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Menu Planning Monday – May 18
Monday Breakfast: Rice Cereal, Toast, Honeydew – We missed Rice cereal last week so we could have this… A great breakfast treat on these warm mornings. Make this while fresh fruit is plentiful. Our fruit bowl consisted of apples, strawberries, a few blackberries, frozen blueberries, bananas, and mangoes. Add some real maple syrup and milk and you have a delicious healthy breakfast. Supper: Beef & Broccoli Stir-Fry w/ Rice (from Bon Appetit Tastes of the World), Won-Ton Soup? Tuesday Breakfast: Serenity makes breakfast on this day. Last week she made Zephyr Pancakes from The King Arthur Flour Bakers Companion. She did an awesome job. Supper: Black Beans & Rice w/ Sour Cream & Cilantro Wednesday…
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Short Entries & Ordering Our Priorities
I would really like to come up with some great entry that would make all who read it think a little deeper but I just don’t see it happening. So I apologize if you stop in hoping to hear a little something more then that I baked banana bread this week but trying to keep a house, homeschool and run a small online book business keeps me and my mind maxed out. I’m barely able to have a moment of quiet to even write a post. And if ye be a wonderin’, yes, I do make time for devotions. Since there’s not too many quiet moments that’s why you may see a…
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Tackle It Tuesday #156
This week it was all about taking something old and making it new (in a different fashion). Take this old kitchen drawer… It now has a new look. Still a little crowded but better. This drawer was crying out for some attention too… Yes, this will do just fine. I found these inexpensive drawer organizers at Wal-M*rt. Next up was some old shriveled grapefruits that my father-in-law gave us. A little cut with the knife and some squeezing and we had the most delicious and refreshing grapefruit juice. How about this? Have you seen these lately in YOUR freezer?? I finally dug mine out and added still more from our fresh fruit basket. (If that’s my…
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Feeling the Love on Mother's Day
A dozen red roses from my oldest son Seth, and my youngest son Justus started off my Mother’s Day weekend. They both thought of buying me flowers separately. I don’t feel very deserving of it but I sure do enjoy it just the same. Thank you, my darlings. I love you, too. Add to that a planned picnic by Russell, along with a quad ride, and Mother’s Day couldn’t have been any better. Five people on a quad. No problem. You just have to hang on tight. We did concede we wouldn’t be able to fit all 8 of us on one. So, we took 2 quads. They boys just had to be sure…
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Menu Plan Monday
I haven’t been planning my meals lately and I find by not doing so it just complicates the whole dinner process. Five o’clock hits and you realize that what you thought you would serve really isn’t enough food for 8 people – 3 of them growing boys. So, I’m back to planning. I’m sure my kids will be grateful. It’s not always convenient for me to participate in Menu Plan Monday since I may not have time to write things down on Sunday evening or Monday morning. So on those weeks just have pity on my poor family. But this week they get to eat. Monday Breakfast – Eggs &…
