tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-160167852024-03-13T00:09:14.885+00:00CoffeebeingsErinhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14667533845958762064noreply@blogger.comBlogger513125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-16016785.post-40037481626480799382021-11-01T12:15:00.002+00:002021-11-01T12:15:42.375+00:00Pumpkin Cheesecake [raw]<p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEikP1hFOrynNJ7tUtWKcJKq1oATmTAcyNuX3H3P7YKhvckbfDZDzXNDLwm5YNmHgycl-Jk4N-EXaLbvY4MyymnuCa1mH8gbsZ5B-Fa1BFF6Cfubp_LQuPTz186DxbN_Nt998D-IkQ/s2048/Dan%2527s+44th+birthday.heic" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2048" data-original-width="1536" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEikP1hFOrynNJ7tUtWKcJKq1oATmTAcyNuX3H3P7YKhvckbfDZDzXNDLwm5YNmHgycl-Jk4N-EXaLbvY4MyymnuCa1mH8gbsZ5B-Fa1BFF6Cfubp_LQuPTz186DxbN_Nt998D-IkQ/s320/Dan%2527s+44th+birthday.heic" width="240" /></a></span></div><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><br /></span></p><span style="font-family: georgia;">This “pumpkin” cheesecake actually has no pumpkin at all, but you wouldn’t know it! Spot the secret ingredient. We enjoyed this deliciously spiced cheesecake for Dan’s birthday, during our October raw food detox. I use exactly the same spices in a non-raw version of this cake but I think I prefer this version over the traditional baked one.</span><p></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><br /></span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><i>Makes one 10” [25cm] cheesecake, 12-16 servings. Use a 6” tin and halve the recipe for a smaller cake.</i></span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><br /></span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">Pastry layer</span></p><p></p><ul style="text-align: left;"><li style="text-align: justify;"><i><span style="font-family: georgia;">1 cup raw pecans, soaked in water and drained</span></i></li><li style="text-align: justify;"><i><span style="font-family: georgia;">1/2 cup ground flaxseed</span></i></li><li style="text-align: justify;"><i><span style="font-family: georgia;">1/2 tsp salt</span></i></li><li style="text-align: justify;"><i><span style="font-family: georgia;">1 tsp cinnamon</span></i></li><li style="text-align: justify;"><i><span style="font-family: georgia;">1 cup soft medjool dates, pitted </span></i></li></ul><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">Process until the mixture holds together. Press onto the base of a lined or nonstick 10” [25cm] round cake tin. I use one with a removable base.</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">Filling</span></div><div><ul style="text-align: left;"><li style="text-align: justify;"><i><span style="font-family: georgia;">6 cups desiccated unsweetened coconut, soaked in water for at least an hour, then drained</span></i></li><li style="text-align: justify;"><i><span style="font-family: georgia;">1 cup water</span></i></li><li style="text-align: justify;"><i><span style="font-family: georgia;">3/4 cup maple syrup </span></i></li><li style="text-align: justify;"><i><span style="font-family: georgia;">1 tsp salt</span></i></li><li style="text-align: justify;"><i><span style="font-family: georgia;">2 TBS vanilla extract or seeds from one vanilla bean</span></i></li><li style="text-align: justify;"><i><span style="font-family: georgia;">2 inch piece fresh ginger</span></i></li><li style="text-align: justify;"><i><span style="font-family: georgia;">4 tsp ground cinnamon</span></i></li><li style="text-align: justify;"><i><span style="font-family: georgia;">1/2 tsp ground cloves</span></i></li><li style="text-align: justify;"><i><span style="font-family: georgia;">1/2 tsp nutmeg</span></i></li><li style="text-align: justify;"><i><span style="font-family: georgia;">2 cups raw carrots, roughly chopped</span></i></li><li style="text-align: justify;"><i><span style="font-family: georgia;">1/2 cup coconut oil</span></i></li><li style="text-align: justify;"><i><span style="font-family: georgia;">1/2 cup raw cacao butter</span></i></li></ul><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">Melt the last two ingredients in a glass jug sitting in a bowl of warm water. Blend coconut, water, maple syrup, salt, vanilla, spices, carrots, melted oil and cacao butter in a blender until thick and creamy. Pour into the pastry base and freeze 4-5 hours until firm. Remove from freezer an hour before serving. Sprinkle cinnamon on top of the cheesecake before slicing and serving.