Category: Family

Cinnamon Rolls – NO SOURDOUGH NEEDED

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This is an easy way to make cinnamon rolls from scratch… they aren’t quite as good as our Sourdough Cinnamon Rolls but they are close. This is perfect if you don’t have sourdough.

You can choose to ice them or just give them a little sprinkle of powdered sugar. These remind me of old-fashioned cinnamon rolls as the dough is more of a biscuit texture, but oh so good!

I cut mine a little thinner and usually end up with 20-24 medium sized rolls.

Cinnamon Rolls

Ingredients:

Dough:

  • 4 c.  Flour (If using self-rising flour you can omit the next 3 ingredients)
  • 1 T. baking powder
  • 1 t. baking soda
  • 1 t. salt
  • 1 c. shortening or butter (softened)
  • 1 1/2 – 2 c. Buttermilk (you can use regular milk and add 1 T. Vinegar)
  • 1 T. honey (optional)
  • 1/4 butter, melted (optional) 
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Join WORLD Watch: Kid-Friendly News Streaming

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We love to share FREE and Budget-Friendly resources that we use in our daily life. This one gives a FREE trial but the monthly subscription is very affordable.

WORLD Watch is a great resource for our homeschool. We usually include this in our Morning Circle and we all really enjoy this kid-friendly news program that keeps us up to date with important happenings.

When you join World Watch you can stream daily news from a Biblical worldview on ANY device! Use our link below to make sure we get credit for you signing up and you can try it out for FREE! If you sign up and subscribe then we will get a 30 day credit… no extra cost to you.

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Here’s what a monthly WORLD Watch subscription gets you:-Ten-minute episodes every weekday, all year long-Full access to show archives-Seamless streaming from your phone, tablet, Roku, or Apple TV using the app-Organized features, new briefs, and explainers for educational use-A daily reminder that, “whatever the news, the purpose of the Lord will stand.”

Still not convinced? Check out this video for more details about the benefits of our program. Start building news literacy, critical thinking, and Biblical discernment in your family. Don’t forget to use your friend’s unique link above so that they can get credit for referring you! Once you have signed up with your friend’s link, you can stream us on your web browser or you can download our app from Apple, Google, Roku, or Amazon.

It’s starting to feel like home…

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The past couple of months have been so stressful. It started as a long-awaited master bathroom remodel that had to be put on hold due to an unexpected emergency with a family member. This emergency meant that we needed to focus on other areas of the house… things that we had planned to do in the future- after the bathroom.

Another project took over so that we could create another room in the house and it is finally finished. There are some touchups to complete and I know there will be some furniture changes in the future but it is finished for now… at least until after the upcoming baby shower.

I’ve been wanting to put a wall up between the breakfast area and the den for long time. I created a wall and separated the area in so many ways over the past few years that I felt confident that a wall would be beneficial. You can see some of the many ways that this space has changed HERE.

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Transform Your Garden with Trellis Beds

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I love that I can come up with an idea in my head, put it down on paper, and Mr. Awesome can make it come to life! He has done this time and time again… just AMAZING! My Ube plants were going crazy and starting to take over the greenhouse so I needed to make a place for them to grow. I didn’t have a lot of money to put towards this as our bathroom really needs attention so we spent less than $100 on materials and I scavenged the scrap piles for materials.

While this isn’t exactly as I had planned, as we couldn’t find the lumber I had planned for, it is pretty close and just as AWESOME. I wanted a couple of beds for planting as this area is close to the septic and I didn’t want to take any chances with contaminated food but I also wanted to screen the backyard a little bit as we have a couple of sheds in this area. The solution was two trellis beds with a cattle panel arch to act as an ‘entry’ to the backyard area. It may also prove to be a pretty backdrop for pictures!

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Stomach Bugs, Garden Bugs, and a Bathroom Remodel

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Whew! What a week… we finally got started on our master bathroom remodel but it is far from being completed. When we started peeling back the flooring we found that this was not the first time the floor had been ‘fixed’ and we also found more of the drywall mud patches on the floor like we had found in the kitchen and laundry room. We also found that some of the previous fixes included glue and nails which made the removal process more tedious but more on that in a bit.

Our garden has been coming along quite well other than a surge of pests which are eager to eat all of the food we’ve been working so hard to grow. The weather has been extremely hot but we have been getting a few showers that have helped. I did invest in a couple of new sprinklers that I’ll try to share about later. We have been putting up a few more videos on YouTube as well if you’d like to check them out.

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