Matt and I are so thankful to PBS's Daniel Tiger's Neighborhood and this awesome song we use almost daily with our kids to resolve fights:
Watch Daniel Tiger's Neighborhood: Find a Way to Play Together on PBS. See more from pbs.
Archives for January 2013
Feed My Starving Children
January 17, 2013 by Leave a Comment
Hey friends! I would really love your help!
I, along with The Valley and Vilonia friends, have put together a team to take part in this amazing ministry. This is just a tiny way we can help make disciples of all nations for as little as $0.22. Not only is Feed My Starving Children gonna feed thousands of people, they are sharing the life saving gospel with them.
I know if your local, we are volunteering to help pack these meals as well but with out donations to pay for them we will be useless.
Please help us feed starving children! 22c pays for 1 meal.
My challenge to you?
- Consider who you're feeding
- Set a $ amount rather than a person amount.
- Be creative!
- Go in with friends or family Plan a beans and rice dinner with your family and talk about the meals these kids eat regularly {use the money us saved for this ministry}
- Make a beans and rice party out of it with friends {taking loose change to feed kids}
- Here is another way to look at possible gifts.
We need YOUR help in reaching our miniscule goal. Please give whatever you can afford. THANKS!
Share your great ideas or goals!
Beef & Veggie Stew
January 17, 2013 by Leave a Comment
So our Arkansas winter went from 60'+ to snowing overnight. I'm constantly amazed my family isn't sick more often! When the weather turned frigged and there was not stank'n way I was heading out in it for groceries I was forced to hunt in the pantry, fridge, and deep freeze for what kind of heartiness I was going to feed my family. I know, 1st world problems, right!?
All of a sudden I had a hankering for some stew! I'd never made stew before and always thought you had to have fancy {expensive} stew meet to make it...then I realized that was crazy talk. That had never stopped me before. I then Googled {like every pro does} in search of a beef stew recipe I could tweek. I looked at several and realized I had the building blocks for a good stew already. SCORE! Here's what I came up with.
Beef and Vegetable Stew
I love 
recipes 😉
- I started by browning my lean ground beef in my pampered chef steamer {best way EVER to brown meat!}.
- I peeled, diced, and boiled my potatoes for about 30 minutes. I just waited until they were soft(er) not necessarily mashable.
- In a big pot I mixed the browned meat, tomato sauce, {already dissolved bouillon cute} beef broth, onion powder, pepper, and salt all together.
- I went in search of what other veggies I had and came up with a steamable bag of corn and a can of mixed peas and carrots. Yep, chunked all those veggies into the pot.
- After bringing it to a bowl and stirring consistently, I removed it from the heat and ate it up! 😉
Yay for yet another made up recipe. If I can do it and have my family eat it, You can!
“I wanna learn how to be a mommy”
January 16, 2013 by Leave a Comment
Today I'm guest posting over at the Mommy Blogging Director. I'm sharing about a family trip to everyone's favorite crafty store and an eye-opening encounter with my little girl. Go read how the statement, "But I wanna learn how to be a mommy; so I'm watching you..." has changed my view of the day-to-day.
Get it Together Already!
January 16, 2013 by Leave a Comment
I'm such a slacker! I found out about my sweet friends awesome book a while back and have failed to share it.
SORRY!
I've tried to make a notebook similar to this before. I used a scanky old falling apart tiny notebook left over from something. The entire thing was black and white. I had minimal importance to me...because it was ugly. Right? Lets face it, who wants to pull out something daily/weekly that's hideous. This notebook kinda represents...you. Then there's the whole, it was just Matt and I and now we've added a few more to the mix, I'm thinking I need to rework the ole "Family Notebook" rather than having 8 different places to keep this stuff.
This is Kayse: 
Isn't she just adorable! She writes over at KaysePratt.com. Easy enough to remember right? She has fixed my woes about my nasty, skank-tastic notebook and put it all in an eBook for me (and YOU).
Getting It Together is an eBook designed to help you set up your own Home Management System that works! It includes a step-by-step tutorial, and over 30 printables that you can use to start getting organized today!
Getting It Together includes…
- Top 5 reasons you need a home management system. She's sell ya!
- Step-by-step on how to creating your own HM binder.
- 30 printables! All the pretties and none of the hard work!!!
- Kayse's great sense of humor. She's so normal, love it!
Here’s how you can do just that…
- Purchase Getting It Together as a PDF! For just $3.99, you can immediately download the book and start using the printables. Easy peasy! Click here to buy now.
- Purchase Getting It Together for your Kindle! Also just $3.99, you can get this wirelessly delivered immediately. This version includes a link to the printables, so that you can download the PDFs onto your computer and print them off. Click here to buy now.
Let me know if ya get it. I'd LOVE to see pics of your fancy dancy new "Home Management System"!!!
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