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Triple B Rally
Ladies Only Dirtbike Rally & Camp Out | Presented by Husqvarna Motorcycles | Saturday August 5th, 2017
1 Day Only!
Calling all Moto Babes! Join the Revy Riders Dirtbike Club for a full day of riding and touring the trails and track for the 4th Annual Triple B Rally! Come for the weekend or just the day, ride with your crew or meet new friends (guaranteed), bring your partners, families to enjoy the weekend cause it's a whole lotta fun! The event includes:
* Triple B Rally Fun Ride
* BRAAP-ATHALON Team Relay
* Morning Yoga
* Breakfast Buffet
* Giveaways & Event Gifts for all participants
* Swimming & Post Event BBQ & Caesar Bar
* BC/DC Concert Entry & Shuttle to & from event
Eve Northmore
Revy Riders Board Member
$115.00 $99.00 + Day Pass if required *Savings of $15.00 (That's 3 extra beers!)
Registration Includes: Event & Rally Entry Fee, Braaap-athalon Fun Relay, Yoga, Breakfast, Dinner, Giveaways, Event Tee or Tank, BC/DC concert entry and shuttle.
Revy Riders 1 Day Trail Pass: $10.00
– Coming back? Grab your Revy Riders 2017 Full Season Membership: $125.00
Register Below in 2 Easy Steps!
- Choose your registration options. *You can grab extra bbq, trail passes and concert tickets for your friends and family too.
- Pay with paypal 🙂
That's it! You'll be redirected to the confirmation page with all the need to know details. Or if you want more info now now, just scroll down!
The Triple B kicks off Friday night, come set up camp and kick things off with the rest of the Revy Riders Girls Crew! Wake up at Glacier House and energize with morning yoga on the grounds overlooking the mountains and a delicious buffet breakfast to fuel you up for a long day! Enjoy tours of the 80+ km of Revy Riders trails ranging from beginner to advanced with the Revy Riders Girls Club guides or your new riding friends. Hit up our advanced motocross or beginner track, break for a swim right from the trails at beautiful and picturesque Lake Revelstoke and finish up the riding day with the New BRAAP-ATHALON wicked fun team relay followed by a BBQ, camp out and concert!
Awards & prizes for the Rider of the Year at the evening BBQ with Triple B Caesar Bar, prizing and giveaways for all from our sponsors! Do it all or just come and ride with a crew of awesome ladies of all ages and abilities! Everyone is welcome. Scheduled riding activities are for ladies only but feel free to bring your partners and families for the weekend. Trails, Tracks, BBQ, camping bonfire, and afterparty concert are open to all.
GLACIER HOUSE RESORT: Held in Revelstoke BC, stay with us at the Glacier House Resort nestled in between the Boulder and Frisbee Mountains and ride from your doorstep. Affordable Tent, RV, Hotel and Cabin rental options available with a mountain bike pump track, pool, and restaurant on site. http://www.glacierhouse.com/
Riders ready! Make sure you check in at as many trail checkpoints as possible for maximum points. Ride out with one of the groups or go it on your own and check out our network at your pace. Maps provided for all riders and volunteer club members available to ride out with.
What happens in the Braap-athalon stays in the Braap-athalon. This was the highlight for most and a hilarious way to wind down a long morning of riding. If you missed this last year you have another chance, a wild way to end the day, it's one not to miss!
The raddest, baddest rider with the best spirit of the Rally. A straight up group vote combined with the riding results will crown one ultimate individual the Triple B Rider of the Year. With special prizing and awarded with their name forever solidified on the custom made Triple B Trophy. Theirs to take home and show off for the year. To win just remember: ride hard, help others, embrace the ridiculousness of the days' activities and make a new friend or two.
Oh yes, we did, we are stepping it up the afterparty this year by including entry and free shuttle to see Canada's best AC/DC cover band live in Revelstoke at the Glacier Challenge ball diamonds! Let's all send off the day with a bang!
7:00pm – Official Kick Off & Early Registration
Come set up camp, drop your RV or check in at Glacier House Resort. Register early, pick up your goodie bag and get to know some of the other riders on the Glacier House Patio!
For more info on camping or to book in contact Glacier House at: http://www.glacierhouse.com/ | 250.837.9594 | email@example.com
Saturday: Event Day!
7:00am – 10:00am: Registration
8:00am – 9:00am: Morning Yoga Session
9:00am – 10:00am: Breakfast Buffet
10:15am: Group Meeting
10:30am – 2:30pm: Rally Ride Out
2:30pm – 4:15pm: Swim/Lunch Break * Ride to Swim Docks for 2:30 Swim Session * Full Gear Jump in is tradition!
4:30pm – 5:30pm: BRAAP-ATHALON Team Relay
7:00pm:Triple B Caesar Bar, BBQ & Awards on Glacier House Patio
10:00pm – 12:00pm: * NEW BC/DC Glacier Challenge Afterparty! Bus to and from Glacier House
Recoup, relax or ride!
Event Super Sponsor: HUSQVARNA MOTORCYCLES: http://www.husqvarna-motorcycles.com/no/ We couldn't be more excited to partner with some of the best bikes in the world; Husqvarna Motorcycles for 2017 event. With their support, we will make the Triple B bigger and better!
Event Host: GLACIER HOUSE RESORT: http://www.glacierhouse.com/ * Ride from your doorstep at the best spot in town! Nestled in the mountains only 15 mins from Revelstoke City Centre. RV, Camp, Hotel & Cabins, Bike Park, Restaurant, Bar, Swimming Pool & Rentals!
Bike Shops:
INFINITE POWERSPORTS: http://infinitepowersports.com/ * Get tuned up before you come! Infinite is your go to for maintenance, parts, gear and all things gas powered! Right enroute to the track!
ROUGH COUNTRY MARINE: http://rough-country.ca/ *MRevy Riders memberships, awesome gear and all of your outdoor activity supplies!


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It's a, decent time to be an aficionado of Spider-Man. Your well disposed neighborhood saint is apparently wherever nowadays, encountering a gigantic surge in notoriety – not that he at any point dropped out of the general population eye, mind you – and generating incalculable undertakings crosswise over screens both of all shapes and sizes. Without a doubt, the lion's offer of the spotlight is being set on Tom Holland's rendition over in the Marvel Cinematic Universe, however there's another Spidey slithering around that is beginning to create a considerable measure of buzz, as well. Obviously, we're discussing Miles Morales, who's set to highlight in Sony's up and coming energized flick, Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse.
With the primary trailer for the film having appeared this previous end of the week to an incredible reaction, enthusiasm for the venture has soar, with fans thinking about whether there will be any ties amongst it and the MCU. All things considered, Morales was implied at in the current year's Homecoming and there's been a solid call for him to join the Avengers up on the wide screen for quite a while. Be that as it may, at any rate if Into the Spider-Verse authors Phil Lord and Chris Miller are to be accepted, there won't be any kind of hybrid between the two.
Talking at a Q&A board amid the Comic Con Experience tradition in Sao Paulo, Brazil this end of the week, they affirmed that there won't be any connection between their film and what's happening over in the Marvel Cinematic Universe. That being stated, Sony's vivified pic will even now incorporate Peter Parker, however it'll be an alternate variant of the character than what we're seeing now in the MCU, as he'll be moderately aged and go about as a guide to Miles, who's the genuine focal point of the story here. Having no association with the juggernaut that is the Marvel Cinematic Universe could go one of two courses, the extent that we see it.
