Hello. Welcome to By Quiet Waters. We are excited to move into our new place and hope that you will come back soon to visit when we get things settled.
Moving….and Welcome!
15 Saturday Mar 2014
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Grandma’s Cookies, with a Gluten Free Twist
13 Thursday Mar 2014
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Having one gluten free daughter in the home, and another that we are going through an elimination diet to find the culprit of her continual acid reflux, I am often looking for gluten free options to our family’s favorite recipes.
This recipe originally came from the Arrowhead Mills website, but I have tweaked it to make it more like Grandma Kelly’s Thumbprint Cookies and to remove the walnuts (there is also a walnut allergy in our home).
Grandma’s Kelly’s Gluten FREE Thumbprint Cookies
Ingredients:
1 3/4 cups Arrowhead Mills Gluten Free All Purpose Mix
1 cup Pecans
3/4 cup Olive Oil (or oil of your choice)
2/3 cup Brown Sugar
2 Eggs
1 cup Pecans
3/4 cup Olive Oil (or oil of your choice)
2/3 cup Brown Sugar
2 Eggs
Grandma’s “Red Hot Icing”, Chocolate Kisses, or Jam
Directions
Heat oven to 375 degrees.
Finely chop pecans, I use my kitchen aid attachment
Mix pecans, oil, and sugar until well combined.
Add the eggs and mix in well. Add the GF all purpose mix and combine until the dough forms a ball.
Scoop the dough with spoons onto a cookie tray and bake the cookies for 6-7 minutes, until just golden.
Remove the cookies from the oven and press your thumb or a small spoon into the center, making a depression for the icing or jam. Fill the depression with Red Hot icing or jam.
If you use Hershey kisses, just push them in.
Bake cookies for an additional 11-14 minutes, until brown around the edges.
Remove and let cool for about 5 minutes before placing the cookies on a cooling rack.
Mix pecans, oil, and sugar until well combined.
Add the eggs and mix in well. Add the GF all purpose mix and combine until the dough forms a ball.
Scoop the dough with spoons onto a cookie tray and bake the cookies for 6-7 minutes, until just golden.
Remove the cookies from the oven and press your thumb or a small spoon into the center, making a depression for the icing or jam. Fill the depression with Red Hot icing or jam.
If you use Hershey kisses, just push them in.
Bake cookies for an additional 11-14 minutes, until brown around the edges.
Remove and let cool for about 5 minutes before placing the cookies on a cooling rack.
A Giveaway for a PURPOSE
12 Wednesday Mar 2014
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Have you seen the post about
??
The very little girl with a really BIG name?
I really want to see
Umutoniwase Divine
sponsored so I am asking YOU for help.
I have a beautiful strand of Uganda paper beads, made by women in the Amazima ministry that I want to GIVE AWAY.
To be entered for this giveaway, please SHARE this link By Quiet Waters: Little Girl with a Big Name. Leave a link to where you share in the comments, with your email address.
Share this post too, and you can leave a link to that share in the comments.
It is my hope that this will result in a sponsorship for little Divine.
The drawing will be held on Wednesday March 19 and the results will be posted here on By Quiet Waters by Noon that day.
So please, SHARE AWAY!
Little Girl with a Big Name
10 Monday Mar 2014
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This little one has brought a big smile to everyone in the house.
Umutoniwase Divine
Really, the name looks longer than little Divine is tall!
Little Umutoniwase Divine
lives in Rwanda
on the plains of Ngeruka
She was born September 24, 2009
And Little Umutoniwase Divine
needs a sponsor!
Even one stumbling block removed from a child’s life counts and sponsorship removes many stumbling blocks from Divine’s life.
For $38 per month
Sponsorship through Compassion International provides
educational opportunities
health care
safe recreational opportunties
Christ-centered guidance
and
the opportunity to build a special relationship by exchanging letters and photos!
This is a personal investment in the life of a child.
Will you consider sponsoring Umutoniwase Divine?
