Good Morning from Texas!
We had another cold spell here. We thought it was going to freeze Sunday morning so Sabbath eveing we covered all our tomatoes, but then it never, it just got down to 36F. Our garden is still very wet, so havent got in there to plant anyhting eles, and I can't even hoe!!
You will notice over to the right of my blog I have added somthing new, a list of my favorite parenting books, and other books that give me inspiration and encouragement as a wife and mother. I wanted to share them on my bolg so others may also find them helpful. As I see it we never can get too much encouagement! Here i will briefly tell about each book in the oder they are listed, and you will beable to see if it would be a good book for you.
Above Rubies, By Nancy Campbell. Above Rubies is a magazine to encourage women in thier high calling as wifes , mothers, and homemakers. Its purpose is to up hold and strenghthen family life and to raise the standard of God's truth in the nation. The Name has been chosen from Proverbs 31:10. To learn more about Nancy Campbell and the Above Rubies minstry visit the web site I have on the right, just above the book list. There you can also sign up to recive the magazine. This is my all time favorite christain magazine, and eagerlly await the arrival of each one! I highly recomend this to all mothers! You will be trully blessed!!
Baby Wise, by Gary Ezzo and Robert Baucknam, MD. This books main goal is to help parents to get thier babies on a schudle and to sleep through the night by just a few months of age, weather nursing or bottel fed. But this book strongly supports nursing. I found its advice very helpful, and having the baby ona nursing schudle was a life saver for me, but my youngest at 21 months is still nursing at night!! But atleast i now have her down to only one time, that must count for somting!!
ME ? Obey Him? by Elizabeth Rice Handford. This book is about God's plan for wifes to be obedient and submissive to thier husbands. Very in depth and packed full of scriptuers. It is written very well, and deffently a must read if you are struggeling in this area. It will make you feel so good about your role as a godly submisseve wife and not just a door mat as the world wants us to feel. By obeying our husbands we are obeying God, and as wifes we have a very powerful and importain role!!
Power Of A Praying Wife, by Stormie Omartain. This book may be geared more towards struggeling marraiges, but is wonderful for any wife. It teaches wifes how to pray for thier husbands and to hold thier marraiges strong in any circumstance. It covers 30 differnt topics that concern our husbands and how to pray for our husbands about each of those issues. As we all know no matter how wonderful our husbands are ,they are not perfect. This book helps us as wifes how to deal with those imperfect ways through Love and in Pray. The author strongly believes that divorce is not an option, and thats another thing I really like about the book
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Power of Mother Hood, by Nancy Campbell ( author of Above Rubies). I will write a piece from the introduction of this book. " This manual takes you in to the scriptures to see God's heart and mind for women and mothers. The word of God is so wonderful.It does not leave us guessing about what to do, even in the most practical matters of mother hood. All the power we need to fullfill this great calling is found in the Word of God, and all the wisdom we need for this mighty task is found in His Precious word." I would have to say this is my top favorite book in the list! Its very good!
Supper Nanny, by Jo Frost.For all of you that have watched the Supper Nanny show on T.V , know about Jo frost's methods of child training and correction. Well thats what this book is all about. It puts all of what she does in the show in the book , step by step, and age by age child training and setting up schudels for chidren. Very good book for mothers of little ones. I found lost of helpful advice in it.
The Mission of Mother Hood , by Sally Clarkson. I will write excatly whats on the back of this book. " Do you long for your home to be lifegiving and peacful? Is it your desire to pass on a legacy of righteousness to your children? Do you struggle to balance the duties of mother hood with a loving relationship with your children? Would you like creative ideas and direction for keeping your child's heart open to you and to the Lord? Discover how understanding God's purpose and design can empower you to be the mother you long to be." " No calling is greater,nobler, or more fullfilling than that of mother hood. Every day, as we nutuer out children, mothers infulence eternal destniy as no one eles can. Tracgically ,today's culture minimizes the vital importiance of a mother's role. By cathching a vision of God's origanal desing and allowing it to shape your life, you can resicover the joy and fullfillment that can be found in the strategic role to which God in all His wisdom has called you, for a purpose far greater than you can even imangine." A very good read!! Learn about the whole heart ministries and the rest of books offered by Sally Clarkson, at thier site on the list above the books.
