Wednesday, December 30, 2009
Tuesday, December 29, 2009
Holidays
First Thanksgiving and now Christmas. They both have come and gone, all in a flash. Seems as though all the days are passing faster and faster.
We had a wonderful time on Thanksgiving. A day filled with family, friends and delicious food. It was a fun day that we were sad to see end.
Christmas was much quieter. A day spent with just hubby and the kids. We enjoyed the quiet and special time we had together.
We had a wonderful time on Thanksgiving. A day filled with family, friends and delicious food. It was a fun day that we were sad to see end.
Christmas was much quieter. A day spent with just hubby and the kids. We enjoyed the quiet and special time we had together.
Christmas Eve
Making Jesus Birthday Cake
Cutie
Happy Birthday Jesus! We are so glad you came, for us!
Traditional hot chocolate. Yum!
Anticipation
Almost ready
Whipping the cream
Thumbs up!
Mugs are filled and all are ready to settle down to listen to our annual reading of 'Twas the Night Before Christmas'
Merry Christmas to all and to all a good night!
Our beautiful tree this year. My 10 year old decorated it all by herself. :)
Christmas
Two new bikes
a walker for our not yet walker
a new Wii game
new clothes
little dogs
Guns!
the year of the etch a sketch
Balls and bat for a springtime of family time!
Thursday, December 17, 2009
My road to health
I've had some health challenges this past year that just can't be ignored. So, I found myself at a naturopath/homeopathic clinic, aka Supplement Man. :) Besides giving me more supplements to take then I ever thought humanly possible, he also did a sensitivity test on me and boy oh boy the results were sobering.
I'm supposed to cut out dairy, any grain w/ gluten in it, which includes grains that are considered "good", eggs and yeast. What's left to eat, you ask. Supplements! LOL
While that may seem to be what this particular man pushes, I found a great blog and then cookbook by the blog's author, that I think will help me along my much needed changes.
With that in mind, I thought I'd give her Red Lentil Soup a try. I went to Whole Foods, with the entire troop along with me, I might add. That in and of itself is worthy of a blog post, taking 6 kids to Whole Foods is sort of the antithesis of the "save the earth" folks. LOL Nonetheless, we all traipsed through the store as though nobody looked at us as though we were a freak show. :)
I'm supposed to cut out dairy, any grain w/ gluten in it, which includes grains that are considered "good", eggs and yeast. What's left to eat, you ask. Supplements! LOL
While that may seem to be what this particular man pushes, I found a great blog and then cookbook by the blog's author, that I think will help me along my much needed changes.
With that in mind, I thought I'd give her Red Lentil Soup a try. I went to Whole Foods, with the entire troop along with me, I might add. That in and of itself is worthy of a blog post, taking 6 kids to Whole Foods is sort of the antithesis of the "save the earth" folks. LOL Nonetheless, we all traipsed through the store as though nobody looked at us as though we were a freak show. :)
All my ingredients gathered (minus a few I forgot to buy ;-) )
Prepping the carrots
and the spinach
sauteing the onion and garlic
curry added, yum
Finally, the beautiful red lentils go into the pot
At this point the recipe says to simmer for 60 minutes. My stove is kind of temperamental. It takes forever to boil anything. So, I walked away thinking it would be fine and come to a nice simmer. Of course I was wrong. LOL about 50 minutes later I asked my daughter if she thought it smelled like the soup was burning. I walked into the kitchen expecting to find the soup had bubbled over a little bit onto the burner. Instead I found that the soup and been BOILING for the majority of those 50 minutes and what I was smelling was the burnt lentils all over my pot. Blech! :p The smell was truly horrendous. Two days later and my pot is STILL soaking, trying to get out the burned on mess that was supposed to be my healthy dinner!
The soup was a big gloppy mess. I fed the garbage disposal the contents of the pot and have since been scrubbing and soaking that stinking pot! I was so disappointed and disgusted w/ myself for not checking on it sooner. I didn't even bother w/ a photo, although it probably would have amused you all. lol
Even though my first foray into healthier (for me) cooking was a complete and utter disaster, it will not taunt me from trying my best to work my way back to health. :)
Stay tuned for more installments of "My road to health" that will hopefully be soon to follow!