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Porous Carbon Synthesis
Laboratory: Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (LLNL)
Category: Synthesis
Capability Experts: Theodore F. Baumann (firstname.lastname@example.com), Patrick G. Campbell (email@example.com)
Description and Status: LLNL's experimental synthesis capability can provide:
- Synthesis of graphene oxide (GO) and resorcinol formadhyde (RF) based carbon aerogel materials and composites thereof (including carbon nanotube composites), which result in 3D graphene materials (see Figure 1) with tunable density, crystallinity, pore size, size-distribution, and morphology [1-3]. Complete characterization capabilities, including surface area and pore size (BET/BJH), morphology (SEM/TEM), and mechanical and electrochemical characterization. (Status: 100% on line)
- Advanced manufacturing of porous carbon materials (3D printing). Ability to "print" parts made from porous carbon, control pore size and morphology over several orders of magnitude length scale, with potential to enhance mass transfer/liquid gas flow, etc. (Status: 75% online, DIW with GO-based inks well established [4], soon-to-publish RF based DIW and PuSL GO inks)
- Conversion of 3D graphene to 3D h-BN material, including partial conversion to CBN material [5] (Status: 100% on line for full conversion to h-BN; only partial characterization of CBN material)
- Doping of 3D graphene with B and N (and other) heteroatoms. Methods include incorporation of B, N containing precursor compounds (e.g., N-containing resorcinol analogs), post-synthesis thermal treatment with NH3. (Status: ~50% – synthesis methods developed and limited characterization of N-containing materials performed)
- Infiltration of porous carbon materials with hydrides (e.g., LiBH4). (Status: ~15%, melt infiltration performed on 3D carbon material with large pore size distribution, not characterized)
[1] Worsley, M. A.; Charnvanichborikarn, S.; Montalvo, E.; Shin, S. J.; Tylski, E. D.; Lewicki, J. P.; Nelson, A. J.; Satcher, J. H., Jr.; Biener, J.; Baumann, T. F.; Kucheyev, S. O. Adv. Funct. Mater. 2014, 24 (27), 4259–4264.
[2] Worsley, M. A.; Kucheyev, S. O.; Kuntz, J. D.; Hamza, A. V.; Satcher, J. H., Jr.; Baumann, T. F. Journal of Materials Chemistry 2009, 19 (21), 3370–3372.
[3] Worsley, M. A.; Pham, T. T.; Yan, A.; Shin, S. J.; Lee, J. R. I.; Bagge-Hansen, M.; Mickelson, W.; Zettl, A. ACS Nano 2014, 8 (10), 11013–11022.
[4] Zhu, C.; Han, T. Y.-J.; Duoss, E. B.; Golobic, A. M.; Kuntz, J. D.; Spadaccini, C. M.; Worsley, M. A. Nat Comms 2015, 6, 6962.
[5] rousseas, M.; Goldstein, A. P.; Mickelson, W.; Worsley, M. A.; Woo, L.; Zettl, A. ACS Nano 2013, 7 (10), 8540–8546.


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No Events At The Front Porch For Now.
With heavy hearts, we have decided to suspend operations at The Front Porch until further notice. Our number one priority is to keep our students and staff safe and healthy.
Private lessons are available via Skype. Playing music at home is a GREAT way to spend some newfound downtime. Signing up for Skype lessons is also a huge service to our teaching artists, as they are losing significant income from cancelled shows. You can signal your interest in Skype lessons by emailing firstname.lastname@example.com.
We will still have a spring session of classes! For now our start date of April 13 remains in place.
How about some distant socialing?
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Sophisticated, decorated with pearls and crystals, this bridal wedding hair vine / halo headpiece will look elegant and simply fantastic with many hair styles.
The pictured model is wearing the piece in SILVER.
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Pearls are ivory, crystals are clear.
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Training Facility for Migrant Workers
Mae Sot, Thailand
UnionAID's introductory project has been funding a training centre for migrant workers who are crossing the border from Myanmar into Thailand. Since 2009 the Mae Sot training centre has seen over 1100 women through its doors, teaching them valuable work skills and helping them find work with reputable employers. The training includes learning about Thai labour laws, language and culture.
Until 2017 there was no legal avenue for people from Myanmar to migrate to Thailand, although every year tens of thousands of migrants fled military rule, and political unease in search of work, higher wages, safety and freedom from poverty- many of those migrants are women and are vulnerable to exploitation and trafficking.
Every year thousands of people migrate from Myanmar to Thailand in search of work, safety and a life free from poverty. Many of those migrating are women who can be vulnerable to exploitation in Thailand. UnionAID funds an occupational training centre run by the Confederated Trade Unions of Myanmar (CTUM) in Mae Sot on the Myanmar – Thai border. The training centre provides between 150 and 250 migrant women each year with sewing training and support into safer employment in Thailand. The training includes learning about labour rights in Thailand with the aim to giving migrant workers .
The CTUM was formed by Myanmar workers, who with their families, fled the military regime in Burma by crossing the border into Thailand. Since the ban on trade unions in Myanmar was lifted in 2011 the CTUM has been able to work within the country for the first time and union membership is growing.
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Migrants find safe work
High unemployment and low wages have driven five million Myanmar citizens to seek work in other countries, many across the border in Thailand. Your donations have helped nearly 1500 of ...Read more
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Conditions at sea for Myanmar seafarers are often dangerous , but our project partner, the Myanmar Maritime Workers Federation (MMWF) has taken a pragmatic approach and, among other things, have ...Read more
Myanmar railway workers gain traction
Under a new project, union organising activities will be extended to all parts of the railway system in Myanmar, from Kachin State in the north to Mon State in the ...Read more
Refugees from Mae Lar camp to get skills training
In a surprise move, refugees remaining in camps on the Thai-Myanmar border are now to be permitted to go into Mae Sot to get training or work. Our project partner, Htwe ...Read more


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19-year-old pianist from Poland performs Igor Stravinsky – Three movements from "Petrushka":
I. Danse russe (Russian Dance)
II. Chez Pétrouchka (Petrushka's Room)
III. La semaine grasse (The Shrovetide Fair)
About the artist
Michal Babiarz was born in 2000 in Jaslo, Poland. He started playing the piano at the age of 6. He studies piano at the Private Music School of second degree in Jaslo. Michal has won over 40 prizes in national and international piano and contemporary music competitions.
At the age of 17 he started composing contemporary music. He was the winner of the 1st prize in UFM National Composers Competition in Warsaw and finished with Distinction at the "Gold Windowpane" National Composers Competition in Krakow.
He has also been honored to receive the J.Dudus-Matuszkiewicz Scholarship for young artists in Jasło, The Mayor of Jaslo Artistic Scholarship and the "Nie zagubic talentu" Scholarship for young students.


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Because I forgot to write one. Also, here is a picture of another adorable kitten.
Well, howdy doody there children of the corn… I mean your parents. I have some important newsologies I need to retaliate to the unsophisticated chaff of this millennia's society. Did you understand any words I just said? Neither did I.
