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  Today was a good day. My youngest had a sleepover last night and when he came home, he smelled the pumpkin bread baking in the oven. He said it smelled amazing. I love pumpkin bread! And this recipe I have is the only one I use.   Here is the recipe:   Pumpkin Bread   5 large eggs 1 1/4 cup canola oil 1 15-oz can solid packed pumpkin 2 cups flour 2 cups sugar 2 3-oz packages cook and serve vanilla pudding mix 1 tsp baking soda 1 tsp ground cinnamon 1/2 tsp salt   In large bowl, beat eggs. Add oil and pumpkin. Beat until smooth. Combine remaining ingredients in a separate bowl then gradually beat into pumpkin mixture. Grease two 5 3/4x3x2" loaf pans. Pour batter into pans and bake at 325 degrees for 55 minutes or until toothpick inserted in center comes out clean. Cool for 10 minutes. Serve warm.     Here are six things to celebrate from my day.   1. I made pumpkin bread today. It was yummy!   ...

I have a heart condition but when I was in the ER recently, I noticed a sign advising nurses not to give cardiac patients any caffeine. I thought the “no caffeine at all” policy was a little extreme and didn’t really take that sign seriously. But now I think that I should have!   I am a big coffee drinker so I pretty much threw caution out the window yesterday when I was guzzling one cup of coffee after another while happily typing away at the computer. But soon I wasn’t feeling so happy anymore; I started feeling sick. So sick that I had to go to bed and started contemplating calling 911 as my symptoms (nausea, headache, rapid breathing and stomach pain) got worse and worse. Eventually, I made it through that experience and came out of it okay, but it was definitely a big wake-up call that caffeine intake, especially for people with a heart condition, needs to be taken VERY seriously.   And as I learned later on, there really is too much of a good thing when it come...