To Train Up A Child , by Debie and Micheal Pearl . This book is about training your child to achieve total and instant aboedience, and to eliminate spanking. Of course they do believe in use of the rod but with proper taining will cut down on the need of that. This book shows you how to train your children so they will be a great joy and blessing to you. In one spot in the book it saids "how to 'house proof' your child, not 'child proof 'your house" Very good basic child training advice. Find out more about the No greater Joy Ministries at thier site. (Link above the book list on the right)
Even though I highly recomend each of these books, it does not mean I agree 100 percent with everthing in the books. As we need to do with all things , we need to take the good and leave the bad, and see how it compares with the scriptues. Well hope that you find this to be helpful to you. Just want to add also that any of you that are farmillar with these books I, would love for you to comment on them, what you liked or didn't like about them.
Well I am so glad I had this oppurtuinty to post this this. I started writing at 5: 30 a.m and it is now 6:30 a.m, and the childen are still sound asleep!! The time on the blog is wrong, I will change it when i figured it out if I can. In the mean time it makes me look like a real supper mom!! In just a few hours I go to get a wisdom tooth removed, and I am nervous about it.Then next week I am to get the last one removed! Ouch! But if I can make it through child birth I can make it through teeth pulling!! Will let you know how it went on my next post. For now, take care and God Bless! Mae
Tuesday, March 31, 2009
Thursday, March 26, 2009
Pinto bean,dinner rolls, and chocolate cake recipes!
Greetings from my place!
Well we got more rain here , started on Tuesday, and has been raining off and on ever since!
On Monday evening my husband did manage to do some tilling in the garden even though it was very wet, and I planted green beans, butter peas, and lima beans! Was excited to get that in before it rained again. Now we will have to wait awhaile again before planting some more things! But this rain will be really good for the thigs we did get in.
Atleast It feels like spring weather here now, for awaile earlier in March it was very hot(atleast to me), and it felt we had gone drictly from winter (a mild one at that) right in to summmer. I thought we were in for a long hot summmer! But feels like we will have srping for awhaile, yea!!
I have a three rescipes I want to post this morning. First is my own rescipe of yummy pinto beans, then dinner rolls and a chocolate cake. Wow, there you have a meal!!
My Yummy Pinto Beans
2 cups dry pinto beans (presoaked)
1 oinon, 1 stalk celery, & 1/4 jelopeno choppped
fresh cilantro (a little hand fulll)
2 or 3 garlic cloves
Several slices baccon, chopped up
1 pint tomatoes
2 beef buloin cubes, and salt and pepper
I soak beans 4 to 5 hours, then rinse and put freash water over beans , the water should be atleast a couple inches over the beans, can add more water as its cooking as neaded. Boil beans about 1 hour before adding the reast of the ingredinets. Then pile everything in there ,and continue cook untill beans are nice and tender, usaully only takes a couple hours. I love to eat a bolw of these with flour tortillas , sour cream, and shredded cheese, oh and hot sauce!! Yum! Would be good with the dinner rolls too though.
Easy Dinner Rolls
1 cup warm water
4 1/2 tsp dry yeast
1/2 cup melted butter
1 tsp. salt
2 eegs
1/2 cup sugar
4 1/2 cups flour
Mix in order given. After dough is formed, nead for a few mintues. Let rise untill double in bulk. Work down and wrap in plastic and place in fridge for later use( You can keep in in there for a few days) Or make in to dinner rolls now.,And let rise again about 1 hour. Bake at 375 F, untill nicely browned . Makes 4 dozen. These are so light and soft!!
One -Bowl Chocolate Cake
2 cups flour
2 cups sugar
1/2 cup cocoa
2 tsp. baking soda
1 tsp baking powder
1/2 tsp. salt
1 cup vegtable oil
1 cup butter milk
2 eggs
1 cup hot water
In large bowl, combine dry ingredients. Stir in oil , buter milk and eggs.Add water and stir untill combined. Pour in to greased 13in.x 9in. cake pan. Bake at 350F for 35 - 38 min. Cool completly.
Frost with your favorit choclate icing, and decorate with sprinkles. Looks very pretty and taste yummy!! This cake is so easy to make and is always such a big hit!!
Well I better get off here, and make my family some breakfast, and then get ready to start another day of shchool, after the chickens, rabbits and dogs are fed!! Busy days ,but love it!!
Have a great day! Mae
Well we got more rain here , started on Tuesday, and has been raining off and on ever since!
On Monday evening my husband did manage to do some tilling in the garden even though it was very wet, and I planted green beans, butter peas, and lima beans! Was excited to get that in before it rained again. Now we will have to wait awhaile again before planting some more things! But this rain will be really good for the thigs we did get in.
Atleast It feels like spring weather here now, for awaile earlier in March it was very hot(atleast to me), and it felt we had gone drictly from winter (a mild one at that) right in to summmer. I thought we were in for a long hot summmer! But feels like we will have srping for awhaile, yea!!
