https://sarahagerty.net/2015/06/how-to-love-a-man/

“Sometimes you have to have a history of what not to do before the doing becomes something driven more by your heart than the playbook.

So I mastered what not to do.”

 

Sneaky Boogers

 Apparently Willa was digging unsuccessfully and told sister, Bella, that her boogers were “sneaky” and there’s something in there…Not bad vocabulary for a 3-year old and the description is only slightly off! 

*Proud homeschool mom 😄

Also, she got a letter in the mail from gramma. Gramma drew: 👁❤️U 👵🏻 (Gramma) so that Willa could kind of read it. I said, “Do you like your letter from Gramma?!” She said, “Yeah, but the eye is creepy.” Gramma wrote a creepy letter to Willa?! 🤭.  😂Gramma promises to write another letter with a pretty eye. 🤣

Elephant Snack

I created an elephant snack to eat while learning the letter “Ee” at co-op! 😉 We’ll probably end up using raisins for the eyes instead. I sprinkled cinnamon sugar on the bananas. 

*Update: We “glued” all the pieces on with peanut butter. The only surprise was that hubby thought they were more of an anatomy lesson than anything. 🤭That’s all I’ll say about that! 
 

💜

 https://notgrass.com/dailyencouragement/what-i-wish-someone-had-told-me/

Rica’s Spaghetti

 The true name for this is actually “Grandpa Sauce.” My friend’s beloved grandpa passed this recipe down that was a family tradition. She shared it with me and it has been a fav in our family for years now. I actually have the recipe written down on an old envelope postmarked 2006 but I feel like I’ve had the recipe much longer than that. I asked her if she minded if I posted the recipe years ago and she said it would be fine. We just had a kitchen remodel and I had worried over the thought of losing it since my cookbooks were all stored in the garage. It’s high time to get the recipe in a more secure and easily accessible place! 😉 

Rica’s Grandpa Sauce

(She highly recommended Hunts brand for the tomato products. I have also used generic and other brands and it is still yummy but the Hunts is preferred). 

29 oz. can peeled whole tomatoes 

2 14 oz. (or 29 oz.) diced tomatoes 

6 oz. small tomato paste

3 handfuls of Italian seasoning (She said her mom swore by rubbing it together in her hands before throwing it in)

3 TBS minced garlic

3 TBS sugar

3 girgles of white vinegar (yeah, you just wait to hear those girgles 😄)

1 girgle of olive oil (basically a couple of big vinegar splashes more than the splash of olive oil)

Yellow onion (cut in big pieces)

3 spiced Bay leaves

Box of Rigatoni noodles

1 1b beef need to make meatballs

1 package Italian sausage links

For Meatballs:

Parmesan Cheese

Bread crumbs

Egg

11b beef

Mix the meatballs ingredients together and form into meatballs, bake on 350 for 10-15 min

Put all ingredients in a big pot with lid, add meatballs and cooked Italian sausage links (you can cut them up before putting into pot or add them in whole) after cooking. Bring to a boil, lower heat, and cook for 3 hours. Add water IF it is needed (I never do). 

Serve over rigatoni noodles and with garlic bread 🥖 or other. She always enjoyed putting butter and minced garlic on bread du jour sticks and baking. 

*I sub anything needed gluten free for myself. 

Love this C.S. Lewis quote

  “I am trying here to prevent anyone saying the really foolish thing that people often say about Him [that is, Christ]: ‘I’m ready to accept Jesus as a great moral teacher, but I don’t accept His claim to be God.’ That is the one thing we must not say. A man who was merely a man and said the sort of things Jesus said would not be a great moral teacher. He would either be a lunatic – on a level with the man who says he is a poached egg – or else he would be the Devil of Hell. You must make your choice. Either this man was, and is, the Son of God; or else a madman or something worse….You can shut Him up for a fool, you can spit at Him and kill Him as a demon, or you can fall at His feet and call Him Lord and God. But let us not come up with any patronizing nonsense about His being a great human teacher. He has not left that open to us. He did not intend to.”

More Willaisms

 All in the same day today:

First, I have told Willa that God made the body so that it heals itself when she is sleeping. So when she got a bad burn when trying to hastily grab a cookie from a pan straight out of the oven, she learned this well! Each day we would talk about how God was healing her even more. This morning she had some pigtails in from the day before. As she reached to the back of her head, she said, “Will you take my(the rubber band)... Oh, it’s out! God healed it!” 

Then later we were singing, “God made me...🎶” I got to “And God made the shape that I am in...” She reached down, added her own verse and sang so sweetly, “God made my panties...” Umm, well, kind of...God made the material and man made the panties! 😂

Willaism

 Willa loves to color with the paper off of the crayon. Today she handed me a crayon and said, “I want the crayon 🖍 to be naked.” She wanted me to unclothe her crayon! 😂

While I’m here- The other day during our morning time Cam looked out the window and commented about a helicopter 🚁 being on the trampoline. Bella, kind of indignant, said “A helicopter can’t be on the trampoline!” I looked out the window and saw the tree seeds that covered the trampoline. We had a good laugh thinking about what Bella was picturing. She said, “Oh.”  

Chapter One~ Rocky Beginnings

 I was 21 years old and my brother had given me a Bible and some Billy Graham Decision magazines. I had told him I was a “pretty good person” comparatively...He told me my “righteousness” was as filthy rags in the sight of God. My world was about to get rocked...