You know what sounds good..?

So lately Alejo's been hearing a lot of: "Hey, you know what sounds good?" Immediately followed by what I am craving at the moment.  Most days he just smiles and doesn't say anything, hoping I'll forget about it, but on rare occasions he'll say, "That sounds good!" and we'll go pick it up (In 'N Out).  But so far, this pregnancy (oh yeah! To the blogging world: we're pregnant! Again!) I've actually been pretty good about making what it is I'm craving in an effort to save money.  

The other night I made some spicy California hand rolls because I wanted sushi but can't have it unless it's baked or made from shrimp.  I found a few recipes and kind of put something together so today I had a few extra things to use for lunch.  Didn't want to make the hand rolls because they take quite a bit of time and then for some reason I started craving spam musubi. I started thinking, "That's a lot of work too," until I decided to just throw everything together and call it a bowl.  I tend to do this when I want the flavored of certain foods without having to do all the work (ex. our salmon Philadelphia bowls).  I asked Alejo if this was just laziness but he said that it tastes the same and saves time (so.. no? haha), then he told me to blog about it. 

So now here I am blogging the recipe to help out other moms who also want to cook certain things but don't always have the time to prep or put together the food (by the way, kids take up a lot of your time, if you didn't know!)

Spam musubi bowls

• spam

• soy sauce

• sugar

• nori seaweed wrap

• rice

Directions:

Slice your spam and cook until slightly browned on both sides.

Mix together soy sauce and sugar (to your liking depending on how sweet you want it) and use a spoon to pour over cooking spam. Cook until caramelized on both sides. 

Cut nori into desired size (or just by the individual serving size) and serve with spam over a bowl of rice. 

Enjoy! 

That was pretty easy, yes? 

Expect more posts like these.. Hopefully some of you moms can also benefit from this!

Shepherding A Child's Heart...

"What your children need is spiritual nurture.  They need to be taught the ways of God.  They need to be instructed in the character of God so that they can learn a proper fear of God.  They need to understand that all of life rushes toward the day when we shall stand before God and give account.  They need to learn about the pervasive effects of the fall on the human condition.  They need to understand subtleties of the malignancy of their own hearts.  They need to know the dangers of trusting in themselves.  They need answers to the great problems of life.  They need to understand the difference between presuppositional thinking and empiricism.  In short, they need nurturing instruction."


Well said, Tedd Tripp.  We are responsible for so much as parents...

Four Months of Levi

Last Friday marked Levi's fourth month of life.  Time seems to be flying by so fast.  It seems like not too long ago we were bringing him home from the and now here we are...Levi is rolling around on the floor, able to hold his head up well - I am awaiting the day when I can hold him with one arm and do things with the other!  He's a wonderful baby with a great laugh and personality...Alejo and I are blessed to be able to call him ours.

But parenting is not all rainbows and roses.  The first night we brought him home he cried all night.  Levi still wakes up every three hours to this day which makes waking up in the mornings slightly difficult for Mommy.  We've had spit up everywhere and many outfit changes for baby, Mommy, and Daddy...and we haven't even mentioned the fountains of pee and poop explosions.  Right now Levi is going through a phase where he just wants to be held which makes it tough to do just about anything else in the house.

One of the things that I've been learning about recently is how to work on being patient - which is the work of the Spirit in my life and definitely not something I can do on my own (Galatians 5:22-23).  With the lack of sleep, the house being a mess, and just in my own sinfulness I seemed to be very irritable, and my speech was not always God glorifying.  Praise God for His grace and for revealing to me my sin and other areas in my life that need lots of work -- again nothing that I can do by myself!  

Life is different after you have a baby...marriage is different once you have a baby...but we are definitely excited to experience all the things the Lord is going to teach us as we raise this child.

We love you Levi!

Where did the time go?

Now that we've settled into a more structured routine, I figured I'd try writing in this thing again.  Let's see if I can try and keep it up.

Happy New Year everyone! Belated Merry Christmas, and a laaaaate Happy Birthday to Levi.  I guess the last post was pre-Levi and since then we've given birth to our wonderful baby boy.  

More posts to come as we seem to have settled into a more regular schedule (and since our baby can now sleep on his own without the bouncing from Daddy or Mommy...praise the Lord!)