Friday, September 24, 2010

Adult Day Services Week Day 5

Day 5: Customer Appreciation Day!
Our customers are very important to us. We planned a special catered lunch for all to enjoy. Played there favorite game BINGO with all different prizes to win. No one went home empty handed. Thank you all for being a part of our program, We would not be here without you.

Thursday, September 23, 2010

Adult Day Services Week Day 4


Day 3: Appreciation day to our families and Caregivers!
We celebrated the afternoon with music, a salsa bar, dancing and fun!

Wednesday, September 22, 2010

Baking



1 cup butter, softened
1 cup packed light brown sugar
1/2 cup white sugar
2 eggs
2 teaspoons vanilla extract
1 1/4 cups all-purpose flour
1/2 teaspoon baking soda
1 teaspoon salt
3 cups quick-cooking oats
1 cup chopped walnuts
1 cup semisweet chocolate chips
Directions
Preheat the oven to 325 degrees F (165 degrees C).
In a large bowl, cream together the butter, brown sugar, and white sugar until smooth. Beat in eggs one at a time, then stir in vanilla. Combine the flour, baking soda, and salt; stir into the creamed mixture until just blended. Mix in the quick oats, walnuts, and chocolate chips. Drop by heaping spoonfuls onto ungreased baking sheets.
Bake for 12 minutes in the preheated oven. Allow cookies to cool on baking sheet for 5 minutes before transferring to a wire rack to cool completely.

Penny Ante


Our clients love playing Penny Ante, it is a fun reminiscing game. We spend the morning playing.

Adult Day Services Week Day 3


Day 3: Bus Driver appreciation day!
We rely on our bus drivers to drive our clients to and from the Marian Care center each day. We set our a table of appreciation for them with a variety of cookies, donuts, candy and coffee for each of them to enjoy.

Tuesday, September 21, 2010

Adult Day Service Week Day 2!

Day 2 Volunteer Appreciation Day.
We thank all of our volunteers that help us out daily, you are all so wonderful and very important to us. We set out some wonderful cookies and treats for our volunteers all to enjoy.

Monday, September 20, 2010

Adult Day Service Week! Day 1

Day One Staff Appreciation Day.
Here is a few fun facts about each of our wonderful staff here at Dayaway!
Sharyl has been married to her husband Tom for 20 years, has 2 children Jon and Katie. Her favorite food is her Grandma's chocolate chip cookies. Favorite Quote: "A women should never be without a little black dress in her closet." Sharyl enjoys, reading, take runs/walks, baking and shopping.
Jamie has been married to her husband Michael for 2 years. She has three children, Tristan, Victoria and Gabriel. Her favorite food is cheesy potatoes. Favorite Quote: "Live everyday as if it were your last." Jamie enjoys, canning, gardening, spending time with the kids, going to the races, going to the zoo, and collecting Tigers.
Bonnie has been married to her husband Denny for 8 years. She has three children. Her favorite food is lobster. Her favorite sport is football. Bonnie enjoys camping, surfing the Internet, baking, traveling, and embroidery.
Eveny is married to her husband Francisco, she has one son. Her favorite food is seafood. Favorite Quote: "Everything happens for a reason." Eveny enjoys game night with her family, spending time with her son, and family movie night.
Chris has been married to her husband Bob for 40 years, she has three children. Her favorite food is T-Bone steak. Favorite sport is bowling. Chris enjoys hidden object games.

Happy Birthday

John celebrated his birthday on September 17th, 2010

Casino

Big winners of the day at Treasure Island Casino on August 30th, Our clients enjoyed the bus ride down to the casino, and spent the day gambling. They were all very happy to come back home with some money in there pocket.

Monday, August 2, 2010

Homemade ice cream


Homemade Vanilla Ice Cream
Ingredients:
1/2 C. heavy whipping cream
2 Tbs. white sugar
1/4 tsp. vanilla extract
Directions
Put ingredients in a 1 pint Ziploc Freezer Bag and zip shut. Take a larger size Ziploc Freezer Bag and put the Ice Cream Bag inside of it then add crushed ice until halfway full then sprinkle 6 Tbs.s of salt on top and zip the bag shut. Gently shake, turn, toss and knead the bag so the mix can get cold enough to make ice cream. After 5 or 10 minutes, the liquid from the inner bag will start to harden and turn into ice cream. Continue to shake, turn, toss and knead the bag. When the ice cream reaches the consistency you desire, open the Ziploc and remove the bag with your ice cream. Be sure to rinse off the Bag with the ice cream to remove any salt residue before opening and eating. Grab a spoon and enjoy!

