{"id":17681,"date":"2017-01-22T18:25:54","date_gmt":"2017-01-23T00:25:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bekahcubed.menterz.com\/blog\/?p=17681"},"modified":"2017-01-22T18:25:54","modified_gmt":"2017-01-23T00:25:54","slug":"recap-2017-01-21","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/bekahcubed.menterz.com\/blog\/2017\/20170122-17681.htm","title":{"rendered":"Recap (2017.01.21)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>In my spirit:<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Rejoicing in <a href=\"blog\/2017\/20170119-17668.htm\">progress<\/a><\/li>\n<li>Praying for so many friends and family members with health concerns<\/li>\n<li>Continuing to delight in hearing my daughter&#8217;s voice sing praises to God or recite memorized Scripture<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>In the living room:<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Pompoms, pompoms everywhere! I got some pompoms to use for a color-matching activity with Tirzah Mae &#8211; and she&#8217;s found plenty of other uses for them. The most recent has been to make soups &#8211; she stirs them up in a pot, ladles them into bowls, stirs them some more to cool them off, and then serves them to her parents or her brother.<\/li>\n<li>I&#8217;ve been getting back into exercising and have been encouraged that things are getting easier &#8211; it&#8217;s time to either pick up my weights or work out to faster music or both!<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><img src='http:\/\/bekahcubed.menterz.com\/blog\/wp-content\/photoindex\/2017-01\/20170118_122820.jpg' alt='Louis eating table food' class='ngg-singlepic ngg-none' \/><\/p>\n<p><strong>In the kitchen:<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>So far, using a cycle menu is wonderful. I&#8217;m finding that there&#8217;s more than one day a week where I don&#8217;t want to cook &#8211; and that my recipes generate enough food that incorporating an extra day of leftovers is probably worthwhile. Thankfully, I have at least one recipe on each week&#8217;s cycle that doesn&#8217;t include fresh ingredients that&#8217;ll go bad if I skip it.<\/li>\n<li>Daniel made this <a href=\"http:\/\/www.healthyseasonalrecipes.com\/bacon-horseradish-cheese-ball\/\">Bacon Cheese Ball<\/a> for a snack day at his work and it was delicious!<\/li>\n<li>Daniel brought home some stale hot dog buns that had been sitting around at his work and I tried an overnight Blueberry French toast recipe with frozen blueberries and cream cheese chunks to use them up. Definitely going to add that to the repertoire of breakfast recipes.<\/li>\n<li>I used a new technique for making my homemade tortilla chips (brushing just one side of a corn tortilla with canola oil, stacking up a whole stack of the tortillas, and then cutting them into sixths before sprinkling with salt and chili powder and baking at 350 F on full convection for 14 minutes.) In contrast to previous attempts where I oiled the tortillas after cutting, I ended up using only a single tablespoon of oil for 20 tortillas. That translates into 0.7 g of fat (6 calories from fat) per serving versus 7 g of fat (63 calories from fat) per serving store bought tortilla chips. People, that just saved me 57 calories per serving (and how many of you eat just 6-9 chips at a time? We&#8217;re talking something more in line with 200 calories in a real-life serving.)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>In the nursery:<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Louis continues to become more and more mobile &#8211; he&#8217;s rolling and scooting all over the floor :-)<\/li>\n<li>I started putting Louis to sleep in the nursery (as opposed to the bassinet in our room) this past week. We&#8217;re still too early to tell how it&#8217;s going, but I am looking forward to having our room to ourselves again.<\/li>\n<li>We&#8217;ve started putting on a Seeds Family Worship CD for Tirzah Mae at naptime and bedtime. She loves turning on the CD and it&#8217;s a delight to hear her singing God&#8217;s word &#8211; yesterday it was &#8220;Come to me all you who are weary and burdened. And I will give you rest, I will give you rest.&#8221; Balm to a mother&#8217;s ears (in more ways than one.)<\/li>\n<li>I&#8217;m working on being consistent with training and discipline, being clear about when I&#8217;m giving an instruction versus asking an opinion or offering an option. As someone who tends to use &#8220;asking&#8221; language when I&#8217;m making a request (&#8220;Would you like to change Louis&#8217;s diaper?&#8221; I&#8217;ll ask my husband, when I really mean &#8220;I&#8217;d really like it if you&#8217;d change Louis&#8217;s diaper&#8221;), it&#8217;s been something of a transition.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>In the craft room:<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>My biggest &#8220;craft&#8221; this past couple weeks was making Tirzah Mae a color matching activity to go along with Donald Crews&#8217;s <em>Freight Train<\/em>. I cut train cars out of felt and have pom poms for Tirzah Mae to match to the train cars. I expected it to be an activity she&#8217;d play with for a couple days before I put it away for a rainy day &#8211; but she&#8217;s been playing with it multiple times a day for a week now and showing no signs of stopping. Hooray!<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><img src='http:\/\/bekahcubed.menterz.com\/blog\/wp-content\/photoindex\/2017-01\/IMG_0879.JPG' alt='Playing with her color train' class='ngg-singlepic ngg-none' \/><\/p>\n<p><strong>In the garden:<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>I spoke to a master gardener friend and she encouraged me to check my charts because I might need to start my broccoli seedlings soon. Maybe I should check those now? Looks like February 8 is my date, so I better start figuring out where to source my seeds.