It is a double win because the library is a fun and wonderful place for young ones while you pick up and drop off the week long museum pass!
Call your local library to inquire into borrowing free museum passports!
It is a double win because the library is a fun and wonderful place for young ones while you pick up and drop off the week long museum pass!
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We know that we learn as much as we teach our children.. but what better way is there for our children to know this?
I wrote myself a note on my calendar to ask my toddler what he would like to teach me. He taught us a new language and had me repeat several phrases of babble words and corrected me here and there with thrilled giggles. We ran around the living room learning this and that, the whole family together, led in a lesson by this young mentor. Funny how a simple question can shape or reshape a whole point of view and awaken a sense of empowerment and awareness for a young mind. You are cherished and loved.. you may know it or not.. your creator is thrilled with you and loves you more than you can now imagine. One day you will fully know and your joy will be hard to contain.. as is your creator's at the sight of you.
There can be surprises with organics, I just never expected them to survive and thrive in the fridge! I was studying the lettuce carefully because it was riddled with strange marks and suddenly I looked back up on the counter and the culprit was staring right at me. Of course I resettled my stomach and found a great little home jar for our friend, used the opportunity to share a science lesson then we all trekked out to the river and released our friend back to the wild. This took place in July so I think he faired well and pray it didn't adversely affect the ecosystem if our guest came from the country side. Our tot was thrilled and it was a nice family outing. Campfire Coffee Cake (Rich Coffee Flavoured, decorated with melted hard candy, Roulades, toasted marshmallows, chocolate fudge and crispy wafer layers.Fruit flan with berries and kiwi, light white sponge cake, home-made custard and a jam glaze.Thomas The Train fondant cakeSmores topped birthday cake for a campfire Smores fanMostly Blueberries BreadHealthiest and tastiest carrot cakeWestern Theme three tier birthday cake with chocolate fondantSo far, six cakes (including a decoy for a surprise party)..one more to go.
Fun with fondant.. waiting for some final photos of the campfire cake with the candy flames, and look forward to sharing the scrumptious recipes and experiments...but I have been such a Martha and not reading the word enough to keep up with times. A mom shared a few verses from Ephesians from a buisy mom's scripture & verse book and it restored in me an appetite for the Word (especially Ephesians 5). Thank you! Recipes will be gladly shared for Campfire Coffee Cake (candy flames and toasted marshmallow added on site), Smores Piled High cake, Fruit Flan (the decoy until the birthday surpise with Western Cake), Ruffle Gem Cake (a bit of a floppy ruffle cake but fun gem theme for all), Low sugar full flavour carrot cake, Western three tier cake for the big surprise party, Blueberry cake for fun, & of course, Tomas the train cake..(the squeal I heard tonight upon someone taking a sneak preview made it so worth closing the cake making season with this one last one!) Now I am on birthday cake burnout and its time for a workout! As this extended leave slips by all too quickly, I ask myself too often what will be next?
Will my workplace invite me back with open arms, will I find a similar position? (in project management or similar?) Will I have drifted into one of these wonderful pursuits such as cake and meringue baking and recipes (the best use of my passion for chemistry), music lessons, crafts, or children's or mommy's ministry? songwriting/children's songs? politics? Non profit ministry? or homeschooling as long as I have something to teach?... Then I remember to look up and try to focus on God. I felt absolutely certain of this call to full time mommyhood and thought nothing of turning aside from my career at this point. That certainty will be there at the next stage too. Just now the call continues and mommyhood is the passion of my heart, the creativity of my skills and it isn't really time to question tomorrow.. except will I find a way to be a great mommy and raise and love a great Christian family and fulfill my purpose in Christ. Somehow it is all falling together now, with a lot of help and guidance, and tomorrow will find its own cares, there are enough today. Thank you God for protecting and guiding our family and bless the reader too. We found a plastic container, cut some stained glass shapes out of tissue paper and used a glue stick to decorate a new little pot. I didn't leave it as a lamp shade for longer than the photo, as those bulbs are not LED and get pretty hot! We use this pot still to store the smaller toys.
This great gratitude pie was so easy I never knew!
Cut a little pumpkin pie in two! Roast it till it steams, poke it right through, add a little sugar while you bake your pumpkin stew. The recipe will follow soon... for easy pie crust and easy pumpkin pie.. but I hate to admit it takes condensed milk which I am not sure should be legal to sell ;) You've loaded up on cookie cutters but try to keep the cookies to a minimum? They are not just for desert anymore!
My fussy tot was pleased to eat the cheese and red peppers again on a picky day when the lunch came out with stars, especially since we had been singing twinkle little star for a few days. Cookie cutters can also spruce up a egg and toast when you cut out a favourite shape in the toast and fry the egg right in the toast. Butter the toast and pan first. Cut out the shape of a heart for your spouse for valentine's day's breakfast too. Use the larger shapes like gingerbread man cookie cutters for even more variety. I picked this up from a tv cook... an economical alternative to chicken pieces is to buy a whole chicken and ask them to cut it in half at the butcher's counter.
(Not all of the folks at that counter are pleased to accommodate if they are in the middle of cutting non poultry and have to clean the counter and machine, but most are pleased to accommodate, so I ask my husband to ask for me;).) The cost of buying a whole chicken is much less than even thighs. Then, split the chicken in two and roast with a coating of olive oil, seasonings and even lemon juice. Add some potatoes onto the pan and bake at 350 for about an hour while you tend to more important things and dinner is done! This is great for those busier days when you don't have an hour to spend prepping dinner! Leading into Christmas we had trouble finding foods our toddler would accept. These are the days when it seems like air is enough to survive on some days, and other days, the plate filled as full as ours is devoured fully. Well on the pickiest days I got creative... and helping mommy with baking is a great way to inspire a hungry appetite. Who wouldn't love to eat the creation they helped make? A meat pie becomes healthy when you make the crust at home and use a beef bourgignon type recipe for the stuffing. Beef and carrots (or your tots favourite veggy meddly) were never so tasty! Layer leftover potatoes with mushrooms and you have an even tastier treat the toddler can't turn down. To be truthful you just won't mind if they do because there's more for you!
There was once a man who would join our gatherings who I was honestly afraid of. He would be drunk, swear, and sometimes penitent. I would sneak in if he was present and he would spot me and say something about it at times. I asked how he could see me and he said he was only partially blind and could see a blur and my light hair gave it away. This I asked after the change. This is what happened. One day I prayed, God please let me see Bob as you see him. The most amazing thing happened. I was filled with overbrimming love for Bob. One day he showed up drunk and dressed in a silver miniskirt and heals and with bright red lipstick somewhere around his mouth. As we left the gathering he asked for help walking. Here was I, walking back towards my workplace, with this elderly white haired man with a white cane for sight and who was quite a sight, his arm in mine, trying to walk straight in his pumps, heels and parka, but feet twisting over the heels. Then my somewhat new manager sees me helping him across the street in front of our building. He gasped. He never asked me a thing about it but he did transfer out of our group soon after. I occasionally would see blind Bob around for a while after. He had lost his guitar and sight dog. He was sober a while also.
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