Sunday School

Today I had the opportunity to each Sunday school for some 4th and 5th graders. The lesson I taught was about Abraham and Isaac and how God tested Abraham by asking him to sacrifice his son Isaac. Pretty heavy stuff for a kid to wrap their minds around but I think it went ok. They totally seemed to understand that it was just an example and a test that God was putting Abraham through.

Now my favorite part of the lesson was the activity. Each kid gets to decorate a quilt square to be combined with the other Sunday school classes' quilt squares to make one big quilt. Each quilt square showed something that we love God more than. For example Abraham's square would say "I love God more than my son Isaac" (I decorated a square for Abraham)

I also got to decorate the big square in the middle to say "I love God more than anything else, even..."

I also got to make a square for myself. Now my square would probably say "my wonderful Husband, Jon" but as I was discussing this with my friend Rebecca, we thought it would probably be better to do something material instead of a person. So my square said "the necklace my mom gave me"

I am going to be honest with you. My mom didn't actually give me this necklace, I inherited it after she died. (but I didn't feel like explaining this to my Sunday School class) My dad gave this necklace to my mom (he had it specially made and everything) and I remember nights when my parents were going out and my mom would take out the necklace to wear. She didn't have anything to hang her necklaces on so it would usually get tangled up and while she was getting ready I would sit on her bed and untangle the necklace for her so she could wear it. I can't remember how many times I did that for her but it's enough that I always associate that necklace with those happy nights. That's why this necklace is so special to me but even though it is so special, I still love God more. :-)

Round Two

For Laura's birthday I made her a neck rice bag because she had commented on Linda's rice bag and sounded like she wanted one. Turns out she's been having a ton of Law School reading strain on her neck and the rice bag was just the thing to help take away that pain.

So as I was stalking Laura on her lovely blog I found out that her dog ate the rice bag I gave her (she'd only had it for 2 weeks!) So I decided to make her another one.

I have plenty of fabric and rice left over from the other rice bags I've made so I took some time tonight to make her a new bag because I will see her tomorrow.

Here's the fabric I used.

I made the bag part with plain fabric. Sewed seams along both sides and one down the middle.

Poured a little rice down each side and then sewed a "compartment" to hold the rice in one area.

I made 8 of these little compartments to hold the rice. This works great because since this bag is made to sit on the neck/shoulders you don't want all the rice to fall to the end of the bag.

Then I sewed a little "pillow" case together to make the bag pretty

 and now Laura has another rice bag that hopefully her dog wont eat.

Freezer Enchiladas

My weekends are usually spent making food for the upcoming week. Since I usually don't get home till late and I don't want to spend my whole evening making dinner, eating dinner, cleaning up after dinner and then going to bed. I like to just make a bunch of food on the weekends, freeze it and when Jon gets home he can throw it in the oven and by the time I get home dinner is ready. There's no prep work or extra dishes because I already did it on the weekend.

So this week we are going to enjoy some chicken enchiladas. This recipe freezes well and makes about 2 pans of enchiladas so you can have one pan this week and one in a few weeks.

Ingredients
2 Chicken breasts
Onion
Can of green chilies
Taco seasoning mix
Can of black beans
2 cups cottage cheese
1/2 cup of sour cream
Pepper
Shredded cheese
Corn tortillas
Enchilada sauce

Directions
Cook the chicken. Once chicken cooked saute chicken, onions and green chilies until onions are done.

Add taco seasoning mix and make according to the directions on package.

Mix cottage cheese and sour cream and pepper to taste.

Make enchiladas by adding a spoon full of cheese mixture, chicken, and black beans.

Fill pan with enchiladas. One tip (which I didn't do today, so mine are all broken) is to warm up the tortillas so they are easier to work with and don't break.

If you have remaining ingredients you can spread them over the enchiladas. Then pour enchilada sauce over the enchiladas and top with cheese. I used Montery Jack cheese this time around.

If you are making this for a later date then cover and stick in freezer.  Otherwise bake at 350 until done. Enjoy!