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>In the library:<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><em>Great People of the Bible and How They Lived<\/em> by Reader&#8217;s Digest<\/li>\n<li><em>Paul: In Fresh Perspective<\/em> by N.T. Wright<\/li>\n<li><em>True Community<\/em> by Jerry Bridges<\/li>\n<li><em>As They Grow: Your Two Year Old<\/em> by Diane O&#8217;Connell<\/li>\n<li><em>Spiritually Parenting Your Preschooler<\/em> by C. Hope Flinchbaugh<\/li>\n<li><em>Honey for a Child&#8217;s Heart<\/em> by Gladys Hunt<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><img src='http:\/\/bekahcubed.menterz.com\/blog\/wp-content\/photoindex\/2017-01\/IMG_0880.JPG' alt='Hugging a rolling pin' class='ngg-singlepic ngg-none' \/><\/p>\n<p><strong>Added to the TBR List:<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><em>Basil of Baker Street<\/em> by Eve Titus (added based on <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sunlitpages.com\/2017\/01\/review-x-2-whipping-boy-and-basil-of.html\">Amy&#8217;s review at Sunlit Pages<\/a>)<\/li>\n<li><em>Bellevue<\/em> by David Oshinsky (added based on <a href=\"https:\/\/sciencebasedmedicine.org\/bellevue\/\">Harriet&#8217;s Review at Science Based Medicine<\/a>)<\/li>\n<li><em>A Fall of Marigolds<\/em> by Susan Meissner (added based on <a href=\"https:\/\/barbarah.wordpress.com\/2017\/01\/10\/book-review-a-fall-of-marigolds\/\">Barbara&#8217;s review at Stray Thoughts<\/a>)<\/li>\n<li><em>First Bite<\/em> by Bee Wilson (added based on <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thenutritionwonk.com\/single-post\/2017\/01\/07\/Must-Read-Books-about-Nutrition-that-ARENT-Diet-Books\">Katherine&#8217;s recommendation at Nutrition Wonk<\/a>)<\/li>\n<li><em>The Great Starvation Experiment<\/em> by Todd Tucker (also added based on <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thenutritionwonk.com\/single-post\/2017\/01\/07\/Must-Read-Books-about-Nutrition-that-ARENT-Diet-Books\">Katherine&#8217;s recommendation at Nutrition Wonk<\/a>)<\/li>\n<li><em>Journey to the River Sea<\/em> by Eva Ibottsen (added based on <a href=\"http:\/\/hopeisthewordblog.com\/2017\/01\/18\/wednesdays-with-words-journey-to-the-river-sea-by-eva-ibbotson\/\">Amy&#8217;s commentary at Hope is the Word<\/a>)<\/li>\n<li><em>The Pearl<\/em> by John Steinbeck (added based on <a href=\"http:\/\/hopeisthewordblog.com\/2017\/01\/08\/the-pearl-by-john-steinbeck\/\">Amy&#8217;s comments at Hope is the Word<\/a>)<\/li>\n<li><em>Praying Together<\/em> by Megan Hill (added based on <a href=\"http:\/\/www.challies.com\/book-reviews\/praying-together\">Tim Challies&#8217;s review<\/a>)<\/li>\n<li><em>The Silent Songbird<\/em> by Melanie Dickerson (I think I&#8217;ve added every book in this series every time <a href=\"https:\/\/barbarah.wordpress.com\/2017\/01\/17\/book-review-the-silent-songbird\/\">Barbara reviews one at Stray Thoughts<\/a> &#8211; one of these days&#8230;)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Around the web:<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.simplyconvivial.com\/2017\/reliable-homeschooling\">Reliable Rhythm, Contagious Character<\/a> &#8211; Mystie Winkler shares her phrase(s) for the year. I read this and thought&#8230;THIS. This is exactly what I&#8217;m thinking about my own life.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/thefederalist.com\/2017\/01\/18\/why-your-risk-for-divorce-is-probably-lower-than-you-think\/\">Why Your Risk for Divorce is Probably Lower Than You Think<\/a> &#8211; Daniel and I are on the lower risk side of every category (but I remind myself that &#8220;he who thinks he stands should take heed lest he fall&#8230;&#8221;)<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/hisgreatestofthese.blogspot.com\/2017\/01\/when-someone-you-know-foster-parents.html\">When Someone You Know Foster Parents<\/a> &#8211; An acquaintance shares how others can love their foster parent friends<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><img src='http:\/\/bekahcubed.menterz.com\/blog\/wp-content\/photoindex\/2017-01\/IMG_0887.JPG' alt='Take a picture of me, mama' class='ngg-singlepic ngg-none' \/><\/p>\n<p><strong>In blogging history:<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>2 years ago &#8211; I took <a href=\"http:\/\/bekahcubed.menterz.com\/blog\/2015\/20150119-13907.htm\">A Much Needed Holiday<\/a><\/li>\n<li>6 years ago &#8211; <a href=\"http:\/\/bekahcubed.menterz.com\/blog\/2011\/20110117-6182.htm\">My Greatest Idol<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In my spirit: Rejoicing in progress Praying for so many friends and family members with health concerns Continuing to delight in hearing my daughter&#8217;s voice sing praises to God or recite memorized Scripture In the living room: Pompoms, pompoms everywhere! I got some pompoms to use for a color-matching activity with Tirzah Mae &#8211; and &#8230; <a title=\"Recap (2017.01.21)\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"http:\/\/bekahcubed.menterz.com\/blog\/2017\/20170122-17681.htm\">Read more <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Recap (2017.01.21)<\/span><\/a><\/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\/17681"}],"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=17681"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"http:\/\/bekahcubed.menterz.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17681\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":17704,"href":"http:\/\/bekahcubed.menterz.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17681\/revisions\/17704"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/bekahcubed.menterz.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17681"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bekahcubed.menterz.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17681"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bekahcubed.menterz.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17681"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}