Shabbat menu

We've had a few sick ones this week so this Shabbat will be our favorite type: Cozy at home, just our family in our PJ's all weekend!!!!

The tentative menu:
Shabbat Dinner
Challah
GF Challah
Red Truck Pinot Noir
onion mushroom & garlic soup
Shawarma
garden salad
raw vegetables
tziki

Shabbat Breakfast
fruit
GF cold cereal
vanilla rice milk

Shabbat Lunch
wraps w/ the dinner leftovers
soup

Shabbat treats
popcicles
dark chocolate squares
new books

supper
vegetable soup
GF cornbread

Prayer for restored health

I am ready for good health and wellness for our family.

It seems at least one person has been achey and sniffley since July.

I have been doiling out Vitamin C and Echinacha, onion soup and grapefruit seed extract, fortified orange juice and zinc, Sambucol and colloidal silver, Mullein and a whole host of teas and herbals.

I have been sending the children outside to soak up some sun, making them go on walks for the fresh air and exercise, and making sure we are all well-hydrated. I have been getting them to bed for plenty of rest. I have been cooking good, healthy meals.... Yet, we are still somewhat puny.

I keep telling myself:

"And let us not be weary in well doing:

for in due season we shall reap, if we faint not."

Galatians 6:9

To paraphrase Moses, "Heal us now, Oh Father!"

I'm not sure what else I need to be doing to build up immunities and I'm afraid if I stop, this flu will hit us all with full force! Right now, Husband feels very poorly and my oldest daughter seems to be dragging.

I am praying for healing:

Heal us, oh Lord, and we shall be healed; save us, and we shall be saved,

for the one we praise is You.

Bring complete healing for all our sicknesses,

for, oh God, you are our faithful compassionate Healer and King.

Blessed are you, Lord, the healer of the sick of Israel.

~

And this is the confidence that we have in him,

that, if we ask any thing according to his will,

he heareth us:

And if we know that he hear us, whatsoever we ask,

we know that we have the petitions

that we desired of him.

1 John 5:14-15

~

K'tiva V'Chatima Tova!

~wow~

Shabbat Shalom with boys on the road

From June 12th... (I got out of order!)

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We were hoping to travel to The Old HomePlace this evening to attend the fund raiser for Devon Wooten, (http://www.devonwooten.com) but Husband's neck/shoulder injury wouldn't allow it.

Never fear, Junior and Tall Man are on their way to represent the family and spend a rip-roaring weekend with Uncle. Hummmm, I hope they keep Uncle under control...

We had our Shabbat meal with the boys before they left, again stumbling through the blessings.

Here's what's on the menu:

Shabbat Dinner

vegan spaghetti

gluten free Penne Pasta w/ pesto

salad

fresh strawberries

Shabbat Breakfast

Rice Chex cereal (gluten-free)

vanilla rice mik

Shabbat Lunch

various wraps

(I have shredded chicken and some taco seasoned burger in the fridge for the children)

supper

left over spaghetti

or

baked potatoes

various toppings

This week's parasha is Shelach (send). It begins when Moses sent the two good spies and 10 bad spies into Cananan, the defiantly disobedient man who gathered sticks and was stoned, and ends with the commandment of wearing the tzit tzit (fringes) with a cord of blue as a sign to remember the commandments. The portion is Numbers 13:1-15:41

The Haftarah is Joshua 2:1-24 Which is when Joshua sent two good spies into Jericho and Rahab helped them. She put a cord (remember the tzit tzit?) of red in her window to be a sign to the Israelites to remember her kindness and save her household.

The New Testament portion is Hebrews 3:7-4:1 and reminds us of the defiant disobedience of thechildren of Israel in the desert and reminds us to remember (the cords) the commandments and fear God so we will not fall short of his rest and deliverance.

Shabbat Shalom!

~WOW

After a long break... (July '06)

So much has happened since my last post! Everyone has had birthdays, except Rebecca..Clinton graduated from high school. The biggest and best thing to have happened is the birth of our 8th child.
Isaac was born at aprox. 3:00p.m.  on Friday, March 17th.

 I went in for an appointment and the doc said I needed to go to the hosp. The labor was fast, I think I started around 1:00 pm. I was feeling good so I refused admittance but just walked the halls and was able to squat, lunge, rock, sit, stand, lean over a chair, what ever I needed to do until I was ready to push. Clint told the nurse we were ready, she walked me down to a room and I gave birth to my 10lb 10oz boy while on my side. 
I was able to relax this time and not push too fast. The birth was soooo much easier and controlled. Much better than laying on my back!