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Sunday, September 21, 2008
Sunday, September 7, 2008
Have fun with your kids!
Have fun with your kids!
Here are 7 fun things that you can do with your child:
1. share your hobby - teach your children your hobby. We teach Izzy photography because we love to do this and getting her to love it means more time working on your hobby. It's a win win situation.
2. incentives – star stickers purchase incentives. Get your kids to do what you want by bribing them with incentives.
3. Make a game - kids love games especially when they help make it. Ask them what the rules are and how you win. You'll be amazed.
4. Make up a song - make up songs about everyday things.
5. Find kid friendly locations and see about a membership - we buy a membership every year to the Norfolk Botanical Gardens. There are plenty of kid friendly museums or places that offer family memberships. It might seem expensive at first until you think about how many times you can go in a year.
6. routines and dates - schedule dates with your kids and set up fun routines. Examples are pancakes on Friday or going to the park on Monday.
7. get them involved (shopping, cooking, sorting clothing) - everything is easier if your child isn't screaming. Have them help you shop by finding items you can't seem to find or sort clothing including trying to fold them (cross their arms then legs.)
Here are 7 fun things that you can do with your child:
1. share your hobby - teach your children your hobby. We teach Izzy photography because we love to do this and getting her to love it means more time working on your hobby. It's a win win situation.
2. incentives – star stickers purchase incentives. Get your kids to do what you want by bribing them with incentives.
3. Make a game - kids love games especially when they help make it. Ask them what the rules are and how you win. You'll be amazed.
4. Make up a song - make up songs about everyday things.
5. Find kid friendly locations and see about a membership - we buy a membership every year to the Norfolk Botanical Gardens. There are plenty of kid friendly museums or places that offer family memberships. It might seem expensive at first until you think about how many times you can go in a year.
6. routines and dates - schedule dates with your kids and set up fun routines. Examples are pancakes on Friday or going to the park on Monday.
7. get them involved (shopping, cooking, sorting clothing) - everything is easier if your child isn't screaming. Have them help you shop by finding items you can't seem to find or sort clothing including trying to fold them (cross their arms then legs.)
Daft Punk
During a sort of wasted hour I found this awesome video.
and you definately can't miss this one.
and you definately can't miss this one.
Cream Puffs
For The Puffs
1/2 cup butter
1 cup flour
1 cup boiling water
4 eggs
For The Filling
1/8 tablespoon salt
1/2 cup flour
3/4 cup sugar
1 egg
1 tablespoon vanilla
2 tablespoon butter
2 cup milk
First of all, for the puffs part, you need to boil the butter and water together until the butter is fully melted. You will then add 1 cup of flour and continue stirring the mixture rapidly to ensure that the mixture doesn't stick to side of the pan and burn.
Now, before you add in the eggs, switch off the fire and let it cool down first. As you add the eggs, make sure that you mix them well. Next, place the mixture on the grease cookie sheets and place them on the lowest rack in the oven. Bake them for about 30 minutes at 356 f.
Now it's the time to prepare the filling part. First of all, with a little cold milk, moisten the flour. Then heat the remaining milk for 15 minutes. While it is heating up, you need to slowly add in the flour which you have moistened earlier together with the beaten eggs, sugar and salt.
Make sure that you stir rapidly so that the mixtured doesn't stick to the bottom or side of the pan. Once the mixture is thick enough, you can add in the butter and vanilla. Let is cool down for a while and voila, you can now use the filling for your cream puff! Serve and enjoy!
As a note, these were very good but I cannot get them to come out properly. If you have any tips or tricks to make this recipe better let me know!
1/2 cup butter
1 cup flour
1 cup boiling water
4 eggs
For The Filling
1/8 tablespoon salt
1/2 cup flour
3/4 cup sugar
1 egg
1 tablespoon vanilla
2 tablespoon butter
2 cup milk
First of all, for the puffs part, you need to boil the butter and water together until the butter is fully melted. You will then add 1 cup of flour and continue stirring the mixture rapidly to ensure that the mixture doesn't stick to side of the pan and burn.
Now, before you add in the eggs, switch off the fire and let it cool down first. As you add the eggs, make sure that you mix them well. Next, place the mixture on the grease cookie sheets and place them on the lowest rack in the oven. Bake them for about 30 minutes at 356 f.
