If you happen to have leftover ham, here’s a hearty and delicious use for it. I loved the looks of a recipe I saw...
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Mary Ostyn
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Scalloped Potatoes with Ham
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Pasta Carbonera
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This recipe uses very little meat, but even die-hard carnivores love it. When I make it, I double the amounts given here, and we...
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Panda-Style Orange Chicken
By Owlhaven
I was overjoyed when a Panda Express restaurant was built near my home. There were two main reasons for my delight: their names were...
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Chicken Enchiladas
By Owlhaven
This recipe is a favorite at our house. It is sooooo easy to make a second one to freeze that I went ahead and...
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Hmmm…I don’t know what I think about this post. I think the research behind it is neat, and I agree that most geniuses are not born, they’re made…but at the same time, do you think God wants us all to be geniuses??? I think that we do need to be good stewards as we teach our children, and make sure our children are faithfully studying & being good stewards of the intelligence God has given them, but I think there are other things, like selfless service, that are more important to me than whether my children are geniuses. Glad you linked to it, though, it is a neat thought!
To me it pointed out the importance of diligently encouraging our children to work on the gifts that they do have…
Mary
Thank you for leading us to this beautiful blog!
Ann’s blog is one of my favorite places to be. Didn’t you just love this post? I heard a discussion on this very think several months ago, and I thought it was so interesting – and encouraging. To think of the potential in all of us…