Alright, so, Quest for Triumph. It's been around since last summer and was filled with excitement, drama, and romance. Well, not really romance, no one fell in love or had kids or anything. This award winning short produced by yours truly, and starred yours truly, was so popular EA decided they wanted to make an award winning RPG spin-off, we kindly refused the offer and had Calen, our very own Old Man Gryph, create an RPG. Continue reading
So anyways, I'm sitting here trying to come up with some form of news that I could offer about the goings ons in The Empire, but alas, I have none.
I could start chatting about "Cheese Balls", rap about a on going project in the editing phase "Bank Robbery". But I honestly have nothing, I could talk about the new and improved script for Quest For Triumph, and how we're going to include that second one, and probably make both at least several different videos. I could talk about our plans for shirts, or plans for LPs, but I don't really have any news about nothing. Continue reading
Mico here with another whatever the poop I'm doing and I'm here to talk about my feelings… yay!
Ever since I was a little boy, fresh out of diapers, I have been into Legend of Zelda, thanks to Calen. I was probably the only person on earth who didn't think Link was called Zelda, because Calen addressed that issue as soon as he started playing the game at my house so I didn't have the oportunity to be wrong. But something I've wanted to do is create a series that highlights all of Links adventures, Continue reading
As the guy in charge of bloopers and musical guidance, it's my job to find the funniest stuff and put it into a nice little tidbit just for you. I (Mico) also have the wonderful job of deciding what kind of music goes into the videos.
My last two projects were the blooper videos. I had to take the funniest goofs that we made during our previous three videos, Warzone Overtime and Staring Contest Continue reading


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Mazal tov!
Friends of K'hal Adas Yeshurun-Jerusalem launched a website for our shul at www.kayj.org [www.kayj.net]. Jews worldwide will now have the opportunity to learn about, listen to and support Masores Ashkenaz with just a few clicks of the mouse. The website features Frankfurt nusach preservation project by shull's chazzan. A work-in-progress planned to eventually include synagogue, wedding and home music, digitally recorded MP3 versions of Frankfurt-style tefilla will now be available for easy listening and free download. We are hoping to add files every week. A brief about the cornerstone laying, and our timetable for the tefilah could be seen in the site also. Eventually short video clips of the Chol HaMoed Pesach Cornerstone Laying will be featured. Entrants to the site will also get to learn about the founders, gabbaim and members of the kehilla that make it a special makom Torah and tefilla.We want to thank Mr. Eliyahu Goldberg for all of his work, for preparing and launching and hosting the site, and for all of his efforts to help maintaining masores Ashkenaz. תהי משכורתו שלמה מעם השם. 2) There is a new world-wide initiative, aiming to connect all who are interested in Minhogei Ashkenaz as the main source of information, shuls, news, minhogim, nigunim, tradition, history etc run by an international committee. If you want to be kept up-to-date, view the site or volunteer your time/information please mail
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Congratulations to the WKXL 1450 news department for winning three 2010 Golden Mic Awards last week.
The news team won first place for spot news and swept the merit and first place documentary news categories.
The station was the only Concord station to win any awards.
Also, the New Hampshire Association of Broadcasters should be commended for, finally, fixing the name of the awards. They are, after all, mics, not mikes. :-)
All the winners are listed here: ["2010 Golden Mic Award winners"].
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Terlan Pinot Bianco 2002
Winemaker Notes
Aroma: fruity bouquet (apples and pears).
Taste: soft and full with a long finish.
Critical AcclaimAll Vintages
Founded in 1893, the Cantina Terlano winery is now one of the leading wine growers' cooperatives in South Tyrol, with a current membership of 143 growers working a total area of 190 hectares. That is the equivalent of some 1.5 million bottles of wine a year. We and our members have long had a strong focus on quality. That has attracted praise and recognition on the Italian and international wine markets, and in spite of its relatively small size, Cantina Terlano is now well established in the world of wine.
Our modern winery produces 30 percent red and 70 percent white wines, all of them of DOC quality (Controlled Designation of Origin). Following the last upgrade and refurbishment in 2009, our cellars now include a total of 18,000 cubic meters of storage space, which ensures that the wines can develop undisturbed. On the outside, the new tract has a natural facing of red porphyry, the stone that gives the wines in the area their typical character. The roof is planted with vines so that it blends in completely with the surrounding countryside.
Our wines are marketed in two distinct quality lines: Selections and traditional line. An annual rarity is also produced, which only comes on the market after it has spent at least ten years maturing in our cellars. That makes it a fine symbol of our focus on longevity.
A mountainous northern Italian region heavily influenced by German culture, Trentino-Alto Adige is actually made up of two separate but similar regions: Alto Adige and Trentino.
Trentino, the southern half, is primarily Italian-speaking and largely responsible for the production of non-native, international grapes. There is a significant quantity of Chardonnay, Pinot Grigio and Merlot produced. But Trentino's native and most unique red variety, Teroldego, while still rare, is gaining popularity. It produces a deeply colored red wine rich in wild blackberry, herb, coffee and cocoa.
The rugged terrain of German-speaking Alto Adige (also referred to as Südtirol) focuses on small-scale viticulture, with great value placed on local varieties—though international varieties have been widely planted since the 1800s. Sheltered by the Alps from harsh northerly winds, many of the best vineyards are at extreme altitude but on steep slopes to increase sunlight exposure.
Dominant red varieties include the bold, herbaceous Lagrein and delicate, strawberry-kissed, Schiava, in addition to some Pinot Nero.
The primary white grapes are Pinot grigio, Gewürztraminer, Chardonnay and Pinot blanc, as well as smaller plantings of Sauvignon blanc, Müller Thurgau. These tend to be bright and refreshing with crisp acidity and just the right amount of texture. Some of the highest quality Pinot grigio in Italy is made here.
Approachable, aromatic and pleasantly plush on the palate, Pinot blanc is a white grape variety born out of a mutation of pink-skinned Pinot gris (which was born out of a mutation of Pinot noir) and is perhaps most associated with the Alsace region of France. The variety is also is quite successful in Germany and Austria, where it is known as Weissburgunder. Although its heritage is Burgundian, today it is rarely found there and instead thrives throughout central Europe, especially in the mountainous Alto Adige region of Italy, where it is called Pinot bianco. Fine examples can also be found in Switzerland, Slovenia, Croatia, Serbia, Czech Republic, Slovakia and Hungary. Oregon's Willamette Valley boasts some wonderful examples of Pinot blanc, as do some cooler pockets of California.
In the Glass
Pinot Blanc is typically a full-bodied wine and expresses pleasing aromas of crisp pear, peach, lemon zest, crushed gravel and white flowers. The finest examples can possess a stony minerality and with age can develop intriguing notes of honey, vanilla and almond.
Perfect Pairings
Delicate Pinot Blanc works well with lighter fare such as salads, seafood, chicken or turkey, but is truly at its best with Alsatian pairings like choucrout garnie, onion tarts or the region's soft cheeses like Munster.
Sommelier Secret
Pinot Blanc's delicate aromatics, full body, and moderate acidity make it a great alternative to the world's most popular white wine. Anyone experiencing Chardonnay fatigue and looking to try something new would benefit from giving Pinot blanc a try.


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Lagos expo is a premier business to business and business to consumer expo organized by The Afrik Diary. Lagos expo focuses on showcasing Beauty, Culture and Creative industries in Africa which includes: FASHION, ARTS, FOOD AND DRINKS and it will hold by November 2019, attracting businesses and visitors across Nigeria as well as others from different countries in Africa. It will set the scene for being a must attend event in the annual business calendar.
