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Root Beer..Home Made ( Recipe)

I've been asked by a couple of folks for my recipe for root beer..so here it is from our kitchen to yours..

Brenda

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This is so good I made it for Memorial Day.. Here is the recipe from Wanda Brunstetter ...

Home Made Root Beer

2 cups white sugar

1 gallon luke warm water

3 tsp root beer extract

1 tsp dry yeast

Mix all together well and pour into jars.Cover and let set in the sun for four hours.Chill before serving next day..

I put mine in a gallon jar and left it there it worked fined.. Enjoy it taste so good... haflinger 

Broken ribs medication

I took another pain pill for my broken ribs after lunch today, and it made me sick!  My head started spinng, I got queasy and real sleepy.  I`m a little better now, but I will not be taking any more of it.  I`ll take plain old Tylenol.  I`m not in too much pain, anyway, just when I bend over mostly.  But I have to go to work tomorrow, I sure hope I can get through it.  I have a recheck scheduled with my doc on Fri. morning. 

I think that me and pills just don`t get along, I really don`t like taking anything if I don`t have to.  I`m going to go settle down and rest my eyes for awhile now.

That Girl

Menu Planner (A Day Late) : UPDATED with lots of talk about the inlaws!

We did end up having soup last night after all.  It got rainy and chilly and by the time hubby was home, he was in the mood for soup and grilled cheese.  Here is our menu for this week, including last night:

Monday: tomato soup, grilled cheese

Tuesday: chicken enchiladas, spanish rice

Wednesday: nachos

Thursday: meatball sandwiches and veggies

Friday: PIZZA!!!!!!  brownies and icecream for dessert

Saturday: pork loin, vegetables (in the crockpot), hot rolls and apple butter

Sunday: planned leftovers (buffet, pick what you want, eat what you want)

On Saturday afternoon, we are planning on having Matthew's parents over for dinner.  I told Matthew last night I don't mind visiting with them.  I just hate having to do it in their house, eat dinner before we go or after we return, etc.  So this time, they are coming to see Noah play in his own environment.  LOL  Since his mother IS NOT a cook, I thought I would fix a nice Sunday dinner type of meal.  His father will love it!!!  For some reason, when I cook, she seems to get real quiet and jealous.  I can't help it that I am a good cook and Matthew prefers my cooking over hers.  LOL  We don't like her cooking (hamburger helper, corn dogs, sandwiches, etc.), and I don't trust her cooking because of her cleaning habits, so we do not eat there under any circumstance.  (Unless it is prepackaged food, or I have taken the dish myself, which is what I do on the holidays!!!)

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I thought I would add a little update for those of you who don't know the situation with hubby's family.  (And since Anonymous in Hicksville, New York decided to leave a rude comment!!!  LOL)

My hubby's family is some of the nicest people you will ever meet.  They would take the shirts off their backs for you, but cooking and cleaning is not their choice of pass times.  It is not only my opinion, it is the truth, and they would tell you so themselves!!!!   As for my hubby, he knows the problems with their cleanliness and we both decided (not just me) to never eat there, not because she doesn't fix food that is gourmet, but because her kitchen and the rest of the house is AWFUL!!!  Hot dogs, fine, I don't care....we are not fancy people.  But I would check the expiration date on the package and check the cleanliness on all pots and pans before she cooked them, or I would go hungry.

In response to what he thought of my parents (they are in heaven now), he adored them, and was able to find out how parents who love their children act and talk.  His parents were abusive in too many different ways.  He adored my parents and they loved him!!!  He had just as hard a time when they died as I did, and he only knew them about 1.5 years before they died.  We love his parents, but we won't forsake our own family's safety by eating there!!  it is as simple as that.

I have had a few people send me a message saying your post makes me feel so blessed for my inlaws.  Good for you!!!!  I am so glad not all inlaws are like mine!  LOL  I think alot of it has to do with the fact that I married the middle child, only son, and he was a momma's boy for a long time.  He moved out at the age of 17, and she was as sweet as pie with me, even after we got married until we had a child.  I am not sure exactly what it is about this that changed her, but I have since talked to several other girls that say their mother in law did the same!!  She is a sweet lady, but she seems to cling to my hubby because she doesn't have a close intimate relationship with her own husband.  (They live in the same house, different bedrooms, roomies only, no real relationship)   She has repled to Matthew several times about how was happy to see us being so close, but she was jealous because she never had that for herself.  Sad isn't it???  It makes me even more thankful to God for my hubby dearest.

Have any of you had problems with your mother in law like this, after getting pregnant and having a baby??? (No he is not the only grandchild, but he is the only boy, and the only one to carry on the bloodline.)  If so, how did you handle it?????

Ray Stevens Does it Again!!!!

I just got this link in an email, and I had to share with you!!!

