SATURDAY
Ready for a summary of the day? I did very little I planned for the day and very much I didn’t. I didn’t bake. I didn’t finish John’s study for Tuesday. I didn’t order more school books.
I did learn that my sweet Aunt Gin is now dancing with Jesus and talking to him face to face. This is some comfort. Her children continue to be in my heart and I’d ask you remember them in your prayers. Aunt Gin has battled cancer with grace and faith for almost as long as I can remember. She beat the odds and lived to raise her children and in fact see great-grandchildren. She will be missed by many.
I did spend some time marinating on I John. In “proper speak” that sentence should read: I did spend some time meditating on I John. It was good to have been thinking about what it means that Jesus IS eternal life….before I got the call and I spent much more time thinking about this today. I’m sad, very sad…but glad, very glad too.
I did discover I was out of honey so baking was off the schedule, as was making ice cream.
I did talk on the phone to a friend.
I did take Jamin and Arielle out. Jamin wanted to look at pawn shops. He’s in the market for more weights. We didn’t find any at pawn shops.
I did buy two NEW recorders for the younger ones to learn on at the pawn shop. So far – so good. They’ve taken them apart, explored and begun to figure out how the thing works. They figured out the spit cloth thing all on their own. They have figured out how to make various sounds. I think in a couple of days they’ll ask me what the dots on the lines are about. LOL I love – whatever you want to call this – “classical theory of learning, fun schooling, child-led, unschooling, funschooling” – it works.
I did stop by the county library and find two more books I need for next week.
I did take Jamin to Big 5 and Arielle to Target. She and I worked on getting things to fill packages for the girls. When Jamin joined us we went to the mall and found a few more things. We also dutifully waved at Josiah in his Chick Fil A persona. Jamin did leave a scary note on his windshield.
I did stop by to check on the birthday gift we’ve ordered for Mike. It’s not in….but we will still make it in good time.
I did go for a nice long walk with Jamin, Stacia and Nolan.
I did get kids through the bath.
Have you ever had a day that went right like it should have though it was not at all what you had planned? That was this day.
Now – I will go do some more study on life, spend some more time remembering and praying, iron clothes for tomorrow and wait to see how Josiah reacted to the note on his windshield.
Saturday, September 23, 2006
TICKET MANIA
Hmmm….it took the boy 6 days to earn 60 tickets. He bought Play Station time last night. I reduced the required tickets to 30; thinking that would earn him two days of PS this week. He earned 30 tickets in ONE DAY! By this evening he had his tickets. We tried to talk him into waiting until tomorrow afternoon but he opted for a short play tonight over a long play tomorrow. {sigh} I think I’ll go back to 60 tickets now that he is in hyper drive.
Hmmm….it took the boy 6 days to earn 60 tickets. He bought Play Station time last night. I reduced the required tickets to 30; thinking that would earn him two days of PS this week. He earned 30 tickets in ONE DAY! By this evening he had his tickets. We tried to talk him into waiting until tomorrow afternoon but he opted for a short play tonight over a long play tomorrow. {sigh} I think I’ll go back to 60 tickets now that he is in hyper drive.
THE GIRLS HAVE ARRIVED….
Well, not in WA yet, but at least in Hardin, MT. What a hoot! They said when they checked in the clerk said, “You don’t look anything like De’Etta”. What a SMALL world! Her name was Cathy. I could think of Cathy’s my age but they are SURE that she is at least 10 – 15 years younger than I. We’ve decided Cathy must have been in our youth group or a young child when we were in town. Maybe they’ll catch a last name.
They saw snow but the roads were fine. They had rain and clouds the whole way but made good time. Thanks for the prayers. One more day of travel for them.
Well, not in WA yet, but at least in Hardin, MT. What a hoot! They said when they checked in the clerk said, “You don’t look anything like De’Etta”. What a SMALL world! Her name was Cathy. I could think of Cathy’s my age but they are SURE that she is at least 10 – 15 years younger than I. We’ve decided Cathy must have been in our youth group or a young child when we were in town. Maybe they’ll catch a last name.
They saw snow but the roads were fine. They had rain and clouds the whole way but made good time. Thanks for the prayers. One more day of travel for them.
DEEP DISH PIZZA DOUGH
1 C milk
1 tsp yeast
1 tsp honey (sugar)
1 tsp sea salt
¼ C olive oil
2 ½ C soft white flour (all purpose)
Scald the milk; cool to 110*. OK – simply put get your milk to 110* so it will activate yeast.
Dissolve yeast in warm milk, add honey. Beat in 1 C of flour. Cover and let set for 30 min – 2 hours.
Add sea salt, olive oil, and remaining flour (add spices if you want or knead them in later – or leave them out).
Knead – mixer – 4 minutes; or stir about 6 minutes by hand with a wooden spoon. The dough will be soft and sticky….much more so than bread dough.
Form into a ball on a well floured surface. If it is to soft to form a ball, knead in some more flour…this is where I dumped garlic and organic Italian Seasoning from Frontier (rosemary, marjoram, oregano, thyme, basil etc).
