Archive for January, 2009
A fun recipe
Two Boneless Chicken Breasts covered in 1/4 cup of mayo and 1/4 cup of mustard – add salt and garlic. Put the chicken breast in a 9×13, add frozen veggie (I used whole green beans, broccoli and carrots) all around them. Peel and cut up a couple potatoes and add with the veggies. Pour a package of Onion Recipe Soup Mix all over everything. Add a little more salt. Cook in the oven on 375 for an hour – depending on how thick the chicken breast are. Serve with french bread!! Deeeevine!! 
My son’s version of a beautiful house…
He’s “reading” a book right now and I overheard him saying …”mommy was in the kitchen and daddy was at work and the kids were sooooo cute. They ran around and around and around the house with a sandwich and there were cows, chickens, horses, and lions outside. It was a beautiful house. “ lol
I finally did it!
Today was the first day I was able to bake with yeast and actually get it to work!!!!!! I’ll have to post pictures later of my Whole Wheat Awesome Pizza crust and toppings!!!
The Lizards Had a Sad Death
I found Soldier with his lizards strategically placed around each other, having a huge feast!
Loyalty
Black eyed peas cooked in the crock pot all day, with a leftover hambone, is really good. But it also gets old. Well I thawed out some beans and made it for dinner last night with rolls, etc. Anyways, Soldier loved them which surprised me. He normally doesn’t. So I pulled out the left leftovers for lunch today to see if the kids would eat it for lunch – Drew said (after he got his second helping) “I’m done with the beans” and Soldier’s mouth dropped open. Soldier said “DON’T YOU TALK ABOUT THEM LIKE THAT! YOU ARE NOT DONE! MOMMY MADE THEM!”
hehe My Soldier boy. I love it.
Some yummy Potatoe Chips!
I made some potatoe chips for the kids one day and decided to try to figure out a really great batter for them. This one turned out GREAT and they taste awesome!
The batter is: 1 cup of Flour, 1 tablespoon of Paprika, 1 tablespoon of salt and 1 tablespoon of garlic salt. Add enough water to make it pretty runny, about 1/4 a cup. Peel the potatoe into very thin “chips” – dip in the batter and fry in some oil until brown.
My little Mimi
I recorded Naomi’s laughter onto my phone – you know the great, big belly laugh that you can’t help but crack up about?? That’s what it sounds like – it’s Soooo cute! Anyways, it’s now my ringer, so everytime my phone rings it makes me happy!
Mimi asked Soldier this morning “to come please sit on her bed while she gets dressed because she’s so scared to be by herself in the dark!”
She loveeesss to help me around the house. Everytime I clean the floors she wants to help, she “folds” laundry (usually ends up in me re-folding it) and she “cleans” her room. She makes me smile countless times in a day. She LOVES to sing songs to God. She’s makes my life so fun. I’m so glad I get to watch her grow up.
The Art of Divine Contentment, Chapter 8
Christian contentment shows us how a Christian may come to lead a comfortable life, even a heaven upon earth, be the times what they will. The comfort of life does not consist in having much. It is Christ’s maxim: “Man’s life consisteth not in the abundance of things which he doth possess” (Luke 12:15), but in the being contented. Is not the bee as well contented with feeding on the dew or sucking from a flower as the ox that grazes on the mountains? Contentment lies within a man, in the heart, and the way to be comfortable is not by having our barns filled, but our mind quiet. “The contented man,” said Seneca, “is the happy man.” Discontent is a fretting humor which dries the brain, wastes the spirits, and corrodes and eats out the comfort of life. Discontent makes a man so that he does not enjoy what he possesses. A drop or two of vinegar will sour a whole glass of wine. Let a man have the affluence and confluence of wordly comforts, yet a drop or two of discontent will embitter and poison all. Comfort depends upon contentment. Jacob went halting when he sinew upon the hollow of his thigh shrank. In the same way, when the sinew of contentment begins to shrink, we go halting in our comforts.
Contentment is as necessary to keep the life comfortable as oil is necessary to keep the lamp burning. The clouds of discontent often drop the showers of tears. Would we have comfort in our lives? We may have it if we will. A christian may carve out what condition he will for himself. Why do you complain of your troubles? It is not trouble that troubles, but discontent. It is not the water outside the ship, but the water that gets within the leak which drowns it. It is not outward affliction that can make the life of a Christian sad; a contented mind would sail above these waters. But when there is a leak of discontent open and trouble gets into the heart, then it is disquieted and sinks. Do, therefore, as the mariners: pump the water out and stop the spiritual leak in your soul, and no trouble can hurt you.
-Thomas Watson
List of Great Songs
1: Hoppipda – Sugar Mos
2: Life in Technicolor 2 – ColdPlay
3: Viva La Vida – Cold Play
4: Somewhere over the Rainbow – Israel K
5: Eyes – Rogue Wave
6: You remind me of Home – Ben Gibbard
7: You and I – Ingrid Michaelson
8: All the trees of the field will clap their hands – Sufjan Stevens
9: The sound of Settling – Death Cab
10: Landed – Ben Folds
11: Glass of Water – Cold PLay
12: Green Eyes ColdPLay
13: Strawberry Swing – Cold Play
14: Now My Feet won’t Touch the Ground – Cold Play
15: Oooh Aaah – Grits
16: My surprise song – for me to know and you not to
17 : My #2 Surprise Song
18: I’d Do anything – Sufjan Stevens
19: The Scientist – Cold PLay