If you have ever heard a Ray Stevens song, and laughed, you have to listen to this one!!!  Turn up your speakers and enjoy!!!

http://home.comcast.net/~singingman7777/SOY.htm

The Biblical Basis for Homeschooling Christian Children ~ Pt. 5 ~ A Battleground for the Minds of Our Children

A Battleground for the Minds of Our Children

            “Jesus said to His disciples:  ‘Things that cause people to sin are bound to come, but woe to that person through which they come.  It would be better for him to be thrown into the sea with a millstone tied around his neck than for him to cause one of these little ones to sin.  So watch yourselves.’”  (Luke 17:1-3) 

            John Dewey was a very out-spoken prophet for the anti-God public school system.  Not only did he not want God entering through the doors of our schools, but God’s absolutes, God’s morals and principles would put a wrench in his plans for our youth.  There is no room for the God or anything to do with His kingdom.  “Every teacher should realize the dignity of his calling; that he is a social servant set apart for the maintenance of proper social order and the securing of the right social growth…In this way the teacher is always the prophet of the true god and the usherer of the true kingdom of god.”[1] [emphasis mine]   And again, just in case you didn’t understand the first time, he added this for good measure: “Faith in the prayer-hearing God is an unproved and out-moded faith.  There is no God and there is no soul…There is no room for fixed, natural law or moral absolutes.”[2]   

            Oh, but there is more.  Horace Mann and John Dewey were certainly not the only ones to take this point of view.  They are merely standing at the head of the line of our modern school system.  More recently, Paul Blanshard, a writer for The Humanist magazine even hinted that even though America’s arithmetic, science and reading skills are sinking – even while billions of our tax dollars are being poured into the bottomless pit of educational “reform” – that only seems to be part of the plan for him.  “Our schools may not teach Johnny to read properly, but the fact that Johnny is in school until he is sixteen tends to lead toward the elimination of religious superstition.”[3]

            For anyone who doubts, Blanshard was not the first person to think this way.  Adolph Hitler once said, “Let me control the textbooks, and I will control Germany.”  And that is exactly what he did.  And to make sure, he made private school, parochial school and home education illegal.  “Recalcitrant parents were warned that their children would be taken away from them and put in orphanages or other homes unless they enrolled[4] [in the government schools].”  (Sound familiar?)  But Hitler was certainly ahead of his time.  In 1983, John Dunphy, yet again another writer for The Humanist magazine, reiterated that what the public schools are secretly fighting unaware parents for are the minds and immortal souls of their children:  “The classroom must and will become an arena of conflict between the old and the new – the rotting corpse of Christianity, together with all its adjacent evils and misery, and the new faith of humanism.”[5]

            And let us not forget about this generation’s leader of the pack:  The National Education Association.  Dr. John Goodland wrote a report for the NEA in which he said, “Our goal is behavioral change.  The majority of our youth still hold to the values of their parents and if we do not resocialize them to accept change, our society may decay.”[6]  [emphasis mine] 

            Reading, writing and arithmetic have had to make way and be replaced by a new value system.  Values clarification seems to be the order of the day whether parents want it be or not.  (Remember the outcome of the Ninth Circuit Court’s decision.) 

            “Values Clarification.”  It has the sound of the educational system desiring nothing more than to help our youngsters get a handle on right and wrong, doesn’t it?  Mary Pride, in her book “The Way Home,” is not one known to beat around the bush.  She cuts right to the chase as she puts it this way:  “…as the public schools are demanding the right to indoctrinate children in values that may be directly contrary to the parents’.  Sex education courses are designed to brainwash children into accepting homosexuality and fornication as ‘valid forms of sexual expression.’ Values clarification classes systematically destroy the Biblical concepts of an absolute right and an absolute wrong.  One-world government programs in Social Studies are meant to destroy patriotism, while the study of ‘women’s role in today’s society’ is a front for indoctrination in feminism.  Economics courses teach socialism; English teachers assign pornography as required reading; even my high-school gym class featured instruction in occult Yoga techniques.”

            Even though I graduated from high school in 1977, I can personally verify nearly everything she listed.  In my own experience, my Psychology teacher required us to lay on mats hooked up to monitors that measured our bio rhythms.  All in the name of progressive learning.  Mann and Dewey would have been so proud.           

need canning preserving help for apples and pears.

UPDATE on the chicken killer

A Simple Woman's Daybook

Please stop by to visit Peggy to peek into the lives of other "Simple Women," and to read the guidelines for creating your own Daybook!

I need some help!!! Can you help???

On my path to homemade Christmas, I have decided to make my 4 year old neice (she will be 5 in November) a baby doll.  I have seen several online, but I am not one who can just whip one out without a paper pattern.  So I am looking for patterns to a simple little girl doll with yarn hair.

Here is a link that will show you what I am looking for: (I just hate to pay $15 for the pattern if I could find one for free)

http://weewonderfuls.typepad.com/wee_wonderfuls/store/

The Simple Woman's Daybook ~ #3 ~ 10/6/08

For Today...

Outside my Window...a beautiful sun-shiny day.  The only disappointment about the weather is that it's supposed to get up into the low 70s...I'm ready for it to stay down in the 60s and 50s.

I am thinking...that my friend, whose son was just murdered in front of his wife, is grieving and needs so much prayer.