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It’s not Food Friday, but it’s been a long time since I posted a recipe, and this one was requested.
Lisa’s White Chicken Enchilada Bake
Cook:
Make Green Chili White Sauce:
Melt butter and saute onion in it. Add 1 1/2 c. chicken stock and bring to boil. Shake flour with remaining chicken stock, and whisk into the boiling stock. Cook till thick.
Stir in:
Shred:
Slice 12 (sprouted) corn tortillas into strips.
Preheat oven to 400°.
Layer into a 9×13″ pan as follows.
Bake for 30 – 40 min.
Serve with Mexican Salad, Spanish Rice, (and opt. Corn Bread w/ honey butter.)
In our Good for You-Naturally! Online Course we talk about 12 foods that it is important to eat organically grown. The list is called the “Dirty Dozen”, and we got it from WebMD.
This week Hallelujah Acres posted 15 foods that it is probably OK to eat non-organically grown. These “Clean 15″ foods are relatively free from pesticide residue. They are:
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This is a week of many milestones for Me & My House. If we lived in days of old, we would no doubt set up pillars of remembrance. I guess we have digital cameras instead.
Saturday we celebrated the 13th birthday of ds#2. He chose to celebrate with an afternoon at the river with family (including extended) and a friend, and wanted as a gift a BMX trick bike. Yes, it’s that son.
Yesterday marked my half-century birthday. I had a great day, beginning with emails and Facebook congratulations, (gotta love FB-more birthday wishes than I’ve ever gotten before) and “gifts” from various e-mailing lists I’m on. Then a trip to DMV for my driver’s license renewal. Not sure how that got postponed until yesterday (in all the crazy busyness of the past few months here.) But it was uneventful and quick – which is not much short of a miracle with our DMV. Got home and received a birthday call from my mom.
The next event of the day was lunch with 3 of our grown dd’s, at Gracie Mae’s. Good lunch, good fellowship. But, the restaurant brought me the wrong sandwich. When they brought the right one, they brought a whole instead of a half. So I had 2 halves left over, which our oldest 2 boys were blessed with when I got home. (Boys love my birthday blessings.)
After doing a bit of cleaning and laundry when I got home again, I realized I best get to the store for more “milestones” supplies, before supper time. Another near miracle to get out of there in just over an hour at rush time, especially when 20 minutes of that was waiting to get checked out.
Dinner out with dh proved a blessing too. Waitress forgot the cherry for my drink, so brought me a small cupful of them. (It’s the little things in life.) 
After dinner, she offered me a free ice cream (dh told her.) Since I was already taking half my dinner home, and going home to dessert, I told her I couldn’t eat anything more there now. She offered any of their desserts to go. Mmm, tiramisu. Then she asked if I wanted a refill of my specialty drink to go. Mmm, tropical sunrise – mango, pineapple, and orange juice with grenadine syrup. (Supper was a great veggie salad and black bean and rice burgers.)
Then home for my party, with 30 of our closest relatives and dd’s young adult friends that are staying with us for the next event. Dd made cherry cheesecakes, my faves, for dessert. And one of her friends made me some caramel roses. 2 of our grown dd’s gave me an awesome meaningful gift of a candle and olive vines in a basket with these Scriptures – Levi 25:10, Prov. 31:28, Ps. 128:3.
Tomorrow will wrap up our week of milestones with dd#5′s graduation party. It’s been a very busy 3 weeks putting that together. Today we will be dipping 250 strawberries and putting together a slideshow. Then I think we’re about ready. She has chosen my dad’s backyard, with his beautiful gardens and landscaping, for her party. That has kept our boys busy for a couple of weeks, helpful papa get planting, and weeding, and mowing and such done. (He, of course, feels bad that everything won’t be in full bloom then. We, of course, are praying for good weather after all that work, so we don’t have to move to our church annex.)
Saturday brings the returning of the friends. Hopefully it won’t be as eventful as the getting of the friends (read previous post.)
Life is good. Life is full. Because God is great. God is good.
For Me & My House,
Lisa
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It’s been a busy spring. Lessons have abounded. (I hope I’m learning them all well, Lord.) We started the year with our Online Course & Community for Good for You-Naturally™ for Life! After that, we were hitting our planned lessons here at home heavy, hoping to make good progress before baseball season hit (always a break point for us.)
Well, baseball season is here, but that isn’t the crux of our busyness right now. We are giving our 5th dd her graduation party on Friday. That too is nothing more than an iron in the fire. Things are all planned, and God is in control. I truly can rest in that. But I think I’ve been running on pure adrenaline as we’ve have faced one thing after another lately. The last couple of months have been very “over the top” to say the least. Yet, we are so grateful that nothing seriously bad has happened – and much good. Life is good, because God is good. I am so thankful for a sovereign God who reigns over all.
3 weeks ago we decided to do dd’s party this week, because her best friend (from 1/2 way across the states) was going to be here now. We started planning the party, and lined up her pictures being taken, and she began finishing up scrapbooks, and re-organizing notebooks and such. That week one of our older dd’s and her 3 kids – and their dog – came and stayed with us. The next week all of our family, but me, got the flu. It was short lived (less than one day) but hard hitting, and everyone got it one after another, so that was a whole week.