I have a three rescipes I want to post this morning. First is my own rescipe of yummy pinto beans, then dinner rolls and a chocolate cake. Wow, there you have a meal!!
My Yummy Pinto Beans
2 cups dry pinto beans (presoaked)
1 oinon, 1 stalk celery, & 1/4 jelopeno choppped
fresh cilantro (a little hand fulll)
2 or 3 garlic cloves
Several slices baccon, chopped up
1 pint tomatoes
2 beef buloin cubes, and salt and pepper
I soak beans 4 to 5 hours, then rinse and put freash water over beans , the water should be atleast a couple inches over the beans, can add more water as its cooking as neaded. Boil beans about 1 hour before adding the reast of the ingredinets. Then pile everything in there ,and continue cook untill beans are nice and tender, usaully only takes a couple hours. I love to eat a bolw of these with flour tortillas , sour cream, and shredded cheese, oh and hot sauce!! Yum! Would be good with the dinner rolls too though.
Easy Dinner Rolls
1 cup warm water
4 1/2 tsp dry yeast
1/2 cup melted butter
1 tsp. salt
2 eegs
1/2 cup sugar
4 1/2 cups flour
Mix in order given. After dough is formed, nead for a few mintues. Let rise untill double in bulk. Work down and wrap in plastic and place in fridge for later use( You can keep in in there for a few days) Or make in to dinner rolls now.,And let rise again about 1 hour. Bake at 375 F, untill nicely browned . Makes 4 dozen. These are so light and soft!!
One -Bowl Chocolate Cake
2 cups flour
2 cups sugar
1/2 cup cocoa
2 tsp. baking soda
1 tsp baking powder
1/2 tsp. salt
1 cup vegtable oil
1 cup butter milk
2 eggs
1 cup hot water
In large bowl, combine dry ingredients. Stir in oil , buter milk and eggs.Add water and stir untill combined. Pour in to greased 13in.x 9in. cake pan. Bake at 350F for 35 - 38 min. Cool completly.
Frost with your favorit choclate icing, and decorate with sprinkles. Looks very pretty and taste yummy!! This cake is so easy to make and is always such a big hit!!
Well I better get off here, and make my family some breakfast, and then get ready to start another day of shchool, after the chickens, rabbits and dogs are fed!! Busy days ,but love it!!
Have a great day! Mae
Monday, March 23, 2009
Bread and Granola rescipe!
Good Morning From my house!!!
Well my little kidos are still asleep this morning, so i have time to make a post!! I had been taking my commputer time after the children were in bed for the night, but my dear husband also wantd my time in the eveings, so now I changed my cuommputer time to the morning, and it works better for all of us!!
Yesterday was very beutiful here and warm! It was 79F for awalie! We did some planting in the garden. We set out some tomatoes, and planted corn. Our garden is really wet from the last rain we had here, so my husband was unable to til it up so we could plant more just then. Our garden is in a very low area and really holds the water.
Also yesterday I baked some bread and make a batch of grannola. This bread rescipe i came upon acouple months ago and just love it!! It turns out so soft and easy to silce, great for sandwhiches and toast! My other rescipe I was using would crubmle and tear easily while cutting. But i know i just had to be doing somthing wrong ,because it was the one my mom has used for many years. Any way heres the bread rescipe I use now!
American Sanwhich Bread
1 cup whole milk, warm
1/3 cup water, warm
3 tbl. honey
4 tbl. unsalted stick butter,melted and cooled
3 3/4 cups flour, plus extra for the counter ( I use part whole weat flour)
I envelope ( 2 1/4 tsp. ) rabip rise yeast
2 tsp salt
Wisk the milk, water, honey, and butter, together. In sperate large bowl mix together the flour, yeast and salt, add to milk mixture, and stir with rubber spatula till the dough comes together and looks shaggy. Turn the dough on to clean counter and kneed by hand to from a smooth ball about 10 to 15 min., adding a little more flour as needed so it wont stick to the counter. Transfer back to bowl and cover towel, and let rise about 1 hour till double in bulk. To make loaf , put dough out on floured counter and press dough out into 9in square. then roll up tightly, and press together along seams. Then place in greased and floured bread pan, cover with towel and let rise again about 1 to 1 1/2 hours. Preheat oven to 350 degreesF. Befroe placing in oven brush top of loaf with melted butter. As you place your loaf of bread in the oven also place a bread pan beside it with boling water in it. Bake about 40 min. or untill nicly browned. Cool atleats 2 hours befroe cutting. You will love this bread!! It has a wonderful texture!!
