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Joanna's first day on the school bus!

Today was Joanna's first day on the school bus!

Joanna's first day at Kindergarten

I took a photo of Joanna at home on her first day of school (left). Also, the teachers took a photo, too (right).

 

Photo from vacation

Thomas and his potty adventure!

Last Thursday Thomas went potty for the very first time! He was in the bath and asked to get out. He stood up and said "Poop." I asked him if he wanted to go on the potty and he said, "Yes!" I put him right on the toilet and he went pee! I got really excited and sang a song. I got Joanna and Jason involved and we cheered and clapped! 

Sunday he had gone for the 3rd time so I broke out the chart with stickers!

The cause of so much of the pain and hurt in the world boils down someone's selfishness. That someone values their need of the moment over their victim's valuables, innocence, security, or life. The selfish person trades trust for treachery!

I'm so tired of people taking things from me and deceiving me--pretending to love me to my face, but ripping me off when I'm not looking. It stinking hurts! Me and my husband are basically in mourning right now over the most recent hurts that we uncovered.

I thank God that he owns my soul and tends to my spirit; he owns my future and directs my path today.
I've invested in God's reitrement plan--backed by His economy, fueled by love and the products produced are patience,

Calculate Nutrition for Your Recipe

If you have created a recipe, you can calculate the nutrition contents at
http://caloriecount.about.com/cc/recipe_analysis.php

I'm watching my carbohydrates and a friend gave me a soup recipe that called for 1 whole pint of heavy cream.

Heavy cream, per the package label is zero carbs for 1 tablespoon. I don't even use it in my coffee for that reason. I have switched to unsweetened "almond milk" which has zero net carbs (1 carb minus 1 fiber. It is pretty tasty too. My hubby couldn't tell the difference between coffee prepared with that instead of powdered creamer.

Anyway heavy cream nutrition labeling says zero, but there could be 0.4 or 0.5 (anything less than 1) carbs. That adds up! In a whole pint of heavy cream, there are 13 more carbs than zero (11 net carbs per pint).

I ran the ingredients for the recipe through the calorie counter.
The recipe ended up having 9.1 net carbs per serving. It's not crazy low, but o.k.

I think I'll try it instead with almond milk which has one net carb per cup:
This change brought the net carbs down to 6.2 per serving.