Simple Lives Thursday, #151

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It’s Simple Lives Thursday! My favorite day of the week where you share your tips and recipes for living a simple life. Whichever blog that you choose to link up your post, it will show up on all 4 sites! As a reminder, this blog hop is a way to share with many people your posts on what you are doing to live a simple life. Whether that’s gardening, raising urban chickens, homeschooling, sewing, making your own deodorant, or cleaning supplies… we want to know about it! If you’re into homeopathy, ways to save $ by conserving energy or other ways to live frugally… we want to know about it! If you bike, cook real food, homestead or farm… we want to know about it!

Your Hosts (for the time being, due to hosts taking breaks)

  1. Wardeh from GNOWFGLINS
  2. Alicia from Culinary Bliss
  3. Anette from Sustainable Eats
  4. Me!

Please read and follow the Simple Lives Thursday bloghop rules

1. If linking real, traditional and simple recipes, please make sure all ingredients used are whole. Such as whole grains, vegetables, legumes, meats, even sugar. In order to keep the integrity of “nourishing” food, we will delete any recipes that utilize processed, boxed foods. We are definitely not going to be ingredient policeman, however, please note that this is a hop hosted by advocates of the real, local and sustainable food movements.

2. Please link your posts back to one of the hosting blogs. This is a common blog hop courtesy. This link helps build the Simple Lives Thursday community by sending your readers to all of the other participants posts. We all end up sharing and learning from each other.

3. No giveaway away or otherwise primarily advertising oriented posts. Keep your topics to fit our simple living theme of “consume less, produce more.” We will delete posts that don’t fit.

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Dying To Live – Totally Surrendering to God

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Dying to Live - Surrendering to God

I’ve been thinking about how I should start this post.  If I even want to or if it’s even appropriate to share my personal struggles and raw emotions.

You see writing a blog that thousands of people read every day has become a job.  It’s the reason I started a menu plan and why I spend so much time thinking about what kind of topics and recipes I can create that can benefit and help other families.  Most of you that I’ve never even met.

Although a job, it’s one that I love and one that I know I’ve been called to.  Many of you have written to me through tears how the menu plans have blessed your family or how a topic that I’ve written about touched your heart and spoke to you.

As the blog grows, many people have offered up their advice that I should only share so much of my life.  To keep things professional, it’s wise to keep personal matters personal and only share on certain topics.

I wish I could do that. I really do; however, this blog is not mine. I gave it to God and so when struggles arise in my own life I know he wants me to share them. Whether in pain and sorrow, or joy and happiness – He wants me to share it all.

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Simple Lives Thursday, #149

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spaininiowa

It’s Simple Lives Thursday! My favorite day of the week where you share your tips and recipes for living a simple life. Whichever blog that you choose to link up your post, it will show up on all 4 sites! As a reminder, this blog hop is a way to share with many people your posts on what you are doing to live a simple life. Whether that’s gardening, raising urban chickens, homeschooling, sewing, making your own deodorant, or cleaning supplies… we want to know about it! If you’re into homeopathy, ways to save $ by conserving energy or other ways to live frugally… we want to know about it! If you bike, cook real food, homestead or farm… we want to know about it!

Your Hosts (for the time being, due to hosts taking breaks)

  1. Wardeh from GNOWFGLINS
  2. Alicia from Culinary Bliss
  3. Anette from Sustainable Eats
  4. Me!

Please read and follow the Simple Lives Thursday bloghop rules

1. If linking real, traditional and simple recipes, please make sure all ingredients used are whole. Such as whole grains, vegetables, legumes, meats, even sugar. In order to keep the integrity of “nourishing” food, we will delete any recipes that utilize processed, boxed foods. We are definitely not going to be ingredient policeman, however, please note that this is a hop hosted by advocates of the real, local and sustainable food movements.

2. Please link your posts back to one of the hosting blogs. This is a common blog hop courtesy. This link helps build the Simple Lives Thursday community by sending your readers to all of the other participants posts. We all end up sharing and learning from each other.