</span></div></div><p></p>Erinhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14667533845958762064noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-16016785.post-67932762621473253372021-10-31T04:17:00.000+00:002022-02-10T05:18:21.924+00:00Raw October: week 4<p style="text-align: justify;"> We’ve been experiencing an unusually balmy October, but the weather is gradually changing. After a few nippy days, I'm really missing hot drinks. During cold weather I can usually be found alternately clutching or losing my cup of tea or coffee, whether I’m working around the house or sitting down during our reading times. This is the first week on the detox that I’ve been craving warm food and drinks and it feels as if this directly relates to the weather! I was definitely running out of creative energy for making raw food by the end of the week, and it shows in our repetitive meals.</p><p style="text-align: justify;"><br /></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><b><i>Friday</i></b></p><p style="text-align: justify;">Breakfast: mixed berry cacao smoothies</p><p style="text-align: justify;">Lunch: dates & walnuts with almonds and lime cashew bites</p><p style="text-align: justify;">Tea: rainbow carrot and green cabbage coleslaw with sprouted mung beans and greens</p><p style="text-align: justify;"><br /></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><b><i>Saturday</i></b></p><p style="text-align: justify;">Breakfast: muesli with strawberries, blueberries, mango, apples, bananas, & Brazil nuts, coconut milk</p><p style="text-align: justify;">Lunch: leftover coleslaw with sprouted wild rice and kale marinated in lemon juice, olive oil, & raw honey</p><p style="text-align: justify;">Tea: raw taco salad with taco mixture, cashew cream, homemade raw salsa, & green olives</p><p style="text-align: justify;"><b><i><br /></i></b></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><b><i>Sunday</i></b></p><p style="text-align: justify;">Breakfast: muesli with apples, banana, mango, Brazil nuts, coconut milk</p><p style="text-align: justify;">Lunch: leftover raw taco mixture in romaine leaves and red pepper, marinated kale, avocados</p><p style="text-align: justify;">Tea: raw tabbouleh & marinated kale over green salad</p><p style="text-align: justify;"><br /></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><b><i>Monday</i></b></p><p style="text-align: justify;">Breakfast: mixed berry cacao smoothies </p><p style="text-align: justify;">Lunch: leftover raw tabbouleh with avocados</p><p style="text-align: justify;">Tea: green salad with grated rainbow carrots and beets, red peppers, cucumber, cashew dressing, salsa, and avocados</p><p style="text-align: justify;"><br /></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><b><i>Tuesday</i></b></p><p style="text-align: justify;">Breakfast: purple smoothies</p><p style="text-align: justify;">Lunch: carrot sticks, chocolate chia bites, green salad with guacamole</p><p style="text-align: justify;">Tea: salad of mixed greens, red onions, kalamata olives, red peppers, lemon & olive oil dressing</p><p style="text-align: justify;"><b><i><br /></i></b></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><b><i>Wednesday</i></b></p><p style="text-align: justify;">Breakfast: mixed berry smoothies</p><p style="text-align: justify;">Lunch: greens with grated beetroot and carrot, sprouted mung beans, sprouted wild rice, cashew dressing with mustard</p><p style="text-align: justify;">Tea: purple cabbage and rainbow carrot coleslaw, avocados</p><p style="text-align: justify;"><b><i><br /></i></b></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><b><i>Thursday</i></b></p><p style="text-align: justify;">Breakfast: mixed berry smoothies with cacao</p><p style="text-align: justify;">Lunch: green salad with purple cabbage and rainbow carrot coleslaw, sprouted