Monday Moments - Baking Bread, Learning About Ants, and Enjoying Spring

Inspiration

I have swept away your offenses like a cloud,
your sins like the morning mist.
Return to me,
for I have redeemed you.
~ Isaiah 44:22 (NIV)

In the Kitchen

Michael made our breakfast this morning - cheesy scrambled eggs, bacon, strawberry bread, bananas and juice. He enjoys cooking and is becoming very confident in the kitchen.

 I decided today to make bread for the first time in a very long time. The recipe I used is called Amish White Bread and was very simple and delicious.  I love everything about homemade bread - the process of making it, the smell of it baking and then the very best part - bread, fresh from the oven, slathered with melting butter!

Reading and Learning

Today the preschoolers began a Spring theme. We're going to take 26 days and look at one topic each day, corresponding with the letters of the alphabet. Today we learned that Aa is for Ant.

We practiced writing the letter Aa and learned about the sound the word ant begins with.

We also practiced counting, number recognition and graphing with this fun little ant graph.

Michael's schoolwork today was online. There was a short Bible lesson from the book of Proverbs, math and reading lessons, and short lessons on the history of France and on the parts of plant cells.

I'm sharing a few passages from the books I was reading today.



"To bake a cake you must use flour, salt, raw eggs, sugar and oil. Eaten individually, each is pretty distasteful or even bitter. But bake them together and they become delicious. If you will give God all your distasteful, unpleasant experiences, He will blend them together for good." p.195

"We can also rejoice in knowing that God is going through the pain with us. We do not serve a distant and detached God who spouts encouraging cliches safely from the sideline. Instead, He enters into our suffering. Jesus did it in the Incarnation, and His Spirit does it in us now. God will never leave us on our own." p.198




 "What good is a path without a destination on earth and what good is a kingdom if not made real to overthrow the Romans?" Judah said, standing once again.
"Perhaps he means this as well," Andrew said.
Judah paced, hand in his beard. "He must!"
Yes and no," the Pharisee said. "Not yet and already. Paradoxes all, understood only be the heart, beyond the mind." He paused for a moment, perhaps expecting Judah to challenge him, then pushed on.
"But what can I know, for I am only a teacher of the Law, and Yeshua fulfills that Law by overturning it always. If he is from God, then all we think we know is now suspect. His is a dangerous path to follow, requiring trust, not knowledge." p. 221

Outside Fun

Out and About

Michael was able to help out at one of our local food pantries this afternoon. They are carefully following protocol, maintaining social distancing, and washing, washing, washing their hands, as they help those who still need food. In this time of social distancing this helps Michael at least get out of the house a little while helping with services essential to the well-being of our community.

On My Mind

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