Today's WFMW is a themed edition. Summer Recipes.
Here is my favorite summer recipe. It drives my kids nuts but I love it.
Fruit and Nutty Tuna Salad
1 small can of tuna - drained
handful of grapes, halved ( I like red of purple)
handful of nuts (I prefer walnuts)
small handfull of shredded cheese ( I use sharp cheddar)
dash of seasoning ( I use Pampered Chef's Citrus and Basil)
enough mayo or salad dressing to make it as creamy as you would like, ( I use very little)
Mix together and eat. I can eat the entire thing at one sitting if allowed......;-)
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It has been a LONG time since I posted a Tackle-it-Tuesday project. I would go look it up but I won't. It would take too long. But in my effort to get back into this blogging thing. I decided that several memes would get me started. Besides with one of my goals this summer being to clean up and clean out I decided that my book project would be a great place to start.
I needed to move this stack of books away from the side of my bed. You see there is a small space between the books and the bed. That small space is left for the only.air.vent.in.the.room. And as we lay in the stillness of the night my hubby asks, "Is the vent covered?" At least once a night, usually more. I resolved today to do something about that. I needed to get these books out of there.
Welcome to Friday Felicities, a meme created by Nattie – now a resident of heaven. This meme is all about creating a list of things that make you happy and Nattie knew that when you concentrate on your blessings your sorrows are not as overwhelming.
In no particular order
*books, books, and more books
*FaceBook -
*McDonald's Sweet Iced Tea
*Boys who sleep past 8 am
I won't promise a post every day or even every week. Heck, I won't even promise another post at all on this study. But what I will say is this, I believe I am going to like Jennifer Rothschild's study and it has a lot to say to me at this point in my life.
Day one deals with descriptors that one uses to describe oneself. After looking at several instances of Biblical characters, we began looking at the words we use our selves. Honestly categorizing these descriptors was hard. However, there were two truths which Jennifer pointed out that I will cling to in the coming hours, days and weeks. The first comes from Scripture 1 Corinthians 15:10 - "But by the grace of God, I am what I a, and His grace is not in vain.....". The second "Who I am and what I struggle with are not the same thing"
I have been putting my husband off for weeks on getting a new (to him) work truck - praying his little one would last just a little bit longer. We didn't need to make a new investment right now. Not with the changes we have looming off in the distance.
Anyway He got a call today that there will be a company van available to him on Monday! Praise God.
I figured it was time for an update. I don't think I have written this out here or anywhere else. FB friends know bits and pieces of it and W@H gals know more but I don't think that anybody really knows all of it.
Next year, I am staying home! I will be homeschooling my three again. I started talking about it with my husband back in the winter. Over the course of the next few months, I pointed out exactly how much of my paycheck was going right back to the school, mostly in tuition, but also other stuff as well. Not to mention things like eating out because I was to tired to cook. And then the amount of training hours it would take to renew my teaching certificate and the money that would cost. The last week of school we talked once again, and he said that he gave me his blessing to stay home next year.
The last time we tried this adventure we were in a much different place. His pay check barely covered our living expenses, and while he didn't outright forbid me to do it, he wasn't whole heartedly into me not working either. We were also only paying for tuition for one child, at the time and had no child care bills as he was staying home days and working nights. The one good thing about me coming home then was the fact that it got me out of a bad school situation with my colleagues. However, halfway through that year. He lost his job and went without work for 10 months. It was during that time that I went back to the classroom.
I have loved my 3 years at my school and left a very good situation and on good terms. I will miss those ladies and all they had to teach me while I was there. However, the time is right. My home and family are suffering. So I am coming home once again. For as long as God allows. We do have other opportunities and possibilities in the not to distant future but I will go more into that as time goes on.
Okay in an effort to get into this writing thing more I have decided I need a jump start. So I am pulling up a link which I bookmarked quite a while ago. 99 Powerful Questions. The title is longer than that but it is enough to satisfy my needs at the moment. I don't know how often I will do these or how many I will do in a blog but, I will start with the top and work my way down for now. So without further ado I will start with number one.
