Read an E-Book

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This is Read an E-Book Week. How did I ever almost miss such an important event? Well, we certainly can’t let it pass us by without doing something, can we? So… here are some ideas to help you celebrate “Read an E-Book Week!”

But, before I give you some options, why eBooks? Here’s 5 good reasons.

  1. Time. No waiting around to get your books in the mail – or taking the time and money to go to the bookstore – to get started. Download today – and at many places, including all the free ones, immediately. Your book is only a click away.
  2. Space. Those books take up a lot less space on the computer than on the bookshelf.
  3. Security. Even when you print the book to read it, you still have a back-up copy on the computer, in case something happens to your hard copy.
  4. Availability. Many great old, out of print books aren’t available (are very hard to find, cost prohibitive prices, etc.) in hard copy. E-Books may be your only chance to get them.
  5. Cost. Many of these books are FREE, and others are cheaper than the hard copy would be.


Does this mean I think eBooks are the way to go all out? No. eBooks have their place and they have some great reasons to utilize them. But they also have their limitations and drawbacks. I don’t ever want hard copy books to be replaced by eBooks. But I’ll save that for another day, or you can read what I’ve written about it in the past, on my Lifestyle Education through Discipleship™ blog. For today, we are focusing on the positive benefits, and some great ways to use them. Read on.

Me and My House provides many options for you. Currently we are offering a Sampler of Freedom & Simplicity™ in HisStory, FREE for subscribing to our FREE monthly e-newsletter. We also have a great sale going this entire month on the 3 L.E.D. HisStory e-resources. You have many other e-resource options from Me and My House also, for home education, home management, and Good for You-Naturally!™ nutrition. You don’t even need a holiday to enjoy these resources.

If you are into holidays there is one coming up in a week, and you can get FREE e-book resources to help you celebrate – and study them. Click on over to CurrClick and get Hands of a Child’s St. Patrick’s Day Lapbook for FREE this week. And scroll down the page while you’re there to get Living Books Curriculum’s St. Patrick’s Holiday Helper, also FREE.

But it doesn’t stop there. Anytime, any week, click over to our eBook site links page for a great list of websites where you can get great ebooks – FREE.

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Lisa @ Me and My House ~ Discipleship for Life!
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What’s a Trillion?

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Does $100 cash sound like a lot of money to you? Perhaps not, when it doesn’t even buy a full weeks worth of groceries. Perhaps a thousand? It’s an amount you can picture, but still a pretty good chunk. What about 10 thousand? If you could get enough Franklins ($100 bills,) a stack of them almost 1/2″ high would give you $10 thousand.

Can you imagine a million dollars. That’s an awful lot of zeros, and you probably can’t really imagine that much as an amount, without really thinking it through. Let’s switch from money, to time. 2 weeks worth of seconds is a bit over a million. (1,209,600) That’s a LOT of seconds. A year is (about) 31 1/2 million seconds. 34 years worth will get us up to a billion seconds. (1, 069,286,400) So a billion seconds ago, perhaps you weren’t even alive. A lifetime of seconds, (for some of you – half a lifetime for a lifespan average,) and we have a billion. That’s ONE HUGE number.

Well, with all this talk about bailouts and stimulus for our economy, how about a trillion? My calculator gives me an error message when I try to compute it. It is not only to big for my brain to imagine. It is too big for my calculator to figure. So let’s just add some zeros. 340 years of seconds will get us up to 10 billion. Still quite a ways from a trillion. Add another zero. 3400 years worth of seconds – we’re talking roughly the time of King David. By the time you add another zero, you’re back to Eternity “past.” You don’t have to go quite to 34,000 years, because I’ve been rounding. A trillion is really “only” 31,688 years of seconds – give or take.

Would you like that in a different context? The speed of light is about 6 trillion miles a year, so 1 trillion would be about the distance light could travel in 2 months. No, your mind can’t even comprehend such.

