Easy Egg Casserole Muffins

I love having easy healthy breakfasts ready for my kids to eat in the morning.  I recently made these easy egg muffins and everyone loved them.  They are pretty versatile too because you could easily change up some of the ingredients to your liking. Ham or bacon to replace the sausage or some veggies thrown in would be pretty tasty too.  If you have any left or if you double the recipe, these could also be thrown in the freezer for a really quick breakfast another day.

First you will need to cook and crumble 1 lb of sausage.  I did this the night before to make it even easier in the morning.  Then divide it up between 12 muffin tins.

Then you will need to beat together 8 eggs and 1/2 cup of milk.  Carefully pour that evenly over the 12 muffins.

Finally, sprinkle the tops with grated cheese. (I used cheddar.)

Bake at 350 degrees for 20-25 minutes or until eggs are set.

Enjoy!



Blessings,

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Safe For My Family AND a New Business!

Since having kids, I have really become more aware of a lot of the products that we use in our home. I try to find things that I know are safe to use around them and are healthy for them. Before Mark and I got married, he was a preferred customer in a great business that carried a variety of products that are very safe. We continued to use these for a number of years, but then I set out to find ways to save money and make things myself so we stopped purchasing. I have found a few homemade things that work well, but with our many little ones running around and trying to keep up with our schooling, I just don't have the time to make them myself. There's nothing like running out of laundry detergent in the middle of wash day or remembering you used up the last of your deodorant after your workout. ;) It's so much easier to just have them stocked in my pantry instead of finding time to make more.  There were also a lot of things I couldn't make or they didn't work the way I hoped and so I was still purchasing a lot of things. So we decided to become preferred customers again. I love so many of their products! They have this amazing lotion that is one of our favorite products. It is great on my kids' dry skin and has even cured the cracks Mark gets on his feet when nothing else has helped. I have been getting some deep spring cleaning done this week and the kids love to help. I feel completely safe letting them use the cleaning products because they are all natural! They have a complete line of cleaners, nutrition supplements, first aid products, hygiene products, and makeup/skin care products. All of them are completely safe and healthy for my family. Another bonus is that I can still order online and do my shopping in my pajamas! :)

In signing up again, I was also introduced to the home based business aspect of this company. Because Mark was already signed up when we got married, I hadn't heard too much about how easy it was too have my own business at home. Well, now I know, and we have decided to supplement our income a bit (or hopefully a lot!) by starting our own home based business! I can do as much as I want or as little as I want or as time allows with our busy schedule. I can even do almost all of it using just my computer and phone!  If you would like to see a good video about it on YouTube, you can watch this one that I found. It has some great information.  I would love to help you find safer products for your family or help you easily earn money from your home.  Whether you are just interested in purchasing safe products for your home, starting your own home business, or both, please email me at mmtolsma at juno dot com and I can also give you more information.

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Indescribable

My kids love talking about space, the stars, planets, etc.  It seems that many times we get off topic in school and end up talking about what's in space instead.  Every time we do, I am reminded of the great you tube video series I shared on my blog long ago.  I recently went back to watch them and found that those specific ones are not available anymore, so I thought I would share different ones (of the same series) here and so any of you that missed them the first time will be able to see them.  His speech is divided into 5 parts, each about 10 minutes long, so you don't even have to listen to it all at once if you don't have time. It is a good reminder of how insignificantly small we are in comparison to the rest of God's creation, yet He still cares for us so much more than anything else! He truly is indescribable! Enjoy!

Tasty Tuesday: Slow Cooker Saucy Pork Chops

Last summer we raised a couple pigs for meat, so we have been enjoying all the pork in our freezer.  Prior to this, though, I haven't cooked much with pork, so I have been on the look out for good recipes.  I recently found this one for Saucy Pork Chops and it turned out so good!  It is done in the crock pot so the chops are so tender they just fall apart.  And using the crock pot is always nice so I don't have to worry about getting dinner together later in the afternoon when it seems like everyone gets a tad bit cranky.  I will be making this one often!

Ingredients
4 bone-in pork loin chops (8 ounces each)
1 teaspoon garlic powder
1/2 teaspoon salt
1/4 teaspoon pepper
2 tablespoons canola oil
2 cups ketchup
1/2 cup packed brown sugar
1 teaspoon Liquid Smoke, optional

Directions
Sprinkle pork chops with garlic powder, salt and pepper. In a large skillet, brown chops in oil on both sides; drain. In a small bowl, combine the ketchup, brown sugar and Liquid Smoke if desired. Pour half of the sauce into a 3-qt. slow cooker. Top with pork chops and remaining sauce. Cover and cook on low for 4-5 hours or until meat is tender.

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Last Sunday was National Sanctity of Human Life Day and this week marked the anniversary of Roe Vs. Wade, which made abortion legal.  It is so very sad that our nation has gone so far from the morals our founding father's built this country on that is it now legal to kill our unborn babies.  54 million innocent babies have lost their lives just so their moms can have rights and freedom.  What about the baby's rights?  Please continue to pray about and fight this slaughter of our nation's babies.
I want to share something with you that I read recently in a book called Raising Kids Who Hunger For God by Benny and Sheree Phillips.  It is about how our kids hold a unique part in God's agenda.  The authors ask us to consider two crucial times in Jewish history-the story of baby Moses and baby Jesus.  In Moses' time, he was spared from the slaughter of the Israelite baby boys to become the leader of the Israelites.  2000 years later, Jesus was spared from the slaughter of the boys under two years old to become our Savior.  And 2000 years later, in January 1973 our nation's highest court ruled that it is legal to slaughter innocent children.  "Could it be that, just as with Moses and Jesus, Satan has become aware of the deliverance God intends to bring to our society, not through one man, but through a generation of children who will be "mighty in the land" (Psalm 112:2)-ones who will stand to see the nations reached for the Gospel, and thus hasten Jesus' return (2 Peter 3:11-12)?"  This gives us as parents a challenge to raise our kids so that God can use them to be a counterculture to this fallen world rather than be used by Satan for evil.  A hard challenge, but one with so many good rewards!