3. No giveaway away or otherwise primarily advertising oriented posts. Keep your topics to fit our simple living theme of “consume less, produce more.” We will delete posts that don’t fit.

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A Simple Grilled Cheese Sandwich with Spinach and Spanish Chorizo Sausage

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A Simple Summer Grilled Cheese Sandwich with Spinach and Spanish Chorizo Sausage

Disclosure – I am being compensated for this post and am in collaboration with Latina Bloggers Connect and the California Milk Advisory Board

In the spring and early summer, my family is busy.  Besides all of our regular activities at home and on our urban homestead, it also happens to be baseball season.

Big brother and little brother love baseball and it’s no joke that in May and June we spend the majority of our evenings during the week at the ball fields.  After their practices or games, it’s usually nearing 7pm.  I would like to pretend that I’m super organized and have a crockpot dinner waiting at home, but that’s not always the case.

Sometimes we stop for a ready made pizza or Chipotle (keeping it real here).  Sometimes, I crash my mami’s home and, God Bless her heart, she feeds us; however, I’m also armed with quick and simple supper ideas that come together quickly that my entire family enjoys.

Namely, grilled cheese sandwiches or blt’s that I serve with cold gazpacho soup.

A Simple Summer Sandwich: BLT

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Simple Lives Thursday, #148

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spaininiowa

It’s Simple Lives Thursday! My favorite day of the week where you share your tips and recipes for living a simple life. Whichever blog that you choose to link up your post, it will show up on all 4 sites! As a reminder, this blog hop is a way to share with many people your posts on what you are doing to live a simple life. Whether that’s gardening, raising urban chickens, homeschooling, sewing, making your own deodorant, or cleaning supplies… we want to know about it! If you’re into homeopathy, ways to save $ by conserving energy or other ways to live frugally… we want to know about it! If you bike, cook real food, homestead or farm… we want to know about it!

Your Hosts (for the time being, due to hosts taking breaks)

  1. Wardeh from GNOWFGLINS
  2. Alicia from Culinary Bliss
  3. Anette from Sustainable Eats
  4. Me!

Please read and follow the Simple Lives Thursday bloghop rules

1. If linking real, traditional and simple recipes, please make sure all ingredients used are whole. Such as whole grains, vegetables, legumes, meats, even sugar. In order to keep the integrity of “nourishing” food, we will delete any recipes that utilize processed, boxed foods. We are definitely not going to be ingredient policeman, however, please note that this is a hop hosted by advocates of the real, local and sustainable food movements.

2. Please link your posts back to one of the hosting blogs. This is a common blog hop courtesy. This link helps build the Simple Lives Thursday community by sending your readers to all of the other participants posts. We all end up sharing and learning from each other.

3. No giveaway away or otherwise primarily advertising oriented posts. Keep your topics to fit our simple living theme of “consume less, produce more.” We will delete posts that don’t fit.

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Foraging Outdoors with Children and a Recipe: Garlic Mustard Pesto Pasta Topped with Fiddleheads and Morel Mushrooms

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A Foraged Recipe: Garlic Mustard Pesto Pasta Topped with Fiddleheads and Morel Mushrooms

Each year when the snow melts and the winter slowly starts to turn to spring I begin to feel rejuvenated.  Hearing birds chirping in the morning and buds taking shape on bushes and trees bring me joy.

When various shades of bright green begin to fill once barren trees and bushes, it brings me feelings of overwhelming happiness. I know it sounds kind of funny, but if you live in an area with a winter in snow and freezing temperatures for a good 5-6 months of the year, I’m sure you know what I’m talking about.

It never fails that when I begin to see the transformation from nothing to life, right before my eyes, it automatically brings songs of praise. It’s truly a miracle.

For my children and I, our joy is made brighter when we’re able to spend our time outdoors once again. 

Foraging Outdoors With Children

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