Mafalda sharpening his mother: What would you be if you lived?
Mafalda, with his caustic humor us with a reality: The home for you, or you for home. If we are overwhelmed by all that requires the attention of the family and household end up "catching flies." Making a house a home is an exciting task, but we spend a timepo limited to everything.
I thought it amusing to see how well it is expressed in the video of this personage smart how if we want everything and always is perfect in our house, we leave important things, like spend time with us, listen, hang out with our children , picnic, stroll, go out to dinner with your husband and so much more.
The best way to organize, take time away from home with your family
The rhythm of the house just burning unless you learn to put some distance from time to time. Look online a site not far from your house (100kms), and allows you to take a walk looong looong be tired. If you like mountains to me is the best, most invigorating, but what I love the sea and you have it close, too great.
Book a night in a hotel of those little, or a cottage. If you can, I love my hostels, are very nice and family, if you also have deals with children and "young charge." She eats very well and are comfortable but austere. Arise
with time, and prepares a rich and nutritious snacks. May be of tuna and mayonnaise, breaded pork loin with green pepper ... mmm ... how delicious!, Or any sausage if you find it easier, drinks, water, fruit or Actimel and some potato chips or nuts. distribute it in various bags to spread the load.
Then make a small suitcase, a change, pajamas and toiletries (I usually put an extra pants to the children if they get wet). AND READY!
Ideally leave on Saturday the morning before 11:00, then you make sure not to leave with all the traffic. In March !!!!, an hour or so will come to the site chosen. The most invigorating, in my opinion, is to march an hour at least climb the mountain (if you're with small children and are not highly trained), and two hours of climbing (5 km or so) if you like walk, and children do not get tired.
DESIRED ARRIVAL AND FOOD There is no better feeling than coming after exercise, these snacks are waiting for us, sitting on a rock, and admire the scenery ... I reset wear all week.
After the descent, you will be all dreaming of reaching the hotel and give them a bath, and we all dressed for a ride, or just stay quietly in your room reading this book you on the table and only get to read from time to time, because at night has burned out, and do not spend to read more than 5 or 6 pages. Dinner at the hotel ... and sleep!.
next morning cultural visit to a monument of the town or city where you are staying, snack strong, and back home by 3:00 pm, to avoid jams.
'll see Moonrise on Monday as new and eager to think of new recipes, ideas to organize yourselves better, etc ... because ... you oxygenate the brain and spirit.
This plan can be arranged from Friday evening to Saturday. Snacks would be in charge of the hotel, and back home directly after the march, sparkling bath, and just relax with a good book and eat some cheese or pate in the living room.
Returning from a meeting I'll take one of those free newspapers and I am enjoying reading it on the bus. Líniahorta . Go pearl necklace. If the national media and often have a low level, this district of Barcelona, \u200b\u200bwith its editor, editing its director, two editors and three writers (good ratio) seems taken directly from the newsletter of the institute, especially since the editing director (as usually happened in the institutes at the time of cyclostyle) is Curra half of the newspaper. To start or are rumberos or squeeze the news by sheer repetition Gaudenci understand the Rumba Club Sant deserves front page, editorial and green light, in addition to half a page of news, or is this the Rumba Club Sant Gaudenci be the greatest thing that has given birth mother in the neighborhood of Horta.
Interview with Mayor Hereu. 14 questions, of which 9 are on future concretions project. The first on the forehead. Asked about some works (Island Market Guinardó facilities) stopped for months, the clear and forceful response of "do not know if it is, but if I have not been" is a nice title for those who enter the Manual Politician's Clueless. Councillor is a municipal district, a District Manager, a Department of General Services District, a Department of territory, a department of services for people, etc. But the mayor does not know whether the most important work being done in the district is running or is stopped. Trias will be applauded, but his team is not propaganda showcase it. In his belt advertising slogan "the Canvi in \u200b\u200bpositiu", where it appears with glasses that look like the first ones my mother used to sew, "the Canvi" is in a dark blue background so you do not read easily. I suspect that people will change, but things will change soon. Let
. Letters to the editor are sometimes an oasis of sanity versus insanity journalism. Not here. Here are kept in the editorial line. Jamal equates to a certain legitimacy to the governments of Germany and Catalunya with those of Turkey or Indonesia, to finish rounding, said that Egypt's Muslim Brotherhood have decades of struggle against dictatorship and terrorism to achieve democracy. You and I are certainly a bit short, because these are not mere opinions of Mr. Jamal, but, he says, "platitudes."