This business expo will hold annually and this year, it's strategically timed for November, allowing business to get some quick wins before the financial year end and super charging their new financial year.
Lagos Expo is showcased as "The Home of Creativity" and this will certainly be the case of the 2019 edition as players in the creative industries across Africa which includes; Ghana, Togo, Cameroon, Senegal amongst other countries in Africa will be showcasing at the event. Furthermore, Lagos Expo is set to generate more than five million dollars of business.


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We, at Gateway Nursery School are committed to create an environment of possibilities for your child. We will guide him/her with insight and the outcome will be a child who is prepared and ready to pass through the "Gateway" into formal education!
Play is the mode through which young children learn and mature. Play also fosters creative thinking.
Unfortunately, in today's competitive and hurried society, play has lost its rightful place as a way of learning for children.
Our aim at Gateway is to restore this balance!
We at Gateway Nursery School aim not only to prepare your child / children for school one day but, also for life by introducing them to Jesus.
- Christian based education and value system
- Assist Gateway Presbyterian Church to have a higher profile in the community
- Become the first choice pre-school for learners
- Create a safe, warm and loving environment for the learners.
Jesus said: "I am the gate; whoever enters through me will be saved. He will come in and go out, and find pasture." John 10: 9
Gateway Presbyterian Church invites your and your child/children to join us. In so doing we believe you will find "pasture" – wholeness of living in body, mind and spirit.
- Gymnastics
- Action ball
- Kinder Kinetics
- Wiggle and Jam
- Music
- Swimming Lessons – Swim Tech. (Only during summer months)
All extra mural fees are payable in advance to the respective businesses' accounts
Gateway Nursery School is affiliated to the following schools, all of which provide Grade R classes:
- Shangri La Academy
- Maranatha Christian School
- Aston Manor Primary School
- Ages 18 months – 5 years
- Maximum of 110 children in the school
- Classes between 15 and 20 children
Tel – 011 319 1038
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Why You Should Ditch Post-Grad Expectations and Travel Instead
Where I come from, travel is something middle to upper-class families do for a week at a time, maybe once a year during the summer when they leave their suburban homes and check into a resort. They certainly don't pick up at 21 years old and move to a different country, alone.
But maybe they should.
When I moved to Boston, Massachusetts from the aptly named Littleton, Colorado, everyone in my hometown thought of me as brave, unusual, and a little bit crazy. I was one of twenty students in my graduating class to attend higher education out of the state, and the number of those who were traveling 1,000 miles away was even smaller.
Three and a half years later, I've graduated from said Boston college, packed my bags (again), and booked my visa and plane ticket for the green land of Guinness and craic, Ireland.
I suppose you can say I have the travel bug.
To me, a few years in one city is enough to make it seem small. Eighteen years in Littleton, Colorado left me itching for something bigger, something different than what middle-class America had to offer. Boston only made that itch grow. While studying writing and literature in one of America's oldest and most beautiful cities, I lost myself in dreams of those faraway places written about in classic novels and epics.
I was exposed to more opportunities than ever before, from the Roman arches bloodied in Virgil's The Aeneid to the sinking streets of Venice in Shakespeare's Othello. After three years, I felt I had gained my New England experience, embracing its gloomy history a la The Crucible and The Bell Jar. It was time for my own epic, whether it be comedy or tragedy.
In the lush world of high society in America, it was (and in many cases still is) standard to send a young graduate to Europe to become "worldly" before returning to the States to spend the rest of their lives selling insurance in a grey office or wallowing in the joys of being married to an insurance agent, taking their week-long vacations once a year, weather permitting.
As a middle-class girl in the east coast on a scholarship, this practice was merely a romantic element in an Edith Wharton novel. It was both unreachable and unattractive – I was majoring in writing and publishing and didn't want to spend the rest of my days in a cubicle or a fancy house on the Upper East Side. What I wanted was to follow the tradition of these Ivy Leaguers, but never return.
As someone who was used to defying the status quo, I decided to make it happen.
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I am currently writing from a cozy couch in a small coffee shop next to St. Stephen's Green in the center of Dublin, sipping an Americano (some things never change). I'm still recovering from celebrating my favorite holiday, Halloween, in the country of its origins, and I am getting used to being surrounded by an accent that makes the English language sound like anything but. It's taken a year of hard work to get here, as well as months of cutting apart every plan I had for my life before even leaving, but I made it.
It is possible to abandon the life that's been set up for you and trade it in for the adventurous life of your dreams.
Life can become such a series of plans – bucket lists, travel boards on Pinterest, late night talks with friends in dorm rooms – that we forget how to take action.
When a Friday paycheck comes around, we go out and buy a sweater we won't be wearing in a year instead of putting that money toward a flight to Cuba. We work our vacation days instead of using them to go somewhere that makes us forget about the long stream of emails awaiting us at the office. We continue to work at jobs we don't love instead of taking risks and creating the life we want.
Obviously, opportunities are different for everyone, and the real parts of life do often stand in the way of picking up and moving to a new country. But don't trick yourself into thinking that dreams are just that.
In high school, my dream was to travel the world and write, staying in one place for not more than three years at a time. When was starting to look at colleges and make real decisions about my future, I began planning realistic ways to make this dream come true. I would graduate in four years with a degree in publishing and writing, move to NYC, get a job at a publishing agency editing books, move my way up in the company over a span of five years and then take my work freelance, traveling and making money editing for the large clientele list I had acquired. That meant that in approximately nine years (if everything went according to plan) I would be living my dream!
I am currently on year four of that nine-year plan, already living my dream.
Don't be afraid to throw your original plans out the window and take action now. You just might end up saving five years of your life from a 9 to 5 cubicle.
Don't be Jane Austen when you could be Cheryl Strayed.
Whether you're dreaming of partying at Oktoberfest in Germany or finally embracing your Parisian style as a Parisian local, stop wishing and start working.
If you were to write a novel about your life, where would you want it to be set? I'm already making plans to spend next year in New Zealand – I heard they do a great Christmas celebration.


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Mayali Pass is a popular place located in the Bhilangana valley of Tehri district. It is situated at an altitude of about 5300 meters. This place offers spectacular views of the surrounding snowy peaks and the Masar Tal and the Vasuki Tal. Mayali Pass is one of the famous trekking places of Uttarakhand. Every year many trekkers travel to Mayali Pass. Earlier, people used to walk on the foot of Gangotri and Kedarnath from this place. This place was used by pilgrims to travel between Gangotri and Kedarnath. Mayali Pass starts with Trek route Ghuttu because the trek route is small from Ghuttu. Mayali Pass Trek has to go through beautiful small villages, dense forests, natural streams, grasslands, rocks and rugged routes. During the Mayali Pass Trek, the spectacular view of the snowy peaks of the Himalayas can be seen. Mayali Pass is an ideal place for nature lovers and trekking lovers. Mayali Pass is a popular trekking place of Uttarakhand state.
