Minnick Minutes: "If you're grateful and you know it, then your life will surely show it! :-)"

Clearly I haven't posted in AGES, but I fully intend to do much better in the future.

Since NBS and Cola Wars things have been fairly calm. Poor little Caleb got a cold this past weekend and was NOT a happy camper. He's still having trouble sleeping. I've been up more with him this past week then I have been since probably the week he was born. :(
He has his 4mo check up on Monday so we're excited to see how he's growing! He's putting EVERYTHING in his mouth these days, loves rolling over, and is sleeping much less in the day time. He's SO much fun!! :)

I tell David often how grateful I am that he lets me stay home and care for our home and family, but I've lately been trying to make sure that I really show him (and the Lord) my gratitude. I can do that, of course, by keeping the house clean, dinners ready, etc. but also by trying to save money wherever I can. This week I learned how to make rice milk! Since I can't have dairy (thanks, Caleb! :) I have been using Almond Milk or Rice Milk (the Lord provided both of these for us at the Sav-Mor sale last week!!) which can be quite pricey (around $2.75 for one of these). By making my own rice milk I only use about .20 worth of supplies to make the same amount. Very quick and easy to do-- and delicious! I used white rice this time around since we have so much we want to use up (we like brown rice much better, but bought white out of habit :/), but I think in the future I'll do all brown, or maybe a mixture of both since the brown has better flavor, but i still want to use up the white.

Rice Milk in the making! :)

Also used some "ugly tomatoes" (that's what the Tomato Vine calls their over-ripe, discount stuff) to make our spaghetti sauce this week. Time consuming, but hey, what am I home for?? :)