Washing Machine

This is the wash machine that replaced my whirlpool front loader. I had the whirlpool front loader for about 5 years before it stop working completely. There were lots of problems with it along the way. It started out great! I did enjoy the washer. But it did have it’s moments of the water pump not wanting to drain the water for one reason or the other. That was very much a pain. Since we have gotten this Electrolux Washer, I do not have any problems. I have owned it for about 6 months now. I have used it on all types of laundry & dirt. No problems with it. It runs like a champ!!! Very quiet!

There is a light on the inside of the washer. Very nice to have. I don’t miss any clothing items when removing it to the dryer. The washer machine is very powerful on the spin cycle. The clothes come out near dry, so I don’t need to run the dryer as much.

I still have the whirlpool dryer for now. That is still running. Both washer & dryer are stackable. When you are living in a small space that is a winner feature!! The Electrolux washer was taller than the Whirlpool washer which made the dryer an inch or two taller. That was nice too.

The settings on the Electrolux washer stumped me. I never had so many choices to do laundry with. Then I tried out all the settings. I was impressed with them. I do enjoy the sanitizing setting for the towels. It makes the towels soft again. Something with that cycle works on return the towels back to the soft thick brand new towels.

I do use my homemade laundry soap. You can look through House Stuff posts to get the recipe for that. I do enjoy washing clothes with the Electrolux washer.

Rejected

Do you feel rejected or unwanted?

When we are carrying around the feeling of rejection or unwanted it can be a gaping hole in us. Nothing we do, people say, eat, or amount of people we surround us with will fill the hole.

What do we do then?

First you would want to see where the feeling is coming from. While you are doing that, The Sapphire Leadership Group, Inc. has free audio that will help build up the inner you, here is a link: http://theslg.com/content/148-free-cd-album-downloads-category. Listen to Baby Blessings: Names of God; Blessing Your Spirit: Beloved Son; Blessing Your Spirit: Precious Daughter;Blessing Your Spirit: Friend. If you can put the on in the back ground while you go through your day or while you are sleeping. The volume does not have to be loud. It may take sometime to build the inner you up.

Taco Night!!

Taco Night at our house is the most favorite happiest time. We try to have it once to twice sometimes more a week.   We make our own beans, rice & meat. When we do, we make a lot so we can reheat & have a fast meal.

We use hard shells & soft burrito shells. Some of us like the crunch & some like the soft. Sometimes someone will do both!

For the meat, we use 1 pound of ground beef to 2 pounds of ground turkey with our own taco seasoning.   Some folks might be wanting to walk away at this point about the turkey.   You can’t even taste the different.   Subbing the turkey meat cut cost big time.   Could drop the beef all the way but beef is not all bad. I got growing men here & they need whats in the beef to be health strong men.

The beans, we make a couple different ways it depends on what we have on hand when we make it. We have ground our own dry beans.   That takes time a lot of time to get it very powdery.   Less chunks the better.   Then we would add the hot water & seasoning. Plus we add onions & cheese to it. YUMMY!!!! If we have refried beans in the can we add seasoning, onions & cheese. Then there is the dry mix of refried beans you can buy. That seems to be the favorite. We still add onions & cheese & seasoning. We add all the other stuff to make the beans taste better. Let’s be honest, beans taste like dirt by themselves.

The rice we have different ways to make that too! Just like the beans depends on what we got when it is time to make them.   We have used plain white rice then added whatever we wanted to make it our version of Mexican Rice, which equals cheese & spicy!! We will use yellow rice package stuff. That is our favorite. We still add stuff to it!! Then there is the can mexican rice. Its good but not as good as the yellow packaged stuff.

You can top your tacos with whatever yummy stuff you like. We use mild sauce brand from Taco Bell. We have tried different companies, not as good. We could make our own version. May be at another time. We also use, which is hard to find in the stores Taco Bell Bold & Creamy Chipolata Sauce. That is yummy!!!

