Operation: Scripture Study

I have a couple of secrets that you may find silly. First one: I made it a goal to find out how many women are in the scriptures. There are NUMEROUS women. So when people say there isn't much about women, they are not reading between the lines, doing the research and finding awesome stories. I found this awesome blog to help get a start. It's pretty fun when you can research a person and get to know a little. It is kind of like family history, you get to understand a little about who a person was. I love it!! Another thing, is in the book "The Help" I had to chuckle because Abilene would write her prayers down. I too have "Emailed" my prayers and kept them in a file folder journal. I feel like I am writing to someone who then I can find His "TEXT" in the scriptures. But Shhh... that's my little secret. If you have trouble praying... give it a try.

http://womeninthescriptures.blogspot.com/p/book-of-mormon-women.html

Here is another fun site that you can print out scripture labels and your family can have a night finding where they go.
http://tencowchick.com/2011/02/05/scripture-journals/

Ruth & Naomi

Lesson today is on Ruth! When I think her and her mother in law, it makes me happy to know I have a good mother in law as well. If I had to leave I would be able to go with her and enjoy my life as Ruth did.

HERE is the lesson

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Save your toilet paper rolls:






Friendship Bread
Amish Friendship Bread thanks to:www.flbelt.com
IMPORTANT NOTES:
• DO NOT USE ANY TYPE OF METAL SPOON OR BOWL FOR MIXING
• DO NOT REFRIGERATE.
• LET AIR OUT OF BAG REGULARLY.
• IT IS NORMAL FOR THE BATTER TO RISE, BUBBLE AND FERMENT.


Day 1 Do nothing.
Day 2 Mush the bag.
Day 3 Mush the bag.
Day 4 Mush the bag.
Day 5 Mush the bag.
Day 6 1 Cup flour, 1 Cup sugar, and 1 Cup milk. Add to bag.
Day 7 Mush the bag.
Day 8 Mush the bag.
Day 9 Mush the bag.
Day 10 Follow the directions:
1. Pour entire contents of bag into a non-metal bowl.
2. Add 1-1/2 Cup sugar, 1-1/2 Cup flour and 1-1/2 Cup milk. Mix. Batter will have a lumpy appearance.
3. Measure 1 Cup of the batter into a 1 gallon bag. Repeat 3 times so you have a total of 4 bags with 1 Cup of batter each. Keep a Starter for yourself and give the other 3 bags to friends. Mark the bags with the starting date. This is Day 1.
4. Preheat oven to 325 degrees.
5. To the remaining batter in the bowl, add:
a. 3 eggs
b. 1/2 Cup milk
c. 1 Cup oil
d. 1 Cup sugar
e. 2 Cups flour
f. 1 large box (5.1 oz) instant vanilla pudding (not prepared)
g. 2 teaspoons cinnamon
h. 1-1/2 teaspoons baking powder
i. 1/2 teaspoon baking soda
j. 1/2 teaspoon salt
k. 1/2 teaspoon vanilla
6. Grease 2 large loaf pans. Mix additional 1/4 Cup sugar and 1/2 teaspoon cinnamon. Dust the greased pans with half of this mixture. Keep the other half for the top in #7 below.
7. Pour the batter evenly into the 2 pans and sprinkle the remaining sugar mixture over the top.
8. Bake for 1 hour.


If you keep a Starter for yourself, you will bake every 10 days. This bread is very good and makes a great gift. Only the Amish know how to create the Starter, so if given one, remember to keep a Starter for yourself.

Our cozy nest had a wonderful idea for her children at church. She cut file folders in half and made file folder games for the kids to play. Here is the idea! Some of these ideas are LDS, but here is one for anyone who also believes in the bible! I will be making some of these for my kids!~

HERE is the church game website

Noah

1. Lesson :

http://www.dltk-bible.com/genesis/chapter6-cv.htm

2. Craft- You could get popcylce sticks and paste them on this boat to write goals your kids want to acheive. then glue on some animal crackers at the bottom.

3. Cross Word Puzzle and Mini Book:









You could even make a rainbow out of painted hand prints.

FOOD: Rainbow Cookies!


INGREDIENTS (Nutrition)
3/4 cup butter, softened
3 ounces cream cheese
1 cup white sugar
1 egg
1 teaspoon vanilla extract
2 3/4 cups all-purpose flour
1 teaspoon baking powder
1/4 teaspoon salt
assorted colors of paste food coloring
24 lollipop sticks
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My folders:




DIRECTIONS
In a bowl cream butter, cream cheese and sugar until fluffy. Add egg and vanilla; beat until smooth.
In a medium bowl combine flour, baking powder and salt. Add dry ingredients to the creamed mixture. Stir till soft dough forms. Divide dough into fourths. Tint each with a different food color. Wrap in plastic wrap and chill for 2 hours.
Preheat oven to 350 degrees F (175 degrees C). Working with half of each color, shape dough into 3/4 inch balls and for each cookie place 1 pink, 1 green, 1 blue and 1 orange ball together to make 1 large ball. Shape into a 12 inch long roll (like a snake), starting at one end, coil roll to make a 2 3/4 inch round cookie. Place cookies 3 inches apart on lightly greased baking sheet. Carefully insert lollipop sticks into bottoms of cookies.
Bake cookies for 8 minutes or until lightly browned. Cool and store in an airtight container.
Thanks to plum,Dltk

Scripture Stories

This summer I decided to turn my preschool room into a scripture story learning center. I did this with my kids before I started teaching preschool. Each day/ week (depending on how I feel) I will teach the kids a scripture story along with some easy crafts/coloring pages.

Today we learned about the 10 commandments. We talked about Moses. Here are some things I used to teach them:
this is a "Men of the Bible" booklet. Each day I let them color the person we are learning about, so at the end they will have a complete little book of all those they have learned. I am going to try to make my own for a "women of the bible" as well.


Teacher's guide to tell story:

http://www.dltk-bible.com/exodus/moses_and_the_10_commands-cv.htm

They also have cute little clip art next to each of the !0 commandment calendar on their website that I copied and pasted into Microsoft word and let them color. We are going to watch "The Prince Of Egypt". We are going to make sugar cookies in the shapes of the Ten Commandment stone.
Something sort of like this, but hopefully it doesn't turn out looking like a grave LOL. Cheesy I know but hey they love it. Tomorrow is Noah and I have already found some cute ideas for that one!! Including an "Animal Cracker Ark" Will share more tomorrow.