Food 4 Thought Friday

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Food 4 Thought Friday!

A little feast without the calories!!

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Food 4 Thought Friday ~ This week's questions:

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Breakfast ~ What are some books that have influenced you greatly?  How? 

Lunch ~ It's Saturday morning. What's the first thing you do when you wake up? 

Dinner ~ What are your top five favorite smells? 

Midnight Snack ~ If a movie was being made of your life and you could choose the actor/actress to play you, who would you choose and why?

Recipe for the Week ~ (instead of your recipe for life, what is it just for the week?)

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MY ANSWERS
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Breakfast ~ What are some books that have influenced you greatly? How? The scriptures, of course, are the most influential books I have read. The Power of Positive Parenting by Glenn A. Latham literally saved my parenting sanity.  It is the most amazing book.  The Hiding Place by Corrie Ten Boom really had an impact on me.  Confessions of an Organized Housewife by Deniece Schofield was very influential.  I Didn't Plan to be a Witch and A Joyful Mother of Children by Linda Eyre were two books I read over and over when I was a young mother and I learned so much from them.  I used to have a bookshelf widget on my blog but it disappeared.  If I could use it for reference this question would have been easier to answer because I have SO MANY books that have greatly influenced me...but I just can't remember them all!

Lunch ~ It's Saturday morning. What's the first thing you do when you wake up? Most Saturdays I get up and go on my long run.  If I don't do that then it's because I have something else that conflicts with it.  In the summer that is usually a race.

Dinner ~ What are your top five favorite smells?   

• Lilacs 
• Movie theater popcorn
• Chocolate chip cookies or homemade bread baking in the oven 
• Rain!
• Newborn babies

Midnight Snack ~ If a movie was being made of your life and you could choose the actor/actress to play you, who would you choose and why? This one was tough!  I'm still not sure, so I decided to go with someone that people have told me I remind them of which is Kelly Ripa.  Maybe you can tell me in the comments who you think.  I think this is a tough question to answer yourself. 

Recipe for the Week ~ (instead of your recipe for life, what is it just for the week?)
 When you feel inspired to help someone less fortunate than you, do it without reservation or overthinking it.  If you can bless someone, then do it.  And bless yourself each and every day by using the good stuff in your life that you tend to save for "special" occasions.  Every day you are alive is a "special" occasion!  Get out those nice dishes, those special lotions, your favorite perfume.  If you love them so much then use them.  Make each a bit more special just by using them.  Let today be the special occasion we are saving them for.  Don't wait for that perfect moment because it is already here. Each and every day is special!  Celebrate it!