Dec. 2013 Important Gifts for Children, Seize the Moments, Recipes, En glish
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SEIZE THE MOMENTS
HURRY-UP NO-BAKE FRUIT AND NUT COCONUT BALLS
HOMEMADE SEASONING SALT
(On the two Heart to Heart Blogs)
Christmas:
by Empowered Sustenance
(Grain free, optionally dairy free, optionally egg free AND nut free)
http://empoweredsustenance.com/paleo-thanksgiving-menu/
This is the menu I created for my family's Thanksgiving. It fits my limited diet but all of the dishes meet my family's "regular food" standard. You can make most of the dishes up to two days ahead - I've outlined the game plan - so you can enjoy more family time and less last-minute food preparation!
Grandparents, you can team up with your children's parents and help with some of these!
by Kelly Crawford - Thanks to Jalisa Wenger in Pennsylvania for sharing this beautiful poem!
How about reading the Christmas story from Luke 2:1-11 on Christmas morning before opening gifts? Another idea might be for your children or grandchildren to dress up and act out the Christmas story according to Luke 2!
by Eva K. Logue – Contributed by Annamarie Kresge of Virginia
A Christmas candle is a lovely thing;
It makes no noise at all,
But softly gives itself away;
While quite unselfish, it grows small.
Author Unknown - Contributed by Elsie Wertz of Virginia
(Need a batch of colorful cookies in a big hurry, without baking them? Try this recipe.)
2 cups pecans or almonds, chopped
1 cup dried apricot, finely chopped
1 ½ cups coconut, shredded and unsweetened
honey or maple syrup - just enough to hold together
Place sharp blade in food processor. With the machine running, alternately add the nuts, dried apricots, cranberries and sweetener until well mixed. It will form a ball when done. Hand roll into small balls; set aside. Place coconut in a shallow bowl and roll the fruit and nut balls in the coconut, coating them well, before arranging them on a serving dish. These freeze well. Yield: 25 Coconut Balls
Contributed by Margie DeMonbrun of Missouri
Cook this breakfast casserole in your crockpot while you sleep!
1 bag (26 oz.) frozen hash browns
12 eggs
1 cup milk (I use coconut milk)
1 Tbsp. ground mustard
1 Tbsp. Worcestershire sauce
salt and pepper
16 oz. bag shredded cheddar cheese
Begin by browning the sausage in a pan while you start the other ingredients.
Coat inside of crockpot with coconut oil, and evenly spread hash browns in the bottom.
Crack 12 eggs into a large bowl and beat with wire whisk.
To the eggs, add milk, ground mustard, Worcestershire sauce, salt and pepper. Mix well and set aside.
When sausage is browned, drain off grease and spread sausage evenly over hash browns.
Pour egg mixture over everything in the crockpot.
Turn on the crockpot to LOW and cook for 6-8 hours.
Turn off and let set before serving.
Delicious!
A few variations you may want to consider adding:
red, green, orange and yellow bell peppers, chopped
green onions, diced
salsa
chopped pimentos
- 4 Salmon fillets
- 4 tsp Dijon mustard
- 1 cup fine bread crumbs
- Approximately 4 hazelnuts finely chopped in food processor or blender
- Sea salt
- Fresh ground pepper
- Fresh parsley
- 2 tsp Italian seasoning
- Preheat oven to 375.
- Place salmon file ts in baking dish greased with coconut oil or olive oil.
- Brush light coat of mustard on top of the fillet.
- Sprinkle lightly with sea salt.
- Mix together (or use a blender to make super fine) the breadcrumbs, hazelnuts, Italian seasoning, 2 sprigs of fresh parsley and salt and pepper to taste.
- Add to the top of the salmon.
- Bake for approximately 20 minutes or until fish is opaque and tops are lightly browned.
- Garnish each fillet with a sprig of parsley.
- Serve with rice.