You have noticed I did not give the full recipe to anything. Did that on purpose. Some family secrets need to be kept. May be at a later date I share some of the recipes. Would need to do a family meeting for that. Keep checking back for updates on Taco Night Recipes!!


If what I offer here is relevant to you in any way, please consider donating. As I tend to my family (disabled hubby and homeschooled kids) I write in my free time. No knitting here but I love Taco Bell now and then and your donations help keep the spicy food coming. Every donation is appreciated!!!

Donations are not tax deductible.

Overwhelmed

Feeling overwhelmed?

It’s very easy to get overwhelmed when we pulled our sight off of God & onto everything that comes at us & what we are dealing with.

Don’t worry about details beyond your control, Genesis 7:16 (NIV)
^”The animals going in were male and female of every living thing, as God had commanded Noah. Then the Lord shut him in.”

What cause us to forfeit peace with God, Genesis 21:7( NIV).And she added, “Who would have said to Abraham that Sarah would nurse children? Yet I have borne him a son in his old age.”

When you are feeling overwhelmed what do you have your eyes on? Is it on the waves that are crashing down on you or on the One who can pull you up out of the waves? Once our eyes are on the waves that keep pulling & pushing us down, it may not be easy to adjust our eyes off of them. With help we can look above & start to walk out a different view.

Remember you don’t have to face anything by yourself.

If what I offer here is relevant to you in any way, please consider donating. As I tend to my family (disabled hubby and homeschooled kids) I write in my free time. No knitting here but I love Taco Bell now and then and your donations help keep the spicy food coming. Every donation is appreciated!!!

Donations are not tax deductible.

House Cleaning

I make my own household cleaner. I have tried all the different cleaning products out there. Nothing compares to making my own. My life is busy, I need things simple. Making my own laundry soap & household cleaners is worth it & simple. Besides cheap!!!!

You will need: White distilled Vinager, Baking Soda, 1 pint glass jar, one 24 oz spray bottle, fresh orange peels, funnel & a strainer.

For your everyday cleaning of the counter tops, sinks, stove top, cabinets, refrigerate, walls, spot clean on floor, bathroom sink, showers, bath tubs, outside of toilet, mirrors, windows & trash cans.

Take one 16 oz mason jar fill with orange peels. Then top off with vinegar. Let sit in a dark place for at least 2 weeks & shake it everyday. If you can let it sit long great!! After sitting for at least 2 weeks, pour vinegar out through a strainer. I use a 2 cup measuring cup to hold strainer vinegar. Now you can pour that vinegar into the spray bottle.   May want to use a funnel. Then top off with Distilled vinegar. Shake & start cleaning!!!!

For a degreaser & harder to clean spots, add baking soda to the dirty area, spray the orange cleaner & scrub a little. Repeat if you need to.    After using the baking soda, you may want to follow up with more vinegar cleaner. It will help remove the chalky residue.

For toilet & floor cleaner, I use 1 cup baking soda to 1 cup vinegar in a bucket of warm water.

When I started making the cleaner, we all noticed the non chemical smell, our eyes, nose & lungs felt better. Plus you don’t ever have to worry about chemicals near your food.

Since we started cleaning with the cleaner, we also noticed less ants & to no ants on the counter in the summer. Our very used older stove looked brand new after using the orange cleaner & baking soda on it. It removes soap scum from the bathroom.

Any Health Problems

Our health is very important. Staying healthy can be hard if we have a family history of sickness & disease. There are steps to stop the flow of family history of sickness & diseases. It’s more than eating right, getting plenty of rest & exercise. Those 3 steps are key players. We can do more to have better if not great health.

You may feel that you have been ill for so long, you have no idea what healthy would even look like. If you gave up on health & came in agreement with sickness, disease & death but want out of that agreement there is a way.

Some might feel that they are not worthy of health. Their life choices have locked them in to sickness & disease. That could not be so far from the truth. Jesus did not come for everyone else & skip you.

If what I offer here is relevant to you in any way, please consider donating. As I tend to my family (disabled hubby and homeschooled kids) I write in my free time. No knitting here but I love Taco Bell now and then and your donations help keep the spicy food coming. Every donation is appreciated!!!

