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  1. AMDG mmmmmm! I think it's actually Za'atar but it's ground sumac berries and is used a lot in middle eastern dishes. It can also be a blens of sumac and sesame seeds and herbs. We use straight sumac. It's a deep red/mahogany color and tastes a wee bit tart/lemony/woody with a hint of saltiness. Num num!
  2. AMDG We're getting ready to watch a couple of Perry Mason episodes on tv.com so that'll have to do. I ♡ Lt. Tragg! My daughter and I LOVE popcorn with olive oil and zaatar. We recently got rid of netflix. We have one evergreen but not the typical. We have a magnolia. The neighbor has a pine, though, and it's quite close to us.
  3. AMDG Obviously I love this idea, too! The trick, though, is for e.v.e.r.y.t.h.i.n.g to have a place. Everything! When everything has an assigned place, it is then easy to identify the object as out of place and also easy to know what to do with it when told to out it up. Also, when everything is decluttered, the out-of-place object is itself a reminder to pick it up. We're working on that part now. My daughter is you daughter's twin. If asked to put something "up," she'd just move it to some other place. Well, who could really blame her? If something didn't have an official "up," one "up" seems as good as another to her. Now that everything has a home, this is no longer a problem. Finding a home for every.single.item and then putting every.single.item in that place was a ton of work. In fact, many times I came here asking ppl where they keep this or that thing b/c I was running out of ideas. Everyone was a great help, though, and it got done. But just saying . . . If you don't start with "a place for everything," then "everything in it's place" is not possible. I got this idea from interpreting in a couple of manufacturing places. I kept thinking thag it ought to work on the domestic front, too. I was so busy trying to develop systems for keeping things cleaned up that I just didn't do it. Finally, enough was enough. May I suggest a Lenten Declutter and Organization Challenge? If you look, you'll probably find the Advent version. That was me. And all those "where do you keep yours?" posts were me getting help on the everything-in-its-place part.
  4. AMDG The undershirts . . . I keep a box on top of the dryer for clothes that need to go. When it's full, it goes into the car and off to church. If you do your husband's laundry, that should be pretty easy. In the wash, out of the dryer, and then give it a long cold stare . . . Do I want you in my home, Mr. Tee? Would someone else be blessed by you? Repose in the box a while, and off you go.
  5. AMDG I did do this recently. Over Advent I S.E.R.I.O.U.S.L.Y purged. I purged from every room in my house except my daughter's and I was merciless. My husband and daughter both said we'd end up regretting losing some things but we didn't . . . Or, 2 and a half months later and we haven't yet. I also organized, made a place for everything and put everything in it's place and then issued an ultimatum. It was a strange and mysterious kind of denial . . . If the house was messy, it was never, ever anyone's fault but mine for not picking up. I got tired of complaining so I laid down the law. The house was spotless AND MY CAMERA WAS READY. With the house so tidy and orderly, things out of place are obvious. I'd snap a picture and text it to the offender. I also do a walk through each night before bed and call out offenders. I finished my decluttering/organizing project just before Christmas. My house has been orderly and tidy since then. When I first started, it was multiple pictures every.single.day. There was no denying whose receipts or whose change or whose sock or whose drawing pad or whose cup . . . I never realized what a funny looking word that is: whose. Anyway, it was such an eye-opener. They have appologized many times for never realizing and try hard to keep on top of their stuff. In the beginning, lots of pix every day. Now? Only once in a while. I LOVE LOVE LOVE IT! I feel like we live in a house and enjoy our HOME again instead of feeling like I live in a storage unit with stuff all around me. I am so much happier, which is not surprising at all, but my husband and daughter are as well and now that they see the great benefit (pretty home, guests, et c) they are happier, too. I got push-back in the very beginning but now, never. We all love it.
  6. AMDG My aunt taught English, cousin is a lawyer, a friend wks in a bank.
  7. AMDG Oh we did invite her! Or, we tossed out the idea of splitting the suite after having discussed it privately. We decided we'd love her to be able to go and we'd enjoy her company. It's a pretty intense schedule if we do everything, and we usually do. No, we are not in any way put-upon. We are happy to make it work and really want to. We just don't want to go over budget for the trip. I really do not want to go over budget for the trip or we lose out on something later that we really also want to do. So, I would like to make both possible: keep cost at budget AND present a fair sharing of room expenses. Breakfast and supper are included. We will bring a large container of soup and sandwich fixings to keep in the fridge for lunches. She will bring some sandwich stuff and we'll bring some and the soup . . . B/c, seriously, it's my souperpower! I want her to be able to go. I want to share this with her. My husband also wants her to go. My daughter is thrilled. I just eant to keep expenses fair and come it within our budget. We'll ck about moving rooms w/o incurring a charge. Thanks for all the kind ideas!!