If so, email me any questions you have and I can send you more information on her, and how to sponsor her.
Weekly Goals
10 Monday Mar 2014
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Last Week’s Goals
Making Home
Personal Growth
Increase run to 1 ½ miles, 3 times this week
Read ~ 5 Conversations You Must Have with Your Daughter, Where There Was No Church, The Power of a Half Hour, Million Little Ways, Listen to 2 Chapters of Bonhoeffer audio book,
Ministry Goals
Household Business
Submit tax paperwork to accountant ~ arg, working in another country, renting an apartment there, but being a resident of our home and state has made this year’s taxes a little more challenging to complete AND one of the contribution statements we need to finish up hasn’t even been completed by the organization yet! So, this task will be on the list for another week.
Goals for March 10- 15
Making Home
Complete Reading Aloud Love Does, Begin The Book Thief as a read aloud,
Read with my granddaughter
Write a Love Note
Complete Week 2 of MSM’s “4 Weeks to a More Organized Home
Personal Growth
Memorize Ephesians 6:9, 10
Run 1 mile, 3 times this week
3 Days strengthening exercises
Read ~ 5 Conversations You Must Have with Your Daughter, Where There Was No Church, Listen to 2 Chapters of Bonhoeffer audio book
Take 5 photographs, edit and process
Ministry Goals
Write 2 notes of encouragement or gratitude
Gather supplies to make this
Schedule time to work on our church’s Compassion Wall
Household Business
Submit tax paperwork to accountant
Complete Section 3 of Udemy course
This Moment
08 Saturday Mar 2014
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A Friday ritual. A single photo – capturing a moment from the week. A simple, special, extraordinary moment. A moment I want to pause, savor and remember.
If you’re inspired to do the same, and see other moments, visit SouleMama .
Good Reads, The Power of a Half Hour
08 Saturday Mar 2014
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“Turn your fleeting minutes into defining moments.
What can you do in 30 minutes? Have lunch? Watch television? Check Facebook?
How about change your life?
Why do some people achieve far more than others? We all get the same 24 hours in a day, yet a special few seem to have superhuman abilities when it comes to accomplishing great things in life.” (amazon book description)
This book, The Power Of A Half Hour, Take Back Your Life Thirty Minutes at a Time, by Tommy Barnett, is chock full of wise and helpful advice, information and encouragement. Interwoven in all those wonderful words is the admonition to learn to use all of life, right down to every half hour, in service and devotion to the Lord. It is interesting to me how the idea of “thirty minutes at a time” was already present in my life. As I have read this book, I found myself looking for those half hours, sometimes just a quarter of an hour to be more intentional to use them purposefully.
If this book had been more focused on the half hour principle I would have quickly lost interest, but the abundance of wise encouragement throughout kept me reading.
The one issue I had with this title is that I have it in kindle format. There is just too much in the book that I want to mark, reread and quote. The kindle format has been frustrating to me. Probably what I have discovered is that I am a book in hand gal. So if you are like me in that respect, make sure you get the book, not the kindle version!
This book was supplied to me by WaterBrook Multnomah Publishers via their Blogging for Books program, in exchange for my honest opinion.
Good Books ~ One Realm Beyond
07 Friday Mar 2014
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Book Description
Cantor D’Ahma waited his whole life for this day. Born with a gift to jump between worlds, the young realm walker is finally ready to leave his elderly mentor and accept his role as protector and defender of the realms.
But mere hours after he steps through his first portal, Cantor discovers that his job will be more dangerous and difficult than he ever imagined. The realms are plagued with crime and cruelty, and even members of the once-noble Realm Walkers Guild can no longer be trusted. To make matters worse, his first assignment – finding a dragon to assist him on his quest—has led him to Bridger, who is clearly inept and won’t leave him alone.
With the help of his new friends Bixby and Dukmee, Cantor must uncover the secrets of the corrupt guild before they become too powerful to be stopped. But his skills aren’t progressing as fast as he would like, and as he finds himself deeper and deeper in the guild’s layers of deceit, Cantor struggles to determine where his true allegiance lies.