mung beans</p><p style="text-align: justify;">Tea: salad of greens with beetroot and red onion, cashew lime bites</p><p style="text-align: justify;"><b><i><br /></i></b></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><b><i>Friday</i></b></p><p style="text-align: justify;">Breakfast: mango, peach & carrot smoothies</p><p style="text-align: justify;">Lunch: green salad with grated beetroot, sprouted mung beans, & cashew dressing with mustard</p><p style="text-align: justify;">Tea: green salad with grated beetroot, sprouted wild rice, cherry tomatoes, & cashew dressing with mustard</p><p style="text-align: justify;"><br /></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><b><i>Saturday</i></b></p><p style="text-align: justify;">Breakfast: purple smoothies</p><p style="text-align: justify;">Lunch: curried cabbage salad with cashews and sesame seeds</p><p style="text-align: justify;">Tea: leftover curried cabbage salad, green salad, guacamolé, salsa</p><p style="text-align: justify;"><br /></p><p style="text-align: justify;">On Sunday we had muesli for breakfast but friends were round for lunch and I made a roast dinner: chicken, roast potatoes, gravy, veggies, and blackberry crumble with pouring custard. Dan and I both ate cooked food but also had green salad with our meal. </p><p style="text-align: justify;">Even though we’re no longer detoxing, we continue to eat raw breakfast [either muesli or smoothie] and often keep to a raw lunch as well. It’s much easier to do a full detox when you’re already used to eating a large proportion of raw meals!</p>Erinhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14667533845958762064noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-16016785.post-74585453299519121922021-10-30T02:03:00.004+01:002021-10-30T02:17:44.373+01:00Raw October: week 3<p><b> Friday</b></p><p>Breakfast: <a href="https://coffeebeings.blogspot.com/2021/10/breakfast-smoothies-2.html">cacao & mixed berry smoothie</a></p><p>Lunch: green salad with carrot, walnuts, green apples, oil & vinegar, sprouted wild rice</p><p>Tea: salad of spring greens, sprouted mung beans, pea shoots, sprouted wild rice, walnuts, dried cranberries, & <a href="https://coffeebeings.blogspot.com/2021/10/creamy-cashew-dressing-raw.html">cashew dressing</a></p><p><br /></p><p><b>Saturday</b></p><p>Breakfast: muesli with Brazil nuts, bananas, and apples</p><p>Lunch: snacks (nuts, dried fruit)</p><p>Tea: <a href="http://coffeebeings.blogspot.com/2013/07/raw-taco-filling.html">raw taco filling</a> in romaine lettuce leaves with <a href="https://coffeebeings.blogspot.com/2021/10/creamy-cashew-dressing-raw.html">cashew cream</a>, chopped coriander, limes, and fresh homemade salsa</p><p><br /></p><p><b>Sunday</b></p><p>Breakfast: muesli with bananas, apples, & mango</p><p>Lunch: snacks (nuts, dried mango), coconut lime bites</p><p>Tea: salad with greens, leftover <a href="http://coffeebeings.blogspot.com/2013/07/raw-taco-filling.html">raw taco filling</a>, beetroot, carrot, peppers, olives, & <a href="https://coffeebeings.blogspot.com/2021/10/creamy-cashew-dressing-raw.html">cashew dressing</a></p><p><br /></p><p><b>Monday</b></p><p>Breakfast: <a href="https://coffeebeings.blogspot.com/2021/10/breakfast-smoothies-2.html">smoothies with oranges, mixed berries, & cacao</a></p><p>Lunch: salad with greens, sprouted wild rice, <a href="https://coffeebeings.blogspot.com/2021/10/creamy-cashew-dressing-raw.html">cashew dressing</a>, & kalamata olives.</p><p>Tea: salad with greens, romaine lettuce, homemade salsa, <a href="https://coffeebeings.blogspot.com/2021/10/creamy-cashew-dressing-raw.html">cashew cream</a>, fresh jalapeño, & walnuts</p><p><br /></p><p><b>Tuesday</b></p><p>Breakfast: <a href="https://coffeebeings.blogspot.com/2021/10/breakfast-smoothies-2.html">smoothies with mixed berries </a></p><p>Lunch: greens with walnuts, sprouted wild rice, cranberries, <a href="https://coffeebeings.blogspot.com/2021/10/creamy-cashew-dressing-raw.html">cashew dressing</a>, </p><p>Tea: salad with greens, romaine lettuce, grated carrots & beets, avocados, sprouted mung beans, cherry tomatoes, olives, <a href="https://coffeebeings.blogspot.com/2021/10/creamy-cashew-dressing-raw.html">cashew