Double Layer Pumpkin Pie

Prep: 20 minutes plus refrigerator time

Makes 10 servings.


4 oz cream cheese, softened

1 T milk

1 T sugar

1 8oz whipped topping, thawed, divided

1 6oz graham cracker pie crust

1 C milk

1 15oz can pumpkin

2 pkg (4 serving size) vanilla instant pudding

1 t cinnamon

1/2 t ginger

1/4 t ground cloves


Mix cream cheese, 1 T milk, and sugar in bowl with wire whisk until well blended. Gently stir in half of the whipped topping. Spread into crust.


Pour 1 C milk into another bowl. Add pumpkin, dry pudding mixes, and spices. Beat with wire whisk until well blended. Mixture will be thick. Spread over cream cheese layer.


Refrigerate 4 hours or until set. Top with remaining whipped topping.

Terrilyn's Poems

Here is the poem that Terrilyn will have published in a book called A Celebration of Young Poets. Here is a web site http://www.poeticpower.com/ If anyone wants more info please contact me.

Why Did You Do This?

Terrilyn Romero 10th Grade

Why did you leave us?

Did you really have to go?

Did you not love us, did you not know?

How much I would miss you, how much I cared?

From all the pain I felt is nothing compared,

To the pain I feel now, sixteen years later.

Crying inside, slowly dying, waiting for you to be my savior.

Wondering why you've ignored us, why you've never cared.

Why all the time I was so scared.

Now I have someone new, someone to love me.

Someone who can always see.

Who loved me enough to take me in, as one of their own.

To love me enough to give me a home.

Here is another poem that Terrilyn wrote this year.

I Wonder Why

Terrilyn Romero 2005

I wonder why the sky is blue,

Why the clouds are gray.

Why do birds fly.

And why are rabbits prey?

I wonder why the world is as it is,

And why there's killing

And pain and torture.

Why does blood come spilling.

Why we shoot, and why we lie.

Why we kill, and why we die.

Why we judge against the color of skin,

Why can't we just see what's within.

Catching Up!

I had really wanted to make entries to my blog on a reular basis. Ok, so I am getting pretty regular here, reularly NOT posting an entry.

The kids are back in school and that is a GOOD thing! When Stevie is home Rachelle picks on him something awful! She has gotten to where she hugs him around the neck and then pulls him down on the floor or the couch, or where ever they happen to be, and then she sits on his head. I thought the boys were the mean ones? She has a good teacher though. Stevie can dish it out just as good. Rachelle also likes to take things away from Stevie. An all around torturer.

Terrilyn has been working at Harmon's (a local grocery store) as a bagger. She thinks it is ok. Expecially when the checks are deposited into her savings account. She can't touch the money in it, but I pull out money for tithes and spending each pay period, and she leaves some in for saving up. Currently she wants to save up for a VW Bug Bus. (I can't spell what they are called!) But she wants an Orange one. Her current favorite color. Her grades for Term 2 are not all very good. She has 4 Fs and a D+ and a B or 2 and the rest are C's. Her current GPA is a 1.1. End of term is this Friday I think. I have told her that whatever classes she has a F in will be taken again next year. During the same term she gets the F in. SO these Fs will be made up 2nd term of 11th grade. She really wants to go to Preference. A school dance and hang out with about 19 of her friends. But it is a dressy dance and she needs to buy a prom type dress. We shall see what happens. For English this term her teacher had the class enter a poetry contest. There are 5 different age divisions and each one has 10 winners who get a $50 savings bond and a free copy of the book the poems will be published in. Terrilyn received a letter stating that they wanted to publish her poem. There are about 82 kids, I think, in her school who received such a letter. How cool! The book is called A Celebration of Young Poets We are pretty proud of her! Can't wait for the book to come out!

Delsa hates school. She says it is boring. And she especially hates Math. Although she has straight As. Way to Go! Delsa is growing. She is nearly as tall as me. Also, she is a great help with the kids. She reads to Stevie and plays with him on the computer. Delsa LOVES to crochet. They have an after school program on Mondays where she gets to make a lot of different projects. And she is taking an afterschool class Tuesday through Friday to learn Ballroom Dancing.

Stevie still loves school! He has a 1/2 birthday celebration in class on Thurday as his actual birthday is in July. I can't decide if we will have a party for his school friends now, or wait until July. But I don't know where a lot of his friends live to invite them later. Also, on Thurday, since they are learning about 'Pets' this week they will be going on field trip to a Pet Store. Since school started they have gone to a grocery store, fire department and a dentist office.

Rachelle is nearly as big as Stevie. She has a nasty temper, too. When something doesn't go her way she throws herself back, no matter what is behind her. She likes to help do things also. I think she will potty train soon. Every time someone has to go to the bathroom she needs to go, too. She doesn't actually 'do' anything, but it is good to let her go in as it will encourage her for when she DOES!

Well, I will end this entry and post Terrilyn's poem in the next one.

Have a God Blessed Week!

Sunday January 08, 2006

Here are the words to a song we sang on Sunday that really spoke to me.


Lord Have Mercy

Steve Merkel


Jesus I've forgotten the words that You have spoken

Promises that burned within my heart

Have now grown dim
With a doubting heart I follow

The paths of earthly wisdom

Forgive me for my unbelief, renew the fire again


Lord have mercy; Christ have mercy

Love have mercy on me

Lord have mercy; Christ have mercy

Lord have mercy on me


I have built an altar where I worship things of man

I have taken journeys

That have drawn me far from You

Now I am returning to Your mercies ever flowing

Pardon my transgressions, help me love You again


I have longed to know You

And all Your tender mercies

Like a river of forgiveness ever flowing without end

So I bow my heart before

YouIn the goodness of Your presence

Your grace forever shining like a beacon in the night


c 2000 Integrity's Hosanna! Music