  8. AMDG Every yr we spend a weekend out of town at the same conference, same hotel, same kind of room. This year, my daughter's godmother mentioned she'd like to go. We told her about our hotel and info, et c. She said she couldn't affort both the conference and the hotel; she'd have to stay somewhere else. If it's just us . . . 3 ppl: 2 adults, 1 teen 1 regular room, 2 beds 3 nights $145/night. If godmother goes with us . . . 4 ppl: 3 adults, one teen 1 suite: 2 beds in one area, a fold-out couch in the tv area. My husband would sleep there. 3 nights for us, 2 nights for her. $190/night. At first we just thought halfsies: Everyone saves and she can afford it. We've been thinking about it though . . . We're 3 and she's only one so less seems more appropriate. However, we're stuck in a suite that third night which is more than the regular room we'd normally pay. What do you think would be fair?
  9. AMDG Thank you, Amira! I've rearranged my thoughts, now. I looked up Shchi and found a recipe that looks quite delicious and the borscht looks delicious to me so I'm going to make both. I'm going to make the black bread and serve it in the middle with a butter for sure and whatever pickled veg I can get from the russian mkt if it's still open. I'm still going to do the blini idea but later in the evening and with all sweet toppings. Thanks, again! You are a great help!
  10. AMDG Cheese enchiladas with entomatada sauce, beans, rice, chips, salsa. We're eating out.
  11. AMDG Illness cancelled our superbowl get-together and b/c I couldn't get myself together to do anything else, all that food b/c suppers over the next few days. Everyone will be coming over for the opening ceremony instead! I'm **thinking** of having a blini bar with lots of blini and a variety of savoury AND sweet toppings. I need topping ideas, though. I'd also like to offer a traditional soup and bread. I had borscht in mind but beets are so love-them-or-hate-them that I'm afraid some guests may not like it. What's a traditional soup/bread combo that's likely to appeal to a variety of guests? I'll be very busy most of Friday but will have all day tomorrow to prepare as much in advance as possible. So, pretty please with sugar on top, let me have all your wonderful ideas!
  12. AMDG My current favorite breakfast is a bowl full of this stuff . . . At the beginning of each week I simmer a fruit long and slow so it releases lots of juice and then thickens up. I often add vanilla and/or another extract. We use this to top cooked irish oats, toasted regular oats, toast, et c. Currently I cant get enough cherries. I use two or three bags of frozen sweet cherries and simmer till juice thickens. Add vanilla and almond extract. Into a bowl I slice a banana, top with a handful of almonds, couple scoops of cherries, toasted oats. Sometimes I add milk. To toast the oats I use regular oats and put them in a cast iron skillet and heat and toss till fragrant and lightly brown. It is crazy delish! I like a poached egg with toast. I like left-overs.
  13. AMDG Ours is strictly indoor. Before we got her (Humane Society) we actually had to take ugly unwanted steps to keep the field mice in the field and not in the house. Doing battle all night must be a noisy affair but I never hear her. When we first got her, I did definitely notice when she'd walk around on me or power nap on my chest but it didn't take long to start sleeping through that, too. Good, Kitty. Good mouser.
  14. AMDG My fever broke last night, thank goodness. Today? I walked around in the house a bit did some gentle stretches this evening. Tomorrow I should feel so much stronger.
  15. AMDG We used to call it Writer's Conference and have it on a set day. We'd discuss what needed to be done over the course of the week and I'd help her portion out her work through the week. She'd share what she had done; I'd make comments. That worked for 7th and 8th, I'd say. My daughter liked that. Of course, we could discuss her work any time during the rest of the week, too, but WC gave an ongoing mini deadline. Now we don't have that set aside weekly conference. Her papers are mostly due to an outside tchr (Angelicum/Great Books) but I am still her writing coach. When she gets the assignment we sit down together and map out a framework of mini due dates. My kiddo just cannot yet do well with a single end-of-paper due date and not even rough draft, revision, final. Her due dates are more like . . . Thinking Paper due Friday Intro due Wednesday Body 1 due Monday . . . Completed rough draft due one wk before final due date.
