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Southwestern Bean Soup
It’s Saturday but who cares? The original recipe I got from Cooks.com here. I tweaked it a little to fit the ingredients I had on hand. My family really liked it. It’s definitely a ‘keeper’ here at my house. Serves 6 adults. Southwestern Bean Soup 16oz. dried black beans 1 can red kidney beans (although I would use dried kidney beans if I had them) 20oz. frozen corn 3 cans diced green chile’s 1 – 28oz. can green enchilada sauce 3 – 8oz cream cheese 1 1/2 tsp. ground cumin Cook dried black beans until tender. Add salt to taste. Drain and reserve bean juice. Add cream cheese to beans and melt or…
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Gone and Back Again
I’m back! In the week since I posted we’ve been to Saskatchewan, Canada and back. We travelled 36 hours non-stop going and since it was so much fun the first go-around we travelled 30 hours non-stop returning. (pant, pant) We stopped about 6 hours from home to visit my parents for the night and was able to get some shut-eye. Sunflowers in Utah Montana Wildfire Bobbie your comment, "It is the less visible evils of enjoyment that steal you away from us." in response to my last post, gave me a chuckle. We went to Canada for a church camp but I have to say I’m quite glad to be home again. My kids are…
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Blogging Break
Just wanted to let you know I’ll not be posting for about a week. In the meantime, I’ll leave you with this quote my son read in one of his geography readings A Journey to the Western Islands of Scotland by Samuel Johnson. "Misery is caused for the most part, not by a heavy crush of disaster, but by the corrosion of less visible evils, which canker enjoyment, and undermine security."
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Choosing the Better Part
And she had a sister called Mary, which also sat at Jesus’ feet, and heard his word. But Martha was cumbered about much serving, and came to him, and said, Lord, dost thou not care that my sister hath left me to serve alone? bid her therefore that she help me. And Jesus answered and said unto her, Martha, Martha, thou art careful and troubled about many things: But one thing is needful: and Mary hath chosen that good part, which shall not be taken away from her. Luke 10:39-42 So many times I awake in the morning with my mind spinning with all the things I need to accomplish…
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Nature Can Show Up in Unexpected Places
You never know where you might find nature. Zachary sketched this after finding it in his bed. Now, don’t get too alarmed hearing that they’re in his bed. He sleeps outside (Not because I’m a mean mom but by choice. If you want to know the whole of it, three of my boys are sleeping on our balcony this summer. They don’t need soft padding, I guess.) So, that’s where Zachary found this Eastern blood-sucking conenose. I think he made a pretty good drawing of it. Here is a picture of one I found on the Web. Maybe you should check YOUR bed this morning.
