I tried another Pinterest/Crock Pot recipe last week that was a winner!  We love Mexican food in most every form – beef, pork, fish and chicken.  I came across a recipe for Chicken Tacos that were so easy and so good!  

Crock Pot Chicken Tacos
6 chicken breasts
1 pkg. Taco Seasoning
1 jar Salsa – whatever brand you have

Mix the Taco Seasoning and the salsa and pour over chicken breasts in crock pot.  Turn on high 4-6 hours  or low 6-8 hours.  Chicken will be tender and ready to pull apart with a fork.  It will look like this:

Serve with:
Tortillas
Lettuce
Tomatoes
Sour Cream
Cheese
Avocado

You seriously need to make these.  The prep takes all of two or three minutes and the reward is huge!

Is your family Mexican Food lovers?  Would they like this?

From my parsonage kitchen,

Yesterday afternoon was “Migraine afternoon.” No fun. No energy. No pizzazz. This one was a doozy. I’m convinced that the Lord gives those whoppers to me to make me STOP. I am forced to rest. I normally push myself, even when I don’t feel terrific, but there’s no pushing when these hit. I’m down for the count. So, I sat on the chaise lounge. I watched Little House on the Prairie. I sat on the back deck on the swing and listened to a message on my phone. I sat on the couch and watched it rain. Then about eight hours later, I was feeling like a human being again.

When was the last time you stopped and rested? We (I) shouldn’t wait until we’re sick to do so. It’s best that we take time each day to just cool it a bit and get refreshed. Hmmm, I think that’s why I started these Friday posts! I guess I’d better start following my own advice. Maybe you need to stop too.

Need a suggestion?

It’s time for the Biscuit Making Video! Hope this encourages you to get out the necessary ingredients and mix a batch either for supper tonight, or breakfast tomorrow!

Here’s a couple of the finished biscuits, hot out of the oven…

Here is where you’ll find the biscuit recipe. The jury is still out on the frozen biscuits. I’ll let you know how they do when I bake them up!

Happy biscuit making!

Love,

Busy days – they seem to rule my life! Can you relate? There is so much that has to be accomplished, and then a whole list of other things I’d just like to do. But how can we add more to our already overflowing schedule?

One way to get more done is to do something while you’re doing something else!  Like…

I knew it was going to fall! I could see it coming! Yesterday Alli and I were shopping together. There was a small table leaning against a wall with a wooden insert that was set inside it, also leaning against the wall. Alli pulled the table towards her, looking for a price, and it was as if I was watching in slow motion. The insert was falling towards her sandaled foot. It came to a crash, landing on that small bone just behind her big toe. I couldn’t stop it. I couldn’t say anything. I could only stand and watch it happen in a matter of seconds that seemed to last a half hour.

The pain and throbbing began shortly after. Then came the bruising. Then a numbness to the rest of her leg. Then a visit to the First Assist office to get an X-Ray.

Why do these things happen? Oh, I know; it’s because it was Monday! Wrong. Is it because she’s done something horrible and God is punishing her? No. The truth is, we don’t really know why the Lord allowed this, but we know that He has a plan and it is unfolding even as we wait the result of the X-Ray.

As a parent, we wish these kinds of things didn’t happen to our children. We want to protect them from hurtful experiences, hard times and painful situations, whether it’s physical or emotional. But the truth is, they need them. It’s these times that run them to the Lord instead of Mom and Dad. We can’t always be there to “bail them out,” but the Lord promises never to leave them. He will show His love, His comfort, His presence when we are unable to do so. Even while our children are still in the home, they need opportunities to trust God, to know indeed that, “He’s Able, He’s Able, I know he is able! I know  my God is able to carry me through!”

Perhaps the Lord is using this to prepare Alli to trust Him when she gets married and finances are tough, or she and Andrew are far away from their parents and they have a need. She can write this time down and remember how God pulled her through – broken bone or not. I don’t know why this happened but this I do know:

Let the Lord prove Himself to your children, even when it hurts you more than it does them.

With love,


P.S.  The bone was not broken, but badly bruised. She came home with a boot on and orders to keep off of it for a bit. Thank you, Lord.