Last week dd and I drove to Denver (3.5 hours) to pick up her friends at the airport. We got hit in a hail and tornado storm while there. We came through perfectly safe, but it was certainly an adventure (I tell about it in our newsletter that is going out, hopefully, today) – and of course it delayed us about 5 hours, and got us home late night. (Very SLOW moving storm, right down the Interstate that leads home. And VERY long day for our friends and us. They’d gotten 2 hours sleep before they had to catch their plane, and we’d gotten 4 before we had to go get them.)
We’ve gotten much accomplished, but her friends have both been sick the last couple of days. And tomorrow 2 more of her friends come. (All staying with us.) In the midst of this we had ds’s birthday party on Sat. with 21 people, and Wed. will have mine with about 28 people. And we’re in the midst of preparing the food for the grad party.
Last night our youngest woke up with a sudden onset ear ache, in much pain. After doctoring him up, his dad asked if he wanted to watch a video – hoping that would get his mind off the pain. He did, and it did. He chose a movie, and he and I watched on a portable player in my bed. (Dh went back to sleep.) At about 3:30 he asked if the movie was almost over. I told him he didn’t have to watch till the end, we could turn it off if he was done. He said, “OK,” and turned over and went to sleep. He feels fine this morning. (But at least one of the friends is still sick.)
DD and friends plan to spend the day at the lake tomorrow, giving them a respite from planning and work, and some fun for their visit. I plan on a bit of a semi-down day too. Especially praying that I don’t get sick this week!
After the party and our guests go home, and perhaps a few days to just relax, we will hopefully get back to the planned lessons. And hopefully back to regular blog posting. So now you know why I haven’t posted much lately. Life happens!
Prayers appreciated whenever God brings us to your mind – that God would bring healing to all, and that all that needs to be done will get done. Ultimately, He alone knows what that is.
For Me & My House,
Lisa
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Did you see all this on mainstream news? Probably not. See it here:
My Spring Cleaning is getting off to a slow start this year. Throwing open the windows and doors to air out the house, and washing and hanging the curtains out to dry doesn’t work so well when the snow is still flying and the temps are freezing. But Spring and Spring Cleaning are finally here.
I find it easiest to tackle 1 room or area at a time. That way the whole house isn’t in disarray all at once. Depending on the time factor, we do 1-2 rooms per day for about a week, or 1-2 rooms 1 day per week for a couple months. Ideally, I’ve been going through drawers, shelves, baskets, and other stashing places throughout the Winter. Those things can be done easily in small snippets of time, one at a time. That leaves just actual cleaning to be done come Spring.
Spring Cleaning begins by removing curtains, bedding and other “cloth” in the room. Curtains, bedding and window blinds are washed, and preferably hung out to dry. Rugs are beat and aired out, and vacuumed and cleaned as needed. Pillows and bed toppers are hung out to air out. While these are all down and out, cleaning begins at the ceiling.
Ceilings, walls, and light fixtures are cleaned; windows washed inside and out. Furniture, including appliances, is cleaned and/or vacuumed, inside and out, and moved and cleaned under and behind. Pictures, lamps and shades, books and other nic-naks are cleaned well, books removed from the shelves to dust, then returned. Cupboards are emptied and cleaned, then refilled. Plants are thinned, trimmed, or repotted as needed, and fake plants/greenery is washed. Floors are swept and mopped or vacuumed and carpets cleaned. Then all is returned to its proper place and we have a completely clean and fresh room.
Time needs to be set aside for Spring Cleaning, but it doesn’t have to take a lot of extra time. On days that we are working on Spring Cleaning, we don’t do other house cleaning. The other rooms will be well cleaned soon, or just were. They’ll survive a week.
I hope Spring has sprung where you are, and that you are enjoying the freshness that comes with Spring Cleaning.
Packing away winter clothes and getting out summer ones will have to wait for another day.
I think I just spent more hours on FB than ever. And I don’t play games or other apps. And I haven’t been reading updates.
I’ve been working on new Pages for Me & My House ministries (in general) and Lifestyle Education through Discipleship™. I’ve increased my knowledge of FB Pages exponentially in the last 24 hours – and decreased my sleep proportionately.
If you Facebook, stop by and join our Pages, to keep up to date with Me and My House in a one-stop place that you’re browsing anyhow. (That is become a Fan, or Like us, or whatever FB settles on after this day of going back and forth between the two.)
We offering a FREE GIFT for those that Fan/Like our NEW Me and My House Page in it’s first 48 hours. (That means the gift is going away tomorrow – Wednesday – night.) It is a brand new resource! Tell your friends to join our Page too, so they can get their FREE GIFT. If you (and/or your friends) are home educating, be sure to become a Fan/Like our Lifestyle Education through Discipleship™ Page too. I’ll be getting more content up there, and will give a different FREE GIFT there when we hit our first goal there.
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