Easter Tomb

Take a can of biscuits. Flatten out each biscuit out with your fingers. Tell your kids they are making a tomb. Take a large marshmallow and explain that this represents Jesus. Put the marshmallow on the biscuit and wrap the biscuit around the marshmallow. Make sure all edges are sealed (pinch until no seam). Put a pat of butter on top. Sprinkle with sugar and cinnamon to represent the spices that were put on Jesus. Bake as directed on package. You may have to guess at this. After cooked, the marshmallow melts and is gone. Explain how Jesus is not in the tomb, He is Risen!

Cooking Monday's w/Scottlyn

Tonight Scottlyn made: Black Bean Chili w/corn bread.

She is already thinking about meals for the up coming Monday's and has asked if she could cook on another day of the week as well. I am so loving this new season we are in . . . we are growing together as mother/daughter. My prayer is that she will look back on this time we share and want to do the same with her daughters. Maybe evening tell them stories of her cooking with her mama. I am so blessed!!!!

All your children shall be taught by the Lord, And great shall be the peace of your children. Isaiah 54:13

Twirling Skirts

Here is a picture of the girls skirts that they made last week. My mom found the cutest tops to match them just perfectly last Saturday. They are wanting me to wash them tonight so that they can wear them out Wednesday night for dinner with our neighbors. I think they will be making more of this style soon.

Here is a link to the Simplicity Pattern we used.

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All your children shall be taught by the Lord, And great shall be the peace of your children. Isaiah 54:13

Cooking Monday's w/Scottlyn

My heart is filled with the desire to train my daughters to be a blessing to there families and home as they grow into Godly young ladies. Mondays are now Scottlyn's day to cook our family dinner. Last week I gave her a slow cooker cookbook from Taste of Home. She was told to pick out four recipes that she would want to try. We then set down and pick two of them for her to cook the next two Mondays. This week she made Savory Beef Sandwiches and here is what hers looked like:

They were very yummy! This recipe feed the four of us along with our sweet neighbors and we still have some leftovers. The rest could be frozen to use as bake potato toppings next week. I bought two of the cookbooks for each of my daughters hope chest. I will do the same with Shalyn when she is 10 years old. I think that slow cook recipes are easy and a great way to teach my daughters how to cook wonderful meals. When they complete a recipe they will rate/date it using a star system with 4 being the best stars. They can refer back to the date and stars when looking at the recipe again. Maybe even remembering when they first made it.

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Blessings,

All your children shall be taught by the Lord, And great shall be the peace of your children. Isaiah 54:13

Fast and Easy

So sorry that I have been MIA the past month. We have been very busy with several projects that I will blog about in the next few weeks. The one I would like to share today is sewing . . . .

One thing that you may not know about me is I went to college to become a fashion designer. I did not go after the creative side when I graduated, but worked in retail and helped developed new seasonal lines with the company I was working for as they were changing their target customer. After the birth of my girls I sewed for them off and on. But I often found myself saying that is was cheaper to but the items already made, then it was for me to buy the pattern, materials and my time to make that item.

Last year my sweet mother-in-law bought a sewing machine for Scottlyn and I started teaching her to sew. She sewed a blanket (for her dog) and bag last summer. It was a lot of FUN!! In the fall my mother taught the girls to make rag quilts for their beds.

Then after Christmas we got the sewing machine back out and started sewing again. Now we are so blessed you see because my mother has what you would call generational fabric. That is when the material goes back several generations. This could be both a blessing and a thorn at times. My mother has material as we Home Schooled moms have bookshelves on top of bookshelves of books. But I like to think of it more as a blessing. My mother sews, quilts, knits . . . she is so talented is all that she does. We take our patterns to her house, she will then pull out fabric and tell us stories behind each piece. Which great grand mother bought it and what she had planned on using it for.

Both girls have started to learn how to sew. The younger one needs more help and gets tired quickly. As she grows older she will want to sew more, I think. We are teaching her by letting her sew things for her dog. My oldest is eager to sew her own clothes and she wants to be a blessing to her family one day. Right now she is being a blessing to her mama. Over the past few weeks my mother has helped them sew their Easters dresses. Last week they sewed a tiered skirt, they are planning to wear it on Tuesday and I will post pictures then.

Below are pictures of a skirt I sewed up Sunday afternoon for them. They were busy knitting scarves. The material is what their Great Grandmother bought to sew a dress for me out of. The only cost was a 99 cent pattern and my time. What I gained was time well spent with my mother as she told my girls about the fabric's history . . . I am so blessed to have the mother I have. The t-shirts the girls got for Christmas . . it is outlined in Hot Pink, the skit has little Hot Pink rose buds all over it. They already had black leggings and will change the black out for white when spring comes . . .

Here is a link to the pattern I used:
Have a blessed day,

All your children shall be taught by the Lord, And great shall be the peace of your children. Isaiah 54:13