Day 1: Haridwar - Ghuttu (Drive- 176 km / 7 hrs)
Day 2: Ghuttu - Reeh Village (Trek 10 km/ 04 hrs)
Day 3: Reeh Village - Gangi Village (Trek 12 km/ 05 hrs)
Day 4: Gangi Village - Kharsoli Village (Trek 15 km/ 06 hrs)
Day 5: Kharsoli Village - Chowki (Trek 12 km/ 05 hrs)
Day 6: Chowki - Masar Tal (Trek 08 km/ 05 hrs)
Day 7: Masartal - Vasuki Tal via Mayali Pass l (Trek 12 km/ 06 hrs)
Day 8: Vasukital - Kedarnath (Trek 05 km/ 03 hrs)
Day 9: Kedarnath - Gaurikund - Guptkashi (Trek 4 km - Drive 30 km/ 06 hrs)
Day 10: Guptkashi - Haridwar (Drive- 204 km / 7 hrs)
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Every two months our newsletter will deliver the latest projects and developments in our field. We will share news about innovative research and events, and introduce you to people making a difference on the ground.
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We work with partners around the globe to improve the lives of children, families and communities using clear evidence and implementation science. We help policymakers access and understand the best evidence so their decisions make a difference on the ground.
Meet our people
Bianca Albers is one of our Directors. Her role includes producing systematic reviews, building organisational capacity, and implementing evidence-informed programs, practices and service models. A political scientist by education, Bianca advocates the use of research in policy development and legislation in Australia and globally. CEI team
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Come check out my very first VLOG post.
Marriage is suppose to be the Happily Ever After that we see in Fairy tales, right?
That IS the big picture we see day in and day out. People flock to movies and DVR the latest episode of the steamest shows on TV.
One of the many reasons to get married is to complete the whirlwind experience and live Happily ever after. But then what?
What comes after you get whisked away in your horse drawn carriage?
Wedded bliss, right?
In God's word, Paul writes that it is better not to marry. <- my paraphrase. (1
If God created marriage then why is this Happily Ever After idea not in any of the pages of His word? Jesus is perfect and they hung HIM on a cross. No Happily Ever After in that scene. At least not in the context that we rush to get in line for to witness.
After 16 years of marriage, I can say I am still waiting for that Happily ever after. However, I do agree with Paul. Marriage is not for the weak of heart.
Most married individuals, who have been married for any length of time. Would agree, that at some point in their marriage. They too have lost that happily ever after feeling. And at some point, most of these same married people were able to gain new insight over those not so Facebook worthy seasons.
These seasons were resolved.
Some divorced, others were better equipped. The last group… to me, felt like they just "dealt with it" and became roommates. I never understood what this "roommate", group looked like or how they made it through the day. All I know is that it didn't look like this group was living the abundant life that Jesus died for them to have.
I felt trapped in this group, but unwilling to settle for less than God's best. And with God's help, I was determined to find a better way and share it with you.
I may have started out as an unequipped -stubborn- hopeless romantic at heart-naive- never planned on getting divorced-God-fearing kind of gal.
But if I truly wanted my Happily Ever After, God was the only one that could make that happen now.
Regardless of how I started out feeling about divorce, it is something I feel the enemy uses to tempt and persuade us with as a means to an end. (not all situations please note this)
Don't get me wrong, I had considered it a LOT. But no matter how hard I tried to reason divorce as an option… it never seemed like that would really solve the issue.
In fact, most of the divorced -God-loving people, I talked to. Told me that getting divorced was one of the hardest things they ever had to go through. These amazing people in my life, ones that I have the utmost respect and honor for, lovingly encouraged me to find a better way.
Nevertheless, I felt stuck… every day.
My soul screaming on the inside. Screaming to feel heard. Screaming to be free.
I was walking around feeling trapped and divorce was not an option.
Sometimes it takes me a little more time and space to understand and learn new things. In other words, don't we all just wish we had a magic wand to make it all better?
But what if … the concept you needed to so desperately grasp, you couldn't see?
This was me
To top it all off, no one else could explain it to me even if they could see it.
Then what?
Every-time- GOD!
The brokenness that I am
See I grew up watching mainly Disney movies. You know how the story goes; boy meets girl. Next, some catastrophic event hangs their relationship in the balance. And in an hour or two the crisis has been averted and they live, "Happily Ever After".
Couple that with our culture and what's on TV.
Sex sells, right?
Sadly, the above is true, but I think, in the wake of that sale, we are left with a world more broken than before. Broken in such a way that we don't even know it. So pervasive that it becomes a mindset that is CHOSEN for us and NEVER questioned.
This is where mindset comes into the story. I love this word. Understanding and learning more about what mindset is and all of its many facets. Has helped me to clarify so many things and find freedom in a number of areas. But I had not applied it to the "Happily Ever After" block I had been struggling with.
I couldn't see it. Not in this context at least.
This, "Happily Ever After"thought has been a guiding principal in my life for as long as I can remember.
That was all I knew.
In my mind what I had witnessed from the above about "love/ relationship" was what it had looked like, felt like and how to attain it for myself. Even if the adults around me at the time didn't portray it. I felt that they must not have found their prince charming. And that it would be different for me.
In other words, after a couple of years being married, a lot of the happily ever after "edges" had been decimated when the rubber met the road. And the years that followed, it felt like God had sanded all of those new edges smooth.
VERY Smooth!
Painful smooth.
But yet, I still didn't FEEL "love". Even though I KNOW God is love.
Someday's knowing that made me feel worse and frustrated.
All of God's perfect love… and I can't feel it.
With the "Happily ever after" mindset, I couldn't see anything else.
Painfully aware of this happily ever after focus and the lack of feeling Gods love for some time. Which God had revealed to me during a prayer time or two. However, I felt that it had not been Gods timing to address it.
This past summer I was ready. I had plans. Plans to embark on a cruise with my parents, brother, and cousin.
Free time here I come!
With a week's worth of time at my fingertips, I could sit with God and get to the bottom of this struggle once and for all.
So I prayed and prayed. Then an opportunity presented itself.
One night my brother convinced me that I should watch one of the shows the cruise line offered. It screamed "Disney" to me. Since it seemed important to him. And being the loving sister that I am, I acquiesced to his request.
As the performance unfolded and my well established ( not perfect) self-talk wained. I could feel this emotion. This "something", that I couldn't put a name to bubbling up inside of me. At this point, my positive self-talk could not keep this feeling from expressing itself.
I sat. I squirmed. I said, "See ya"!
Hopefully, I didn't kick, bump or step on my poor mother, as I bolted right over the top of her. After which, I ran like a cross country athlete running and jumping over hurdles as fast as I could go. With the running track as my destination. I knew that at least there I could run out whatever this feeling was and mitigate another scene.
As a approached the Aqua Theater, I stopped. And asked God to show me why this upset me so.
What was it?
How do I fix it?
At that moment I thought, "Finally, I would get my answer to prayer!" This was Gods moment…
I spent a lot of time on that track over the course of the week. Praying and walking. Looking for answers, a sign, a task. Anything!
But alas, no real answer to that prayer.
I still couldn't see it.
Have you ever heard the saying that sometimes you have to get to the end of yourself to see/ learn something?
Again I knew that, but I couldn't see the bigger picture.
Now that I am typing this to you…
I now see that I have lived my life mostly with that focus as well.
As long as I could see the big picture I could move forward.
And feel safe.
What good is safe when you can't feel love? Not even from God!
What do you do once you get to the end of yourself?
Still feeling like the damsel in distress.
On an ordinary day.
No climax to the story.
No guns blazing.
God showed up and reminded me that my FOCUS was to be on HIM.
That if I wanted to feel love. I needed to ALWAYS seek Him first.