What do I want? That is a very good question indeed. I can give you a laundry list of material wants but I won't go there, it isn't worth my time or yours. I have some very strong emotional wants right now as well, but this is neither the time nor the place to get into those either.
What do I want? I want to more fully understand who I am and who those around me are. I want to be a blessing to those around me. I want my children to grow up and understand themselves and to nuture their dreams and aspirations, not have them fit into my mold of who I think they should be. Or have them feel they have to fit into some mold they think I have for them. I want to be the person God created me to be and allow them the freedom to be the person God created each one of them to be. That is what I want. Now to just figure out what that is.
Three days into summer vacation and it seems all I have done is go, go, go. I, personally have been to the chiropractor twice. The oldest two have had physicals for camp, for which they leave on Monday morning. All three have had dentist appointments, 3 kids + no cavities = a MIRACLE. and the icing on the cake? Alli has all of her adult teeth showing in X-Ray's!!! (1 down, 2 to go on that score). I have been to church twice for weekly meetings - last kids program until fall though.
I am now in the midst of washing clothes and linens to get the oldest two ready for camp. And we are all going to my sister's Friday night and Saturday for a scrap booking weekend. I am looking forward to that. I just hope the organizer I ordered gets here in time. It will make things much easier to carry up there.
Oh yeah, I have read one book and have started another one. I have also gotten SIX in the mail from PBS lately. My summer is set on that front.
Okay I was just watching the national news -- something I rarely do. And when I do it is usually FoxNews and not one of the big 3 networks, but I digress. Anyway I was watching the national news. I saw the story of Nick Adenhart's death just hours after pitching his best game of his major short major league career. Many people are stunned to say the least.
But, two things struck me as I watched the coverage. His agent, overcome by emotion, said that there was one thing about him, his main goal in life was to play major league baseball. I am happy that he was able to reach that goal. It would not be a goal that I could reach, even if I wanted to. Many people do not achieve their main goal in life. Many others do not even have a goal in life. This young kid, and I can say that because he was quite a bit younger than me, not only had a goal but had direction and persistence to make it happen.
However, it did make me think. Yes I have a goal in life, several in fact. But I would qualify my main goal as being to more completely understand what it means to be a follower of Christ and help as many others as I can to understand this as well. Not just to the saving knowledge of Jesus Christ but continue in the disciplining process as well. I am not doing well on this. Which brings me to my other thought.
Adenhart's untimely death points out that none of us, NOT ONE of us is guaranteed tomorrow. Not a single one of us. We may never reach our goal, we may be given more than we ever dreamed we would get. But that is totally out of our hands. I must do all I can to reach my goal now, for tomorrow may be too late.
I want to say something on this blog not just write about the inane things I do all day. No one wants to read that, and I certainly don't want to type a blow by blow account of my day. But I often find as I sit down to type, that that is exactly the stuff I start to type. I make these resolutions on what I am going to use this blog for and never really keep up with that. But I do not really know what all I am going to say. And what's more I say it in more than one place, as I often copy and paste this to the other blog, since I have changed and gone back and lost readers here and there. I am just trying to make it easier for those that have decided to try and keep up with me.
With this in mind and no I did not have this in mind when I started out this blog - what do you want to know? Ask me something, give me something to talk about, make me think about something. You my loyal reader will give me my next topic.
Today has been a good one. I have enjoyed it a lot. It hasn't been different, except for the first time since school started back we didn't have basketball practice today. The last game was Saturday and the awards ceremony will be Friday night. Maybe that was the reason I wasn't dreading today all day long. But it hasn't been like other Mondays lately. My friend Dana Twittered that Mondays get a bad rep because it is her most productive day. That statement caused me to look at Mondays differently. And well any other day as well. I want to look at them as an opportunity to accomplish something worthwhile.
As for establishing some better habits my kitchen is clean again. I know my two regular readers are sick of hearing me talk establishing routines again and again and again and..... you get the idea. But this keeps me accountable. And I keep trying. I have a tangible goal now. There are some reasons I have to get better about these things. I can't go into that right now, but remember my theme for the year is Prepare. I will be preparing for big things to come. They will come and I have somewhat of an inkling of some things I can start doing now, so that is what I am going to do.
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