Happy Birthday Mi Amor

This is to you, mi amor. I love you. Thanks for making my life so great! Thanks for providing for Amalia and me and thanks for being the best ever papi to Amalia and husband to me!!!! You are my best friend, a true man of God and the one whom I respect and look up to more than anybody else on this earth! I always think of you first when I need advice, encouragement or a shoulder to cry on. On top of all that, you have an amazing vision and dream that you are couragious enough to follow. I am so blessed.

Faith and Green Onions

Laura is one of my best friends in the world and also my hero at present. She and her husband have left their comfortable, secure lives in New Mexico and have moved to a whole new part of the country to Washington State to plant a church. It is so awesome to see their faith and hear how God is providing. I was cracking up when she wrote me this story. With her permission, I wanted to share it with you:

. . . I am searching for recipes on the internet. We are trying everything we can to save money. I am so not susie homemaker, but you would laugh at the lengths to which we are going. We are planting a garden, baking our own bread, making home made cleaning products. Oh, and the best story is when a few weeks ago I went to make some potato soup. The recipe calls for green onions. I went outside and saw where a previous tenant had planted a million green onions. I was ecstatic. I said "Craig, look, we will save so much money with all these green onions!" I cut them up and put them in our soup. It tasted a little different that night. We described it as "earthy" and "organic" but we were so proud that I had found them outside and not spent money on them. Our neighbor came over the next day and I offered her some since we have so many. Her name is Anna too. She says, "Green onion? Are you sure? You better show me what you ate." She pulled some up and we all died laughing when she let me know that I had picked and cut up garlic bulbs that hadn't matured, and wouldn't mature until July. Um, yeah. I won't be throwing random vegetables from our yard into our food without confirmation of what they are anymore. Hope that makes you smile. . .