I ran across this wonderful blog the other day thanks to pinterest! they have a cream cheese recipe that totally made my day. I got curious and started looking at the rest of their blog and to my surprise they are on the same journey as we are! Back to our Hebrew roots and closer to our creator without all the traditions that man has created to distract us from the true meaning of being a follower of YHWY. I hope that anyone interested will read this blog post and follow the inks at the end to find out more about our journey. I do not claim to know the answers to life but since Nate and i started studying more and more into Leviticus and feeling like we were missing something in our walk I have felt more confident in my salvation and I feel "free" I can not explain it I just don't worry about things or what people think I am just me doing what I can to serve my Lord.
Freedom Acres Farm: Living for a Blessing!: Our home made improvised Hannaukia I've heard tell that some are concerned for us as we search out and learn about our Hebrew roots. W...
Wednesday, May 30, 2012
Friday, May 11, 2012
dreams come true!
Ok sorry for the delay here is the recipe I promised for the Orange Cranberry cupcakes with cream cheese frosting.
Orange Cranberry Cupcakes
3/4c butter softened
3 eggs
2 1/2c flour
2 1/2tsp baking powder
1/2 tsp salt
1 3/4c sugar
1 1/3 tsp vanilla
1 1/4c milk (goats milk)
juice from 3 large oranges
2 TBSP orange zest
2 hand fulls dried cranberries
mix all together and set aside
2 boxes of brownie mix mixed up as directed on box (used coconut oil)
and fill cupcake liners 1/3 full.
fill remainder with cake mix. and bake @ 325 for apx 20 min.
Cream Cheese frosting
1c butter softened
1c cream cheese softened
mix together till fluffy then add extracts
1tsp vanilla
1tsp coconut
1tsp almond
8 TBSP whipping cream
mix together then slowly add in 2lbs powdered sugar one cup at at time.
if too thick add in a little more whipping cream.
Orange Cranberry Cupcakes
3/4c butter softened
3 eggs
2 1/2c flour
2 1/2tsp baking powder
1/2 tsp salt
1 3/4c sugar
1 1/3 tsp vanilla
1 1/4c milk (goats milk)
juice from 3 large oranges
2 TBSP orange zest
2 hand fulls dried cranberries
mix all together and set aside
2 boxes of brownie mix mixed up as directed on box (used coconut oil)
and fill cupcake liners 1/3 full.
fill remainder with cake mix. and bake @ 325 for apx 20 min.
Cream Cheese frosting
1c butter softened
1c cream cheese softened
mix together till fluffy then add extracts
1tsp vanilla
1tsp coconut
1tsp almond
8 TBSP whipping cream
mix together then slowly add in 2lbs powdered sugar one cup at at time.
if too thick add in a little more whipping cream.
Tuesday, April 24, 2012
Ok wow sorry bout that I took a leave of absence and forgot to tell you all.
Well it wasn't a fun absence but a medical one as my sweet Isaac was having seizures on top of the RSV and pneumonia he got in February and it took all my strength and consciousness to stay on top of Dr visits and schooling the other children. We have seen many Dr.s mostly for checkups since Isaac will be 3 this Saturday (can you believe it?) Yes my baby that they told me would never survive birth will be 3 in just a few days. The EEG showed everything was normal and they want to schedule an MRI this test will tell us where to go from here. We will be checking his thyroid and doing regular chiropractic adjustments to make sure there is nothing pinched in his neck.
Over the last week I was keeping myself distracted with a baby shower gift which turned out gorgeous. I am personally jealous since I had originally intended to use the fabric for my daughter but she didn't particularly like it. I will be making matching burp clothes and adding a pooh bear in a field of yo-yo flowers on the back of the quilt.
We are also getting ready for the kids ballet recital on may 20th they will be performing Copellia at the Allen Performing Arts Center. Everyone is welcome to attend it is free. Izzy requests flowers and Jacob adores chocolate ;) but you didn't hear that from me!
Well it wasn't a fun absence but a medical one as my sweet Isaac was having seizures on top of the RSV and pneumonia he got in February and it took all my strength and consciousness to stay on top of Dr visits and schooling the other children. We have seen many Dr.s mostly for checkups since Isaac will be 3 this Saturday (can you believe it?) Yes my baby that they told me would never survive birth will be 3 in just a few days. The EEG showed everything was normal and they want to schedule an MRI this test will tell us where to go from here. We will be checking his thyroid and doing regular chiropractic adjustments to make sure there is nothing pinched in his neck.
