{"id":16414,"date":"2015-08-23T20:16:07","date_gmt":"2015-08-24T01:16:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bekahcubed.menterz.com\/blog\/?p=16414"},"modified":"2015-08-23T20:16:07","modified_gmt":"2015-08-24T01:16:07","slug":"recap-2015-08-23","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/bekahcubed.menterz.com\/blog\/2015\/20150823-16414.htm","title":{"rendered":"Recap (2015.08.23)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>In my spirit:<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Considering how proper motivation keeps our theology from going off the tracks (1 Timothy, see <a href=\"http:\/\/bekahcubed.menterz.com\/blog\/2015\/20150821-16422.htm\"\">&#8220;Why Do I Study God?<\/a>)<\/li>\n<li>Having just taught the fall to my three-year-old Sunday School class, I&#8217;m pondering anew how God provides everything we need, how His rules are for our good, how Satan lies, AND how God responds to our sin by providing a serpent-crushing Savior. What a God.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>In the living room:<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>I started doing &#8220;real&#8221; knee pushups this week instead of this wimp-out version I learned while I was pregnant (when my belly wouldn&#8217;t allow me to do the real kind). Those real ones definitely give the back and shoulders a better workout.<\/li>\n<li>Tirzah Mae was teething this week &#8211; so I&#8217;m learning to roll with the punches and resume cleaning routines when I can.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>In the kitchen:<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Tuna Rotini. I don&#8217;t remember ever using a recipe to make this main-dish tuna and pasta salad &#8211; but I&#8217;ve been making it since I was ten or so, and it&#8217;s always a great hot-weather meal. We almost had it as a picnic on Monday (except that I forgot to grab the picnic basket with the utensils and plates, so we brought it back home and ate it at the table.)<\/li>\n<li>Great-Grams&#8217; Spaghetti &#8211; Great Grams was Italian and her recipe has been passed down to daughter-in-law after daughter-in-law, until it got to me. We LOVE it.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>In the nursery:<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>After just two days of near constant nursing, Tirzah Mae&#8217;s second front-bottom tooth emerged.<\/li>\n<li>Daniel and I have long enjoyed blowing raspberries on Tirzah Mae&#8217;s tummy &#8211; but this week she learned to reciprocate.<\/li>\n<li>Another new skill this week: clapping.<\/li>\n<li>Also, the diaper changing gymnastics are on.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>In the craft room:<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Due to unusual body morphology, I&#8217;ve long had difficulties finding shirts that fit. My current shirts are pretty much all stretched out, having made it through a pregnancy (nope, I never ended up buying any maternity stuff). I considered going to the store to purchase some new ones (knowing my usual difficulties) &#8211; and then decided I&#8217;d see if I could draft myself a good pattern so I could just make myself some that really fit. I spent a good part of the weekend working on it &#8211; and have finally arrived at a basic t-shirt pattern that should work well.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>In the library:<\/strong><br \/>\n<em>aka &#8220;Books added to TBR list&#8221;<\/em><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><em>The Case of the Missing Moonstone<\/em> by Jordan Stratford (added based on <a href=\"http:\/\/hopeisthewordblog.com\/2015\/08\/14\/the-case-of-the-missing-moonstone-by-jordan-stratford\/\">Amy&#8217;s Review<\/a>)<\/li>\n<li><em>Between You and Me: Confessions of a Comma Queen<\/em> by Mary Norris (added based on <a href=\"https:\/\/supratentorial.wordpress.com\/2015\/08\/08\/june-and-july-reading-2\/\">Alice&#8217;s Review<\/a> &#8211; I like me a good grammar story :-P)<\/li>\n<li><em>Circus Mirandus<\/em> by Cassie Beasley  (added based on <a href=\"http:\/\/www.semicolonblog.com\/?p=24437\">Sherry&#8217;s review<\/a>)<\/li>\n<li><em>Lilliput<\/em> by Sam Gayton (added based on <a href=\"http:\/\/www.readingtoknow.com\/2015\/08\/lilliput-by-sam-gayton.html\">Carrie&#8217;s review<\/a> &#8211; I don&#8217;t have a problem with fan-fic, and I liked <em>Gulliver&#8217;s Travels<\/em>)<\/li>\n<li><em>Pippi Longstocking<\/em> by Astrid Lindgren (added based on <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sunlitpages.com\/2015\/08\/pippi-longstocking-by-astrid-lindgren.html\">Amy&#8217;s Review<\/a> &#8211; and seriously, why haven&#8217;t I already read this?)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>In the garden:<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Rain, rain, and more rain this week means&#8230; cucumbers, but not enough sun to ripen my tomatoes.<\/li>\n<li>I sat down and started working up a plan for next year&#8217;s garden &#8211; I think I might end up trying to triple my garden size next year (from 1 to 3 4&#215;8 beds.) Am I crazy, or is this doable? I&#8217;ve got a nice amount now for eating, but would really like to be able to preserve some next year.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>On the land:<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>We had our four-corners no-start survey on Monday &#8211; so we now know what land we <em>actually<\/em> own (as opposed to guessing based on where the fences are and the neighbors have mowed!)<\/li>\n<li>And we went out and staked out the house (and where the driveway culvert will go) with our builder yesterday. Moving right along!<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>On the web:<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.challies.com\/articles\/9-parenting-truths-from-john-piper\">9 Parenting Truths from John Piper<\/a> &#8211;<br \/>\n<blockquote><p>&#8220;Be radically consistent and authentic in your own faith \u2014 not just in behavior, but in affections. Kids need to see how precious Jesus is to mom and dad.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>~John Piper<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>I love this &#8211; especially because this was something I saw modeled so well. I was recently telling a friend what it meant to me as a child to see my dad tear up as he read the gospel in some passage of Scripture, so overwhelmed he was by the grace of God. That&#8217;s a heritage that can&#8217;t be forgotten.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In my spirit: Considering how proper motivation keeps our theology from going off the tracks (1 Timothy, see<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"ngg_post_thumbnail":0},"categories":[20],"tags":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/bekahcubed.menterz.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16414"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/bekahcubed.menterz.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/bekahcubed.menterz.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bekahcubed.menterz.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bekahcubed.menterz.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=16414"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"http:\/\/bekahcubed.menterz.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16414\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16435,"href":"http:\/\/bekahcubed.menterz.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16414\/revisions\/16435"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/bekahcubed.menterz.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16414"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bekahcubed.menterz.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16414"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bekahcubed.menterz.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16414"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}