Grease bowl, roll the dough in greased bowl to coat. Cover with towel. Let rise in warm spot until doubled in size, about 30 minutes.
Place pizza stone in lowest position in oven. Heat oven to 500* while dough is rising.
Oil a 13 x 9 in pan (we used a 12 inch cast iron skillet). Gently spread dough to evenly cover bottom of pan. Do not beat dough down before spreading in man. Tip: work with wet hands.
Spread sauce on top (approx 1 ½ C)
Add cheese mixture (we used Muenster, Mozzarella and Cheddar – about a lb) and other toppings.
Place your pan of pizza on top of your preheated stone. Yes, you read it right. Turn oven down to 375*. Bake 20 – 25 minutes, until crust is browned through.
Remove from oven and let set up about 5 minutes before cutting.
*THIS is now Jamin and my favorite dough recipe. We are pathetic pan pizza lovers. Others in our home like the recipe we posted last week better. I think that if you like pan pizza you’ll LOVE this one. It was chewy but didn’t rise like bread…..It really didn’t taste like bread – it was much sweeter. The possibilities are endless for this one. LOL Again it may be the technique more than recipe if you have a recipe you like.
This would be delicious as a pizza bread: poke pieces of black olives, garlic, and fresh basil into the dough, rube with olive oil, and sprinkle with coarse salt before baking.
1 C milk
1 tsp yeast
1 tsp honey (sugar)
1 tsp sea salt
¼ C olive oil
2 ½ C soft white flour (all purpose)
Scald the milk; cool to 110*. OK – simply put get your milk to 110* so it will activate yeast.
Dissolve yeast in warm milk, add honey. Beat in 1 C of flour. Cover and let set for 30 min – 2 hours.
Add sea salt, olive oil, and remaining flour (add spices if you want or knead them in later – or leave them out).
Knead – mixer – 4 minutes; or stir about 6 minutes by hand with a wooden spoon. The dough will be soft and sticky….much more so than bread dough.
Form into a ball on a well floured surface. If it is to soft to form a ball, knead in some more flour…this is where I dumped garlic and organic Italian Seasoning from Frontier (rosemary, marjoram, oregano, thyme, basil etc).
Grease bowl, roll the dough in greased bowl to coat. Cover with towel. Let rise in warm spot until doubled in size, about 30 minutes.
Place pizza stone in lowest position in oven. Heat oven to 500* while dough is rising.
Oil a 13 x 9 in pan (we used a 12 inch cast iron skillet). Gently spread dough to evenly cover bottom of pan. Do not beat dough down before spreading in man. Tip: work with wet hands.
Spread sauce on top (approx 1 ½ C)
Add cheese mixture (we used Muenster, Mozzarella and Cheddar – about a lb) and other toppings.
Place your pan of pizza on top of your preheated stone. Yes, you read it right. Turn oven down to 375*. Bake 20 – 25 minutes, until crust is browned through.
Remove from oven and let set up about 5 minutes before cutting.
*THIS is now Jamin and my favorite dough recipe. We are pathetic pan pizza lovers. Others in our home like the recipe we posted last week better. I think that if you like pan pizza you’ll LOVE this one. It was chewy but didn’t rise like bread…..It really didn’t taste like bread – it was much sweeter. The possibilities are endless for this one. LOL Again it may be the technique more than recipe if you have a recipe you like.
This would be delicious as a pizza bread: poke pieces of black olives, garlic, and fresh basil into the dough, rube with olive oil, and sprinkle with coarse salt before baking.
Friday continued
In our home Friday nights mean PIZZA. I am actually setting aside the money each week that we would have spent on buying pizza. Jamin has taken to this with gusto. He has the dough in the fridge by Wed afternoon each week.
Last night he asked me to handle the “pan pizza”. He had the recipe and technique that I was to follow. I am enjoying something we can do together. I sort of bombed with the weight training – I’m a disappointment. My wrist gives out way to early these days. I also am not a runner these days! BUT I can walk with him in the evenings and I can cook with him. LOL
Equipped with the recipe I began. I try so hard to stay to the recipe. I did fairly well….I only “dumped” some wonderful spices into the dough. He asked me to make my BBQ sauce. I did. He deviated from the tips from the pizza queen by asking me to make the pan pizza in my big cast iron skillet (it called for a 9 x 13 pan). I topped the dough with my sauce, chicken, Muenster (monster) cheese, cheddar cheese & mozzarella I think – whatever Jamin gave me – onions and red peppers. It was GREAT! We were thrilled to find the pan pizza secret…now we are happy with pizza making. WELL o.k. I’m totally satisfied with it. The little ones gave his cheese pizza a “thumbs up”. Jamin will continue to tweak – but that’s o.k.
After dinner we headed out to feed the deer at the end of our street. I think I mentioned all the new babies. They are almost fearless. They come very close to us….mother hanging back…which we thought strange. There are two male deer sporting new antlers who stage a fight for us each night. I had found a cache that was .5 from our home. We thought it may be in the deer field…but it was on the other side of the field….so we walked around to find it. By the time we got to the spot it was dark. We’ll have to walk down and try to find it during the day some time.
