Some of My Favorite Books

Large Family Logistics, sold by Vision Forum has a wealth of information!

Managers of their Schedules by Terri Maxwell, Titus 2 ministry is great!

A new book has come out by Above Rubies (Nancy Campbell) called 100 Days of Blessings for women. Excellent!

My all time favorite book is The Way Home by Mary Pride written a long time ago.

Also Fascinating Womanhood and Created to Be His Helpmeet for marriage are wonderful!

For nutrition, I loved Healthy at 100.

Right now, I am trying the diet in the book–The Insulin Resistant Diet. I will keep you updated!

I haven’t wrote in a while and didn’t know if I mentioned that we had our third baby, a boy on Jan 5th, 2010.We are so blessed esp since I was told I was infertile! God is good!

Book Review by Bonita (a reader of this blog)

I absolutely loved the book, Housewives Desperate for God. It gave me a fresh outlook and vision for the task of being a homemaker in the 21st century. It really helped me to realize how the job of housewife is a profession that is looked down upon by must people. This book helped me to discover “the beautiful picture painted in Scripture of the truly fulfilled homemaker who glories in the hopeful calling God created for her”. If you have the time this summer, I hope you can read this book.

The new Duggars book is great!

I learned SO much from reading their new book, A Love the Multiplies which I purchased from Vision Forum. I like the way they structure their day and the conflict resolution strategies are priceless! This was my all time favorite book of the yr that I read : ) I know I always say that!

Not enough money to make ends meet? Tips to live inexpensively and simply!

If you are a homeschool family and live in America (or maybe even England or Australia for that matter), you might be finding a hard time making ends meet. It is def not easy living on one income these days for families. Here are some tips my friends and I have come up with to help you on your journey to be good stewards of the resources God has given you and to stay debt free.

1. If you are thinking of going back to work and you are a mother, I suggest reading, The Way Home by Mary Pride. She has a new edition out now. The book, Created to Be His Help meet by Debi Pearl also helped me tremendously although some can't handle her writing style which is very direct.

2. Food: Many have found good deals at the 99 cents store. Some friends found food co-ops that give away free food from Trader Joe's. WIC has also gotten a lot healthier. If worst scenario, there are always state food banks and church food banks.

3. Recipes to save money: Lentil soup has lasted a long time in my house. Once cup of lentils for three cups of water. Some celery and onions. Cook a half hr. So easy to make and tastes great!

4. Do not be tempted to use your credit card. If money runs out, do without! Our family loves the Dave Ramsey Financial Peace workshops. www.daveramsey.com/home He sells curriculum for homeschoolers now too!

5. Hair dye: Buy it on sale at the drug store and stock up or wear a hat! (an actual biblical and historical practice for women)

6. Breakfast ideas: Fruit is cheap, good for you and filling. Eggs and bulk oatmeal are still pretty inexpensive. Bulk cook pancakes and freeze for later.

7. More food thoughts: Rethink the three meals a day idea..are we over eating? Soups are filling. Again, apples are great! Think you need meat? Read the book, Healthy at 100. While I don't subscribe to all his religious thoughts, the four cultures that live over 100 in the world, hardly ever eat meat, only on holidays with the exception of one culture that eats a ton of fish.

(But the key to their health was walking, being active and eating 10 servings of raw veggies a day!)

8. Mall: Don't go if you can't go without buying something. Same goes for clicking on those groupon advertisements. Don't read it if you can't help but indulge. Just because something is a deal doesn't mean you need it!

9. Free things for kids: Museums have free days, parks, picnics, walking, games outside, board games inside, libraries (which also have dvds), parks and recs usually have free or reduced price classes, including music lessons. Music can keep children entertained for hours. (remember the Sound of Music?) Note --Be weary of late fees at the library! If the kids, say they are bored--tell them to help clean! They'll find something to do quickly. Always works in my house!

10. How to books: Get a book on how to grow a garden or how to give your children haircuts!

Above all--pray! God promised to provide our NEEDS.

"Behold the fowls of the air: for they sow not, neither do they reap, nor gather into barns; yet your heavenly Father feedeth them. Are ye not much better than they?" Matthew 6:26

Happy and Healthy Kids in a Crazy World--Intro

I wrote this on my old blog in 2007 and wanted to reiterate it here:

All my life, I grew up thinking that someday, I would be "somebody." We women are taught from the time that we are in elementary school that we can be anything a man can be and more. Then, we spend thousands of dollars, time and energy in universities studying for a profession. We may even get to work in that profession for a while. But once we have children, everything changes...

