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My own Worst Enemy: How to stop holding yourself back by Janet Davis
Spiritual Warfare for Women: Winning the battle for your home, family and friends by Leighann McCoy
Martha Stewart is my marketing hero. Her brand just keeps expanding and now she is even at Petsmart with collections for your dog or cat!
These puppy toys are super cute but I have to say, if you have children it may be a fight to see which toy belongs to whom.
Pixie (4) and Pumpkin (7) took one look at these toys and started picking which ones they wanted for Christmas!
What do you think of Martha Stewart’s toys for pets? Too cute or too much?
Spiritual Warfare is real. I’ve heard about it and experienced it. Yet, I sort of behave like an ostrich and want to stick my head in the sand and pretend it doesn’t exist.
Spiritual Warfare for women: Winning the battle for your home, family and friends was eye opening and spiritually changing for me. My faith and understanding grew by reading this book and diving deeper into the scripture.
This book exposes the enemy for who he is (a liar) and gives detailed examples of how he specifically targets women (our marriages, our children, friendships with other women, health, and our church) and what we can do to combat the lies in our own heads and stand firm in our knowledge of God and who we are in Christ. I particularly loved that each chapter ends with scripture to look up and questions to ask yourself, scripture to memorize, and a prayer.
I read this book with a highlighter in hand and suggest that you do too.
At the risk of my Road Warrior Husband (AKA as Big Daddy) laughing hysterically over the fact that I dare to post an advice article geared towards preparing foods for picky little eaters, I will do so anyway.
Because, if not I, then who?
After 5 kids it would be a shame if I didn’t learn a trick or two. Or in this case, 3.
Jessica Seinfeld encouraged mothers to sneak vegetable puree into their children’s food and desserts via her cookbook, Deceptively Delicious and before her was the Sneaky Chef. Now I’d like to make myself the Sandra Lee (Semi Homemade) of Toddler foods by encouraging you to take the easy way out of doing the above by using these Mommy Helpers.
Nurturme offers dried organic fruits and veggies in convenient pouches. They are gluten free, with no added salts, sugars, colors or preservatives.
Our favorite recipes taken from the website are:
It seems every Mama I know is going crazy about GogoSqueez but my favorite thing to do with GogoSqueez fruit is to make fruit leathers in my Excalibur Dehydrator. You can use any of the 5 flavors of applesauce pouches to create quick and tasty fruit leathers. I don’t even mind making it because it’s such a quick and NEAT process—no big kitchen mess to clean up!
I have no idea how to tell you store the leathers because ours don’t last that long. However, I’ve read that you can wait until it cools, lay plastic wrap over the top and peel and roll the fruit leather.
You can order GogoSqueez on Amazon.com and set up a subscription (using Amazon Prime for free shipping) so that you never have to worry about running out!
Living in Sunny Florida we tend to enjoy a sweet treat. My kids and I are now CRAZY over our Yonanas Machine. If there was stock in this thing, The Road Warrior would have bought it by now, as we’ve caused so many people to buy one…and given several as gifts.
Yonanas is the next best thing to soft serve ice cream. Using just frozen bananas and a mix of your other favorite frozen fruits you can create a delicious cold dessert. The machine is LOUD (which makes it hard to sneak a treat without others knowing) but easy to clean and simple to use. You truly have to taste one and you’ll be hooked. The company website has other recipes to try for more elaborate desserts, but we tend to stick with just the traditional Yonanas.
After reading this book I felt encouraged to live more authentically, without fear of rejection or shame. I also felt inspired to dive deeper into scripture and study more women of the bible, particularly those whose stories mirrored my struggles and heartaches.
If you’ve ever struggled with finding your voice, living authentically or had feelings of wanting to do something GREAT for the Kingdom but not acting on it…this book is for you.
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