Dry Elbow Home Remedies

Sugar Scrub:
1/4 cup brown sugar
1/8 cup olive oil
Mix ingredients in a bowl. Massage the scrub into elbows, knees, ankles & any other dry spots. Wash off after 30 minutes.

 
Crisco (or any other lard)
Before bed rub Crisco into the dry elbow patches then slide on a pair of clean cut socks (to use as elbow protectors). Do this every night until dry patches disappear.

Lemon Salt Scrub
Squeeze the juice out of two quarter wedges of a lemon, add salt then scrub into your elbows gently, trying to sluff away the dead skin. Then take the lemon wedges and lean your elbows on them (one elbow on each). Rest like this for 10 minutes. Do this daily until the dark patches disappear.

Lemon Soft Scrub
Mix fresh lemon juice and baking soda to make a thick paste, apply to dry elbows. Gently rub in to exfoliate the skin and leave to sit for about 15 minutes. Wash off and apply a moisturizer or Vaseline.

Rehydrating Soak
Exfoliate elbows with a favorite scrub or loofah, then soak elbows in warm water for 10 minutes. Apply Vaseline. If you apply Vaseline to the dry areas right after a hot bath or shower, this will have the same effect.

Basic Maintenance Treatment: Exfoliate or scrub elbows daily then apply honey, Vaseline or a rich moisturizer to elbows. If using honey, leave on for 30 minutes before washing off.
Tip: Use a clean sock, cut off to have two open ends, and slide on over your elbows when applying moisturizing treatments to try to protect the moisturizer from rubbing off (especially good for overnight treatments). You could also wrap your elbows in plastic wrap.
If your elbow patches are thick and quite dark, this will take several regular treatments to clear up.

 

  Here's a recipe for Beeswax Deodorant.

Ingredients:

2 Tbsp. shredded beeswax
1 T. coconut oil
1 tsp. cocoa butter
12 drops rosemary oil

Directions:

Melt beeswax. Stir in cocoa butter until melted. Add oils. Pour
into any shape mold. When hardened, pop out of mold. Cover with
clear wrap.

  Almond Shampoo

 1 cup water

 1/2 cup almond castile soap

 1/2 cup glycerine

 1/4 cup borax powder

 Mix all of the ingredients together and pour into a clean bottle or washed out shampoo bottle.  Allow the mixture to thicken overnight.  Shampoo as you normally would and rinse with cool water.

  Please continue to pray for my little Grand daughter, Velvet Rose. She is still in the hospital.

Ye are the sons of the living God

The Spirit Himself testifies with our spirit that we are children of God, and if children, heirs also, heirs of God and fellow heirs with Christ, if indeed we suffer with Him so that we may also be glorified with Him.

For I consider that the sufferings of this present time are not worthy to be compared with the glory that is to be revealed to us.

Romans 8:16-18 NASB

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We are witnesses of these things, and so is the Holy Spirit, whom God has given to those who obey him."

Acts 5:32 NIV

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Yet the number of the children of Israel shall be as the sand of the sea, which cannot be measured nor numbered; and it shall come to pass, that in the place where it was said unto them, Ye are not my people, there it shall be said unto them, Ye are the sons of the living God.

Hosea 1:10 KJV

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But to all who did receive him, who believed in his name, he gave the right to become children of God, who were born, not of blood nor of the will of the flesh nor of the will of man, but of God.

John 1:12,13 ESV

We went to my mom's house today for a small family get-together and my aunt Cindy brought these.  I'm glad she brought the recipe to share, because they were out of this world!  They are very rich, so you don't need much, but they are excellent!

Caramel Brownies

1 box German chocolate cake mix

3/4 cup melted butter

1/3 cup evaporated milk

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1 bag caramels

1/3 cup evaporated milk

6 oz. semi-sweet chocolate chips

     Mix cake mix, butter, and 1/3 cup evaporated milk with a fork.  Press half of the batter into the bottom of a greased 13x9 cake pan.  Bake at 350 degrees for 8 minutes.

     Microwave caramels and 1/3 cup evaporated milk until melted.  Stir vigorously to combine.

     Remove pan from oven and cool for 2 minutes.  Pour caramels over cake, sprinkle with chocolate chips.

     Drop remaining batter by spoonfuls over all.  Bake at 350 degrees for another 18 minutes.

     Cool and cut into bars.

We have had a lovely visit with Jonathan's brother and his wife . . . .

 

In the midst of this, partly because his brother does this for a living and is an expert, my laundry/kitchen/dining area flooring has been torn up to prepare for tile.

 

It is taking A LOT to level the floor. Step One was about 800lbs of some sort of concrete-like underlayment. Step Two, is some kind of concrete board. Step Two is today.

 

In the meantime, my refrigerator is in the living room, squished next to the bakers rack, I have a stack of concrete board to walk around (the boys love to play on it!) and the dining room table is of course, not in the dining room area, either. The washer and dryer are stuffed in our master bedroom for the time being.

 

It's . . . . quite cosy!

 

I would say I have experienced deep challenges but as I really can't cook or do laundry and barely can clean mostly I'm curling up on the couch with a stack of library books I got recently.

 

I should blog, we just aren't home very much and when we are, we either have company or I'm pretty busy. For not having a functioning house and all!

 

My Jonathan has two speeds of work: not working and full speed.  I know I will have tile and my appliances back as soon as one can resonably expect, and until then I'm biding my time. 

 

I hope everyone is having a great Labor Day!

 

~Ashley~ 

LOUISIANA SWEET POTATO PRALINE COFFEE CAKE
 
Hot out of the oven, these scrumptious melt-in-your mouth eye appealing recipe is hard to beat. The Praline topping compliments the sweet potato bread.
 