  16. AMDG Well . . . I don't make all our bread. I used to make all our bread and I loved doing it. The breadbis delicious and wholesome and just packed full of love. However, when I make bread, we eat the entire delicious loaf AND a stick of butter to go with it. When I buy bread, we eat the slice or two we need for our toast or sandwich. Yeah, it's that pitiful. I do find that making it homemadebis more delicious and more enjoyable than boughtn by a long shot. Like canning, it is more cost effective over the long haul but can be expensive to start if you don't have any equipment, et c. I learned with this loaf: Well, it won't paste, sorry. If youvwant you can google vegweb outrageously easy big bread
  17. AMDG My husband LOVES his job. He likes what he does; he's good at it; he has a good team to work with; they get along well; he's highly valued by his team and the company. That is a tremendous gift and we're really thankful for it. He has NOT loved previous iterations and those have been hard times.
  18. AMDG We were going to host a small party but I had to cancel for illness. ; *( My kiddo is making me a pallet on the couch and we're going to have a Charlie Chan mini marathon. We plan to watch on the laptop with headphones while Dad watches the game on TV. The idea is to watch CC and pause to watch commercials with Dad. For food . . . my sweet kiddo is making applesauce and I'll make johnnycakes . . . which is always our Sunday evening meal. always. Even when we had a different menu planned for Superbowl, that was definitely included, too. We're not making the rest, though. We have transferred out food plans to Friday evening dinner and movie . . . if the wretched contagion doesn't continue on through the family.
  19. AMDG I have been so excited to start!!!! I have stationery, stamps, a working list, and I even bought a fountain pen (Lamy). I feel like such a goofball being so excited about InCoWroMo! I would like different stationery. I was looking for something beautiful till I watched the vid at fpgeeks. I then got a functional pad with top tear. I still want beautiful bit cant seem to find any locally. Ppl just don't use it anymore, I guess. But yes, I'm so ecxited!
  20. AMDG We got ours at a store. We actually went in to get a new up-right but ended up buying a refurbished baby grand. It has a gorgeous sound.
  21. AMDGI love my relationship with my daughter. We have always prayed together, just us two, from the moment I knew she Was a tiny living spark of life in the womb. We also pray as a family but our just-us-girls prayer time is precious to is both. The same could be said for reading. I read to her in the womb and haven't stopped yet. Now we often read to each other and share this love. jokes! We both are ridiculous lovers of goofy, silly jokes. We love to laugh together. I pray for her everyday and make sacrifices for her and she knows it and appreciates it. She also prays for me (and Dad) and also makes sacrifices for us. Even if it isn't reading or goofy jokes, just something to bond over is impotant, I think. Nothing can replace praying together. Wrong . . . I deeply regret physically punishing her during one period. I also wish I could loosen up a bit. I have one precious egg in my basket and guard it like you wouldnt believe. I do, however, really enjoy the woman she is becoming and we love our lives so . . . Yes, I wish I could lighten up a bit but, I guess it isn't that bad. My husband and I just had do come to a decision to consider that spanking wasnt really consistent with what we wanted, and figure out a solution. I also try to get out of my own comfort zone and get comfortable, or at least fake it, to get my kiddo out and about more. I was thinking about those dumb jokes . . . She once checked two identical joke books out from the library so we could take turns. Now we actually subscribe to a joke list serv that delivers a joke to our email every week day and she reads it on the way home from mass/adoration every day.
  22. AMDGI love my relationship with my daughter. We have always prayed together, just us two, from the moment I knew she Was a tiny living spark of life in the womb. We also pray as a family but our just-us-girls prayer time is precious to is both. The same could be said for reading. I read to her in the womb and haven't stopped yet. Now we often read to each other and share this love. jokes! We both are ridiculous lovers of goofy, silly jokes. We love to laugh together. I pray for her everyday and make sacrifices for her and she knows it and appreciates it. She also prays for me (and Dad) and also makes sacrifices for us. Even if it isn't reading or goofy jokes, just something to bond over is impotant, I think. Nothing can replace praying together. Wrong . . . I deeply regret physically punishing her during one period. I also wish I could loosen up a bit. I have one precious egg in my basket and guard it like you wouldnt believe. I do, however, really enjoy the woman she is becoming and we love our lives so . . . Yes, I wish I could lighten up a bit but, I guess it isn't that bad. My husband and I just had do come to a decision to consider that spanking wasnt really consistent with what we wanted, and figure out a solution. We're all glad it was fairly early. I also try to get out of my own comfort zone and get comfortable, or at least fake it, to get my kiddo out and about more.
  23. AMDG Oh, we try to never have refined grains but do sometimes when we eat out. Mostly not, though. My daughter ate at Subway a couple of days ago and suffered a huge spike in her headache. I looked online at the ingredients list and it ended up that the sandwich she had had a lot of sugar and "hidden sugars." She really did suspect but ate it anyway. She was sorry for certain and has it on her list of places not to eat anymore.
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