Friday night, Ricky took Braylon with him to the Woodburn outlets while I stayed at home with Angel to do some housework. Not a typical Friday night, but hey, you gotta do what you gotta do. So I’m taking the clean clothes out of the dryer (mostly Ricky’s clothes he’d transferred from the wash, to dry) and I come across a pair of panties I don’t recognize. Read more…
When Bray was in 3rd grade at Boones Ferry Primary, Mrs. Parent & I had a talk about how we can come together to help him remember all his homework, as school lets out each day. I thought we crossed that creek, but here we are again in 4th grade & Mrs. Banet & I are saying the same things. We’re trying to come up with strategies to not just remind him when needed, but to help him think of ways he can remind himself…or simply put, remember what he needs to remember. This week we were particularly challenged, as something was forgotten 3 out of 4 days. But as Angel & I picked him up from school in our Mercury Villager, I went down the list (this time, before leaving the parking lot. Do I get a mini York Peppermint Paddy for that?). Each item was replied to with a proud & verbal “Check!” I said, “OK then. Are you sure you have EVERYTHING? You didn’t even leave your reading log?”
Then as we drove home between the tall colorful trees that line Wilsonville Rd, Braylon said back to me, “That was the OLD me.”
I smiled and high-fived him for that one. And I said THAT’s the way to think. Picture how you want to change – what you want to be & decide that the old habits are not YOU, anymore. Speak out loud what you want to become. Even if you’re a 4th grader who wants to be more responsible. Visualize it. Speak it. And don’t be afraid to ask others to help you reach it. Grown-ups, parents… it’s true for really anyone. You’ll probably surprise yourself and everyone around you with how close you come to that goal.
Tonight as Ricky & I laid beside Braylon just before he went to sleep, I asked him to name one thing that he liked about Dad’s personality that I don’t necessarily have, and something about mine that dad doesn’t have. About his dad, he said, ” his laugh. Mom, you don’t really laugh like him, and not as much.”
When it came to my turn, after much deliberation (which was borderline-upsetting! ) he actually thought of something: “I like the way you look at things. Like…how you see them. You say stuff like, “Wow, look at this beautiful bridge over this lovely river!” to which I replied, “oh! like beauty in nature? Yeah, dad doesn’t really talk about beauty a whole lot” & Braylon replied,
“well… he does when it’s about you.”
October 1st
To Angel & Bray’s surprise, we picked her up from PDX.
It was the longest Rick had gone without seeing his mom – since Christmas of ’10…over 9 mo.s.
Braylon loves to add excitement in stories whenever he can. Sometimes that means a little … well, exaggeration.
As we watched the movie, Radio today, Angel told us she wanted to go to church a few times.
As the credits rolled, she said it again & Braylon said,
“We KNOW! You said it like 3,000 times already!“
I replied to him, “…or 3″
He retorted with a smirk, “Well, yeah, if you want to say it the boring way!“
Cool things have been happening. Read more…
On August 25th, I woke up from a dream – one that was still clear in my mind. A week or so before, I’d prayed that God give me a dream – one that would be easy to understand.
In the dream, I was visiting a Bible college to hear Louis Palau speak. After his sermon, there was great worship & I was caught up in the Spirit…lost in the moment. As I was leaving the sancuary, a long time friend of mine, Beth, approached me and said, “I have to ask you something. Do you know a Frank?” I replied Yes. And she said, “I feel like God wants me to tell you that his health is failing and that he wants to forgive.”
As I made my way to the lobby and sat in a comfy chair, a young teen Asian girl behind me I realized lost a necklace pendant. She had dropped it on the floor and was looking for it & others were helping her. I heard them searching and heard the word “wicca” as she was trying to describe it. She found & snatched it up, and as she was standing back up with it held tightly in her hand, she looked me straight in the eye with intent.
“I WILL NOT be cursed. I will be BLESSED in Jesus’ name!”
…and I woke up.
My recipe for German pancakes, I’ve recently realized…is actually for Swedish pancakes! Well, they’ve always been quickly devoured in my family – growing up, my mom, Ms. Marda Bebb made them often for Charity & I- and we loves to douse those suckers w/butter, powdered sugar & lemon juice (mix it all up on the pancake and then roll it up and eat it with a fork). Now my family loves to eat them for breakfast and for dinner too! They’re fun, messy and easy to vary with all kinds of toppings.
INGREDIENTS:
1.5 c. Flour (make a well)
1/2 tsp salt
1/2 tsp vanilla
3 eggs
1 & 3/4 c. Milk (reserve the 3/4c. until after mixing the 1st cup)
~ In a large (2 quart) mixing bowl, combine eggs, flour, and 1 c. milk together. Add the vanilla and salt & mix. Add the remaining 3/4 c. milk. (also – depending on what toppings I have, I add some cinnamon into the batter).
Poor a half cup of batter in the center of a non-stick pan.
With a circular motion you need to tip the pan to get the batter to spread out to a thin round shape.
Heat a large non-stick pan on medium-high. Using a 1/2 measuring cup pour the batter into the center of the pan. Then you need to quickly pick up the pan (be sure the handle is not hot) and in a slow circular motion, tilt the pan to spread the batter out into a thin round shape. Cook until you see air bubbles forming on top and the bottom becomes lightly golden. Then flip it over using a spatula to lightly brown the other side.
To serve the pancakes, spread butter all over one side of the pancake, and once it has melted, sprinkle powdered sugar and whatever else (from the optional toppings list) that you want. Then roll up the pancake and top it off with a sprinkle of powdered sugar. Note: If using fruit, it works better to put it on top and not roll it up inside.
BEWARE! To whoever is cooking these: You will usually eat last! It’s very hard to keep up w/the demand of the hungry pancake-eaters. One way to get the jump on the demand is to get a head start making them and put them in a tortilla warmer before you tell ‘em…
“Come and get it!!”
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