Another great news. Superb as a joke. This is worthy of Bwana blog. It turns out that Collserola Park Consortium and technicians of the Department of Agriculture, Livestock and, Fisheries and Food Natural Medi i do not agree on how to hunt wild boar whose numbers are growing unsustainably. First they were going to hunt in agreement with bows and arrows (!), But after the Department, faced with complaints from animal welfare groups, said no that anesthetic darts and then lethal injection. The Consortium's say Nanay (perhaps they had hired experts to conduct Bushmen hunting). And tell me if not better, since feral approximate census is done, put a quota for hunters as has been done throughout the life of God. A weekend sports and problem solved. Too rational and unsustainable? No, no. Too political and too technical to live the bargain of the Consortium and the macroDepartament bargain.
Market opens Vall d'Hebron website. The newspaper says that "more practical information than (sic), also may find it recipes and culinary tips and other curiosities. " Recipes bad thing when they leave the dining area of \u200b\u200bpractice and theory become (or own curiosity of pure reason, go figure).
On the last page is advertising a funeral: "The tranquility of being in the best hands." It is always comforting to know that finally Barcelona is a good city for dead and dying well, if you hit to choose the funeral company, if you were not treated well in life, at least your remains will address the best hands.
like to pay tribute today Schaus a mother, a friend of youth, and with whom I shared so many important things. Sole Perez de Ayala, who died on Sunday 13 February. Wife and mother of three children, despite the illness he never lost the joy, and was able to educate and keep your home light and hope to the end. So today I pay tribute grateful for their example of fidelity and integrity. Thanks Sole, to always, always!
following paragraphs copied a letter that was published in Magnificat, and a video interview televised in 2008.
"I thought, before the illness, that life was a vale of tears. Since I sick, I have entered a compelling desire to live, to convey the joy it gives me feel loved by God. Of course I live in a different way, because I have to master closer. I ask the Lord to teach me to live the day, knowing I do not know if I have tomorrow. The answer, as always, is in love. After many years of spiritual exercises, meditate on the principles and foundations, have had to tie me to a hospital bed for a minute to understand that extreme tiredness, or simply watch the horizon, giving glory to God if offered for love , that the goal of life is not to win money or a successful life, but love, love, love, and love me, let me love, love me. And trust, living day to live a Christian, and to convey to my people, in this Western society so sad and materialized, the joy of the crucified (hence Christ Javier smiles). disease Living near Trinidad Throughout these months, I discovered how each of the Divine Persons of the Holy Trinity shelters me, I want, in sickness in a different way. These cover some functions in a loving way, and if I hear the Three, anxiety disappears and their way of peace and joy. God the Father, living the confidence of knowing that He is my Father who created me, that is all powerful, all knowing and all goodness, and that So there can be no room for life or family circumstances that he has made no provision in their plans of Love in Christ, I have the single best teacher of life, with which I am daily in the Eucharist. He is teaching me the road. In the Holy Spirit, Lord and giver of life, put the hope that I will support and inspire me, as it has done, peace and joy of knowing I am God's child. My God, One and Three, through the intercession of the Virgin Mary, Mother of the Savior, I ask you give me strength, to sustain me and help me to be humble before Him. "
Sometimes I joke about calling me saying that I really did because I was very bored monk with the world economy, accounts, accounts, investments, returns, default interest and all those things that fill listings paper or screen. It is certainly a strange way to make a living by drawing or reviewing signs one day and another to retirement. I do not deny its usefulness nor its necessity, but it is undeniable that such work, although today they wanted to do a few million compatriots, no longer a matter a damn boring.
be religious may not seem more useful and surely that is not socially relevant (or occupationally Most Wanted) although it is less regular (statistically speaking, at least).