Now it's the time to prepare the filling part. First of all, with a little cold milk, moisten the flour. Then heat the remaining milk for 15 minutes. While it is heating up, you need to slowly add in the flour which you have moistened earlier together with the beaten eggs, sugar and salt.
Make sure that you stir rapidly so that the mixtured doesn't stick to the bottom or side of the pan. Once the mixture is thick enough, you can add in the butter and vanilla. Let is cool down for a while and voila, you can now use the filling for your cream puff! Serve and enjoy!
As a note, these were very good but I cannot get them to come out properly. If you have any tips or tricks to make this recipe better let me know!
Carrot Raisin Salad
Carrot Raisin Salad Recipe
Grated Carrot
Crushed Pecans
Raisins
Pineapple
Mayonaise
Sour Cream
Sugar
Pepper
Celery Seed
Lemon Juice
One of my favorite foods is carrot raisin salad. I don't know why but I love it. I couldn't remember the recipie so I made one up. It turned out great so I'll share.
Several carrots grated, Mayonaise (not too much)
Sour Cream (2 spoonfuls), Crushed pecans (handful)
Raisins, Crushed Pineapple (2 or 3 spoonfuls)
Sugar, Celery Seed, Black Pepper
Stir it all up and make sure to let it set in the fridge for at least an hour.
Grated Carrot
Crushed Pecans
Raisins
Pineapple
Mayonaise
Sour Cream
Sugar
Pepper
Celery Seed
Lemon Juice
One of my favorite foods is carrot raisin salad. I don't know why but I love it. I couldn't remember the recipie so I made one up. It turned out great so I'll share.
Several carrots grated, Mayonaise (not too much)
Sour Cream (2 spoonfuls), Crushed pecans (handful)
Raisins, Crushed Pineapple (2 or 3 spoonfuls)
Sugar, Celery Seed, Black Pepper
Stir it all up and make sure to let it set in the fridge for at least an hour.
Saturday, September 6, 2008
God's Garden
God left us a great clue as to what foods help what part of our body!
A sliced Carrot looks like the human eye. The pupil, iris and radiating lines look just like the human eye... and YES, science now shows carrots greatly enhance blood flow to and function of the eyes.
A Tomato has four chambers and is red. The heart has four chambers and is red. All of the research shows tomatoes are loaded with lycopine and are indeed pure heart and blood food.
Grapes hang in a cluster that has the shape of the heart. Each grape looks like a blood cell and all of the research today shows grapes are also profound heart and blood vitalizing food.
A Walnut looks like a little brain, a left and right hemisphere, upper cerebrums and lower cerebellums. Even the wrinkles or folds on the nut are just like the neo-cortex. We now know walnuts help develop more than three (3) dozen neuron-transmitters for brain function.
Kidney Beans actually heal and help maintain kidney function and yes, they look exactly like the human kidneys.
Celery, Bok Choy, Rhubarb and many more look just like bones. These foods specifically target bone strength. Bones are 23% sodium and these foods are 23% sodium. If you don't have enough sodium in your diet, the body pulls it from the bones, thus making them weak. These foods replenish the skeletal needs of the body.
Avocadoes, Eggplant and Pears target the health and function of the womb and cervix of the female - they look just like these organs. Today's research shows that when a woman eats one avocado a week, it balances hormones, sheds unwanted birth weight, and prevents cervical cancers. And how profound is this? It takes exactly nine (9) months to grow an avocado from blossom to ripened fruit. There are over 14,000 photolytic chemical constituents of nutrition in each one of these foods (mo dern science has only studied and named about 141 of them).
Figs are full of seeds and hang in twos when they grow. Figs increase the mobility of male sperm and increase the numbers of Sperm as well to overcome male sterility.
Sweet Potatoes look like the pancreas and actual ly bal ance the glycemic index of diabetics.
Olives assist the health and function of the ovaries
Oranges, Grapefruits, and other Citrus fruits look just l ike the mammary glands of the female and actually assist the health of the breasts and the movement of lymph in and out of the breasts.
Onions look like the body's cells. Today's research shows onions help clear waste materials from all of the body cells. They even produce tears which wash the epithelial layers of the eyes. A working companion, Garlic, also helps eliminate waste materials and dangerous free radicals from the body.
A sliced Carrot looks like the human eye. The pupil, iris and radiating lines look just like the human eye... and YES, science now shows carrots greatly enhance blood flow to and function of the eyes.