dressing with mustard</a></p><p><b><br /></b></p><p><b>Wednesday</b></p><p>Breakfast: <a href="https://coffeebeings.blogspot.com/2021/10/breakfast-smoothies-2.html">mango, carrot, pineapple smoothies</a></p><p>Lunch: salad with greens, grated purple carrot, sliced cabbage, walnuts, dried cranberries, & <a href="https://coffeebeings.blogspot.com/2021/10/creamy-cashew-dressing-raw.html">cashew dressing with mustard </a></p><p>Tea: green salad with raw tabbouleh</p><p><br /></p><p><b>Thursday</b></p><p>Breakfast: <a href="https://coffeebeings.blogspot.com/2021/10/breakfast-smoothies-2.html">purple smoothies</a></p><p>Lunch: salad with greens and romaine, grated rainbow carrots, sprouted mung beans, <a href="https://coffeebeings.blogspot.com/2021/10/creamy-cashew-dressing-raw.html">cashew dressing</a>, garden tomatoes, & red onions</p><p>Tea: salad with greens, grated rainbow carrots, sprouted wild rice, cherry tomatoes, & <a href="https://coffeebeings.blogspot.com/2021/10/creamy-cashew-dressing-raw.html">cashew dressing</a></p><p><br /></p><p>Snacks: dried fruit and nut mix, dried mango, coconut lime bites, <a href="https://coffeebeings.blogspot.com/2015/02/chocolate-chia-energy-bites.html">chocolate chia energy bites</a>, bananas, apples, raw ice cream.</p>Erinhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14667533845958762064noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-16016785.post-24508354155491028312021-10-30T02:01:00.003+01:002021-10-30T02:10:56.150+01:00Creamy Cashew Dressing & Sweet Coconut Cashew Cream [raw] <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh4hgV3TpatA0cvVoiyzDWvl2CsbedgMGklm8O-CuSN7eu9iEF3mmIGa0d2qGu_Hl6krHsrU30W6Gz5bYVn24ZWao8DFk-Y_HcfAiqWgX5DdOPksu4Un0_Q1c2ol83ez_l6Rdac_A/s2048/Cashew+dressing.HEIC" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2048" data-original-width="2048" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh4hgV3TpatA0cvVoiyzDWvl2CsbedgMGklm8O-CuSN7eu9iEF3mmIGa0d2qGu_Hl6krHsrU30W6Gz5bYVn24ZWao8DFk-Y_HcfAiqWgX5DdOPksu4Un0_Q1c2ol83ez_l6Rdac_A/s320/Cashew+dressing.HEIC" width="320" /></a></div><br /><p style="text-align: justify;">This deliciously creamy dressing has been our family’s go-to salad dressing for many years. I like to use it for coleslaw, green salads, and as a substitute for sour cream. Even if you’re not eating raw or vegan, it’s just one more way to lower your dairy consumption in a meal.</p><p style="text-align: justify;"><br /></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><b>Creamy Cashew Dressing</b></p><p style="text-align: justify;"></p><ul><li><i>1 cup raw cashews, preferably soaked overnight or for at least a few hours</i></li><li><i>2-3 Medjool dates [when not eating raw you could use a few TBS maple syrup instead]</i></li><li><i>1 tsp salt</i></li><li><i>3 TBS lemon juice or apple cider vinegar</i></li></ul><div>Blend to a cream, adding water until the consistency you want is reached. For a sour cream substitute, obviously you want to use less.</div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><b>Additions</b></div><div><ul><li>Italian-style creamy dressing: <i>add a few handfuls of fresh basil and oregano or a tsp each of dried, as well as 1 TBS extra virgin olive oil</i></li><li>Mustard: <i>add 1 TBS wholegrain mustard [can add 1 TBS raw honey too, for a honey mustard dressing]</i></li></ul><div><i><br /></i></div><div><i><br /></i></div><div><b>Sweet Coconut and Cashew Cream</b></div></div><div><br /></div><div><ol style="text-align: left;"><li>Soak one cup raw cashews and 1 cup desiccated unsweetened coconut in water overnight or for at least a few hours</li><li>Pour out most of the soaking water and add 4 TBS maple syrup [or 6 Medjool dates if you’re keeping it raw] and 1/2 tsp almond extract</li><li>Blend with either a hand blender or standalone until creamy.</li><li>Store in fridge for up to five days.</li></ol></div><div>Use as a dip with any fruit or as a raw icing.