Monday: Lentil wheat berry soup, leftover from the Sabbath, along with grilled cheese and green salad
Tuesday: Roasted whole Chicken with apple, celery, and onion stuffing, rice, salad
Wednesday: Veggie pasta (with our new veggies from the CSA pickup)
Thursday: Chicken sandwiches (leftover chicken with homemade rolls), green salad
Friday: Fish tacos and apple salsa
Saturday: Homemade scones for breakfast and homemade pizza night
Sunday: Soup (have yet to find a recipe!)
Over the course of the week, Tirzah and I will spend delightful moments together in the kitchen, baking away. I just recently created a "baking menu" for each week (can you tell I am a routine-type person?! Sometimes to a fault...). And, I have just discovered my new love of "bulk baking!" I just started last Friday. I simply baked 2 batches of Oatmeal Raisin cookies. 1 batch I baked for over the weekend (sad to say, they were gone by Saturday afternoon!), while I put the other batch in the freezer. Daniel had a great idea to freeze the dough (I was going to bake them and then freeze them). So I scooped out the dough by the teaspoon onto a baking sheet lined with parchment paper, and then placed it in the freezer. Once it was fully frozen, I place the dough-balls into a Tuper-ware container. This week, I can simply bake a few cookies at a time, my husband and daughter are thrilled with the treat and I am thrilled with the house smelling so delicious!
So this will be the first week of the bulk baking plan: details of success or overwhelming feelings will be shared next week!
Monday: 2 loaves of whole wheat sandwich bread for Daniel's lunches
Tuesday: This week we will be making 2 batches of the Blueberry Crumb Muffins
Thursday: Homemade whole wheat tortillas from Passionate Homemaking to use with fish tacos and also to make leftovers into tortilla chips
Friday: 2 batches Whole Wheat chocolate chip cookies
As I sit today, this Monday, and look at the week ahead, I am astounded at His provision: for what He has done and what He will do this week.
I am so thankful for the provision and abundance of healthy food for our family
I am thankful for the provision of wisdom with my headaches! I went to the doctor on Friday and these headaches are "tension" headaches, caused by the stress and tension I am carrying in my upper back/neck area. Due to.... flour grinding!! Truly, it was as simple as that! So now while grinding, I use much more of my whole body... more of a circular squat in which I feel completely silly but have noticed a difference already. Daniel has been sweetly offering neck massages and I have been using a handmade heating pad (given to Tirzah by a dear friend and her daughter... but I have borrowed it for a while!) Praise God for the relief!
I am thankful for the provision of friends. As I look back, the Lord has provided an abundance of beautiful, Godly, and wonderful friendships in my life. Truly, this is an area of complete provision from the Lord in my life. Even today I am blessed by His provision of friendships as Tirzah and I have a fabric-store shopping date this afternoon.
And as I dream about fabric, I am reminded of His provision in every moment, every detail. Like a quilt. Every stitch, every piece of fabric laid with intentionality and purpose. What a gift of time and beauty is a hand-stitched quilt! It is unmeasurable! It is creativity that catches the breath and makes you stand long to see every stitch and every splash of color.
"You knitted me together in my mother's womb" (Psalm 139)
Much like a quilt, my days are etched with recurring themes: days of this color and days of that. And in that specific day, the color might just be a dull brown or even a dark gray. But then you take a step back to see the full design
Scraps of days stitched together, carefully, perfectly placed in redemption, in wholeness.
The Quilter's design.
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