The point is that in time you realize that there are foreign tyrannies that derive from one's own capabilities and it is difficult to slip away, especially if you have a high level of numerical and verbal reasoning. So, for some years I am the treasurer of my community. The Treasurer is the kind that ensures that there is a steaming plate on the table in front of each monk, that the debts are paid at maturity and that funds are used properly entering. And, of course, that everything is painstakingly recorded in the books. I do not know if some theory that writing was invented by the priests of the ancient temples to keep track of the offerings that were faithful to the respective gods. What I do know, because history is a key that also touched me play, that our Order since its foundation is noted carefully every penny (or time per pound, salary or money) in and / or leaves, and that it realizes on time each quarter to the chapter on community and faith left by the corresponding entries in the books that have signed the present religious and then in the canonical visits are approved by the Major Superiors or General.
The fate of the Treasurer (except exceptions, if any exist, for which the position is attractive and desirable) is having to meet an awkward obligation requires precious time that one would use in occupations most genuinely religious. In a corner of my desk I have a comment to our Rule in Latin published in the seventeenth century, for at least two months awaiting a time of quiet dedication, it suggested me to publish again in Castilian translation and explanatory notes, a task asking for months of intense and careful work, work on the other hand, I admit, and certainly exciting person spiritually helpful. I remembered this volume bound in parchment this morning, while on Finance of the City, near the sea, waited resignedly on the screen to show my number to see what's ours, of a tax refund requested over a year ago. I should have remembered what our Rule prescribes on the kindness when, back home, I have discussed by telephone with the CEO of area elevator company, which he considered "a bit strong," the tone of my complaint to the Ombudsman of the company, so I had to remind him that failure of the emergency light elevator takes three months without repair and if there is a power failure the person using it is in a very dark cave, cold, soulless, with a tremendous sense of helplessness, looking for the button on the alarm with only the light of phone. Then I spend a letter from the Bank, the only contact me to offer me a leased Mercedes to debit or 6 euros for the entry of a check (fucking banker policy of "collection first and then we will protest, ask forgiveness and offer transfer") now go and write that I pass "as soon as possible" with evidence of our economic activity to meet obligations do not know what a Royal Decree of 2005. After eating some relief: a father I have been discharged in the hospital and is now back to house until next Surrogate. Father V. asks me to take tickets for Rome on Wednesday, in the end decided to go to the ordination of Brother F. Then the Father G. that says you have to go to the funeral this afternoon, which should take over the parish office for a while. What is said dispatch, dispatched not too much, I only received seven bags of used clothing and the request for a South American couple suddenly have today received the sudden illumination that they wanted to baptize his daughter twelve years without further delay without further delay, because it is now overgrown. Then I began to dive in the parish accounts to find out who installed the heating in the local for next winter will have to consider installing heating in the convent (notice the religious elders too cold for years to follow with tiny little stove in the cells and chill in the corridors), we must take account of and demand really budgets and see how we do.
So, no wonder you sometimes wonder what I done to deserve this, you know that the commentary on the Rule will have to wait a while still running, one still thinks that our vocation is Very nice, although the times are changing, that "you again tomorrow" has become the window of the school Municipal Finance in a "you go back in a couple of months," will progress, one wonders what the significance of the word "tomorrow" in the words of Officer of the elevator company (perhaps "who knows when?) in any case the Bank can expect to sit, how right he was that priest of Valencia saying how bad priests comply with the fourth commandment, the Father V. management will fray F., it will not go empty handed to see if on Monday I go to buy a shirt at least Clergy (oh, Father V., if you had not left the decision to the last minute, the buy online to Poland and shipping costs and save us all twelve eurillos) is a relief that the South American couples per household will touch another parish and the priest was able to foist such a suspicious neighbor is urgently sacramental, then goes and tells the priest that I do not waste time looking for that with the heating company Parish finally ended stuck in litigation, no mess, and well, never mind, there is still time left to ask for advice there and with whom.
So you can take comfort, finished the day, thinking that if today was a bad cold and rainy day (which they did), the cold has to do in Alaska, much less attractive has to be the life of a housewife who no longer recalls or the love song they sang at their wedding, a bit of nostalgia before taking it slow, today was a beautiful day in God and service to merit a few minutes of music when you were much younger:
The day I saw this recipe on the blog red apple felt a total crush and an overwhelming desire to try and see for myself what was the taste and texture of these clouds ... and has really been a surprise, because they know very similar to those bought in stores and are really easy to do!
