Showing posts with label Special Days. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Special Days. Show all posts

Sunday, March 31, 2013

Happy Easter!

 
These two photos are from Easter 2003.  We have always celebrated Easter, with dyed eggs and bunny-shaped bread, decorated by the boys, of course.  We had bunny rolls decorated with raisins in 2003. 
 
 

In 2006, Jon created our Easter Breakfast. Bunny-shaped pancakes with his own special topping. At age 8, this was his first food creation and very delicious and enjoyable. For my family, much more tasty than store bought candy. Here is his recipe.


Jon's Pancake Topping:

2 organic apples, diced (not peeled)
2 Tbl pure maple syrup
1 tsp cinnamon
dash of nutmeg
1/4 cup chopped pecans (optional)

Place apples (and nuts) in bowl, sprinkle on spices and drizzle on maple syrup.  Stir until all apple chunks are coated.
 
So much fun can be had without the sugar.  Easter egg hunts always included special treats, little trinkets and coins, plus a few healthy foods such as little boxes of organic raisins and baggies of things like the chocolate energy chunks and sesame sticks
 
 
  
If your Easter is a bit more sugary than this, be sure to get some chicken broth cooking on your stove and make some healing chicken soup to ward off infections next week.  Refined sugar feeds germs and lowers the immune system - have you noticed someone always seems to get sick after a holiday feast with sugary sweets?
 
 
Our Easter eggs come from our own chickens since we moved to the country.  And sometimes a hen decides to sit on some eggs.  One of our chickens went broody last spring and she hatched a brood of baby chicks under the gazebo! 
 
May you be blessed abundantly this Easter 2013.  
 
 “Don’t be alarmed,” he said. “You are looking for Jesus the Nazarene, who was crucified. He has risen! He is not here. See the place where they laid him."  Mark 16:6

Tuesday, December 25, 2012

Merry Christmas



Merry Christmas 2012.  May you enjoy good food with family and friends today.  Reach out to someone who may be alone this Christmas and make it a special day for them.  Jon, my youngest, started saying this prayer when he was about three.  I pray the simplicity of a young child's prayer touches your heart.   May this be the prayer of us all this Christmas.  "Thank you Father for our food, our family, and most of all for baby Jesus laying in a manager."  Christmas blessings from my family to yours.