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UPDATE

Hello all!!!

We hope that you are having a great summer. We just wanted to give you a little update, we are temporarily taking down angieandaginger.com for some much needed construction/maintenance and when it comes back it will be better then ever.

Be on the lookout for some changes, including a new store/layout, easier to navigate and many new features like buying directly from facebook, instagram and more. Plus, the blog and recipes that you love are going to on a new website called Flourishing Aspirations, Finding joy, love and healing through a healthy lifestyle while creating a life you love.

Until the new websites launch, please follow us on facebook at angieandaginger.  There we will be posting about the launch, giveaways and more.

It has been a great pleasure going on this journey with you and we look forward to the growth that God is opening for us to be of better service to you 🙂

with love and much gratitude,

 

Angie and a Ginger

7 Cheap or Free Date Ideas

 

February. Valentine’s Day is in February and is the perfect time to focus on relationships. Whether you are currently married, dating or single, I am sure that you have had your share of fun or even disastrous dates over the years. Remember that one time, at band camp? I joke, but really I am being dead serious. Like the one time that someone thought it would be a great idea to take me, who hates sitting still and more importantly, one who doesn’t like to sit through movies if they are boring, to see a horrible James Bond movie. To this day, the only thing I can remember about that night, was not the guy I was with, but were the words, I am invincible, I am invincible. Those words really did become my mantra for awhile and while I know that may not seem like a horrible date to you, it was for me and this is a family friendly website remember? [Read more…] about 7 Cheap or Free Date Ideas

butter cookies with a cookie press

We are well into the holiday season. Thanksgiving is over and Christmas is just a few weeks away. It is hard to believe that 2018 is knocking on the door.

Thanksgiving is my favorite holiday, even as a kid. It meant family time and good food. We would eat and then spend time as a family playing board games or cards, running outside, telling stories and just being silly. My family never participated in any Black Friday sales or went to the movies. We just enjoyed each other’s company. Growing up, we had the traditional Thanksgiving meals and some very untraditional meals – stir fry, anyone? But even when we had those untraditional meals, we would have a special drink, cranberry juice with a scoop of orange sherbert or orange sorbet. Simple, but so yummy.

Now that Thanksgiving has passed, Christmas songs and the smell of apple and cinnamon fill the air. There is decorating the Christmas tree and putting up Christmas lights.  As a kid, we sipped hot chocolate and ate candy canes while watching Frosty or Rudolph and we baked.

We baked Chrusciki, a sweet crisp Polish dessert topped with powdered sugar and we baked cookies. It truly was a family affair.  We baked butter cookies using a cookie press and decorated them with sprinkles. [Read more…] about butter cookies with a cookie press

Dream a little dream

Never let it be said that to dream is a waste of one’s time, for dreams are our realities waiting. In dreams we plant the seeds of our future.

Think back to when you were a little kid, what did you dream about being or doing? What were some of the costumes you wore for Halloween or dress up for school? What did you declare that you wanted to be – a doctor, veterinarian, super hero, teacher? Where did you think you would live or travel to?

Are you still dreaming now as an adult? Do you still stare out a window and think and ponder? I remember day dreaming as a kid. I would stare out my bedroom window where there was this huge tree, and I got to see the greenery around the tree, the flowers blooming or the lizards and or squirrels scattering along the branches. And I would let my mind wonder. I would dream of running and competing, of trips and fun and the future. There was hope in those dreams, even when at times life seemed hopeless.

Dream. Believe. Hope. I have dreams now. Dreams for Angie and a Ginger, for my family, for my future. I dream. I dream even when I do not feel like anyone else believes when my dreams, because they are my dreams. They can not be taken from me. They encourage and inspire me. They help me on days when I feel so overwhelmed and discouraged, and then..I remember. I remember why I make sacrifices now. I remember why sometimes you have to feel the hurt or forgo sleep. I remember. Dream. Hope. And then create.

I think the above sums it up nicely. Dream Big. Ferocious dreams. Believe.

Blessings and keep dreaming,

Angie

Taking Responsibility for YOUR life :)

Good evening! I hope that this post finds you well. It has been a good week, made a crockpot white bean chili stew which made plenty of leftovers. Finally got caught up on some laundry that got a little behind while we participated in the Homestead Hollow festival and the pups and I walked in the then tropical storm of Nate. Watching the rain and wind was reminiscent of living and growing up in South Florida, I even enjoyed the extra humidity – yes I am a little weird like that. Oh, and got to see an awesome full moon pictured below.

 

Recently I have been reading a book called “The Success Principles” by Jack Canfield, it is the 10th anniversary addition. In the first chapter, he discusses taking 100% responsibility for your life, getting rid of the victim mentality and letting go of complaining.

This chapter has struck a cord in my heart. It is more then a chapter, it contains principles that you need to embrace.  Some key take always from this chapter:

*If you want to be successful, you have to take 100% responsiblity for everything that you experience in your life.

*You have to give up blaming and complaining and take total responsiblity for your life – that means all your results, both your success and failures.

*You have to give up all your excuses.

*If you don’t like your outcomes, change your responses

*The circumstances you complain about are all situations you can change – but you have chosen not to.

*Complaining means you have a reference point for something better that you would prefer but that you are unwilling to take the risk of creating.

*Learn to replace complaining with making respects and taking action that will achieved your desired outcome.

So are you ready to take 100% responisibity for your life? Willing to take some risks, where you have been staying stagnant. Ready to stop complaining. I know that I am. I encourage you to make some changes. Pick up the book, let me know what you think and some of your take aways are.  Oh, and you can check out our facebook for my video where I discuss this topic as well.

Much love and blessings all,

angie