You can’t have a better tomorrow if you are thinking about yesterday all the time. ~ Charles F. Kettering

You all know me well enough by now to know that I am not telling you to just live for today and not think about tomorrow.  However, don't live so much in the past that you lose site of today and the future.  Forget the past, you can't change it.  You can learn valuable lessons from it but there are no 'do overs' in real life.  Try your hardest to do things right the first time, but if you fail, pick up the pieces and move on.  Get over it.  Life is too short to live with regrets that haunt you all the time and stop you from doing things you want to or need to do.

Speaking of doing things, yesterday, I did photographs for my newest great nephew.  He is a good little boy.  Two weeks old and sweet.  Here is a look at one of the pics from yesterday.

You should also know by now that I love baby feet and ears.  So tiny and cute : )  This is his daddy's hand holding his little foot.  His daddy has is always messing with his little feet but it is cute.

Today is Sunday and I am off to church today to worship God and to pray for all the people all over the world right now and especially people here at home.  Continue to remember people in Japan and the surrounding area.  My friend who was in Japan with her military husband is on her way home but he is still there ~ please remember them still.

Today, I have a really good and easy recipe for you today ~ Amish Pumpkin Pancakes -- they are great : )

Enjoy your day !

Charlene



Amish Pumpkin Pancakes

INGREDIENTS:
1 cup flour
Pinch baking soda
2 tablespoons granulated sugar
1/4 teaspoon cinnamon
1/8 teaspoon ginger
1/8 teaspoon nutmeg
1 egg, well-beaten
1 1/4 cup milk
2 tablespoons melted shortening
1/2 cup canned pumpkin or mashed sweet potato, cooked
DIRECTIONS:
1. Combine flour, soda, sugar and spices.
2. Combine egg, shortening, pumpkin and milk; add to flour mixture, beating until smooth.
3. Bake on hot, lightly greased griddle, turning only once. 
4. Serve hot with butter and syrup or confectioners' sugar.