Friday, August 26, 2011

Life Hands You Lemons,

Don't make Lemonade, make Southern Sweet Lemon Tea..


2 quarts cold water, divided
2 family size tea bags
1 cup sugar

Place one quart of water in a pan and bring to a boil. Add the tea bags, cover, remove from the heat and let it steep for 10-15 minutes. Remove the tea bags, while water is still hot/warm add the sugar and stir until completely dissolved. Add the additional quart of cold water and stir.Serve the tea over ice. Lemon and/or mint are optional.

While you're drinking your tea, don't think about your troubles, think instead of these quotes. What do they mean to you? How do they apply to your life? What can you take from them?

Oh, my friend, it's not what they take away from you that counts.  It's what you do with what you have left.  ~Hubert Humphrey

Every day may not be good, but there's something good in every day.  ~Author Unknown
  

Happiness is an attitude.  We either make ourselves miserable, or happy and strong.  The amount of work is the same.  ~Francesca Reigler 

If you don't like something change it; if you can't change it, change the way you think about it.  ~Mary Engelbreit

We are all in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars.  ~Oscar Wilde, Lady Windermere's Fan, 1893

I don't think of all the misery but of the beauty that still remains.  ~Anne Frank, The Diary of a Young Girl