Over the last week I was keeping myself distracted with a baby shower gift which turned out gorgeous. I am personally jealous since I had originally intended to use the fabric for my daughter but she didn't particularly like it. I will be making matching burp clothes and adding a pooh bear in a field of yo-yo flowers on the back of the quilt.
We are also getting ready for the kids ballet recital on may 20th they will be performing Copellia at the Allen Performing Arts Center. Everyone is welcome to attend it is free. Izzy requests flowers and Jacob adores chocolate ;) but you didn't hear that from me!
Wednesday, January 18, 2012
Spider bite.
ok so I know m many of you have been wondering if I have died or anything from refusing to go to the ER after being bitten, by what we could only come to the conclusion of being a black widow. It was a crazy day in mid July, and My husband and I had 3 extra kids on top of our 4 for the weekend with some family and another friend over. We were rockin' and rolin' making some stepping stones for the ever muddy spots in the garden letting the kids design and decorate as they wanted. well after filling all the forms with decorations it was time for concrete so all the kids went in with Grammie to watch a movie and be out of the over 100 degree weather. My husband and I went to get a couple bags of concrete off the pallet we have out back and I kept itching after wheeling it back to the house I went on with our project figuring it was just chiggers (they really like me). Well after dinner showering 7 children and getting them in bed I get a shower and am going to bed (11:30) and I am getting pretty dizzy through all that still thinking I am just dehydrated so I drink a couple glasses of water and take some some bioplasma to help with that and try to sleep. I cannot go to sleep my chest feels like it is about to explode my heart is racing and I am all of a sudden in a 60 degree room dripping sweat. I am thinking ok what is wrong with me seriously? I voice it to Nate and tell him my chigger bites are really itching and swelling this is different can you look at them (behind my knee).
He looks at them and says "it looks gross and tells me to put some calamine lotion on it." after all that still trying to get some sleep I am talking it out with him that "I wasn't really in tall grass or in areas where he chiggers normally are."
He asks " when did it start bothering you"
and I was all "well when I dropped the bag of concrete on my foot I felt a stinging pain do you think it could have been a bee or a oh NO there were some spider webs on the pallet do you think it could be a spider?"
He says " it was probably a brown recluse" (rolls over and falls asleep)
My mind is racing spider bite hmm what are the symptoms...? What kind of spider?... Hmmm can't sleep chest hurting too bad. I get out of bed and go take a shot of cayenne (it will stop a heart attack and restart a stopped heart). too curious now and I am out of bed I start googling only to find out that my symptoms do not match up to a brown recluse. Totally puzzled now I start looking at images and going to web md to do the symptom checker still feeling like my chest is going to explode dripping sweat and oh year gasping for breath like and asthma attack! it came back black widow! I am freaking out now, comparing the two spider bites the outcomes, and survival rates all while everyone sleeps. So I take all the herbs I have on hand that deals with cleansing the blood and for my asthma and for bites and went to bed praying I woke up the next morning. I knew my M-I-L had some anti venom for snakes and spiders she had been paranoid about that since we started cleaning up the property and the drought had driving more things toward civilization. I figured I would get that from her and we would be ok since we had a baby shower the next day and had to take all the extra children home I just needed to get a good nights sleep. well after breakfast I call my M-I-L and tell her what Nate and I had come to the conclusion of and ...SHE TOTALLY FREAKS OUT... "WHY DIDN'T YOU WAKE ME UP", "THAT IS AN EMERGENCY" lol I am still having chest pains and very dizzy and I just want something to help with the pain because I was convinced that an ER would not help me since I was not sure what had bitten me. Well Nate looked at the area again and was like WOW I am starting to worry at that but I can't see a thing so I came up with the idea that he needed to take a picture of it so I could see what was going on. and well this is what followed.
So 6 months later I now have my full energy back and the majority of the symptoms have subsided with the exception of the chest pains I still get them every now and then but I did not take the medications religiously I AM a mom of 4 kids that is taking classes and home schooling my children on top of well LIFE! I am doing a cleanse and getting back to cleaning the toxins out of my system and feel amazing for everything I have been through, and PRAISE YHWY I AM STILL ALIVE!
He looks at them and says "it looks gross and tells me to put some calamine lotion on it." after all that still trying to get some sleep I am talking it out with him that "I wasn't really in tall grass or in areas where he chiggers normally are."
He asks " when did it start bothering you"
and I was all "well when I dropped the bag of concrete on my foot I felt a stinging pain do you think it could have been a bee or a oh NO there were some spider webs on the pallet do you think it could be a spider?"
