Journals

So I just started doing this and maybe you awesome moms already do this, but I really love it and I think it will be a great gift to my kids some day....

I decided I would buy three journals--one for each kid--and I put them by my bed. At night before I go to bed I write in them--well, not every night yet--but I write in them about my kids that day. Things they did, we did, things they said and what I am concerned about or working on improving at the time.

I don't always write long entries, but even a paragraph is something especially if you keep it up over time.

Anyway, I thought I would share this idea because of how much I enjoy doing it. I used to Blog quite a bit of the details about my kids, but I don't really do that as much anymore--I don't want that information on the Internet, for one, and two, I don't want to bore everyone, and three, some of my information just seems too private to share sometimes, but anyway just an idea for you all!

Happy Mothers Day!

Happy Mothers Day to some of my favorite Mommies! Hope you all have a wonderful day!
Thanks for being such great examples to me!
love
sheri

Mom's Wheat Bread

Okay I just thought I'd share this yummy and easy as pie recipe with you all. It is my new favorite. Well.....it's been a favorite since my mom made it all the time. I have made it the last two Fridays and my boys love it! Hope you do too!

Whole Wheat Bread
12 C. flour
5 C. hot water
2/3 C. oil
2/3 C. honey
2 T. salt
2 T. yeast (heaping) or 2 pkg

Put water in Bosch and add 7 cups flour. Mix for 1 to 2 min. Add oil, honey, and salt. Mix 1 to 2 min. Mix yeast with remaining flour. Add to mixture in Bosch. Knead for 10 min. Add more flour if not coming away from walls. Too thick add warm water. Turn out on oiled counter. Put in cold oven at 350 for 30 min.. Makes 4 loaves. If bread sounds hollow when tapping the tops—done. Grease the tops.

Yummy!

Rock on P90X

I'm sure I wasn't the only one inspired by Sarah's (AKA: Buff Girl) rock hard abs from P90X. So I got the program and am almost finished my 1st 30 days. I feel totally great. This is a kick your butt after baby workout if anyone else is looking for one. Now Marsh, my sis, Dad and our good friend are all doing it. I have so much more energy, even though I am constantly in work out clothes with dirty hair, but who cares because that's worth a nice bum later on!!

OK I'm sure not posting my wretched before photos but maybe I'll slide in an after when I treat myself to a new bathing suit after my second 30 days.

Krista, did you start yet?

Homemakers

Just an awesome quote I came across on my friend's blog that reminded me of some wonderful ladies:

"The homemaker has the ultimate career. All other careers exist for one purpose only-and that is to support this ultimate career."
-C.S. Lewis

The 30 meal plan

nannygoat: What the heck it the 30 meal plan?

Here is the link to the recipe plan I was telling you all about. I am still in the gathering recipes stage but I can see supreme meal organization in my near future! Check it out and see what you think. If enough of you want to try it we could each submit five of our favorite, make all the time, recipes to swap and them we should all have enough to make our cards.

Cookies, Recipes and Prophets

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Looking for a way to teach kids about the importance of following prophets? Today in sharing time I used this cookie object lesson. (I brought in three plates with the bad, better and best cookies on them for the kids to see and taste test).

Yesterday, Braden and I decided to make some sugar cookies together—they sounded good. We found a recipe book, found the ingredients we needed and put them all on the table. Then we closed the recipe book and started cooking. We didn't know how much of each ingredient we needed because we had closed the recipe book, so we just started guessing how much salt, eggs, baking soda, flour, sugar, vanilla, oil and cream of tartar we would need. We weren't sure what temperature we should cook the cookies at or for how long, but we made our best guess and put the cookies in.

After the cookies were done, we decided we would try our cookies. They tasted very hard and salty. Braden started to make funny faces. I asked Afton if she liked them and she sweetly said, “yes mom, I did.” I asked her where her cookie was and she said, oh, I put it back there on the plate—it had one little bite out of it.”

What went wrong? We didn't read the instructions that were given by the AUTHOR on how to prepare the cookies and they resulted in something undesirable.

So, we decided we would try again. This time we read the instructions and started mixing the cookies. The recipe called for egg yolks, but we decided it probably wouldn't hurt if we just put in the egg and the whites. It called for shortening, but we were pretty sure that we could just use oil. We mixed the dough, rolled them into circles, and we put them in the oven and waited for the cookies to cook. After several minutes, Afton started pointing at them in the oven—mom the cookies are bubbling!! Sure enough, I went to look at the cookies and they were as thin as a sheet of paper and bubbling on top. What happened!?! I took them out and stared at them. We had followed the instructions. Hadn't we? Then we started to think back. We didn't follow the instructions precisely; we had decided to put the egg whites in and to use oil instead of shortening. Wow, not following the recipe exactly had really made a difference in how our cookies turned out.

Finally, we decided to try a third time, and follow the instructions exactly. The result. A delicious, soft, sugar cookie.

A recipe is a set of instructions that describe how to prepare or make something. Prophets give us instructions to describe how to prepare us to meet Jesus Christ and to lead happier, Christ-like lives. Prophets strengthen our families by showing us how to follow Jesus Christ and walk in His light. If we don't read the instructions we are given from our prophets, we won't become like Heavenly Father intended us to become. If we read some of the instructions but decide to only follow the instructions we think are important and ignore the others, we will be better, but not our best. It is important to heed all of the words and instructions from our prophets to enjoy the ultimate sweet reward of reaching our full potential and returning to live with our Heavenly Father again forever.

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