..and I haven’t even come close. My parents always made sure we had more than enough food (even if it was meat loaf or split pea soup and I ended up at the supper table all night trying to finish-small bite, sip of water, small bite, sip of water, until it was gone). And thankfully, [...]
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I’ve never had to go hungry…
May 8, 2009Prepping
March 23, 2009Tonight we came home from work, ate some dinner, headed to a meeting then came home where I began to do some dishes while Jonathan started his final prep for Bible study tomorrow night. You see, he meets with a group of guys at our house on Tuesdays and they take turns teaching-this month is [...]
Home from South Africa.
December 17, 2008We said goodbye to our friends at iThemba Lethu on Monday and boarded the jumbo jet that would take us home. It was a long series of flights and more than 30 nearly sleepless hours of travel. Along the way, we were regaled by a chorus of crying children in the row behind us, and [...]
Judy the travel nurse
December 2, 2008As Jonathan mentioned in an earlier post, we signed up for life insurance. I know, it’s big, scary and too grown up for us. We agree. Regardless, we were (rightly) advised that our insurance premiums would be higher if we waited until after we traveled this month so we signed up for some life insurance, [...]
Root Vegetable Tagine
October 29, 2008Okay, this is the last recipe for the day, but I’m not going to lie, it was a good one! I’ve been having a hard time looking for slow cooker recipes that do not take less than nine hours to finish or require meat on the bone (one of us doesn’t like meat on the [...]
Birthday Dinner
October 29, 2008For Jonathan’s birthday, he asked me to cook up a new recipe for dinner (we had already gone out to eat the previous two evenings and we like to keep things balanced). I offered up a selection from the various cookbooks and magazines we’ve got around the house and this is what he selected. (From [...]
South Africa…updated
October 28, 2008I wrote a few months ago about a trip to South Africa that we are going on with a group from our church. We have more details and many of you have received our “McPherson South Africa” email lately, but I thought I’d blog about it as well…. Basically, we will be in the town [...]
Where’s Jonathan?
September 14, 2008I know many of you are used to having Jonathan update his livejournal and flickr photostream and that’s maybe not happening as much lately. Sorry about that. Here’s a brief explanation: 1. We got married. It took a few days (okay weeks and months) for us to plan things. 2. I moved into the house. [...]
Cheese.
August 25, 2008Sometimes, Kelly and I have small picnics in the living room. And sometimes, those picnics contain wine and cheese. Tonight was one of those sometimes. We selected a selection of cheeses from the extensive selection of selections available at our neighborhood QFC. And here, presented only as a note of guidance for your next cheese [...]
Shopper’s Voice
August 18, 2008In today’s mail, we received the great fortune to have an opportunity to provide “greatly needed input” in the form of a survey. In return, we have been promised good coupons, not just the regular old coupons you receive in the newspaper or weekly adverts. We had a few minutes, so we took the Shopper’s [...]