One of my kiddos was super excited to see this book on my desk, so much so that I did things a little differently this time around. I handed it to her and told her to enjoy it, and afterward to please grant me an interview.
Sweet girl has talked though the book, and I know she enjoyed it a great deal. Here are the basic things she had to say in the formal interview, which were not as in depth as those before bed conversations:
“This book is a little different from past books I have read by Donita K Paul, in that it introduces the heavier side of the evil characters more quickly. I noticed a lot of parallels between this book and the Dragon Keeper books, like mind speaking. There were wizards and realm walkers, with realm walkers being more similar to the wizards of the Dragon Keeper books.
One Realm BEYOND is a well written book that I enjoyed. The beginning of the book, as is common with other Donita K Paul books, is slow but it is rewarding when you press though. The slow beginning is full of necessary information to the story.”
If you enjoy other books by Donita K Paul, I highly recommend this one to you! This book was provided to me by BookLookBloggers in exchange for my honest opinion. If you are interested in reading books for review you can check BookLookBloggers out here.
Small Change and Fun Experiments
07 Friday Mar 2014
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A few years ago several small changes were made in our home, after some routine tests showed my cholesterol out of balance and a vitamin D deficiency. We swapped our vegetable oil for olive oil and added avocados as a regular addition to sandwiches, tacos and smoothies. I also added a vitamin d supplement to my smoothies. And the next year, all my tests came back great.
And, I am happy to say that most of my family now adds a little vitamin D to their water or smoothies too!
After the first of this year, I was concerned about the busy semester ahead and decided to do a few more small things to help us eat out less on the busy days, and to make better snacking choices. To help lessen waste and to encourage all of us to eat more veggies, we have started to cut, chop or slice them and put them in small containers that are easy to grab.
This is working pretty well, as long as we don’t get a weekend where we are out, and our beautiful ready to eat veggies get all, well gross.
Okay, the the fun experiment. Recently I saw a magazine article about regrowing veggies. I tore the article out of the magazine and placed it on my desk, on the always present pile of ideas and to do lists.
Then one day, a little while later, I brought home a celery bunch. Mae got out a knife and chopped the end of the celery right off before the groceries were even put away! She set the experiment all up, along with some carrot stubs in another bowl. The carrots are not doing anything besides getting slimy, but the celery…
Can I just tell you, Mae and I are a little silly excited about those new celery stalks? Hopefully, everyone in the family will be excited to eat celery sticks from this bunch!
Tell me, have you ever regrown celery or any other vegetable?
Goals for the Week
04 Tuesday Mar 2014
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Last Week’s Goals
Making HomePersonal Growth
Continue working on memorizing Ephesians 6:1-8
Read ~ 5 Conversations You Must Have with Your Daughter, Where There Was No Church, The Power of a Half Hour, Million Little Ways Ministry Goals
Work on Perfectly Unique lesson series (chapters 5, 6)I recently needed to take time off from teaching Middle School SS, so I am setting this study aside for one with Chica
Household Business
Submit tax paperwork to accountant
Find a replacement for my current INR testing site
Goals for March 3- 8
Making Home
Read Aloud 3 More Chapters of Love Does, Read with my granddaughter
Write a Love Note
Complete Week 1 of MSM’s “4 Weeks to a More Organized Home
Personal Growth
Continue working on memorizing Ephesians 6:1-8
Increase run to 1 ½ miles, 3 times this week
3 Days strengthening exercises
Read ~ 5 Conversations You Must Have with Your Daughter, Where There Was No Church, The Power of a Half Hour, Million Little Ways, Listen to 2 Chapters of Bonhoeffer audio book
Ministry Goals
Work on A Young Woman After God’s Own Heart, chapters 1 & 2
Take 5 photographs, edit and process
Write 3 notes of encouragement or gratitude
Household Business
Submit tax paperwork to accountant
Find a replacement for my current INR testing site
Complete Section 1 of Udemy course
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