All of which, again I knew and thought I had been doing to some degree.
I had felt conflicted with knowing this principle, yet still struggling.
See I had been processing it through my default mindset.
Huge disconnect.
On a regular-ordinary day, I chose to lay down the Happily Ever After mindset and decided to trust God with my big picture. In other words, not knowing what… was next.
With the only mindset, I have ever known about love at the foot of the cross. What did I have to model after?
At this moment I saw a whole new level of what Jesus meant by, "Come follow me" Matthew 19:21 ( I encourage you to read and reread the whole chapter so you can get the proper context.)
Not only following HIM, but Jesus lists two things to do BEFORE following HIM. I never noticed the BEFORE before.
Jesus is always looking to spend time with us. But distractions and life get in the way. I couldn't be fully present with Him with the, "Happily Ever After" mindset.
It had
I had to focus on Jesus for my big picture needs, in regards to love and what God designed it to look like. Or the never-ending, soul-bruising, heartbreaking loop would be my- ever after.
I couldn't see what Jesus was asking me to do until I chose to open my mind to NOT seeing and NOT knowing. In faith I had to blindly take each step, knowing and trusting that Jesus COULD see the big picture and I had to trust Him to lead me.
In a devotion (Embraced- by Lysa TerKerst) that I am currently reading. God showed me a new level of His character. Because of how much Jesus loves us. He is not going to allow me to hurt myself because of my brokenness. In other words, He draws my boundary lines in good and safe places. The best for me places. ( Some of these above points may have been stated in the book, but as I write this from memory I am not exactly sure.)
God wants us to have the freedom and abundance of Heaven, but I couldn't accept something I couldn't see or even comprehend.
We do this with our own children.
If we have stairs or other dangerous places in our homes. We put up baby gates or lock things away.
Because we know that a baby doesn't understand that if they crawl to close to the stairs that gravity will take over. We could try to explain this to them with
These loving boundaries are there to help us move on to the next level of God's will safely.
Brokenness defined me. I could not see any freedom in the freedom God had given me. And I still felt stuck. I did all the good things, like praying and making time for God regularly. Praying for freedom and wisdom. Waiting for answers.
Answers to see God's abundant plan.
God's file couldn't download into my earthly broken mindset. Once I chose to use HIS software and accepted to upload God's drivers, then I could download what the next step was.
Following HIM and trusting HIM to lead me to what love was designed to look like was the next step.
Does that last sentence make sense but sound confusing too?
Is there a
Does that struggle include another person? Even if it is your spouse?
Willngness, alone is not what God is asking for. He wants ALL of our heart, focus
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Ps. I did want to mention something else that I found in Scripture. Something that pertains to the Happily Ever After my heart so longs for. Knowing that these words show up in Scripture gets me through some pretty dark days. And that Happily Ever after, was never meant to be the picture of what an earthly marriage should look like. But it was to reveal an eternal beginning. Check out Revelation 19. Let me know what you think about this.
Everyone struggles with something. For some, it is drugs and alcohol. Others its work, sex, or any other habits that keep us in bondage. Yet others struggle with food or rest.
Yes, I said rest.
My biggest struggle is rest. All around rest. I am talking daily rest, weekly rest, " I need a vacation" kind of rest.
I enjoy the quiet of the night and the darkness. It is peaceful and still. There are no more expectations on the time because I should be sleeping. I love laying in bed and most mornings I don't want to get out of my cozy warm bed. Don't get me wrong, watching the sunrise, after a long nights rest, is indescribable. But then there is that moment at 10:30 every night, I think this thought.
" What is the harm in not going to bed right now?"
When I am really struggling I agree with this thought almost every night. Then the next morning I remember all the harm it does. I know it. I can feel it the next day, but then by bedtime that very same night, the whole process starts all over again.
I know that I function the best if I am in bed no later than 10:30. And every night at 10:30 the struggle with staying up and watching one more show is there again.
Some nights I do great other nights… are not so good.
A year or so ago I watched an episode of Bible Health Secrets. During one of my prayer times after this, I felt that God had clarified some thoughts I had been wrestling over. (This docuseries is amazing by the way.)
Our flesh craves things that do not bring us life. My two big ones are bacon and rest. God and I are on a journey to examine the "rest" in my life.
After all of this talk on what our flesh wants, it got me thinking. My hunger to stay up late is no different than someones "hunger" to eat a whole pint of ice cream every night.
In the above-mentioned docu-series, fasting was also brought up. Most people think of fasting in regards to food. Biblical. Check! Over the years God has shown me that fasting is more than just about food. God has asked me more than once to go on a TV fast. As all good parents do, you limit or remove any item that your child is consumed with to help them get back on track.
I can't tell you how much extra time I find in my life when I fast from TV or screens in general for that matter. In most of the seasons of my life, if I find myself in need of some extra time, I remember those moments that I fasted from TV and sometimes if I am in dire straights go back to my TV fasting.
"Picture this with me, sitting down on my favorite comfy spot and fasting from food and TV, while sitting and drinking a wonderfully warm mug of green tea. Then on my lap is my Bible. A thought like this always brings me such rest and peace in my soul."
Until I have to do it. ( the fasting from food and TV part that is.)
Have you ever had this thought quickly run through your mind:
"Do I watch 30 min of
It got me thinking why is it so easy to not do the life-giving thing for ourselves, and in turn so easy to DO the death-promoting thing instead? "
It hit me! In that moment, that all of the above is a flesh thing. It's no different than Eve and the snake.
Once I get on that good old consistent sleep wagon. Its all gravy. I feel great, my back does not hurt as much. Abundant living right? Yes, but then life happens and I am back here struggling to get back on that wonderful sleep wagon.
It all boils down to these 5 steps.
Joy is never taken from us, we freely give it away.
– Sandy Nikson
August, 29th, 2018
Day 1
I have always been under the belief that I was gifted somehow in not needed as much sleep as other people. That I even defied all the studies out there on the number of hours of sleep needed EACH night.
I believed that I could function well, be nice mannered and sleep less than most women could.
Even after I have observed all of my family members get less sleep than they should. And witness how nasty and difficult it was to deal with them.
I was different. I didn't need sleep. I was immune.
Don't get me wrong I agree with the studies on sleep.
Like most people, I guess, I fell willingly into the trap of believing that I was an exception to the rule.
It didn't apply to me.
As long as I can remember, I have always had a hard time falling asleep. It also doesn't help that I love staying up late. All of these things, in my mind, confirmed my long-standing belief. That I didn't need as much sleep as most people do.
For those of you with children, you know that they can act as mirrors. They act out your good qualities and take up our bad habits. All for us to see and deal with. Some are great moments and others are… ones that make you reflect on your own life.
My sweet Vanessa's strongwilled-ness in regards to not wanting to sleep has brought me to one of those reflective moments.
Most nights are a struggle to get her to go to bed. And if that was not hard enough, the fewer hours she has of sleep the more destructive she gets during the day. At this point, I feel we have done all we can do with her right now. So the only thing left that I can change or control is… ME.
Besides Prayer of course.
Yesterday. Last night, and this morning. God showed me, in love, what I act like, feel like and sound. Well- rested, tired, exhausted and overtired. Let me tell you these last…48 hrs have been… enlighting.