A Tomato has four chambers and is red. The heart has four chambers and is red. All of the research shows tomatoes are loaded with lycopine and are indeed pure heart and blood food.
Grapes hang in a cluster that has the shape of the heart. Each grape looks like a blood cell and all of the research today shows grapes are also profound heart and blood vitalizing food.
A Walnut looks like a little brain, a left and right hemisphere, upper cerebrums and lower cerebellums. Even the wrinkles or folds on the nut are just like the neo-cortex. We now know walnuts help develop more than three (3) dozen neuron-transmitters for brain function.
Kidney Beans actually heal and help maintain kidney function and yes, they look exactly like the human kidneys.
Celery, Bok Choy, Rhubarb and many more look just like bones. These foods specifically target bone strength. Bones are 23% sodium and these foods are 23% sodium. If you don't have enough sodium in your diet, the body pulls it from the bones, thus making them weak. These foods replenish the skeletal needs of the body.
Avocadoes, Eggplant and Pears target the health and function of the womb and cervix of the female - they look just like these organs. Today's research shows that when a woman eats one avocado a week, it balances hormones, sheds unwanted birth weight, and prevents cervical cancers. And how profound is this? It takes exactly nine (9) months to grow an avocado from blossom to ripened fruit. There are over 14,000 photolytic chemical constituents of nutrition in each one of these foods (mo dern science has only studied and named about 141 of them).
Figs are full of seeds and hang in twos when they grow. Figs increase the mobility of male sperm and increase the numbers of Sperm as well to overcome male sterility.
Sweet Potatoes look like the pancreas and actual ly bal ance the glycemic index of diabetics.
Olives assist the health and function of the ovaries
Oranges, Grapefruits, and other Citrus fruits look just l ike the mammary glands of the female and actually assist the health of the breasts and the movement of lymph in and out of the breasts.
Onions look like the body's cells. Today's research shows onions help clear waste materials from all of the body cells. They even produce tears which wash the epithelial layers of the eyes. A working companion, Garlic, also helps eliminate waste materials and dangerous free radicals from the body.
Did you know?
DID YOU KNOW?
Peel a banana from the bottom and you won't have to pick the little 'stringy things' off of it. That's how the primates do it.
Take your bananas apart when you get home from the store. If you leave them connected at the stem, they ripen faster.
Store your opened chunks of cheese in aluminum foil. It will stay fresh much longer and not mold!
Peppers with 3 bumps on the bottom are sweeter and better for eating. Peppers with 4 bumps on the bottom are firmer and better for cooking.
Add a teaspoon of water when frying ground beef. It will help pull the grease away from the meat while cooking.
To really make scrambled eggs or omelets rich add a couple of spoonfuls of sour cream, cream cheese, or heavy cream in and then beat them up.
For a cool brownie treat, make brownies as directed. Melt Andes mints in double broiler and pour over warm brownies. Let set for a wonderful minty frosting.
Add garlic immediately to a recipe if you want a light taste of garlic and at the end of the recipe if your want a stronger taste of garlic.
Leftover snickers bars from Halloween make a delicious dessert. Simply chop them up with the food chopper. Peel, core and slice a few apples. Place them in a baking dish and sprinkle the chopped candy bars over the apples. Bake at 350 for 15 minutes!!! Serve alone or with vanilla ice cream. Yummm!
Reheat Pizza Heat up leftover pizza in a nonstick skillet on top of the stove, set heat to med-low and heat till warm. This keeps the crust crispy. No soggy micro pizza.
Easy Deviled Eggs Put cooked egg yolks in a zip lock bag. Seal, mash till they are all broken up. Add remainder of ingredients, reseal, keep mashing it up mixing thoroughly, cut the tip of the baggy, squeeze mixture into egg. Just throw bag away when done easy clean up.
Expanding Frosting When you buy a container of cake frosting from the store, whip it with your mixer for a few minutes. You can double it in size. You get to frost more cake/cupcakes with the same amount. You also eat less sugar and calories per serving.
Reheating refrigerated bread To warm biscuits, pancakes, or muffins that were refrigerated, place them in a microwave with a cup of water. The increased moisture will keep the food moist and help it reheat faster.