The soup was a big gloppy mess. I fed the garbage disposal the contents of the pot and have since been scrubbing and soaking that stinking pot! I was so disappointed and disgusted w/ myself for not checking on it sooner. I didn't even bother w/ a photo, although it probably would have amused you all. lol
Even though my first foray into healthier (for me) cooking was a complete and utter disaster, it will not taunt me from trying my best to work my way back to health. :)
Stay tuned for more installments of "My road to health" that will hopefully be soon to follow!
Monday, December 7, 2009
Traditions
Instilling traditions into your family's life is a wonderful thing. There is, however, a draw back. When life gets in the way and you want to skip one of those traditions, you have all these little reminders telling you to do it, now! LOL
Coming soon, pictures of our traditions. :-)
Coming soon, pictures of our traditions. :-)
Monday, November 30, 2009
Results are in
The kids woke up to this smell
Ahh, heavenly. Brown sugar and cinnamon baking. Yum.
Just look at that syrupy goodness
First bites are always exciting.
As to whether or not they liked their french toast surprise, I'll have to get back with you on that later, once they wake up from their sugar comas!
French Toast
I was up looking through one of my Junior League cookbooks and came across a recipe for French Toast that I decided to give a go.
I grabbed my ingredients
and got busy.
I grabbed my ingredients
and got busy.
Mixing my eggs, milk and salt
mixing the butter, brown sugar and cinnamon
mmmm, can you smell it?
pouring over my bread
All sealed up and ready for cooking tomorrow morning.
Won't my kids be surprised? Yum!
Sunday, November 29, 2009
Advent
And there shall come forth a rod out of the stem of Jesse, and a Branch shall grow out of his roots: And the spirit of the Lord shall rest upon him, the spirit of wisdom and understanding, the spirit of counsel and might, the spirit of knowledge and of the fear of the Lord; Isaiah 11:1-2
Today is the first day of advent. Did you know that? I didn't! LOL I remembered around 7 o'clock this evening. Fortunately, we had dug through enough boxes in the garage we knew where our Christmas books, which is where my Advent books also live outside of the Christmas season.
The kids were very excited to start our Advent traditions. We didn't do anything for Advent when I was growing up, so this is all new to me as well. About 3 years ago I decided to start celebrating the anticipation of our Saviors birth. It has been a wonderful time of learning and growing and focusing on the Christ's joyous birth.
This year we will be returning to follow along Jotham as he travels to find his family in Arnold Ytreeide's Jotham's Journey. We really enjoy Ytreeide's triology and alternate each year, which has brought us back to Jotham. My younger boys don't remember the story from 3 years ago, so it's all new to them. :)
We will also be doing a Jesse Tree using Ann Voskamp's beautiful devotional, The Glorious Coming.
Since Advent snuck up on me (I'm still recovering from Thanksgiving! LOL), I told the kids tomorrow we will put together the Jesse Tree ornaments and go purchase our advent candles. They were very excited to hear about our planned outing. Now let's see how excited they are when I tell them they need to get all their school work done FIRST, then we'll go buy our supplies and break out the glue and card stock. ;-)
Today is the first day of advent. Did you know that? I didn't! LOL I remembered around 7 o'clock this evening. Fortunately, we had dug through enough boxes in the garage we knew where our Christmas books, which is where my Advent books also live outside of the Christmas season.
The kids were very excited to start our Advent traditions. We didn't do anything for Advent when I was growing up, so this is all new to me as well. About 3 years ago I decided to start celebrating the anticipation of our Saviors birth. It has been a wonderful time of learning and growing and focusing on the Christ's joyous birth.
This year we will be returning to follow along Jotham as he travels to find his family in Arnold Ytreeide's Jotham's Journey. We really enjoy Ytreeide's triology and alternate each year, which has brought us back to Jotham. My younger boys don't remember the story from 3 years ago, so it's all new to them. :)
We will also be doing a Jesse Tree using Ann Voskamp's beautiful devotional, The Glorious Coming.
Since Advent snuck up on me (I'm still recovering from Thanksgiving! LOL), I told the kids tomorrow we will put together the Jesse Tree ornaments and go purchase our advent candles. They were very excited to hear about our planned outing. Now let's see how excited they are when I tell them they need to get all their school work done FIRST, then we'll go buy our supplies and break out the glue and card stock. ;-)
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