HOMEMADE SEASONING SALT
Makes about 3/4 cup
1/4 cup Norri flakes
2 TBL dried parsley
3 tsp dried celery
2 tsp paprika
1 tsp dried thyme
1 tsp dried marjoram
1/2 tsp onion powder
1/2 tsp garlic powder
1/4 tsp dill
(Made with black olives, carrot, cream cheese and toothpicks)
I plan to do this with my grandchildren when we get together! For a picture and instructions, go to: heartfilledhomerecipes.blogspot.com/2013/11/adorable-penguin-appetizers.html
Thanks to Lucy Poland for letting me know about this cute craft!
A great craft for a women's group as well as one to do with your children and grandchildren!
For this craft, you'll need a pair of old socks that are crew length, or longer, rice, rubber bands, map pins with heads, buttons, any left over fabric if you want for a scarf. First, cut off the top of the sock from the foot. Turn the sock inside out and attach a rubber band tightly to the top of the sock. Then turn the sock right-side out again. Fill the sock with rice. Make sure to pack it down as you go so the sock gets a nice round base. Rubber band the top of the sock closed and put another rubber band 3/4 of the way to the top for the head of your snowman. Now, decorate! Tie a scarf around your snowman's neck and add eyes, nose, and buttons. Use the toe of your cut socks to fashion a stocking cap. Or you could use colored argyle socks to create hats and sweaters for your snowman. You can either sew or glue on your buttons, and add embellishments - twine, bows, ribbons, etc - as needed. This is such a quick and easy craft - 10 minutes tops - that it would be simple to create a whole family of snowmen for your mantle!
Easily Find the End of Masking Tape, Packaging or Duct Tape by placing a paper clip at the end of the roll.
Use Your Car Seat Warmer to keep food warm that you are delivering to a friend. Or keep a pizza warm that you are taking home to the family!
Short of Counter Space? Pull out a drawer and place a large cutting board on it for extra space. Some kitchens have a very handy built-in cutting board above a drawer that can be pulled out.
You could have lots of fun with this as your family gathers for Thanksgiving and Christmas!
Homographs are words of like spelling but with more than one meaning.
I think a retired English teacher was bored.
Read all the way to the end.................
This took a lot of work to put together!
1) The bandage was wound around the wound.
2) The farm was used to produce produce.
3) The dump was so full that it had to refuse more refuse.
4) We must polish the Polish furniture.
5) He could lead if he would get the lead out.
6) The soldier decided to desert his dessert in the desert.
7) Since there is no time like the present, he thought it was time to present the present.
8) A bass was painted on the head of the bass drum.
9) When shot at, the dove dove into the bushes.
10) I did not object to the object.
11) The insurance was invalid for the invalid.
12) There was a row among the oarsmen about how to row.
13) They were too close to the door to close it.
14) The buck does funny things when the does are present.
15) A seamstress and a sewer fell down into a sewer line.
16) To help with planting, the farmer taught his sow to sow.
17) The wind was too strong to wind the sail.
18) Upon seeing the tear in the painting I shed a tear.
19) I had to subject the subject to a series of tests.
20) How can I intimate this to my most intimate friend?
Let's face it - English is a crazy language. There is no egg in eggplant, nor ham in hamburger; neither apple nor pine in pineapple. English muffins weren't invented in England or French fries in France . Sweetmeats are candies while sweetbreads, which aren't sweet, are meat. We take English for granted. But if we explore its paradoxes, we find that quicksand can work slowly, boxing rings are square and a guinea pig is neither from Guinea nor is it a pig.
And why is it that writers write but fingers don't fing, grocers don't groce and hammers don't ham? If the plural of tooth is teeth, why isn't the plural of booth, beeth? One goose, 2 geese. So one moose, 2 meese? One index, 2 indices? Doesn't it seem crazy that you can make amends but not one amend? If you have a bunch of odds and ends and get rid of all but one of them, what do you call it?