Donations are not tax deductible.

Cars

Here are some of the items I use in my own car that help make my life easier.   I use the sunscreen in the front window to block out the sun.   Yes!! That is Star Wars.   Your choice to pick whatever picture you want on it or no picture.   It helps keep the steering wheel from becoming a wheel of fire, the leather seats from burning the skin off of us & the car a bit cooler in the summer.

For all my night driving in all kinds of weather, I prefer to use the Sylvania Silver Star Ultra. They shine light on the road & on to the shoulder of the road. I’m able to see clearly anything in the road & on the side of the road.   It lights up the down the road too!! No matter the type of night or weather I’m able to see clearly.

The wipers I use to keep the window clear are Rain-X.   These hold up to the rain & winter snow.   They do not squeak.   No matter what the weather my windows are clear. They are also easy to put on.   Some wiper brands have not been so easy. I’m not going to drop their name or give them a bad report. Their brand just did not work for me. Rain-X is user friendly.   User friendly stuff goes a long way for me.

The washer fluid I use in the car to remove any unwanted bud marks or slop from other cars is Rain-X De-Icer. We use that year round. Yes! Even in the summer. It gets the nasty bug marks off the window.

Here are some products that make my driving time more enjoyable.   These can make for easy Christmas gifts!!

If what I offer here is relevant to you in any way, please consider donating. As I tend to my family (disabled hubby and homeschooled kids) I write in my free time. No knitting here but I love Taco Bell now and then and your donations help keep the spicy food coming. Every donation is appreciated!!!

Donations are not tax deductible.

Relationships Strained

How do you connect with people?

Relationships that are strained are hard to live with. Things that might cause the strain may not be the other person. Strains can be triggers in us that the other person might hit & set off. Then we react to what we are feeling & not react to what is really happening.

Other things that can put a strain on relationships are not having clear boundaries, wounds from past relationships, word vows (that will never happen to me again), being in unhealthy relationships, ungodly soul ties, the list can go on & on.

What do we do?

If we are willing to face ourselves & any pain inside of ourselves we can change strained relationships into health relationships that are life giving. It can take some time & not all relationships can be turned around. Relationships are a two way street & both people must be willing to change.

Flashlight

The Stanley FL5W10 Waterproof LED Rechargeable Spotlight is very light weight & bright. The charge lasts. My oldest got one for Christmas one year & I liked it so much I had to get one. If you hunt, fish, walk at night, have it in your car, or use it for when the power goes out, this flashlight is worth every penny you spend on it.

The flashlight beam lights the path before you. You will have clear view of where you are walking at night. It will float if you drop it in the water. You have a chance to retrieve it. I have dropped it & it has survived the drop.

Another flashlight that we use & keep in the car. It has 3 legs that make it stand with a rotating head.

Stanley 95-111 Mini Tripod LED Flashlight

This helps free up your hands when having to work on the car or any other projects around the house. This is a great stocking stuffier.

If what I offer here is relevant to you in any way, please consider donating. As I tend to my family (disabled hubby and homeschooled kids) I write in my free time. No knitting here but I love Taco Bell now and then and your donations help keep the spicy food coming. Every donation is appreciated!!!

Donations are not tax deductible.

Something Blocking You?

Have any goals in life & having problems reaching them?

Is there something always blocking you? Do you feel like you keep hitting the ceiling & can not get pass it, no matter what you try or do?

Sometimes there can be something holding us back or blocking us that we had no idea that could. It could be something in our own thinking or something else?

When we know there is something we need to be doing but are unable to move forward to do it, can be very frustrating. The blocks can be caused by our own thinking, word vows from the past, principles of life not being applied or something else.

If what I offer here is relevant to you in any way, please consider donating. As I tend to my family (disabled hubby and homeschooled kids) I write in my free time. No knitting here but I love Taco Bell now and then and your donations help keep the spicy food coming. Every donation is appreciated!!!

Donations are not tax deductible.