Video: No Such Thing as a Homosexual Member of the Church

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BQ4_wTGv8Ao

Olive Garden Zuppa Tuscana Recipe

INGREDIENTSNutrition

SERVINGS 4-6UNITS US

• 1lb Italian sausage (I like mild sausage)
• 2large russet baking potatoes, sliced in half, and then in 1/4 inch slices
• 1large onion, chopped
• 1⁄4cup bacon bits (optional)
• 2garlic cloves, minced
• 2cups kale or 2 cups swiss chard, chopped
• 2(8 ounce) cans chicken broth
• 1quart water
• 1cup heavy whipping cream

• DIRECTIONS

  1. Chop or slice uncooked sausage into small pieces.
  2. Brown sausage in your soup pot.
  3. Add chicken broth and water to pot and stir.
  4. Place onions, potatoes, and garlic in the pot.
  5. Cook on medium heat until potatoes are done.
  6. Add bacon.
  7. Salt and pepper to taste.
  8. Simmer for another 10 minutes.
  9. Turn to low heat.
  10. Add kale and cream.
  11. Heat through and serve.

SAT test taking resource

Note to self for SAT helps:

"How I helped my son get into all of the schools he applied for (including Harvard, Stanford and Yale)"

http://www.brianhenge.com/dir/102/ec8956637a99787bd197eacd77acce5f?utm_source=Facebook&utm_medium=cpc&utm_campaign=New

Olive Garden Tuscan Soup

Quick and easy and amazingly delicious!

Olive Garden Copycat Zuppa Toscana

By Cycle Michael on August 26, 2002

Photo by yogiclarebear

• Prep Time: 20 mins
• Total Time: 1 hr 20 mins
• Servings: 4-6

ABOUT THIS RECIPE

"This is a clone of the Olive Garden Zuppa Toscana. Tried and true, approved by former Olive Garden chefs."

INGREDIENTS

• 1 lb Italian sausage ( I like mild sausage)
• 2 large russet baking potatoes, sliced in half, and then in 1/4 inch slices
• 1 large onion, chopped
• 1/4 cup bacon bits (optional)
• 2 garlic cloves, minced
• 2 cups kale or 2 cups swiss chard, chopped
• 2 (8 ounce) cans chicken broth
• 1 quart water
• 1 cup heavy whipping cream

DIRECTIONS

1. Chop or slice uncooked sausage into small pieces.
2. Brown sausage in your soup pot.
3. Add chicken broth and water to pot and stir.
4. Place onions, potatoes, and garlic in the pot.
5. Cook on medium heat until potatoes are done.
6. Add bacon.
7. Salt and pepper to taste.
8. Simmer for another 10 minutes.
9. Turn to low heat.
10. Add kale and cream.
11. Heat through and serve.

Art/Picture study resources

http://cottagepress.net/picture-study.html

From Melinda...love it!

"I was just getting ready to prep my family artist study, started a google search for ideas, and..........
BAM!!!!!
Look what I found! 

FREE PICTURE STUDY GUIDES!!!!

love it!!!

So how do I use these in our school?

In our Morning Times. We study one artist a month, and look at up to 4 pictures throughout the month. One week we try to draw, paint, or sculpt like them. One week we learn about the artist's background. The other two weeks we look at and "investigate" the artwork.Very LOW KEY, and SIMPLE!!! I use a lot of the Charlotte Mason approach to Picture Study's. 

My idea is to 
a- inspire 
and
b-expose

.... from there those who love art will do it naturally, those who don't, won't!

Oh and just to keep it all real.... we are just starting these up again, after over a year of not doing it!!! 
SEASONS LADIES!!! SEASONS!!!!"

ART PROJECTS:

Watercolor: http://www.howweelearn.com/easy-watercolor-painting-ideas/

Note-taking Class from Avot

Actual Paper Set-Up
Draw a line down the left hand side of the paper leaving about one inch margin and one across the bottom.

Put the main ideas in the middle section.

Put key words, questions and phrases along the column on the left.

On the bottom you write a summary of what you learned.

Review
When:
Review material in 10 minutes.
Review another time in 1 day.
Repeat in one week.
Repeat in one month.


