A happily married mama of 12, I am passionate about faith & family and love sharing ideas, fun resources, and free printables to help you build a strong, healthy, happy home.
Welcome to the 91st issue of Flanders Family Freebies, a weekly themed link list of resources designed by me, Jennifer Flanders, in hopes of helping you build a strong, happy, healthy home. Thank you for giving me a place in your inbox! Was this newsletter forwarded to you by a friend? Want your own? Subscribe here.
Tyler, Texas
Wednesday, August 31, 2022
Hello, Friend.
Our area has been getting lots of rain lately, which our parched lawn has desperately needed. Everything was so crispy and brown when we returned from our East Coast trip that I wondered if it would ever recover.
The answer? Yes! All it took was several good soakings, and the lawn is lush and green again and our Mexican petunias (which I would've sworn two weeks ago were dead and gone) are full of vibrant blooms!
And, as if that weren't enough cause for rejoicing, the coming month offers even more reasons to celebrate, including the following family-friendly and fun September holidays.
For the past few weeks, I've been working my way through Jordan Peterson's 411-page tome, 12 Rules for Life. I really enjoy hearing Peterson speak. He is thoughtful, articulate, gracious, and communicates in a way that is rife with common sense and is accessible to intellectuals and laymen alike.
While well-written and thought-provoking, his book is heavy on theory and will likely prove dry to all but his most ardent fans. It's also written from a strong evolutionary perspective and devotes as much discussion to mythology and Eastern religious beliefs as it does to traditional Christianity.
It has been over five years since Peterson penned this book. A lot has happened to him in the interim, a fact to which he often alludes when speaking. So, while I would definitely recommend watching some of his interviews (a couple of my favorites are this one and this one), I don't necessarily recommend his book, unless you love reading cerebral works that require a significant amount of concentration to follow -- and you're especially good at eating the meat and spitting out the bones.
The weather's a bit cooler, so I drug out my pressure cooker and prepared a big batch of potato corn chowder (which is basically this recipe with 2 cups of frozen corn thrown in for good measure).
We ✅ got our passport stamp at the Texas State Capitol then ✅ visited my son in San Antonio where I ✅ painted a verse on their dining room wall, and we all ✅ made fun family memories on the Riverwalk. I ❌ haven't even touched my mother's dust ruffle, but I did ✅ begin registering our family's creative arts entries online (today's the deadline, so I'll have to finish that task before bedtime tonight)!
I saw a few votes for cheesecake, carrot cake, fantasy fudge, and peach cobbler last week, but if they were limited to just one dessert for the rest of their life, the overwhelming majority (about 80%) of my readers would choose... ice cream!
This week's pressing question: When eating ice cream (or soup or cereal), do you prefer to use a big spoon or a little one (tablespoon or teaspoon)? Hit reply and let me know!
A happily married mama of 12, I am passionate about faith & family and love sharing ideas, fun resources, and free printables to help you build a strong, healthy, happy home.
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