Faithfully Feeding Family, Week Three Handout: Butternut Squash Soup
I have never been a big fan of squash, but I found this recipe a year or two ago and I absolutely love it. It’s filling, yummy, and good for me.
Faithfully Feeding Family, Week Three Notes: Healthy Eating
This week’s topic was Healthy Eating. We can go at this in a lot of different ways, but one thing I wanted to focus on was our motivation and discipline. I think it’s easy to simply and generally want to eat healthy, but what is it that will actually drive us to it. We have…
Faithfully Feeding Family, Week Two Handouts: Meal Planning
Faithfully Feeding Family, Week Two Notes: Meal Planning
The most requested information from our first week together was for some pointers on meal planning. I’m not an expert on this, but I have learned a lot over the last few years and below is everything I could think of that might make things run more smoothly for other meal makers.
Faithfully Feeding Family, Week One Handout
This is the handout I gave our participants Thursday night…I am simply copying and pasting here and you can do the same. Copy this into a Word doc. and print as needed.
Faithfully Feeding Family, Week One Notes
This first week we discussed the threats facing our kids in our current society. We made quesadillas and I handed out these 10 “health threats” on little strips of paper to discuss as we eat, just as a family could around a dinner table. The discussion notes in the following outline were in my notes,…
Even the Sparrow
“Even the sparrow finds a home, and the swallow a nest for herself, where she may lay her young, at Your altars, O Lord of hosts, my King and my God.” Psalm 84:3 We have been looking at houses. The search has taken us to the heights of excitement and to the lows of disappointment.
Mom Like Manning
Winter in Tennessee is not our best time for offering beauty. The grasses are mostly brown, the trees are bare and the sky is more often gray than blue. Thankfully, seasons change, they don’t last, and though I wish fall lasted longer, and that spring would come earlier, and that summer weren’t so hot, and…
Yes Ma’am
For the past few frigid days I have been driving Owen (now 14 and almost 6 feet tall) to the end of the street to wait for the bus in my car so he isn’t walking and standing in the below freezing cold air. As we sit there we often have conversations about relationships and…
Getting Started
I’m almost convinced I can start school on Monday. I got my final curriculum book yesterday and my spreadsheets are all set up. I am hesitantly feeling ready.