What:
Ask yourself the questions from the side column
Review the key words and phrases

How:
Answer yourself by writing the material down: it is more effective than simply reviewing the info with your eyes.
Recite the material to yourself: use your own words.
Explain it or teach it to someone.
Write down important letters.

Nutritional info and games

http://www.choosemyplate.gov/

Great charts for different ages along with great games!

Amazingly easy bread rolls

...and the key to good bread making.  Amazing.

http://www.handletheheat.com/homemade-bread-bowls/

These bread bowls are best served with a creamy soup. Anything too watery will just soak right through.

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Ingredients

4 1/2 teaspoons (2 packets) instant yeast
2 1/2 cups warm water (110°F)
2 tablespoons olive oil
1 tablespoon granulated sugar
4 cups (18 ounces or 510 grams) bread flour
3 cups (13.5 ounces or 383 grams) all-purpose flour
2 teaspoons fine salt
1 egg white

Directions

In the bowl of an electric stand mixer stir together the yeast, water, olive oil, and sugar. Add the bread flour and stir until combined. Fit the mixer with the dough hook and on low speed, gradually add in the all-purpose flour and then the salt. Turn speed to medium-low and knead until the dough is smooth and elastic, about 5 minutes. You can also knead by hand for 5 to 7 minutes. Transfer the dough to a lightly oiled bowl, turning to coat. Cover with a damp cloth and let rise in a warm place until doubled in size, about 40 minutes.

Gently deflate the dough and divide into 6 equal portions. Stretch each portion into a tight ball, pinching the bottom with your fingers and rolling around on the counter to seal and shape. If the ball is too loose it may deflate while baking, so be sure to make a nice tight shape. Place the balls on a greased baking sheet. Slash the top with a sharp knife to score in an X shape. Cover and let rise again until doubled in size, about 30 minutes.

Meanwhile, preheat the oven to 400°F. Place an empty broiler tray on the top shelf.

In a small bowl, beat the egg white with 1 tablespoon of water. Brush over the dough. Place the baking sheet in the center of the oven. Pour 1 cup of hot tap water into the broiler tray and quickly close the door. Bake for 25 to 30 minutes, or until golden. Cool completely.

Cut a large round from the top of each loaf and scoop out the center. Fill with hot creamy soup and serve immediately.

Notes on "Blink"

As I read the first part of Blink, I am impressed not with the concept of the validity of initial impressions, but of the two things people pick up on really quickly in relationships: respect and contempt.  They feel it in just moments, making the difference between doctors that get sued and don't, marriages that last...and don't.

It leaves me asking the question, what happens to those relationships like parent/child, or sibling/sibling that feel that contempt but are eternal?  They cannot just "not be related" as we seem to think marriage is so easily dissolved.

Maybe marriage is our chance to use choice to create a similarly lasting, eternal relationship and why it is so damaging to consider divorce, as God honors and validates our choices and empowers it with those same ties that we feel between siblings or between parent and child?  Those "ties" are still there and are not undone.  Perhaps that is why divorce is such a negative thing?

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"We have, as human beings, a storytelling problem.  We're a bit too quick to come up with explanations for things we don't really have an explanation for."(pg 69)

I do this!!!!

I like how both the author and those he quotes address the reality that both our instinctive reactions and our actual stories that explain them have basis in reality, even if they are contradictory.  We simply do not really know where we stand in those areas!

"Were these people lying?  Were they ashamed to admit that they could solve the problem only after getting a hint?  Not at all.   It's just that the hint was so subtle that it was picked up on only on an unconscious level.  It was processed behind the locked door, so, when pressed for an explanation, all the subjects could do was to make up what seemed to them the most plausible one...

...When we ask people to explain their thinking---particularly thinking that comes from the unconscious--we need to be careful in how we interpret their [and our own!!] answers....I'm not sure we always respect  the mysteries of the locked door and the dangers of the storytelling problem.  There are times when we demand an explanation when an explanation really isn't possible, and,...doing so can have serious consequences."

"We need to accept our ignorance and say, 'I don't know' more often." (pg 71)