Makes 12 servings.
 
• 4 Tbl butter or margarine
• 2/3 cup plus 3 Tbl light brown sugar, divided
• 2 Tbl light corn syrup
• 1/2 cup chopped pecans
• 2 1/2 cups biscuit baking mix
• 1 (15-oz) can sweet potatoes (yams), drained and mashed or 1 cup mashed sweet potatoes
• 1/3 cup skim milk
• 1/4 cup dried cranberries
 
Preheat oven to 400 degrees.
 
In a 9x9x-2 square baking pan, melt the margarine in the oven.
 
Stir in 2/3 cup brown sugar and corn syrup; spread evenly in pan.
 
Sprinkle with pecans.
 
In a large mixing bowl, beat together the biscuit baking mix, sweet potatoes, and milk until dough forms a ball.
 
Turn dough onto a surface dusted with baking mix, knead several times and roll or pat into a 12-inch rectangle.
 
Sprinkle with the 3 tablespoons brown sugar and cranberries.
 
Fold the dough into thirds, folding each end to center.
 
Cut crosswise into one inch strips and arrange the strips sitting on top of the pecan mixture in pan.
 
Bake for 25 to 30 minutes or until golden brown.
 
Immediately turn upside down onto serving plate.

My Pastor had a sermon on teaching your kids today. It was really good. But the main part was that you are the greatest teacher and he challenged us. Everything we already know but brought about in a fresh way. My husband must have taken the message to heart. He challenged dads to read the bible to the kids. To pray with them.

So we had an awesome day today. Went to Pymatuning. You can look at my blog post about it on my homeschool blog. http://www.homeschoolblogger.com/lindai
I cannot get the link think to work on this post. Anyways. When I got home I got the kids in a bath and Justin ran out to Walmart for me. I needed mayo and pumpernickle bread for our picnic tomorrow. He called on his cell telling me to "not let the kids go to sleep until he got home tonight." O.K.
I wanted to throw them in bed a.s.a.p because I was tired! And enjoy me time at night. But I kept them up until he got back.

I thought this is what he had up his sleeve. no I hoped. And I was right.

Up the stairs he came with us to pray with the kids before bed. It was really nice.

Dh works nights as a truck driver. I do NOT want to nag him. But it would be so awesome if he kept up with that on weekends. It was really nice for daddy to pray with the kids before bed. I really enjoyed it myself. It was very family togetherness. Even as simple as it was. Hey, my kids are young. They do not need more then simple.

I have to laugh though. Dh cannot stand how Alyssa names EVERYONE in her prayers. Bless pappy, nana, grandma, grandpa, uncle... yadda yadda yadda. He always tries to get her to say "bless all my family" I will have to give Alyssa a heads up to keep it simpler if daddy is joining us. :)

But I just wanted to share. I thought it was really nice and pray it could be a habit for our weekends.

Leanne and her team members spent some time (while not doing concrete work ~smile~) with the children of the orphanage.  Here are a few pictures…

 

 

They made a trip into the town of Assuit, where the orphanage is located, and it was quite an experience.  They had to have "tourist police" escort them.  Here are some pictures of the town.  The water you is the Nile River.

 

 

Transportation varied quite a bit!  In the pictures below you can see a cart being pulled by a donkey and cars driving along side!

Assuit is an agricultural area and there was lots of green fields Leanne said it was obvious to see where the farm land ended.. everything beyond was brown.

 

I have more pictures to share from the orphange, other sites they saw in Assuit as well as the pyrimids and Cairo.  I hope to be able to get those in the next "mission trip" blog posting.. 

Leanne has a bit more to share with you about her time at the orphanage … 

Egypt
Leanne Miller 

     Once again we were up at five thirty every morning in Egypt. We had ten minutes to get ready and be outside, where we then waited for the boys (they slept on the other side in the boys’ dorms), who were always late. We worked until eight and then stopped for breakfast. It was a nice break with our thirty minutes of quiet Bible reading time included. Then it was back out to work. We worked for about four hours until lunch break came around. The last part of our workday was never steady in how many more hours we were going to work because you can’t leave an almost finished slab of concrete to dry. That is why sometimes we worked nine hour days. We had another Bible study when we were done working, then bath and laundry time, and sometimes we had another Bible study, though this one the boys and girls separated. Dinner followed shortly, we had a little bit of free time, and then one of the team members, whoever had kitchen duty that day, would lead another Bible study at night. We had library reading time after that and then it was off to bed.

   The Orphanage hired a man to do the finishing touches, like smoothing out the top so when it dries it is nice and smooth. His name was Niem. He believed there was a God but that was the extent of his faith. He had a bad opinion of Americans because he’d worked in a lot of touristy places where he’d met a lot of Americans, who didn’t talk, act or dress in any way that would give him any other kind of opinion. The way we dressed (as do most Christian organizations we had a dress code we followed) especially caught his attention, and when he asked one of our Egyptian leaders, who oversaw our work, why we dress like we do he was able to say we dress modestly because of our God. Anyway, his opinion of Americans was completely changed and it was an opportunity for someone to share Christianity with him. It was really neat.

   As well as working we also put together presentations for the children.  On Sundays we had two presentations we did. One in the morning and one in the evening, and we also had one on Wednesday’s in the evening. A presentation consisted of around eight songs (we even learned how to sing a song in Arabic!), a puppet show, and two testimonies. Once in a while we would even do a skit. One of our leaders would then give a massage. Everything, except the songs we sang, was done through a translator. It only got complicated when our translator (we had more then one) didn’t know what a word meant and then one of our leaders or team members would have to find a way to describe the word. I never spoke through a translator, but I have played games where you have to describe a word and it isn’t always easy to do.

 

More to come…