He says " it was probably a brown recluse" (rolls over and falls asleep)
My mind is racing spider bite hmm what are the symptoms...? What kind of spider?... Hmmm can't sleep chest hurting too bad. I get out of bed and go take a shot of cayenne (it will stop a heart attack and restart a stopped heart). too curious now and I am out of bed I start googling only to find out that my symptoms do not match up to a brown recluse. Totally puzzled now I start looking at images and going to web md to do the symptom checker still feeling like my chest is going to explode dripping sweat and oh year gasping for breath like and asthma attack! it came back black widow! I am freaking out now, comparing the two spider bites the outcomes, and survival rates all while everyone sleeps. So I take all the herbs I have on hand that deals with cleansing the blood and for my asthma and for bites and went to bed praying I woke up the next morning. I knew my M-I-L had some anti venom for snakes and spiders she had been paranoid about that since we started cleaning up the property and the drought had driving more things toward civilization. I figured I would get that from her and we would be ok since we had a baby shower the next day and had to take all the extra children home I just needed to get a good nights sleep. well after breakfast I call my M-I-L and tell her what Nate and I had come to the conclusion of and ...SHE TOTALLY FREAKS OUT... "WHY DIDN'T YOU WAKE ME UP", "THAT IS AN EMERGENCY" lol I am still having chest pains and very dizzy and I just want something to help with the pain because I was convinced that an ER would not help me since I was not sure what had bitten me. Well Nate looked at the area again and was like WOW I am starting to worry at that but I can't see a thing so I came up with the idea that he needed to take a picture of it so I could see what was going on. and well this is what followed.
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| the morning after swelling and "angry" veins |
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| 4 days after bruising starting |
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| 5 days after so swollen I can't bend my leg without pain |
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| 7 days later it is spreading and the flesh is "melting" away with oozing |
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| day 8 the skin starts drying out and sore gets smaller |
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| 11 days later swelling is going down |
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| 13 days after |
So 6 months later I now have my full energy back and the majority of the symptoms have subsided with the exception of the chest pains I still get them every now and then but I did not take the medications religiously I AM a mom of 4 kids that is taking classes and home schooling my children on top of well LIFE! I am doing a cleanse and getting back to cleaning the toxins out of my system and feel amazing for everything I have been through, and PRAISE YHWY I AM STILL ALIVE!
Entryway makeover
ok so you all have seen my checklist and I have been making progress but I have not finished everything completely so I have not posted about any of it yet. Ugg well I finally found some white paint that was close enough to what I already had in the entryway and office/school room area and I had a couple rainy days that were too yucky to do anything else. So I decided to paint and boy was my husband surprised when he got home. here is the reveal and a few along the way as the project progressed over the summer.
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| after adding the black shelf that I painted and distressed and adding the board and batten. |
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| after painting lower half white. |
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| looking in from the front door. |
Tuesday, November 29, 2011
HANUKKAH!
We are crazy busy getting ready for The Nutcracker performances Dec. 17th and 18th . Izzy will be a ginger bread chef, and Jacob will be a mouse in the army. Nate and I are again party parents and so ready for this year as costumes are ready (which I need to share with you here), and we know our dance.
After nutcracker we have Hanukkah the celebration of the miracle of lights back during the Maccabees war. Our family has chosen to celebrate this Biblical Feast instead of Christmas for several personal reasons but also for the reasons stated in this podcast I am linking to below. We are not offended if our friends or relatives celebrate or even wish us a merry Christmas. I just would like for our friends and relatives to understand why we don't and make their own decisions based on the facts listed in this video that can be found in any history books and all over the web. We are excited to spend the time with our friends and family and see the wonder in the children's eyes as they learn more about the Bible.
Truth or Tradition?
I Pray this is informative and helpful and inspires you to dig more into your Bible and truly understand and question what your relationship with Christ is.
After nutcracker we have Hanukkah the celebration of the miracle of lights back during the Maccabees war. Our family has chosen to celebrate this Biblical Feast instead of Christmas for several personal reasons but also for the reasons stated in this podcast I am linking to below. We are not offended if our friends or relatives celebrate or even wish us a merry Christmas. I just would like for our friends and relatives to understand why we don't and make their own decisions based on the facts listed in this video that can be found in any history books and all over the web. We are excited to spend the time with our friends and family and see the wonder in the children's eyes as they learn more about the Bible.
Truth or Tradition?
I Pray this is informative and helpful and inspires you to dig more into your Bible and truly understand and question what your relationship with Christ is.
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