white sugar
• 1/2 cup milk
• 1/2 cup butter
• 4 tablespoons unsweetened cocoa powder
• 1/2 cup crunchy peanut butter
• 3 cups quick-cooking oats
• 1 teaspoon vanilla extract 
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• In a medium saucepan, combine sugar, milk, butter, and cocoa. Bring to a boil, and cook for 1 1/2 minutes. Remove from heat, and stir in peanut butter, oats, and vanilla. Drop by teaspoonfuls onto wax paper. Let cool until hardened.
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2. Have you ever done a cookie exchange?
No, I have not. I have never heard of one either. 
3. How are you doing on your holiday shopping?
Haven't gotten any of it done yet.
4. What is your holiday shopping style? (A little at a time, or power shopper? Early in the season or last minute? Online or part of a crowd?)
I tend to shop last minute. But hopefully this next year I can shop a little at a time and early in the season. I tend to prefer shopping in a crowd to online. 
5. Light displays... Do you put them on your house? What is your style? Favorite kind to see?
I love light displays. We didn't put any lights up this year, but we are planning to next year. I like simple light displays if we are going to put them up around our place rather than going all out. Although, I love to go out and look at the more out there displays that people put time and effort in to doing.

95 Questions to Help You Find Meaning and Happiness - Marc and Angel Hack Life

At the cusp of a new day, week, month or year, most of us take a little time to reflect on our lives by looking back over the past and ahead into the future.  We ponder the successes, failures and standout events that are slowly scripting our life’s story.  This process of self-reflection helps us maintain a conscious awareness of where we’ve been and where we intend to go.  It is pertinent to the organization and preservation of our long-term goals and happiness.

The questions below will help you with this process.  Because when it comes to finding meaning in life, asking the right questions is the answer.

1. In one sentence, who are you?
2. Why do you matter?
3. What is your life motto?
4. What’s something you have that everyone wants?
5. What is missing in your life?
6. What’s been on your mind most lately?
7. Happiness is a ________?
8. What stands between you and happiness?
9. What do you need most right now?
10. What does the child inside you long for?
11. What is one thing right now that you are totally sure of?
12. What’s been bothering you lately?
13. What are you scared of?
14. What has fear of failure stopped you from doing?
15. What will you never give up on?
16. What do you want to remember forever?
17. What makes you feel secure?
18. Which activities make you lose track of time?
19. What’s the most difficult decision you’ve ever made?
20. What’s the best decision you’ve ever made?
21. What are you most grateful for?
22. What is worth the pain?
23. In order of importance, how would you rank: happiness, money, love, health, fame?
24. What is something you’ve always wanted, but don’t yet have?
25. What was the most defining moment in your life during this past year?
26. What’s the number one change you need to make in your life in the next twelve months?
27. What’s the number one thing you want to achieve in the next five years?
28. What is the biggest motivator in your life right now?
29. What will you never do?
30. What’s something you said you’d never do, but have since done?
31. What’s something new you recently learned about yourself?
32. What do you sometimes pretend to understand that you really do not?
33. In one sentence, what do you wish for your future self?
34. What worries you most about the future?
35. When you look into the past, what do you miss most?
36. What’s something from the past that you don’t miss at all?
37. What recently reminded you of how fast time flies?
38. What is the biggest challenge you face right now?
39. In one word, how would you describe your personality?
40. What never fails to frustrate you?
41. What are you known for by your friends and family?
42. What’s something most people don’t know about you?
43. What’s a common misconception people have about you?
44. What’s something a lot of people do that you disagree with?
45. What’s a belief you hold with which many people disagree?
46. What’s something that’s harder for you than it is for most people?
47. What are the top three qualities you look for in a friend?
48. If you had a friend who spoke to you in the same way that you sometimes speak to yourself, how long would you allow that person to be your friend?
49. When you think of ‘home,’ what, specifically, do you think of?
50. What’s the most valuable thing you own?
51. If you had to move 3000 miles away, what would you miss most?
52. What would make you smile right now?
53. What do you do when nothing else seems to make you happy?
54. What do you wish did not exist in your life?
55. What should you avoid to improve your life?
56. What is something you would hate to go without for a day?
57. What’s the biggest lie you once believed was true?
58. What’s something bad that happened to you that made you stronger?
59. What’s something nobody could ever steal from you?
60. What’s something you disliked when you were younger that you truly enjoy today?
61. What are you glad you quit?
62. What do you need to spend more time doing?
63. What are you naturally good at?
64. What have you been counting or keeping track of recently?
65. What has the little voice inside your head been saying lately?
66. What’s something you should always be careful with?
67. What should always be taken seriously?
68. What should never be taken seriously?
69. What are three things you can’t get enough of?
70. What would you do differently if you knew nobody would judge you?
71. What fascinates you?
72. What’s the difference between being alive and truly living?
73. What’s something you would do every day if you could?
74. At what time in your recent past have you felt most passionate and alive?
75. Which is worse, failing or never trying?
76. What makes you feel incomplete?
77. When did you experience a major turning point in your life?
78. What or who do you wish you lived closer to?
79. If you had the opportunity to get a message across to a large group of people, what would your message be?
80. What’s something you know you can count on?
81. What makes you feel comfortable?
82. What’s something about you that has never changed?
83. What will be different about your life in exactly one year?
84. What mistakes do you make over and over again?
85. What do you have a hard time saying “no” to?
86. Are you doing what you believe in, or are you settling for what you are doing?
87. What’s something that used to scare you, but no longer does?
88. What promise to yourself do you still need to fulfill?
89. What do you appreciate most about your current situation?
90. What’s something simple that makes you smile?
91. So far, what has been the primary focus of your life?
92. How do you know when it’s time to move on?
93. What’s something you wish you could do one more time?
94. When you’re 90-years-old, what will matter to you the most?
95. What would you regret not fully doing, being, or having in your life?

