Lilacs & Lace

No sugar?  Check. No flour?  Check. Easy to make?  Check. Tastes yummy?  Check! The recipe has a lot going for it, including nutritious ingredients.  Banana and oats are star players in this.  As I have mentioned before, I am careful about the sugar, so I replaced the chocolate chips with raisins.  The daughter isn't fond of nuts in recipes, so I replaced those with raisins.  Coconut has saturated fat, so I replaced those with...you guessed it, raisins.  Between the raisins, bananas and applesauce, this recipe does not need sugar!  As for the peanut butter, I am guessing you could substitute it with another nut butter, like almond, if you wanted to. The cookies come together pretty easily, and then I use a cookie scoop to put them on the baking sheet and flatten them a little.  I quadrupled the recipe to have through the weekend for our series of gospel meetings we had recently. As I write this, I am munching on some of these tasty treats and drinking a cup of hot mocha T

I would guess that, for most people, their is no human that will love their children more than the children's own parents.  We want what is best for our kids, even when it will inconvenience us.  We want to see them succeed, learn, and grow into wonderful people. That is one reason why I think it is important, when possible, for children to be raised by their own parents versus a day care situation.  Now before you get upset at that, I do believe that if you have to work to put food on the table you have to do what is best.  And ideally in those situations, you will have a grandparent, or someone close to you that will take your child in while you have to work to provide.  After all, they will still probably love your child more than a group day care would, and hopefully share some of the same values that you do. But this post isn't really about day care, it is about who loves you most.  As I sat thinking things over (I do that occasionally), something hit me.  Something I