Newspaper weeds away Start putting in your plants, work the nutrients in your soil. Wet newspapers, put layers around the plants overlapping as you go cover with mulch and forget about weeds. Weeds will get through some gardening plastic they will not
get through wet newspapers.
Broken Glass Use a wet cotton ball or Q-tip to pick up the small shards of glass you can't see easily.
No More Mosquitoes Place a dryer sheet in your pocket. It will keep the mosquitoes away.
Squirrel Away! To keep squirrels from eating your plants, sprinkle your plants with cayenne pepper. The cayenne pepper doesn't hurt the plant and the squirrels won't come near it.
Flexible vacuum To get something out of a heat register or under the fridge add an empty paper towel roll or empty gift wrap roll to your vacuum. It can be bent or flattened to get in narrow openings.
Reducing Static Cling Pin a small safety pin to the seam of your slip and you will not have a clingy skirt or dress. Same thing works with slacks that cling when wearing panty hose. Place pin in seam of slacks and ... ta da! ... static is gone.
Measuring Cups Before you pour sticky substances into a measuring cup, fill with hot water. Dump out the hot water, but don't dry cup. Next, add your ingredient, such as peanut butter, and watch how easily it comes right out.
Foggy Windshield? Hate foggy windshields? Buy a chalkboard eraser and keep it in the glove box of your car When the window s fog, rub with the eraser! Works better than a cloth!
Reopening envelope If you seal an envelope and then realize you forgot to include something inside, just place your sealed envelope in the freezer for an hour or two. Viola! It unseals easily.
Conditioner Use your hair conditioner to shave your legs. It's cheaper than shaving cream and leaves your legs really smooth. It's also a great way to use up the conditioner you bought but didn't like when you tried it in your hair.
Goodbye Fruit Flies To get rid of pesky fruit flies, take a small glass, fill it 1/2 with Apple Cider Vinegar and 2 drops of dish washing liquid; mix well. You will find those flies drawn to the cup and gone forever!
Get Rid of Ants Put small piles of cornmeal where you see ants. They eat it, take it home, can't digest it so it kills them. It may take a week or so, especially if it rains, but it works and you don't have the worry about pets or small children being harmed!
Peel a banana from the bottom and you won't have to pick the little 'stringy things' off of it. That's how the primates do it.
Take your bananas apart when you get home from the store. If you leave them connected at the stem, they ripen faster.
Store your opened chunks of cheese in aluminum foil. It will stay fresh much longer and not mold!
Peppers with 3 bumps on the bottom are sweeter and better for eating. Peppers with 4 bumps on the bottom are firmer and better for cooking.
Add a teaspoon of water when frying ground beef. It will help pull the grease away from the meat while cooking.
To really make scrambled eggs or omelets rich add a couple of spoonfuls of sour cream, cream cheese, or heavy cream in and then beat them up.
For a cool brownie treat, make brownies as directed. Melt Andes mints in double broiler and pour over warm brownies. Let set for a wonderful minty frosting.
Add garlic immediately to a recipe if you want a light taste of garlic and at the end of the recipe if your want a stronger taste of garlic.
Leftover snickers bars from Halloween make a delicious dessert. Simply chop them up with the food chopper. Peel, core and slice a few apples. Place them in a baking dish and sprinkle the chopped candy bars over the apples. Bake at 350 for 15 minutes!!! Serve alone or with vanilla ice cream. Yummm!
Reheat Pizza Heat up leftover pizza in a nonstick skillet on top of the stove, set heat to med-low and heat till warm. This keeps the crust crispy. No soggy micro pizza.
Easy Deviled Eggs Put cooked egg yolks in a zip lock bag. Seal, mash till they are all broken up. Add remainder of ingredients, reseal, keep mashing it up mixing thoroughly, cut the tip of the baggy, squeeze mixture into egg. Just throw bag away when done easy clean up.
Expanding Frosting When you buy a container of cake frosting from the store, whip it with your mixer for a few minutes. You can double it in size. You get to frost more cake/cupcakes with the same amount. You also eat less sugar and calories per serving.
Reheating refrigerated bread To warm biscuits, pancakes, or muffins that were refrigerated, place them in a microwave with a cup of water. The increased moisture will keep the food moist and help it reheat faster.
Newspaper weeds away Start putting in your plants, work the nutrients in your soil. Wet newspapers, put layers around the plants overlapping as you go cover with mulch and forget about weeds. Weeds will get through some gardening plastic they will not
get through wet newspapers.