I had to be someplace at 8:45 am and it was 45min away. It was something important and special and I wanted to be my very best for it. I was in bed at 8:12 pm the night before, reading and playing a game on my tablet( which is a bedtime no no- that's for another post or a link). I was probably sleeping between 10pm- 11pm. I woke up the next morning, I had everything ready the night before, so all I had to do was eat and drive. – Please note: not at the same time.
But on this 45 min drive, I noticed something… I felt like myself, silly, happy, full of joy, ready for the day. Frustrations popped up, annoyance happened, but all and all they really didn't overly affect me.
3 pm, after a very nice day of A LOT of thinking and little to no water- long story. I was thirsty and pooped. In all honesty, I really needed a nap. My eyes hurt and I almost couldn't drive, but I needed to eat something more than sleep. So my son, who was with me, and I went to Woodman's to get a celebration ice cream (coconut- non-dairy version) we had just found this past weekend. We talked about the day while eating it in the car and I rested my eyes while he ate the last few spoonfuls.
On the way home, we picked up a couple more items at another store and drove the last 45 min home. Thankfully my son was in a talkative mood, but now the little things of the day started to bug me more. I was looking forward to going to bed early because I thought for sure I would be so tired that I would just fall right asleep.
We ate dinner, I watch two short Tv shows with my daughter, tucked her in and watch one 45 min show with my almost already asleep husband. My head hurt too much to read, so I played my usual tablet game, but that too hurt my head.
As usual, I just closed my eyes, as I tell my daughter to do, and tried to fall asleep. But I couldn't. My mind was racing, but it wasn't. My body was tired, but I was uncomfortable. I couldn't sleep no matter how hard I tried.
After remembering a sleeping trick that I had recently read about, it stated something like; if you can't fall asleep after 15min in a dark room and so on, to get up and read a book, sitting up in a chair. I was so tired and I wanted to sleep so bad, I decided to go downstairs and try it. I read almost 3 chapters and decided to try to sleep again. I did take an herb a doctor suggested for my daughter to sleep just to see what it was like for her. To better help her and of course to see if I could sleep too.
It worked.
I fell asleep. But I have no idea what time and it was not restful sleep.
Day 2
Woke up still tired and not ready for the day.
This morning felt so different than how I remember feeling the day before.
After prayer time, I could see how hypersensitive to every little thing I was. I think in the past I had chalked it up to OCD or just being particular.
It has been a lack of sleep this whole time. I need sleep just like everyone else. Maybe even more than everyone else.
Come along with me as my family and I work out this sleep journey together. The first step in any journey is knowing where you are going. Right now God's destination for me is to figure out this whole sleep thing once and for all. Maybe not a permanent solution, but one that my daughter and I can work within for now until God shows us the next step.
In My Sweet Abundant Life's Journey with HIM!
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This is a general run of the mill suggestions on good sleep habits.
When was the last time you played hide and go seek?
Believe it or not, I usually play it every night.
My daughter loves it. It is apart of her extensive bedtime routine. ( Long story, I feel a future post coming on, heheheh.)
One of the first times we started this bedtime routine, which starts out with Hide and Seek, I noticed that for some reason I felt super competitive.
Over Hide and Seek!
Odd, right?
Which got me thinking, why am I turning something so sweet and innocent, like hide and go seek into a competitive sport? I was participating in the game for my daughter, and she didn't care if I stumped her at finding me or not. She just wants me to play with her, so she can have the joy of finding me.
I believe that God too, loves the game of Hide and Seek.
According to a simple Blue Letter Bible search, on "seek Him" it found reference to those words 89 times in 35 verse. Such as Deuteronomy 4:29 and Psalm 22:26
Further evidence of Hide and Seek had been at church. Our pastor, one Sunday morning, and many mornings since that day has animatedly demonstrated this very point. That God loves to play hide and seek too. The only difference is I believe that God does "level up" the experience as we grow in His word. ( More on this in another upcoming post)
Today I felt led to share my experience that I had just this past Tuesday. As real-life evidence, to further illustrate this idea.
See I had plans on Tuesday. I was going to meet with an amazing lady from church to talk about some heavy things that were on my heart. I had planned to go to a wonderful meeting of women that same night and celebrate a year of growth together. Everything was going to plan. I felt that I had greatly managed my time. It was a thing of beauty, in my eyes at least.
I woke up sad.
I prayed and the sad was still there.
After I prayed I realized that I didn't want to bring my heavy energy into the beautiful group of ladies that I had planned to celebrate with. It would not have glorified God in my attending feeling like this. Lastly, it would not have been good self-care for me. I was not in a celebrating anything kind of mood.
I needed to get to the bottom of this "sad" and the only way that was going to accomplish this was, I had to take the time and really sit with God and hash out some things. I knew that the "sad" had something to do with a word God had given me in church (no less), a couple of weeks before. A word that didn't match up with who God is.
But God spoke it into my spirit!
What is a girl to do with that?
Prayer, right?
I did that.
And every day since.
So I contacted a wonderful, strong, woman of God. A woman I knew that had some experience in this area. She was the woman from church that I had planned to see that day.
I humbly brought my sad and confusion to her and we talked. It didn't go exactly as I had thought it would go, but in retrospect now, it had gone exactly to His plan, all along. Praise God! His plan was sooooo, way better than mine.
After our meeting, I didn't know how to feel. I didn't know how to think and I all I wanted to do was just drive home. But deep inside I knew that was not what came next. So… I drove. I prayed. He answered.
Sherwood Forest.
No joke.
Believe it or not there really is a Sherwood Forest in Green Bay, Wisconsin. It had been a 5 minute (if that) bike ride from our old house. In the shadow of the great Lambeau Field.
So, Sherwood Forest, it was.
I parked my trailblazer, and honestly, I felt a little silly.
What was I supposed to DO there?
I was even a little childish about it if I am being honest.
You know the kid that begrudgingly does what they are told but really doesn't know why they are doing it.
So I found the bench that had popped up in my head when I felt led to go to Sherwood Forest.
I sat.
Then I remembered that I had to pick up some supplements from my chiropractor in Howard. After about 15 min or so, of sitting in Sherwood Forest. I said a short prayer and got back into my car. As I got closer to the chiropractor's office I saw a farmers market's sign and felt that was my next stop.
At this moment it dawned on me.
Had it been God's plan the whole time that this Tuesday was for Him and I to play hide and seek all afternoon?
Was it His way of creating space for me to make time to relax? To model what relaxing in His eyes can look like for me? In other words, help me practice relaxing that does not involve DO-ing something while relaxing? ( Long story)
As I sat in the parking lot of the Farmers Market, not knowing why I was there. I felt like I should bring some money with me.
Stopping at a Farmer's market had not been on my to-do list that day, so I only had the leftover change in my car. I felt led to walk this very small vendor area, with less than $2.00 in my pocket. I obeyed. I walked. I listened.
While listening to God, I noticed a musician playing and singing so beautifully to all the people passing by and thought, "I wonder if anyone really notices he is there." Yes, they probably hear his music, but do they SEE him.
At that moment I knew what the change in my pocket had been for. It wasn't for me. It was to bless another. It was like opening the door to the upstairs closet where I know my daughter loves to hide and saying, "Found you, God!" You see on God's kingdom calendar, on this particular Tuesday, God had been planning on hiding at that Farmers Market and He wanted me to find Him there. He wanted me to bless this man with some money. For whatever reason, only God knows what the $2.00 meant to this man. But for me, it was the hiding place God chose for me to find Him at this day.