If teachers taught, why didn't preachers praught? If a vegetarian eats vegetables, what does a humanitarian eat? Sometimes I think all the English speakers should be committed to an asylum for the verbally insane. In what language do people recite at a play and play at a recital? Ship by truck and send cargo by ship? Have noses that run and feet that smell?
How can a slim chance and a fat chance be the same, while a wise man and a wise guy are opposites? You have to marvel at the unique lunacy of a language in which your house can burn up as it burns down, in which you fill in a form by filling it out and in which, an alarm goes off by going on.
English was invented by people, not computers, and it reflects the creativity of the human race, which, of course, is not a race at all. That is why, when the stars are out, they are visible, but when the lights are out, they are invisible.
PS. - Why doesn't 'Buick' rhyme with 'quick' ?
You lovers of the English language might enjoy this:
There is a two-letter word that perhaps has more meanings than any other two-letter word, and that is 'UP.'
It's easy to understand UP, meaning toward the sky or at the top of the list, but when we awaken in the morning, why do we wake UP ?
At a meeting, why does a topic come UP?
Why do we speak UP and why are the officers UP for election and why is it UP to the secretary to write UP a report?
We call UP our friends.
And we use it to brighten UP a room, polish UP the silver; we warm UP the leftovers and clean UP the kitchen.
We lock UP the house and some guys fix UP the old car.
At other times the little word has real special meaning.
People stir UP trouble, line UP for tickets, work UP an appetite, and think UP excuses.
To be dressed is one thing, but to be dressed UP is special.
A drain must be opened UP because it is stopped UP.
We open UP a store in the morning but we close it UP at night.
We seem to be pretty mixed UP about UP!
To be knowledgeable about the proper uses of UP, look the word UP in the dictionary.
In a desk-sized dictionary, it takes UP almost 1/4th of the page and can add UP to about thirty definitions.
If you are UP to it, you might try building UP a list of the many ways UP is used.
It will take UP a lot of your time, but if you don't give UP, you may wind UP with a hundred or more.
When it threatens to rain, we say it is clouding UP.
When the sun comes out we say it is clearing Up.
When it rains, it wets the earth and often messes things UP.
When it doesn't rain for awhile, things dry UP.
Thanks so much, ladies, for your contributions and permission!
Our family has been so excited about having some missionaries in our home this week! As evidenced by three year old, Julianne's question as soon as she woke up from her afternoon nap: "When will the disciples be here?" ~ Jennifer in Virginia
I told Karlie that the date was 11-12-13, and she adds, "Wow, I am 10 on 11-12-13!" ~ Julie in Washington
We were eating out after church one Sunday night and Sophie (2) was just messing with her hamburger so one of us took it and I think maybe threw it away. She looked around and asked, "Hey! Where did my my ham a booga booga go?" We all burst out laughing. Of course, you just have to be there in person and see the animation! ~ Janet in Virginia (Grammy)
When I picked up the kids from school, a little boy says, "Amiya, your mommy doesn't look like you."Amiya (5): "Well, we all look different." ~ Blonde, fair-skinned mama, Danielle, who with her husband, adopted twins from Uganda (Good answer!) Note to self: Don't ask a question unless you're prepared to hear the answer.
Me (teaching from Trevor's health book): So what's another good thing to see with your eyes? How about the faces of people you love?
Trevor (6): Yep.
Me: Would you be sad if you couldn't see my face anymore?
Trevor: Yeah, but when I get married I probably won't see your face anymore.
Well, at least I know where I stand! ~ Jennifer in Virginia
Malakai (5): "Know what? I make our teacher laugh so hard because I'm soooo cute!" ~ Danielle in Alabama
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I pray each of you found something in this edition to bless, encourage and teach you!
Please remember to pray for each dear Heart to Heart lady and her family,
because so many ladies are going through very tough times and need our prayers!
Some have lost loved ones, others have lost jobs, homes, or their good health.
Pray each day for the protection of our troops, and for their families left at home,
as well as adjustment and employment after they return home.
God bless you and your family and keep you in His loving care!
Your "Heart to Heart" friend
Lois
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