I love granola! Can eat it for breakfast or for a snak any time durring the day! Also it makes a great topper for my yogurt fruit salsd which i will share too
Granola
3/4 cup brown sugar
1/3 cup vegtable oil
1/3 cup honey
4 cups oatmeal
1/2 cup dry milk
pinch of salt
Mix brown sugar, oil and honey in a sauce pan. Heat till sugar dissloves. Combine dry ingredients in a large ckae pan. Pour sugar mixtur over dry ingred, and mix well. Bake in 350 F for about 15 min, i actually stir it acouple times durring the baking, and may go over the 15 mintues abit. cool completly and store in jar. Its ready to enjoy!!
Here is a yogurt fruit salad I have made a couple times this last week and really enjoy!
Mae's Fruit Salad
Chop up aleast 4 kinds of fruit ( I used a mango, appel, bannana, and grapes)
Then mix in about 1 cup vanilla yorgurt ( more or less depending how much you like yogurt) Then sprinkel with granola ( I am liberal with the granloa)
sprinkel on the top of that with shredded coconut
Looks pretty and taste delicous!!
I hope you enjoy thse rescipes as much as I we do here at our house! Well the kidos are all awake now, and the chickens are calling my name! So better get off and get busy! Got a day of school ahead of us!!
Whatsoever thy hand findeth to do ,do it with thy might. Eccles. 9:10
Blessings, Mae
Well my little kidos are still asleep this morning, so i have time to make a post!! I had been taking my commputer time after the children were in bed for the night, but my dear husband also wantd my time in the eveings, so now I changed my cuommputer time to the morning, and it works better for all of us!!
Yesterday was very beutiful here and warm! It was 79F for awalie! We did some planting in the garden. We set out some tomatoes, and planted corn. Our garden is really wet from the last rain we had here, so my husband was unable to til it up so we could plant more just then. Our garden is in a very low area and really holds the water.
Also yesterday I baked some bread and make a batch of grannola. This bread rescipe i came upon acouple months ago and just love it!! It turns out so soft and easy to silce, great for sandwhiches and toast! My other rescipe I was using would crubmle and tear easily while cutting. But i know i just had to be doing somthing wrong ,because it was the one my mom has used for many years. Any way heres the bread rescipe I use now!
American Sanwhich Bread
1 cup whole milk, warm
1/3 cup water, warm
3 tbl. honey
4 tbl. unsalted stick butter,melted and cooled
3 3/4 cups flour, plus extra for the counter ( I use part whole weat flour)
I envelope ( 2 1/4 tsp. ) rabip rise yeast
2 tsp salt
Wisk the milk, water, honey, and butter, together. In sperate large bowl mix together the flour, yeast and salt, add to milk mixture, and stir with rubber spatula till the dough comes together and looks shaggy. Turn the dough on to clean counter and kneed by hand to from a smooth ball about 10 to 15 min., adding a little more flour as needed so it wont stick to the counter. Transfer back to bowl and cover towel, and let rise about 1 hour till double in bulk. To make loaf , put dough out on floured counter and press dough out into 9in square. then roll up tightly, and press together along seams. Then place in greased and floured bread pan, cover with towel and let rise again about 1 to 1 1/2 hours. Preheat oven to 350 degreesF. Befroe placing in oven brush top of loaf with melted butter. As you place your loaf of bread in the oven also place a bread pan beside it with boling water in it. Bake about 40 min. or untill nicly browned. Cool atleats 2 hours befroe cutting. You will love this bread!! It has a wonderful texture!!
I love granola! Can eat it for breakfast or for a snak any time durring the day! Also it makes a great topper for my yogurt fruit salsd which i will share too
Granola
3/4 cup brown sugar
1/3 cup vegtable oil
1/3 cup honey
4 cups oatmeal
1/2 cup dry milk
pinch of salt
Mix brown sugar, oil and honey in a sauce pan. Heat till sugar dissloves. Combine dry ingredients in a large ckae pan. Pour sugar mixtur over dry ingred, and mix well. Bake in 350 F for about 15 min, i actually stir it acouple times durring the baking, and may go over the 15 mintues abit. cool completly and store in jar. Its ready to enjoy!!
Here is a yogurt fruit salad I have made a couple times this last week and really enjoy!
