Stuffed Mushrooms from Tessa Stevens

24 medium mushrooms
6 T butter
1 small onion chopped
1 t minced garlic
3 T Parmesan cheese
2 t parsley
1 C seasoned stuffing

1. Remove stems from mushrooms and chop.


2. Melt 2 T butter. Brush mushroom caps and place in baking pan.


3. Melt rest of butter, and saute chopped mushroom stems, onion, and garlic.


4. Stir in cream cheese, parmesan cheese, parsley and stuffing mix. (make sure the stuffing mix is in small crumbs0


5. Spoon into mushroom caps, put mozzarella cheese on top.


6. Bake for 10 minutes in 425 degree oven.

If you're a slacker and you know it clap your hands . . .

. . . CLAP! CLAP!

Yes, I know. I've been a terrible slacker. To tell you the truth, Marietta's death knocked the wind out of me.
News tidbits:
Haven't been doing much as the dizzies are keeping me down.
Finished my online course yesterday morning and so I'll be able to keep my certification.
We finish school next Friday. Before then I have a field trip, report cards to write, 5th grade graduation, and awards day. Not to mention taxes and writing and printing a newsletter before we leave for the states on next Saturday.
Tentative travel schedule:
1st three weeks in June: New England - Vermont, Maine, New Hampshire & Mass.
Last week in June and 1st week in July: Baltimore for convention and Annapolis for Mary's wedding
2nd and 3rd week in July: Florida/South Georgia
4th week in July: Atlanta
5th week in July: Florida/South Georgia

I Think You'll Enjoy This

This is quite interesting! There are more of these on You Tube. Just look up "Your Brain and You." I think there's part 1 - 6. I've read Dr. Leaf's book about the brain and found it life-changing to understand how the brain works and connect it to Scripture.

No recipes lately

You've probably noticed the lack of recipes lately. There's a reason for that . . . gastritis. But I recently decided to try to develop some interesting recipes that I can eat. I'm tired of oatmeal and eggs. So...soon to come, some bland food gone gourmet.

Self-reliance

I read a book last week called The Anybodies. (I'm always trying to keep up with my children's book and young adult book reading for school.)

Anyhoo, I came across this quote, "Sometimes you need to dig down deep, to rely on your own resources. This is a very American thing, self-reliance. Our forefathers and our foremothers, and, for that matter, our foreaunts and foreuncles, would say that self-reliance is a cornerstone of something or other."

Is that true or what? On a more scholarly note, I read last night in a cultural survey that the United States receives the highest ranking of ANY nation as far as self-reliance.

On one hand that kind of makes me puff up a little proudly, on the other hand I know that in God's plan we are to be dependent on him and not self-reliant. We are also supposed to be inter-dependent with one another in the Body of Christ.

It makes me think of the times I've heard you say - and recently - why didn't she call me for help? I've heard you say it about one another. We are too gol-danged self-reliant -- and I'm talking to me too. The end.

Highlights of my visit home

Lice and Object Lessons

Every Sunday at church I give an object lesson for the children - a spiritual lesson using concrete objects to help them understand the concept. I've been thinking a bit about lice (and you all KNOW why lice have been on my mind).

I think that if I used lice as an object lesson, I would use them as a concrete example of those "sins that so easily beset us." An example of those sins that we fall back to again and again and are so difficult to get rid of.

I don't know what yours is, but I know what mine is. In order to get rid of them, it's going to take a super-awareness of them, a dedication to do everything it takes to get rid of them, and - of course - a dependence upon God.

By the way, this is the least-disgusting photo I could find relating to lice. I think if we were as disgusted by our "comfortable" sins as we are by lice, we would get rid of them in a big hurry!