So you know, if you still love sweets like me, you want to have fun and feel a little curiosity, gets down to business:)
A big salute to all!
Ingredients
1 packet gelatin neutral
1 packet strawberry jelly
200 ml water 200 g sugar
powdered sugar for finishing
Heat water in a saucepan and when hot add sugar and gelatin neutral normal.
With the heat to low mix with a spoon or a whisk and once the gelatin has dissolved add neutral on strawberry gelatin.
Turn off heat and stir constantly for 5 minutes.
Pour the mixture into a large bowl and let cool about 20-30 minutes. It should not come to set.
Once cool, take the electric rod and assemble the mix. As if we about to clear snow. Many bubbles are formed and the mixture will become very foamy.
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Lining a pan with baking paper (this is very important, then I explain.) I use a cake pan to do after such forms of cubes, but if you want you can also use a pastry cutter, although I notice that the mixture is very sticky.
Pour the mixture into the pan and let stand in refrigerator overnight.
morning
Next unmold onto a cutting board. And here you will realize the importance of lining the mold because the mixture sticks to everything! :) But if you put the paper do not worry because you are not going to have any problem.
The easiest way I've found to do is once the clouds made the cut at the ground to catch a small plastic bag and pour the icing sugar. With the hand we are taking off the cubes and always have been cut one by one we threw in the bag directly to the icing sugar to prevent sticking and stir to coat. Take it out and do the same with everyone.
For things life I spent two weeks out game .... ie, no energy to leave home and live a normal life. The family and the house continues its normal pace .... the empty fridge, pantry worse .. What do you do? ... My salvation table: Shop by intenet.
is good shopping on the internet? Is complicated?. What are the advantages of buying online ?. Buy via computer has many advantages over traditional shopping, including:
Save travel time, parking etc. ..,
The Shopping Online has the advantage that you do not buy more than necessary, for there you are forced to go through the various corridors strategically placed so that you "besotted" things "as necessary as" A new cups are " very cheap ", clothes for children, some notebooks, pens that are on offer, appealing kitchen utensils that are hanging there waiting for someone like you the lift and take them home, a new makeup, a toothbrush .... in short hair, you leave a few euros in a lot of things do not really need.
Lets rectify once completed purchase, add products ...
sent home to you
Your list is saved, and you can modify the following week to add or remove products, which significantly shorten the time invested in doing so.
Tips
Prepares menus of the week, and produces a list of ingredients you'll need. So do not forget anything. Each week you can rely on the shopping list above and modify it a bit depending on what you will need.
I personally Alcampo Mecadona and tested. The websites of the two supermarkets are easy to handle. Keep your shopping list if you leave the page. In Alcampo I had problems with time slots. There is less availability and also select the section is sometimes complicated.
As for brands, Alcampo beats Mercadona, which has committed to sell only Squire, which annoyed when you have a preference for any brand.
Try not to buy fresh produce such as meat or fruit, it is better to see them and choose them yourself, but if you have no choice, you usually do not go wrong buying: chicken breast fillets, pork loin (part) loin of rabbit. Fruit: apples, bananas, oranges and tangerines in the winter. In the summer we will see later.
is true that looking at things allows you to choose otherwise, but for all the most basic and heavy (detergent, milk, beverages, oil, and non-perishable items such as lentils, rice, biscuits .... is great)
animating and testing, you'll see that great not take up so much time on something so necessary.
Today, Our Lady of Lourdes, World Day of the Sick. The patient is served, fine. This is something we have to declare very loudly against the tendency to underestimate, to "disable" by definition the patient. We do well to remember, if for no other reason, at least for the unquestioned reality that each of us, if not, has been or will be sometime in the future surely someone sick, that is, a participant in such bitter conditions.
markedly We link the disease with the disability with inability, with the void. However, even in the disease a life can be fruitful, bear fruit. Even indirect and involuntary. I put some little ones and one large examples.