How about in those dollars our government is talking about? Take a peek at what 1 trillion dollars looks like in $100 bills. Times that by 100 to think what it would look like in $1 bills. Or go the other way and see it in $1000 bills.

While you’re at it, take a peek at this on Obamanomics, where credit is thought to take the place of production. Good, simple econ lesson.

President Obama would have us believe that we can all spend the day relaxing in a tub while his printing press does all the work for us. The problem comes when you get out of the tub to go to dinner and the only thing on your plate is an IOU for steak.

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Lisa @ Me and My House ~ Discipleship for Life!
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Gen X Conservatives

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Alan Keyes answers Gen X “conservatives” who believe we need to leave Christian morality out of our conservatism, in order to advance it.

… If Generation X conservatives have a philosophical view of the world that rejects this understanding, they are not conservatives at all, at least not in any sense that Ronald Reagan or any other American conservative would comprehend. …

Read the whole article here.

Great Quote:

“Freedom exercised with respect for God’s authority is liberty.”

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Lisa @ Me and My House ~ Discipleship for Life!
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Grain Mill Cleaning

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I haven’t had customers ask these questions, but my distributor sent this along, stating she gets asked it quite frequently. Here’s her suggestions.

The mill canisters are NOT dishwasher safe.  In fact, you really only need to use a dry cloth to wipe the canister.  Never wash the filters.  You only need to flick the filter to remove any residue flour.  Remember, water and flour make paste! 🙂

