Lemon poppyseed muffins and Clive

I just made another batch of lemon poppyseed muffins. At midnight.

I've made 3 batches this week. 1 for work, 1 for spanish class, and now tonight I made one allllll for myself. :D

Oh, the simple joys of life. Baking is one of my favorite things to do. It was the perfect way to celebrate the start of Spring break. ;) I'm going to be that mom, and that grandma: the one with cookies and brownies when they come home from school. I will make my kids fat if I'm not careful. ;)

I had a great past few days with Rachel being home; I saw Adjustment Bureau with her and Elisabeth and Trevor and lots of friends(which was SO good), and then theMILL the next day with lots of friends. It was nice. I felt very social.

I've also been re-reading Mere Christianity by C.S. Lewis, and I love the way he sets up his book. He starts out in the first part by not even mentioning God- but just the logical reasoning that says, "there has to be something out there." Which then progresses to what Christians believe. I'm enjoying it a lot.
Here are some quotes:

"If a thing is free to be good it is also free to be bad. And free will has made evil possible. Why, then, did God give them free will? Because free will, though it makes evil possible, is also the only thing that makes possible any love or goodness or joy worth having. A world of automata- of creatures that worked like machines- would hardly be worth creating. The happiness which God designed for His higher creatures is the happiness of being freely, voluntarily united to Him and to each other in an ecstasy of love and delight compared with which the most rapturous love between man and a woman on this earth is mere milk and water. And for that they must be free.

Of course God knew that would happen if they used their freedom the wrong way: apparently he thought it worth the risk. Perhaps we feel inclined to disagree with Him. But there is a difficulty about disagreeing with God. He is the source from which all your reasoning power comes, when you are arguing against Him you are arguing against the very power that makes you able to argue at all: it is like cutting off the branch you are sitting on."

"God made us: invented us as a man invents an engine. God designed the human machine to run on Himself. He Himself is the fuel our spirits were designed to burn, or the food our spirits were designed to feed on. That is why it is just no good asking God to make us happy in our own way without bothering about religion. God cannot give us a happiness and peace apart from Himself, because it is not there. There is no such thing."

Riches I heed not, nor man's empty praise. Thou mine inheritence now and always. Thou and thou only first in my heart, High King of heaven, my treasure thou art. ...Heart of my own heart, whatever befall: still be my vision, O ruler of all.
-Be Thou my Vision.