Toys are Overrated #3-cups and dice

Who needs toys when you have cups and dice!

My kids will sit at the table and play with cups and lots of dice for a long time!  Stack them, sort them, guess which one has the most in it.

 

Cashew Chicken

Cashew Chicken Stir-Fry

2 cups chicken broth
1/4 cup corn starch
3 Tbsp soy sauce
1 lb. boneless skinless chicken
2 garlic cloves
1 cup thinly sliced carrots
2 cups chopped broccoli
1-2 cups snap peas
1 cup cashews

In a skillet, or wok, heat 3 Tbsp of the chicken broth.  Mix the rest of the broth with the soy sauce and corn starch in another bowl and set aside.  Add chicken to the wok and stir fry over medium heat until no longer pink.  Remove and keep warm.  Add garlic, carrots, peas and broccoli to the pan with a little bit of olive oil.  Fry until heated through and crisp-tender.  Stir in the broth mixture with the chicken.  Cook and stir 2-4 minutes to let the sauce thicken.  Mix in the cashews last right before serving.  Serve over hot rice.

 

Science-Cell

Make your own model of a cell.

First make some jell-o.  Make it in a bowl and leave it sit on the counter for an hour or so.  Until it is room temperature.  Then put it in a plastic baggie and put in the fridge for over night.

The next day you put a grape, or black olive or something in there to represent the nucleus.  Then some other smaller beans to represent the organelles.  The baggie is the cell membrane(skin). 

Now you have a ginormous example of one of the miniscule cells in your body!

A small excerpt from the book we were looking at.

Happy Experimenting!



 

What good is a broken cup?

Have you ever wanted something so bad?!!  I mean, so bad that even after those, years and years of wanting it you almost felt like...... now if I ever DO get that thing, will I ever really be satisfied?


Interestingly enough, I was watching a kids movie with the boys....Kung Fu Panda 2 to be exact.  Well if you haven't seen it, there is a jealous peacock, and a wise old ram tells him, "The cup you are trying to fill has no bottom."

Huh.....I was taken-a-back by that piece of wisdom, especially given the source. :)   And then it started to creep into my brain more and more, and I was wondering...

Do I ever act like that?

I do know, there are things I've wanted, 

for years....

Desires, I've longed for, 

for years....

 

and years.....

and the years are still passing by.....

and I am still waiting for this dream....

to be (completely) fulfilled.....

but will it.....

just some?  

Or all of it?

How much?

And when?

How can anyone ever fill a cup that doesn't have a bottom?  Can you picture it?  All your efforts are basically a waste of time, because everything you are "going for".....

All those desires you are hoping to fulfill, or receive.....

It's slipping right through the cracks, or right out the bottom, and never actually filling you up, or being used, or being counted as a blessing, or a reward, or the list could go on.

Hmmm, so does my cup have a bottom?  Am I taking in the blessings I have been given, or am I letting them get away instead?  

Well I can gratefully say that my cup does have a bottom, and there are no other holes either, because Jesus fills in those gaps!

Don't let your cup break.  Don't let your cup have a hole in it.  Jesus is the glue that will hold you together.  All you need is Jesus to fix your cup, and He will fill it up. 

Then you will be ready to take in those little blessings all around you that God sends your way, and watch them outpour onto those around you.

Besides....we need to remember, we are put here to glorify God, and to please HIM!  Not to please ourselves.

Psalm 19:14- Lord, may the words of my mouth and the thoughts of my heart, be pleasing in YOUR eyes.  You are my rock and my redeemer. (NIRV) (emphasis mine)

And, life is not about what we want, but what God wants for us!

Isaiah 55: 8-9

“For my thoughts are not your thoughts, neither are your ways my ways,” declares the LORD. “As the heavens are higher than the earth, so are my ways higher than your ways and my thoughts than your thoughts.

Hebrews 13:5
Keep your lives free from the love of money and be content with what you have, because God has said, “Never will I leave you; never will I forsake you.” 

After all....what good is a broken cup?