It was to show me that sometimes when I don't know what to do next or when I feel lost to STOP. And sit in a parking lot. Or DROP, what I am doing and just be. Or to be still enough to participate in HIS daily game of Hide and Go Seek.
I believe this to brings Him great joy,of being found by us.
Matthew 7: 7-8
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You're it. ( Oops sorry wrong game. Hehehe)
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This is a closer picture than I normally would take but the kids and I ate some before it dawned on me to take the picture.
Zucchini bake has been a faithful staple in our family's food rotation. It has given us a lot of comfort on the hard days in this whole food journey. Depending on our family's current IGg test results or if my husband or I decided to do a detox with our health care providers help. This recipe has been able to be adjusted to meet all those heavy requirements. For example, we just recently added tomatoes back in because they had been on my IGg test result before.
We tried canned tomatoes at first but they made my mouth feel weird. I am not an expert or a scientist but for some reason, I feel that the citric acid they use in canned foods in combination with the tomatoes chemistry does not agree with me. But fresh tomatoes I don't have that problem with.
Tonight I even had the idea to shredded the zucchini like the cheese, so my son couldn't pick it out as easily since he really enjoys the tomatoes. Since the addition of the tomatoes, he now eats more of it. Play around with it and let me know any modifications you make to this recipe so I can try them too!
Baba Ganoush
Another fun tip I use Baba Ganoush instead of Cream of Mushroom soup. Even in Green Bean Cassorle.
Stuff is everywhere. We have kid stuff, paper stuff, emotional stuff- you get my point. STUFF!
Below is my reflection, my way of dealing with the magnitude of stuff I currently have at ,one of my parents apartments, my sisters house, the condo that we have been living at for about 10 days so far, my parents house and a moving container. That is A LOT of personal items to keep track of. Its all waiting for 2 more days until we finally get to move into our new house. It is my prayer that you find encouragement and/or some value in this. At the very least I hope you see that you are not alone in, "Stuff."
In my reflection I came up with three Categories:
I can't seem to get rid of this stuff!
You know what I am talking about. Like that shirt, the one that is kind of to small or even way to big. It might have some holes in it, but it's comfortable, so you keep it.
All of this, I don't like and don't want. Yet it still remains…
This stuff I can not seem to find!
It makes me feel crazy!
Like when you have torn up your whole house to find your car key's or cell phone, because you can't find it for the millionth time.
Its there one minute and the next its GONE.
Has this happened to you too?
As I mentioned briefly above, I never seem to have enough time.
What about you? What kinds of stuff do you like, need and want? Stuff that you can't find or find difficult to make time for?
Think of our laundry room for just a minute.
I have yet to figure out why this room is the room where everything that no one knows what to do with ends up. At least in my house it did. We will see if this holds true for our next house. Maybe you have a different room like this at your house. If so, comment and share with us on which room you find to be the room in your house where these items end up in.
Stuff Like:
What about these "lost socks" of the group?
Which brings me back to the stuff that really has no other definition than "Stuff." You know the stuff that when a co-worker asks, "What have you been up to? The answer you might give back is, "Stuff." This is the kind of "Stuff", I don't know what I want to do about it.
All of that to say," You are not alone!" We all feel these things. No one has it all figured out. I will be the first one to admit- I don't. It is always easier to see all the Stuff in others lives and what to do about them. It is a lot harder sometimes to see our own. Me included. As I reflected I thought about how all this stuff starts to become "normal." It just becomes apart of the background of our lives.
Kind of like the refrigerator.
We all have one and we know its there, but on a day to day basis we don't think about the fridge until it stops working. Then its a big deal. In those moment we appreciate the fridge a little more than we did the day before.
We appreciated the fridge because something changed and then it went back to normal, once it was fixed. We all enjoy the comfort of knowing what comes next, our routines- the status quo. But change is good. Change can be a very healthy thing. Change usually brings up things, stuff that we would just rather stay have stayed behind the refrigerator forever.
With all of this moving and packing, I have gotten rid of a lot of old STUFF. In all forms of the word. With getting rid of it all- such as, the stuff that has not served me in some time. I believe that it creates space for all the new and wonderful stuff God has for me and my future. It has also given me a whole new perspective on attaining MORE STUFF. ( Which is that -I don't need any more stuff. Nope!)
I encourage all of you to prayerfully consider where in your life you could use a new perspective and take inventory of all of your STUFF. See what shakes out.
If you really want to shake it up and you need more room in your house. Pack it all up. Seriouly. Every 5 or 10 years I am going to do this. Just to see how much I have and just feel blessed. Thank God for all He has given me and provided for my family. Then give A LOT away!
This method, I feel, will help me to find things I didn't even know I had, or maybe find items that were from an old season and never realized I had moved on from, because they had become apart of my everyday background. I found a lot of that in the move.
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Looking for the perfect non-dairy cheese sauce to use with all your old recipes?
Look no further, this is it!
I will update the picture as soon as I get this new nutritional yeast. ( I wanted an ooey-gooey noodle picture, but this one does show how versatile it is.) On this particular day I had a craving for a cheeseburger, you know the kind of cheeseburger that has so much melted cheese on it that it oozes all over your hand and plate.
The above picture was my gluten-free, dairy free, soy free, corn free, egg free no bun version.
It loses its meltiness in about 7 days, after that it just tastes like stale mashed potatoes.
Store in Fridge.
Reheats on the stove well. Depending on how old it is and the consistency you are looking for you may need to add a little more filtered water.
Fun fact- the reason I use the potato water is it has a lot of vitamins and minerals in it. Why not use them, right?
The link to the unfortified nutritional yeast- Currently I have not tried this brand or the unfortified version as of this posting. I recently figured out that common brands of nutritional yeast have Folic Acid in it. Again please be gentle with yourself, if you are currently eating box mac and cheese and you want to try regular nutritional yeast, go for it. I am all about whole foods and Folic Acid is a man-made substitute for Folate. I would strongly encourage anyone that wants to know more about the two, to do your research and see which version is best for you.
Adapted from here.
Cheeseburger Soup ( Coming Soon)
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This recipe has a funny story. Every time we make it we usually change something about the recipe. This particular time we didn't have enough ingredients to make a whole batch, and most of the ingredients were… let's say sketchy at best. They still turned out. The kids ate them. I call that a win.
The original recipe, which I can't find at the moment but will update this post once I do, had a really nice description of why she weighed out the ingredients instead of measuring them. So convincing that I weigh them out every time I do this recipe. Except for the salt. I can't bring myself to put that much salt in it. That is why it is in teaspoons instead of weight. See the recipe below for more information. From what I can remember of the post it is more exact to weigh the ingredients out than to measure them.
Oil topping.
This is an amazing and simple topping. In a small pan, on a warm setting, heat the avocado oil and minced garlic until your home smells amazing- hehe- Or to your taste preference. Sometimes I think I add sea salt to this to taste as well. This will go on top of the knots when you serve them. Or can act as a dip. I love dipping things. Do you?
Other helpful tips:
I use this scale to weigh out my ingredients. I love it. It is small and compact and works well.
This is what the dough should look like. If it does not, it will be hard to work with.
Kids approved. This is another reason I love homeschooling. I get to teach my kids real life skills that they will use every day. Ps. The outfits were Christmas gifts. Don't they look so cute?
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