Yes, we can continue to work and many women do for various reasons BUT something suffers. Usually BOTH work and homelife are compromised. In addition, women are stressed, tired and their health is at risk. Now the choice that I was blessed to choose (because I know some women do not have a choice) was stay home and be there as much as I can for my children.

A woman is so excited when she has a baby. As soon as she is pregnant, she looks forward to having that child in her arms. What she doesn't realize is how much her life changes after that baby. From waking up in the middle of the night to feed the baby repeatedly, to changing stinking diapers, to running in and out of the shower quickly because the baby is crying for you, to not being able to even go to the bathroom alone--it is an adjustment to say the least. One, most of us are not prepared for.

In addition, most of us don't live near our families anymore. Personally, living on the westcoast is across the continent from my parents in NYC. However, even those that do live near our family have a hard time getting along with them around the children. Why? Because our parents learned things differently then we did and do things differently. My mother didn't breastfeed at all. She was told formula was superior. She can't understand why I breastfeed. She thinks I am "crazy." My grandmother-in-law was taught to let babies cry because it is good for the lungs, even when they are newborn and even when they are hungry! One family member says to make the child finish everything on their plate and the other family member says not to. One grandparent wants to give the child candy to make them their friend and the other is complaining how "chubby" the child's getting.

So how can we produce happy and healthy kids is a world that doesn't even know what that looks like?

Stay tuned as I share more ideas.......

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Passover and Jesus

Some people were asking me about Passover and so here are some things I wrote.

During the seder, the matzo, that is the three in one is broken. One of the three peices is broken and wrapped in white linen and hidden from view. Buried! Later, it has to be redeemed by the children. See some parallels yet?

The rabbis have no idea where this originated from, these three in one? We think it was a messianic Jewish origination.

On Passover, the matzo and the third cup of wine, the cup of redemption is taken to remember the blood and body of the lamb that's blood was over the homes of the Israelites and saved them from death. In the same way, when Jesus said "do this in rememberance of me." This was during Passover time when they were remembering the lamb that was killed. He said now remember his body and blood. He was the lamb who's bones were never broken as prophesied.

Interestingly, the fourth cup is the cup of Hallel which means praise and we can't praise God until after redemption. It is the third cup, the cup of redemption that Jesus says not only to remember the blood of the lamb but to remember Him!

Another interesting fact is that in Judaism,during that time, if a man wanted to marry a woman, he would have to drink from a cup with his soon to be father-in-law and by drinking from that cup, he was saying he would love her till death and would die for her. That is why he says, this is a new covenenat in my blood. Jer 31:31. This is all the origin of communion.

The blood of Y'shua saves us from the death of sin. The matzah is unleavened. Levine in the bible signals sin and matzah is without sin. The matzah that is broken, buried and brought back is with out levin just like Jesus! Also Jesus was burried in white linens.

Interestingly, the rabbis can't figure out why the 3 in 1 matzo. But when they say, "Here O'Israel, the Lord our God, the Lord is One," they use the word "echad" which is a plural one, not singular. Just like two people are married and become one or a cluster of grapes is many grapes but one cluster.

The Matzo also has pierces in it just like He was pierced and it has stripes just like Jesus was striped (whipped). See Isaiah 53 and Zechariah 12:10.

A rule in Passover by the way is that the lambs bones could never be broken just like Jesus' bones were never broken.

Y'shua died at the very same time that some of the lambs were being sacrificed in the temple.

Jesus is the lamb of God who takes away the sins of the world. (see John). The Jewish people on Passover open up the door, waiting for Eliyahu to come in and announce the coming of the Messiah but Jesus says that John the Baptist came in the spirit of Elijah.

On Passover, there is a lamb's bone that lies on the table to remind us of these sacrifices that we once did that we no longer can do. Why not? There is no temple to do them but what does the Bible say? Leviticus 17:11, "It is the blood that makes atonement for the soul."

The rabbis try to pray, fast and do good deeds on Yom Kippur hoping that their name will be written in the Book of life but what does God's word say? Blood atonement is needed! Y'shua, Jesus did that for us!

Well how is that for starters?


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Found a Gem Health Book

I have read almost every book out there and this one is worth the read! It's called Perfect Health the natural way and the writer is a Christian. Her name is Mary-Ann Shearer.

Some of her tips:

Eat three peices of fruit every morning for breakfast with nothing else.

Eat avocado every day to kick cravings for fat.

If you are a vegetarian, eat nuts three times per week (about a half a cup)

Don't mix protien and carbs

Eat 80% raw

If you can, stay away from dairy and gluten. It takes 6 weeks to see if you are gluten intolerant.

I blew this all today but there's always tomorrow!