The tiny example of my friend is the MC; nursed her father in "vegetative" state (quotation marks because it seems that our knowledge is always fully capable of settling the border between consciousness and unconsciousness) for six years until he died. Sometimes I wondered how I stand, what did that man in that state, "keeps me company," she said.
tiny Another example is that of my parishioner Mrs. P. He suffers from delusions of persecution for a long time. He says the chase for political reasons, the spy has no phone because it punctured, they open the mail, watch it when it comes to shopping, etc. While his mother lived (old and sick, but lucid), still retained a glimmer of opening a window into balance. Since that apparently nonagenarian useless old woman died, Mrs. P. overflowed: you come home when she is not, you have stolen the documents of his doctoral thesis, I have changed the doctor for a party, the Savings Bank has withheld income tax return ...
The big example: a few days ago the 30 th anniversary of the death of Marta Robin. Meto Friday parentheses their passion or their diet almost exclusively of the Eucharist (I leave it to the arduous and sometimes disturbingly unhealthy curiosity seekers supernatural phenomena, let him also for those who, on the other end, contemptuously despise what ignoring). I limit myself to that for her sick bed, where for over 50 years he was bedridden, went to visit thousands of people, most of them receiving the visit of comfort or the question of the absolute. I limit myself to Foyers de Charité scattered around the world.
The disease can only be a bloody disgrace. Or maybe, as well as a disgrace, an occasion of grace and service.
Escudero Mary's book "Getting Home" - I've been eyeing this morning with the intention of finding useful things contribute to the blog, I selected a section that I think might be interesting for all sorts of people, singles, married, family, or not etc ... There are so many ideas suggested by the book, which really did not know what select. I considered that a brunch at home is something available to all of us. Among the chapters of the book are: The secret host : formal dinners (with 10 paragraphs that discussed the importance of every detail of the dinner from the guest list, the liquor and the end of the meal), buffet with advantages and disadvantages etc. ..), The informal dinner (from how to organize it, to the decoration of the table), the cocktail , Special celebrations, lunches, snacks, drinks at home.
transcribe part of the section "The Brunch " I think I'll be interested, but if you have time I recommend you buy some for the book is very comprehensive.
THE BRUNCH (By Mary Squire Coll) "..... deeply rooted in the Anglo world, which is to merge breakfast (breakfast ) with food (lunch ). It is a kind of informal lunch, which only has reason to be on the weekends .... where you get up late and use whatever meets with friends or family to have a late breakfast that for consistency it may be compared to lunch.
decoration: it must be remembered that this is an informal lunch .... The table should be a mix of breakfast and lunch, with extremely clean, uncluttered, very early ... .
Menu : In essence it's about mixing sweet and salty. Thus, the different types of breads and pastries have a major role here .... scrambled eggs and tortillas in all its versions are very characteristic. But the real star of the brunch are the eggs benedict (poached and served on toast with bacon and hollandaise sauce )...... born in New York in the late nineteenth century are essential, as well as coffee and Bloody Mary .. .. in addition to these basic dishes are also recognized as chicken, bacon, sausage, stuffed potato skins, some known as the Caesar salad and fresh fruit. Finally, nothing like the famous cheese-cake "
hope to help you enjoy more of those Sunday mornings or holidays to escape the routine of a normal breakfast.
the book "Recipes for allergic children, this recipe useful for both allergic and non allergic. It is very tasty.
100g flour
2cucahradas oil 150g onion
700ml vegetable stock (can be a pill) tablespoon salt 1/2cucharada
Put oil in a saucepan over low heat, add the chopped onion and wait until lightly browned. Then gradually add the flour. Stirring constantly, algrgar the broth must be hot. Stirring, to a boil for a few minutes and add salt. Decide the thickness of the bechamel, adding more or less broth.
My contribution : If you're not allergic to chicken, is very nice in a pan boil some chicken (breast, thigh, bones ...) with 1 liter of water, a quartered onion and two carrots. ; Boil for 1/2hour, and have a rich rich broth to add to the subisse instead of plain water with the tablet of vegetables, or any dish. You can also freeze the remaining broth if you're not going to use for several days.
'll see 