MilSpouse Fill-In #23

1. If I could be on any reality TV show, I’d want to be on fear factor, I would like to see how far I could actually go with my fears .
2. This past Thanksgiving was great! I made my first turkey dinner and we had a friend come over for dinner with us .
3. I’m looking forward to December because I get to go home to Idaho for 16 days .
4. One thing I’d like to accomplish this month is getting to decorate our home for Christmas .
5. To me, winter is too cold .

Five Question Friday #24

1. What is your favorite Christmas decoration in your house?

We don't currently have any Christmas decorations in our house. But when I come home from being back home in Idaho we are going to get a tree and decorate our home a little for Christmas.

2. Do you finish your Christmas shopping early or are you a last minute type?

It depends really. This year, I have been totally last minute.

3. When do you turn on your heat?

We haven't really had to turn on our heat yet. There has only been a few times that we have had to turn it on and it was around bed time that we turned it on.

4. Do you ever wish your blog was private?

There are times that I wish that my blog was private, but I am glad that it isn't because I love knowing that I have family and friends back home that are reading my blog and it makes me feel good. 

5. Do you put your deodorant on before of after you put on your shirt?

I usually put my deodorant on after I have put on my shirt. 

Fill In Blank Friday #24

1.   The holiday season is a time for good food, baking goodies, and spending time with friends and family. It is also a time to reflect and to be thankful about all that we have been blessed with throughout the past year.

2.   Snow makes me excited for a little while. I love to watch the snow fall, but I hate to drive in it. Plus, where I learned to drive, people cannot drive in the snow for the life of them. I'm pretty bummed that when I was home that we didn't get any snow. I was really hoping that we could get a little bit of snow so that I could see how Lyric would react to it. But sadly, no such luck. Not even in the mountains.

3.  The best comfort food to eat when it's cold out is soup, although I don't make it enough.

4. Winter is the best time for    cozying up under blankets reading a good book in front of a fireplace, (if I had one).

5.  I can hardly wait for Christmas.

6.  When it comes to holiday gifts I prefer to give them. I enjoy watching those who received a gift from me open them and seeing their reaction.

7.  If I were to rate my excitement about the holiday season on a scale from 1-10, I would say I am at about a 8 or a 9. And its all because it is our first Christmas together as a family, just the three of us and Lyric is older that she can open her gifts more by herself. With a little bit of help.