Cooking with Liz

I saw a similar recipe to what I am about to show you on Pinterest but I made my own version and loved it! Perfect country cooking, if you ask me!

The best part: only 3 ingredients for the crock pot!


I didn't measure the chicken broth because I was just finishing the container. Use your judgement. How thick you want the gravy to be will play a part in how much liquid you put in. And don't forget to take into account that the frozen chicken will add liquid as well.


Cook on high for 4 hours or so, or low for longer.
When it gets close to being done, start your potatoes and shred the chicken while in the crock pot.

And here is the finished product! THis happens to be Ryan's plate. He prefers less meat.


And here is Abigail's bowl. I smashed her carrots up in her potatoes because she can't pick them out as well. But she hates mashed potatoes anyway so I shove her bread in it so she has to eat some of it. =) My bowl looked similar to hers because it is hard for me to eat carrots alone.


It was so tasty, I wish I had more for dinner tonight, but I don't because I finished if off for lunch!

Gardening

I wanted to try something different this year in the front flower bed. Thanks to pinterest I decided to try keeping the flowers in pots this year. I can rearrange when I get bored! There is still more work to be done but I was too excited to wait until the project was 100% done.


This is before. Terrible, I know!


After! So much better! We still want to put pea gravel and river rock over the dirt but that is for another weekend.


Once again, I have no idea how to change these around. I got this idea from pinterest and my wonderful hubby helped me make it happen.

new project

I have been wanting to work with the bible club kids on memorizing a verse of the bible for each letter of the alphabet for quite some time now. I started once and gave up. With a wide range of kids, some of which can't read yet, it proved too hard to accomplish when I have these kids in class once a week and no help from their parents.

Well, I decided to give it another shot! I was really feeling led to break away from our regular lessons thru the bible to try this again during the summer.

After all, I see these kids just about every single day. Why can't I teach them outside of the class room? My plan is to tell them every day they come over and tell me the verses we are working on correctly, they get a piece of candy.

I have several ideas of how to help them learn 26 verses during the 2 1/2 months they are out of school:
write the verses, or trace them
make up songs
play games with the verses (race to see who can put the verse puzzle together fastest, ect)
explain what each one means
incentives like food and money

But I'm wondering if anyone else has any suggestions for me.

I feel like I have both extremes in my class; one who will have no trouble memorizing, a couple who will not give it their all, and the non readers who will feel defeated from the start. How can I help them all?

My ultimate goal is to have them perform all 26 verses in front of the church in the fall. Pray for me!