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This Week's Features...    1.11.08


How Role Playing Moral Dilemmas Turns Family Meetings into Family Fun
Kids love to role-play. When kids role-play moral dilemmas, they prepare to meet life's challenges. If you'd like to help your kids develop strong moral backbones, consider discussing dilemmas like the one below in your family meetings.

 

It's Time To Bring Back The Family Dinner Hour
What has happened to the family dinner hour? There once was a time when we would all come home from school or work and sit down with our family for a home-cooked meal...
 
Five Tips To Get Through The Day When You Are A Work At Home Mom
This is good reading, even if you do not carry a career or job from within the home.  We can all benefit from sound tips at times, right?
 

Worrying or Faith? I Choose Faith
My husband tells me on a regular basis to quit worrying about so much. I am a natural worry wart and have been for as long as I can remember. Being a worrier, at least in my case, can go hand-in-hand with being a control freak.


Word on the Street is...

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  I don't know if I can do this anymore...
  Struggling single mom
 

 

Ten Time- and Money-Saving Kitchen Cleaning Tips
Here are ten money and time saving tips to help you in your kitchen.

12 Ways To Spruce Up Your Home On A Budget 
How often do we look round our homes and think, "I wish I could spruce things up a bit ... if I only had the money"?  Well, brightening up a home certainly doesn’t have to break the bank. 

Victorian Era Hints and Recipes  
Culled from vintage 19th century books, almanacs and newspapers, these hints and recipes are provided for their educational value; no claim to their effectiveness or safety is made by author or editor.



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Dutch Babies

1/4 cup butter
3 eggs
3/4 cup flour
3/4 cup milk
pinch of salt

1. Preheat oven to 425. Use a 2-3 quart cast iron pan. (Measure the volume by pouring quarts of water in the pan.)
2. Place the butter in the pan and melt it in the oven while mixing the batter.
3. In a food processor, blend the eggs at a high speed for one minute.
4. With the motor still running, pour in the milk, the add the flour and salt. Continue blending for 30 seconds.
5. Remove the pan from the oven and add the batter. Return the pan to the oven and bake for 25 minutes, or until pancake is browned and puffy.
6. Dust with nutmeg or cinnamon, if you wish.

If you wish serve with powdered sugar.
SUGGESTED fillings (optional but recommended)
Can of pie filling or fresh sliced strawberries, peaches or bananas
Top with yogurt, whipped cream or sour cream. If you want syrup instead, maple or fruit syrup will serve you well.

Serves 4
You'll love the way it looks when it's done!

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Make it a game!
When it's time to clean up a room, try a couple tricks:
1.  Teach them to pick up items by color, then switch to a new color when it's time.
2.  Have them take turns being the "nice boss."
3.  Have them pick up all the round things, then all the square things, etc...
Pretty soon the room is cleaned up!
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