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Numbers 13:1 – 15:41 | Sh’lach | “Send for Yourself”

So, I got my weeks confused, and accidentally wrote this post last week. With holidays and double parsha’s it’s a lot to keep straight. I wrote about how we’d been blessed with the most perfect humidity-free early summer days, and for Missouri, that’s a gift in of itself. All last week, we enjoyed morning coffees, lunches, popsicles, cocktails, and dinners outdoors, while the girls did their chicken business around us – it was absolutely magical ✨ And then this week, we had the most oppressive three-day heatwave, the humidity alone was enough to choke you. It’s interesting how quickly things can change. And more than that, how it takes a terrible heat-wave to make you truly appreciate humidity-free summer weather. You can’t have one, at least the appreciation, without the other. Similar to this weeks parsha: you can’t have faith without experiencing a little fear…

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Creamy Lemon Pasta 🍋

This creamy lemon pasta cost less than $15 to make, takes less than thirty minutes to come to life, and it feeds my family of six with leftovers for lunch the next day. This creamy lemon parmesan pasta has become my favorite warm-weather switch-up from the heavy tomato sauces I lean on all winter. The sauce is ridiculously simple to throw together: 1 cup half and half, 6 tablespoons of butter, lemon zest, grated parmesan, and fresh lemon juice at the end. Throw in whatever veggies you have on hand, and the real surprise? Sweet apple chicken sausage. Bonus points for the protein, but It also adds a subtle sweetness that really ties everything together. 

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Three Ingredient Pasta Sauce

Naomi, our seven year old, came home from school this past week, hell-bent on cooking a pasta recipe she ‘invented’. And it actually happened to coincide perfectly with a viral three-ingredient pasta sauce recipe the internet keeps showing me. So I figured, sure! Let’s give it a go. It was a really simple, and with a small tweak, and a handful of fresh toppings – like parsley, grated Parmesan, and red pepper flakes – it turned out delicious.

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Numbers 8:1 – 12:16 | Beha’alotcha | “When You Raise”

Hello, hello! It was another great week over here. I got to spend the morning with my two youngest at our absolute favorite outdoor playground this week (see photo above), with iced coffee, snacks -always snacks- a good friend, and her children. Summer vibes, strong! Though we still have a solid two weeks of school left for my older two children.

This weeks Parsha deals with two large themes that we’re all familiar with: complaining and jealousy. It’s interesting to me that both of these topics are thrown together, back to back. So let’s get into them both!

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Numbers 4:21 – 7:89 | Naso | “Lift / Count” 

I hope everyone had a fabulous Shavuot and Memorial Day Weekend. It’s hard to believe we’re already in summer mode, weren’t we just buried in snow and ice? We spent the weekends with friends at the lake, and this was the morning coffee view. Impossible not to marvel at God’s beauty and generosity. He didn’t have to endow us with the gift of sight, and yet, He did. I’m also still riding the high of a Shavuot program with had with our local Jewish community. We had three fantastic speakers – and a delicious bagel lunch – talking about the importance of Shavuot, which, I’ve decided, I’m going to share a bit here. Because why not?

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