Note: Do not double this recipe, it doesn't work well for bigger portions. For a lighter ice cream use half and half or whole milk.
Similar Dishes

Wednesday, July 7, 2010

4th of july

We had a fun day celebrating the 4th of July with our folks. We grilled hamburgers, had all the fixes. We also had delicious pound cake with whipped cream frosting topped with strawberries and blueberries.

Wii

Wednesday, June 23, 2010

Happy Birthday June

June celebrated her 91st birthday, On June 18th, 2010

Happy Birthday June!

Wednesday, May 26, 2010

Golf Cart Rides

Carver School

Carver Middle School came to our center and perform a fun up beat concert for all of our forks! They all had a great time listening and meet all the students after they performed!

Spring Fling







Cerenity Senior Cares first annual spring fling, with music, dance and fun. Everyone had a great time. We also had some wonderful volunteers from Saint Thomas Academy help us out with our big day for all of our folks!

Happy Birthday Elmer

Happy Birthday Anna Belle

Gardening

Kathy, and Toni helping dress up the outside of Dayaway. Planting flower pots with help from two volunteers from Saint Thomas Academy.

Monday, April 19, 2010

Manicures & Outdoors

Tie Blankets



Scrapbooking

We have a lot of pictures of all of our clients who attend our program, so what better way to have fun with all there picture then to scrapbook some of the photos for them to enjoy and take home.

Salt Designs

This was a fun project, all you need is glue, salt, paper, water colors and a pencil. Draw your design, trace with glue, let it dry(overnight), and dip your paint brush in the water color of you choice touch the salt and watch the color absorb into the salt.

John Piano

John enjoys playing the piano for all of our clients after lunch!

Monday, April 12, 2010

Spring Craft

Dorothy's Birthday


We celebrated Dorothy's 81st Birthday, with fun games and cake and Ice Cream!

Easter Craft

Fun Easter crafts! Bunny Wreath, and Door Knob Hangers!





Joan's Birthday


Joan celebrated her birthday on March 29th, 2010. Happy 82nd Birthday Joan!

Happy Birthday to you, Happy Birthday to you..... Happy Birthday Dear Joan..... Happy Birthday to you!

St. Patrick's Day

Saint Patrick's Day was celebrated with our friends from 4th floor in our old lobby, we had fun games for everyone to enjoy, prizes to win, yummy snacks, and of course some good green beer!
I will be updating the blog this week, i have a lot of updates to do! Stay tuned!

Friday, March 5, 2010

Helping Out

Cribbage

Pete & Elmer play cribbage every tuesday morning together, it is a game they both really enjoy play together.

Helping stuff env.

Kathy helped out this morning stuffing and closing envelopes for our monthly calendar and newsletter to go out to all of our clients and family member.

Happy Birthday Elaine!

We helped Elaine celebrate her 86th birthday early with a fun game of Birthday Jingo and a little cake -n- ice cream. Elaine's birthday is March 7th! Happy Birthday we hope you had a wonderful birthday!!

Happy Birthday Willie Mae

Willie Mae's son was so nice to bring in a cake for his mom to share with all of her friends here in Dayaway, we spend the day celebrating with games, movies, and gifts for her from some wonderful volunteers we have here at Marian Center. Willie Mae's birthday is March 6th! Happy Birthday, we hope you enjoyed your day!

Wednesday, March 3, 2010

Kathy & Dorothy Baking for Snack...

