Making Your Home A Haven Week 5

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Week #5 Challenge: Focus on the kitchen, the heart of the home. Cook things with pleasant aromas. Pick a meal the family can cook together - include everyone in a task and take pictures so everyone can remember moments in the kitchen together - test tasting, being creative, laughing and loving. Remove discontentment with your home or family and give thanks to God.

This so hits home with me. You have heard me talk about my Thyroid being a constant issue because food effects your thyroid in more ways then one. So this is what I have been striving to work best at. Making better choices, planning for meals and what better way to do so then all the fall fun baking we have been doing over the last three weeks or so. We have made apple struesel bread, Apple butter umpteen times in the last month alone. Lol. Now I have turned to an other part of cooking. Choosing to bake my own bread for our meals rather then splurge and buy from the store. Preparing courses off of creativity and out of the normal. Not the usual hurry on the go meals we have been used to. Sure I love to cook, but this last year alone I have just been wooped if you catch my drift. But I can feel the burning in me for wanting to do more homemade cooking like the old homestead way vs the what is fast and easy so we can go or move on to the next agenda.

I want my children to have memories of family time at the table with enjoyed meals not slop that was thrown together, aside of that I want them to learn to make healthy choices rather then what is fast and somewhat filling.

A few days out of last week we actually had healthy tastey meals, now this week, I have a few more spruses up my sleeve. Hearty choices of meats, Sautee veggies, Crock Pot goodies, Lets not leave out the Pumpkin baking, Bread making, dessert tasting plans me and my oldest daughter are lining up for this week. I never did things like this with my parents growing up, I actually dont want to think about a lot of those memories as some are pretty terrible. But what legacies can I pass on to my children for them to cherish, Now that is top on my list to give them a midst other precious things to hand over later between now and later on. This weeks challenge settles in my spirit so much as this has been my hearts desire for a while now.

I have enjoyed these last few weeks that I have been participating. My spirit is so much more pleasant then I would say before. We still hit our rough ends but the results are so much more better then before.

What about you? If you just reading this for the first time and you havent joined up, its not to late to join up. Head over to the noted link above and join the hop for this week. You will definatley be blessed.

Blessings!