Mae's Fruit Salad
Chop up aleast 4 kinds of fruit ( I used a mango, appel, bannana, and grapes)
Then mix in about 1 cup vanilla yorgurt ( more or less depending how much you like yogurt) Then sprinkel with granola ( I am liberal with the granloa)
sprinkel on the top of that with shredded coconut
Looks pretty and taste delicous!!
I hope you enjoy thse rescipes as much as I we do here at our house! Well the kidos are all awake now, and the chickens are calling my name! So better get off and get busy! Got a day of school ahead of us!!
Whatsoever thy hand findeth to do ,do it with thy might. Eccles. 9:10
Blessings, Mae
Friday, March 20, 2009
The goal for my blog?
I really don't have one certain goal for my blog. This blog is just about my mothering and homeschooling journey. But I guess you could say the gloal is that everything on this blog will all be for the glory of God. I believe we are to be lights for God, and let our lights shine for others to see. That is my goal in life to be a shining light for the LOrd, and this blog is just an exstention of that.
In fact I named our home school Lights For Jesus Academy. We want to raise our children to be lights for Jesus. This comes from the verse in Mathaew. "Let your light so shine before men, that they may see your good works and glorify your Father which is i heaven." Matthew 5:16
Where in the world!
I just wanted to add that when you comment, I would love to hear where you live, now not excact locaions at all, just say the state, or provinece for Canada, or your country. Thought it would be fun to see where in the world my reders are!! I was born in Aberta,Canada, and also lived in B.C, Sask, and Manitoba, for awaile. So would be neat to hear if any one is from my neck of the woods!! Now i have been here in Texas for over 9 years. Its hot and dry in the summer , other wise its ok though. I miss all that wonderful snow from up north though!! This winter we did'nt get any snow at all , but when we do its only an inch or 2 and melts fast!
Alittle More about My Family!
We are a fun loving , easy going, God frearing family! We live in the country, with a bunch of chickens running around, puls 2 dogs and a cat! We have rabbits too, but they are in cages! we love to garden, and have things in the garden now. We just planted the early vegys that don't matter if it freezes, I'm anxios to get the rest of the vegys in though. I love fresh stuff from the garden! We love cammping and fishing, and just hanging out with our family! Last summer we took a trip together to my home place in Alberta, we all had a blast!
In fact I named our home school Lights For Jesus Academy. We want to raise our children to be lights for Jesus. This comes from the verse in Mathaew. "Let your light so shine before men, that they may see your good works and glorify your Father which is i heaven." Matthew 5:16
Where in the world!
I just wanted to add that when you comment, I would love to hear where you live, now not excact locaions at all, just say the state, or provinece for Canada, or your country. Thought it would be fun to see where in the world my reders are!! I was born in Aberta,Canada, and also lived in B.C, Sask, and Manitoba, for awaile. So would be neat to hear if any one is from my neck of the woods!! Now i have been here in Texas for over 9 years. Its hot and dry in the summer , other wise its ok though. I miss all that wonderful snow from up north though!! This winter we did'nt get any snow at all , but when we do its only an inch or 2 and melts fast!
Alittle More about My Family!
We are a fun loving , easy going, God frearing family! We live in the country, with a bunch of chickens running around, puls 2 dogs and a cat! We have rabbits too, but they are in cages! we love to garden, and have things in the garden now. We just planted the early vegys that don't matter if it freezes, I'm anxios to get the rest of the vegys in though. I love fresh stuff from the garden! We love cammping and fishing, and just hanging out with our family! Last summer we took a trip together to my home place in Alberta, we all had a blast!
Thursday, March 19, 2009
Your comments are welcome!!
I looking forward to recieving your comments from my readers! If Theres no comments I will think I have no readers! So let me know your there !! Somethig to keep in mind about your comments though, actually its my little motto; If you have nothing good to say ,please don't say anything at all!! That was our little saying back at home growing up. A nice rule to follow I think!!
Well hope to hear from you!
Well hope to hear from you!
Whats this blog about?
You will find on this blog lots of different things ,all concerning my mothering and homeschooling journey. There may be rescipes from time to time,homemaking tips, gardening tips,homechooling stuff, bible verses, and latest happenings at my house. My goal is to share a bible verse on every post!! I want this blog to be gorifying to God!
Welcome to my mothering journey blog!!
Hello to you all!! Hope you find your visist to my blog, intresting ,encourageing, uplifting, and inspriring! This is my first ever blog, so I believe it will take me awaile to get everything figured out and running smothly, so just hang in there with me while i get up and running!
I do not know yet how often i will post, atleast every other week, maybe more as time allows and I have things to share.
I do not know yet how often i will post, atleast every other week, maybe more as time allows and I have things to share.
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