Blueberry Apple Crisp
Ingredients
4 cups sliced peeled tart apples
2 cups blueberries
2 tablespoons brown sugar
1 cup all-purpose flour, divided
3/4 cup sugar
1 teaspoon baking powder
1/2 teaspoon salt
1/2 teaspoon ground cinnamon
1/4 teaspoon ground nutmeg
1 egg, beaten
1/2 cup butter, melted
Directions
Place apples in a greased 11-in. x 7-in. x 2-in. baking dish. Top with blueberries. Mix brown sugar and 2 tablespoons flour; sprinkle over fruit. Combine sugar, baking powder, salt, cinnamon, nutmeg and remaining flour. Stir in egg with a fork until mixture is crumbly. Sprinkle over fruit; drizzle with butter. Bake at 350 degrees F for 55-60 minutes or until apples are tender. Serve warm.

Stayed tuned I will be on soon to update!

Tuesday, March 2, 2010

gardening

mardi gras

Blueberry Cake

Blueberry Cake
1 cup sugar
1 egg
1 tsp. salt
4 tbsp. butter
1tsp. vanilla extract
2tsp. baking powder
1tsp. baking soda
1 cup milk
3 cups flour
2 cups blueberries (frozen work the best) toasted in flour

Preheat over to 350*. Grease 9 x 13 inch pan or bundt pan. Mix well sugar, egg, salt, butter and flavorings. Dissovle baking powder and baking soda in milk. Add to sugar/egg mixture. Add flour slowly and fold in blueberries last. Spread in pan. Sprinkle top of cake with 1/4 - 1/2 cup sugar and cinnamon mix. Bake 45 minutes.

Culinary Circle

It is that time of month again. Yes that is right our culinary circle. In honor of black history month. Our culinary staff downstairs, did soul food. You name it we had it, fried chicken, collar green with ham hocks, cornbread, mac -n- cheese, potatoe salad, peach pie, and sweet potatoe pie! Let me tell you everyone loved it and the food was wonderful, for some it was the first time they had soul food. It was a big hit. Thank you again Sheila!

Monday, February 8, 2010

Cards



Flowers

Art

Art is fun and relaxing for everyone. Just painting and reminiscing.

Pizza

We put all the toppings, and sauces on the tables. Everyone got to make there own individual pizza.

Cookies

Making our afternoon snack!

Latch Hook

Many of our folks like to do there on individual projects, her is Jean working on a latch rug. This is something she really enjoys doing in her spare time.

S-N-O-W-Y Bingo!


A fun game to play a on snowy day in Minnesota!

Valentine's Door Hanger

Valentine's Day craft! Door hangers!

Apple Cake

Apple Cake:
Ingredients:
1 (18.25 ounce) package yellow cake mix
3 eggs
1 (21 ounce) can apple pie filling
3/4 cup packed brown sugar
1 tablespoon all-purpose flour
1 tablespoon butter
1 teaspoon ground cinnamon
1 cup chopped walnuts

Directions:
Preheat oven to 350 degrees F (175 degrees C). Grease and flour a 9x13 inch baking pan.
In a large bowl, mix together the cake mix, eggs and apple pie filling. Pour into the prepared pan. Combine the brown sugar, flour, butter, cinnamon and walnuts. Sprinkle over the top of the batter.
Bake in the preheated oven for 35 to 40 minutes, or until a toothpick inserted into the center of the cake comes out clean. Allow to cool.

Apple Crisp

A few of our ladies love to bake, we looked around a spotted a big bowl of apple. They made the choice to make some apple crisp for everyone for our afternoon snack.

Apple Crisp
Ingredients:
4 apples - peeled, cored and sliced
1/2 cup brown sugar
1 cup all-purpose flour
3/4 cup white sugar
1 teaspoon ground cinnamon
1/4 teaspoon salt
1 egg, beaten
2 tablespoons butter, melted

Directions:
Preheat oven to 375 degrees F (190 degrees C).
In a 9 inch square baking pan, mix sliced apples with brown sugar. In a large bowl, mix together flour, white sugar, cinnamon and salt. In a small bowl, beat together egg and melted butter. Stir into flour mixture. Spread evenly over apples.
Bake in preheated oven for 30 to 40 minutes, or until topping is golden and crisp.


Thursday, January 28, 2010

Happy Birthday


Happy Birthday to you....Happy Birthday to you.....Happy Birthday Dear Sally...Happy Birthday to yyyyooouuuu!!!

Happy 69th Birthday Sally!

Book Club