Broken Glass Use a wet cotton ball or Q-tip to pick up the small shards of glass you can't see easily.
No More Mosquitoes Place a dryer sheet in your pocket. It will keep the mosquitoes away.
Squirrel Away! To keep squirrels from eating your plants, sprinkle your plants with cayenne pepper. The cayenne pepper doesn't hurt the plant and the squirrels won't come near it.
Flexible vacuum To get something out of a heat register or under the fridge add an empty paper towel roll or empty gift wrap roll to your vacuum. It can be bent or flattened to get in narrow openings.
Reducing Static Cling Pin a small safety pin to the seam of your slip and you will not have a clingy skirt or dress. Same thing works with slacks that cling when wearing panty hose. Place pin in seam of slacks and ... ta da! ... static is gone.
Measuring Cups Before you pour sticky substances into a measuring cup, fill with hot water. Dump out the hot water, but don't dry cup. Next, add your ingredient, such as peanut butter, and watch how easily it comes right out.
Foggy Windshield? Hate foggy windshields? Buy a chalkboard eraser and keep it in the glove box of your car When the window s fog, rub with the eraser! Works better than a cloth!
Reopening envelope If you seal an envelope and then realize you forgot to include something inside, just place your sealed envelope in the freezer for an hour or two. Viola! It unseals easily.
Conditioner Use your hair conditioner to shave your legs. It's cheaper than shaving cream and leaves your legs really smooth. It's also a great way to use up the conditioner you bought but didn't like when you tried it in your hair.
Goodbye Fruit Flies To get rid of pesky fruit flies, take a small glass, fill it 1/2 with Apple Cider Vinegar and 2 drops of dish washing liquid; mix well. You will find those flies drawn to the cup and gone forever!
Get Rid of Ants Put small piles of cornmeal where you see ants. They eat it, take it home, can't digest it so it kills them. It may take a week or so, especially if it rains, but it works and you don't have the worry about pets or small children being harmed!
One Hour Per Day
I've started reading a pretty good book. It's called Kiss Guide to Organizing your Life by Dr. Donald Wetmore. It's pretty interesting and there was something that really struck me so I'm going to share it with you.
He talks about continuing to learn and ways to find time to learn. He stated that in the next 3-5 years a person could master a foreign language, write a great book, develop and become an expert at a new hobby or develop your own part-time business. Anyone can do this if they use 1 hour a day towards what they want to learn.
There are several things that I would like to accomplish. I would like to write an instructional series on how to teach children photography. I would like to write and photograph a book about Hampton Roads. I would like to write a parenting book based off my experiences as a case manager and my own experience as a parent. I want to fully develop Smile Shoot Print, which is our photography business. I want to write a guide on case management and further my skills as a case manager. I want to flesh out my online shops for design.
This sounds like quite a bit but it can be broken down into 4 categories: photography, design, parenting and case management.
I am going to use this blog to track where I'm using my one hour a day to further these goals.
1. Book: Teaching children photography.
2. Book: Scenic History of Hampton Roads
3. Book: parenting book
4. Book: Tips for case managers
5. Business: Smile Shoot Print
6. Online Shops: Spencer Photos, Izzy Bella's Kid Shop, Posh Decor and Lippy Girl
He talks about continuing to learn and ways to find time to learn. He stated that in the next 3-5 years a person could master a foreign language, write a great book, develop and become an expert at a new hobby or develop your own part-time business. Anyone can do this if they use 1 hour a day towards what they want to learn.
There are several things that I would like to accomplish. I would like to write an instructional series on how to teach children photography. I would like to write and photograph a book about Hampton Roads. I would like to write a parenting book based off my experiences as a case manager and my own experience as a parent. I want to fully develop Smile Shoot Print, which is our photography business. I want to write a guide on case management and further my skills as a case manager. I want to flesh out my online shops for design.
This sounds like quite a bit but it can be broken down into 4 categories: photography, design, parenting and case management.
I am going to use this blog to track where I'm using my one hour a day to further these goals.
1. Book: Teaching children photography.
2. Book: Scenic History of Hampton Roads
3. Book: parenting book
4. Book: Tips for case managers
5. Business: Smile Shoot Print
6. Online Shops: Spencer Photos, Izzy Bella's Kid Shop, Posh Decor and Lippy Girl
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