We also discovered a human male obviously in a midlife crisis. Mike, they live at the home with the fountain we admire. This man was in his sporty firebird and racing around like a mad man we had to jump out of his way twice…..I nearly knocked on his door to discuss this issue with him - but saner mind prevailed.
We were excited to discover that THREE Netflix movies had arrived. We watched “Miracle” – the story of the 1980 USA hockey team. It was good. It was fun to watch the news clips and commercial blurbs in it. I was hearing comments about the era…..until I said, “yeah – we thought we were cool and looking back we were a bit strange…but stranger still YOUR generation is copying our styles – go retro!” ::::snort::: We also watched a couple of episodes of Hogan’s Heroes. I’m excited because I ordered a disc of “Here’s Lucy”. I plan to begin watching those and going to bed before mid-night…hoping they’ll put me to sleep. LOL
Technically – Friday is now over and Saturday has begun. I’ve got two little ones in the room with me. Stacia woke up in the middle of the night for the first time in a week or so…but she’s down now and I’m heading back for bed.
Choosing Joy is getting much easier the last couple of days. I’ve taken my “self” firmly in hand. I think it will be MUCH easier when the girls ARRIVE in WA and quit the driving part of this. OH for those who know us from AK…..the girls are staying with Tom and Corinna (SP!). They’ve been able to see Frances and her daughters, and Elise and Susan as well. I got to talk to Frances when I was trying to track them down after their first day of driving. She told me she was surprised we were letting them drive out alone….I told her if Mike was stateside it wouldn’t have happened…I would have gone out with them…but they were excited for this step. LOL
In our home Friday nights mean PIZZA. I am actually setting aside the money each week that we would have spent on buying pizza. Jamin has taken to this with gusto. He has the dough in the fridge by Wed afternoon each week.
Last night he asked me to handle the “pan pizza”. He had the recipe and technique that I was to follow. I am enjoying something we can do together. I sort of bombed with the weight training – I’m a disappointment. My wrist gives out way to early these days. I also am not a runner these days! BUT I can walk with him in the evenings and I can cook with him. LOL
Equipped with the recipe I began. I try so hard to stay to the recipe. I did fairly well….I only “dumped” some wonderful spices into the dough. He asked me to make my BBQ sauce. I did. He deviated from the tips from the pizza queen by asking me to make the pan pizza in my big cast iron skillet (it called for a 9 x 13 pan). I topped the dough with my sauce, chicken, Muenster (monster) cheese, cheddar cheese & mozzarella I think – whatever Jamin gave me – onions and red peppers. It was GREAT! We were thrilled to find the pan pizza secret…now we are happy with pizza making. WELL o.k. I’m totally satisfied with it. The little ones gave his cheese pizza a “thumbs up”. Jamin will continue to tweak – but that’s o.k.
After dinner we headed out to feed the deer at the end of our street. I think I mentioned all the new babies. They are almost fearless. They come very close to us….mother hanging back…which we thought strange. There are two male deer sporting new antlers who stage a fight for us each night. I had found a cache that was .5 from our home. We thought it may be in the deer field…but it was on the other side of the field….so we walked around to find it. By the time we got to the spot it was dark. We’ll have to walk down and try to find it during the day some time.
We also discovered a human male obviously in a midlife crisis. Mike, they live at the home with the fountain we admire. This man was in his sporty firebird and racing around like a mad man we had to jump out of his way twice…..I nearly knocked on his door to discuss this issue with him - but saner mind prevailed.
We were excited to discover that THREE Netflix movies had arrived. We watched “Miracle” – the story of the 1980 USA hockey team. It was good. It was fun to watch the news clips and commercial blurbs in it. I was hearing comments about the era…..until I said, “yeah – we thought we were cool and looking back we were a bit strange…but stranger still YOUR generation is copying our styles – go retro!” ::::snort::: We also watched a couple of episodes of Hogan’s Heroes. I’m excited because I ordered a disc of “Here’s Lucy”. I plan to begin watching those and going to bed before mid-night…hoping they’ll put me to sleep. LOL
Technically – Friday is now over and Saturday has begun. I’ve got two little ones in the room with me. Stacia woke up in the middle of the night for the first time in a week or so…but she’s down now and I’m heading back for bed.
Choosing Joy is getting much easier the last couple of days. I’ve taken my “self” firmly in hand. I think it will be MUCH easier when the girls ARRIVE in WA and quit the driving part of this. OH for those who know us from AK…..the girls are staying with Tom and Corinna (SP!). They’ve been able to see Frances and her daughters, and Elise and Susan as well. I got to talk to Frances when I was trying to track them down after their first day of driving. She told me she was surprised we were letting them drive out alone….I told her if Mike was stateside it wouldn’t have happened…I would have gone out with them…but they were excited for this step. LOL
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