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Liberty Quote-of-the-Day

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“You cannot legislate the poor into freedom by legislating the wealthy out of freedom.  What one person receives without working for, another person must work for without receiving. The government cannot give to anybody anything that the government does not first take from somebody else.  When half of the people get the idea that they do not have to work because the other half is going to take care of them, and when the other half gets the idea that it does no good to work because somebody else is going to get what they work for, that my dear friend, is about the end of any nation.  You cannot multiply wealth by dividing it.”

~~~~~ Dr. Adrian Rogers, 1931 – 2005 ~~~~~

CPSIA Meets Dr. Suess

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Yeah, really. Heather Idoni has written a poem, Dr. Suess-style, as a social commentary about the crazy CPSIA law. She also suggests you pick a current event or controversary in the news today and write your own Dr. Suess-style story. Go to Heather’s site to read this fun story about this not-fun-at-all situation we’re in.

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Instant Refried Beans – Friday Food

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fridayfood2.jpgNo, I’m not repeating the recipe from a couple weeks ago. I’ve been asked about another recipe I have for Refried Beans – the Fast and Easy Way!

Instant Refried Beans

Mill clean, organic dried, pinto beans in your NutriMill (or other grain mill that is designed to do dried beans,) at the same setting you use for bread flour, or slightly courser. (No, you don’t have to use organic, but it’s better for you if you do. Yes, you DO have to use dried. DO NOT wet them in any way before grinding. Just pick out any foreign objects.)

Boil – 2.5 c. purified water in a small saucepan.

Whisk in:

3/4 c. pinto bean flour

1/2 t. unrefined salt (Real®, himalayan, or celtic)

1/4 t. cumin powder*

rounded 1/2 t. chili powder

small clove minced garlic, organic – or scant 1/8 t. garlic powder

Stir over medium heat about 1 minute, until mixture thickens. (Lumps are fine.)

Reduce heat to low and cover pan. Cook approx. 4 minutes more. (Mixture will thicken more as it cools.)

Add:

approx. 1/2 c. organic, natural Salsa

Serve with fresh, corn Tortilla Chips or use as a burrito filling, in whole wheat tortillas.

Bon Appetite – whoops, forgot again – Ole!

*Note: Use non-irradiated spices. You can add a bit more salt, if you really must, and less or no garlic, if you want.

– adapted from Country Beans by Rita Bingham

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A Bit of Rejoicing on Deadline Day

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Today is the day the CPSIA goes into effect. Due to prayers and actions taken by many, there has been a stay granted on much of this law. I noted some of it on Jan. 31st.  (And there is plenty more in previous posts, if you are clueless as to what I’m talking about.) Part of the new enforcement policy, that was released on the 6th is:

5. Product Classes Whose Lead Content Is Consistently Below Lead Limits

The Commission staff has begun to identify classes of children’s products
whose lead content appears to fall consistently below the prescribed limits.
The staff is not aware of a single documented case in which a product falling
within one of the following classes contained total lead above 300 ppm:

• Ordinary children’s books1 printed after 1985
• Dyed or undyed textiles (not including leather, vinyl or PVC) and
non-metallic thread and trim used in children’s apparel and other
children’s fabric products such as baby blankets.  This class does not
include such products if: (1) they have undergone further treatment
that may impart lead (2) they are ornamented with metal, rhinestones
or other objects; or (3) they have plastic or metal fasteners with
possible lead content (such as snaps, grommets, zippers, or buttons)

Upon completion of the staff’s investigation of these product classes, the
Commission intends to issue guidance addressing them in greater detail.  In
the meantime, the Commission’s Office of Compliance shall not prosecute
any person for manufacturing, importing, distributing, selling or offering for
sale a children’s product (or part thereof) that falls within the two classes
described above on the basis that it contains more than 600 ppm lead unless
the Director of Compliance finds that (1) such person had actual knowledge
that the product contained more than 600 ppm lead; or (2) continued to
manufacture, import, distribute or sell such product after being put on notice
by the Commission staff.

IOW, children’s books printed after 1985, as well as general textiles, have consistently proven to not have lead in them. This means that many children’s general and home education resources, as well as fabric items, can continue to be produced and sold without testing.

This is great news for many home ed publishers. But it has also already affected many. Some have put forth much money to have this testing done, in order to comply before today’s deadline date. (Obviously they needed to act before this unforeseen, though welcome, change came about at the end of last week.) Others have closed out either their entire business or certain aspects of it.  Continue to pray for those this has already hit financially, and pray that God would restore what the locust has eaten.

See all new updates to this law here.

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CPSIA – Better News

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Some good news has come down about CPSIA. Required testing/certification (on new categories) has been postponed for 1 year. What is not clearly evident in this ruling is whether prosecution can still be based on the new rulings, or whether it is completely based on the previous laws.

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Refried Beans – Friday Food

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fridayfood2.jpgEver wonder about the recipes for what’s in our Friday Food picture? That’s a plain lettuce/tomato salad at the top left, homemade salsa (almost more of a pico de guillo) at the bottom right, homemade corn tortilla chips at the top right, and you guessed it, refried beans at the bottom left. This is one of our favorite light, snack-y type lunches. It is so much better than opening a can of beans, bag of chips, and jar of salsa, and takes just a little more work – but not much.

Today you get the recipe for the Refried Beans. It makes a nice large batch to eat on for a while, or freeze in meal size portions. I have a 6 qt. crock pot and it fills it pretty well.

Lisa’s Refried Beans

Sort and rinse, then soak 4-4.5 cups organic dried pinto beans* in double to triple that amount of water. You can either soak overnight or quick soak by bringing to a boil for 1 minute, then turning off the heat and leaving sit covered for an hour.

Place in crock pot, (if you didn’t soak them in there.) Cover to about 1″ over the swelled beans with water (add or remove water, as needed.) Cook until nearly soft.

Add: 1-1.5 large fresh organic onions, diced

6-8 medium cloves of organic garlic, minced

Continue cooking until very soft.

Add: 1/2 – 1 stick soft real butter (or 1/2 – 3/4 c. organic, expeller pressed safflower oil) and mash well.

Stir in: 2-4 organic Roma Tomatoes, blended

2 Tbl. organic Chili Powder

1.5 tsp. cumin

opt. 2 fresh jalapeno peppers, diced small

Salt &/or Pepper, if desired

Reheat, adding water if needed.

Serve with fresh corn tortilla chips.

Bon Appétit! (Whoops! Olé!)

*Note: Obviously you don’t HAVE to use organic ingredients. It’s just better for you if you do.

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