</div><div><br /></div><p></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><br /></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><br /></p>Erinhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14667533845958762064noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-16016785.post-36218518395062023932021-10-20T00:59:00.004+01:002021-11-01T12:16:23.002+00:00Raw October: week two<p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">This week contained an unparalleled treat: Dan and I celebrated our October twentieth anniversary by going out for lunch... during our thirty day raw detox! We went to Ezra’s Enlightened Cafe in Indianapolis and enjoyed Buddha bowls as well as raw desserts. Driving such a distance to go out to eat during a detox is no small sacrifice, but Dan took a day off work and I gave myself a day off from the fall cleaning operation that beset our home this week. Besides, I had plenty of knitting time as Dan did all the driving!</span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><br /></span></p><p><b><i><span style="font-family: georgia;">Friday</span></i></b></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia;">Breakfast: muesli with apples, Brazil nuts, bananas, & homemade coconut milk</span></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia;">Lunch: avocados and cherry tomatoes with salt, pepper, garlic</span></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia;">Tea: green salad with cashew dressing, coconut meal, olives, yellow peppers, rainbow carrots, and cucumber</span></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia;"><br /></span></p><p><b><i><span style="font-family: georgia;">Saturday</span></i></b></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia;">Breakfast: muesli with apples, bananas, Brazil nuts, almonds & homemade coconut milk</span></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia;">Lunch: carrots, cherry tomatoes, cucumber, peppers, apples, & spiced chocolate chia bites</span></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia;">Tea: taco salad with <a href="http://coffeebeings.blogspot.com/2013/07/raw-taco-filling.html">taco filling</a>, greens, cashew cream, homemade salsa, avocados.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia;">Dan’s birthday cake: <a href="https://coffeebeings.blogspot.com/2021/11/pumpkin-cheesecake-raw.html">raw pumpkin cheesecake</a></span></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia;"><br /></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhdplYUIN3N0q1MiXNc-ywJvyI_NYH4SzycIj4mbJMHk-4g4qklWYdkcoe3E1w8pEmhddaCtAQdksNuzB3453VhzyEhfZEjrvbzPWoc1MDr43sDQntWir03fpzILkIvnp2PFKPhkQ/s2048/Raw+taco+salad.heic" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2048" data-original-width="2048" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhdplYUIN3N0q1MiXNc-ywJvyI_NYH4SzycIj4mbJMHk-4g4qklWYdkcoe3E1w8pEmhddaCtAQdksNuzB3453VhzyEhfZEjrvbzPWoc1MDr43sDQntWir03fpzILkIvnp2PFKPhkQ/s320/Raw+taco+salad.heic" width="320" /></span></a></div><p></p><p><b><i><span style="font-family: georgia;">Sunday</span></i></b></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia;">Breakfast: <a href="https://coffeebeings.blogspot.com/2021/10/breakfast-smoothies-2.html">smoothies with blueberries</a></span></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia;">Lunch: green salad with leftover taco filling, cherry tomatoes, olives, avocados, cashew dressing, fresh coriander</span></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia;">Tea: watermelon, blueberries, blackberries, strawberries, almonds, coconut lime bites</span></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia;"><br /></span></p><p><b><i><span style="font-family: georgia;">Monday</span></i></b></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia;">Breakfast: <a href="https://coffeebeings.blogspot.com/2021/10/breakfast-smoothies-2.html">smoothies with mixed berries</a></span></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia;">Lunch: spinach and beet leaf salad with walnuts, dried cranberries, sprouted wild rice, cashew dressing</span></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia;">Tea: green salad with leftover taco filling, sprouted wild rice & sprouted mung beans, avocado, cherry tomatoes, homemade salsa</span></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia;"><br /></span></p><p><b><i><span style="font-family: georgia;">Tuesday:</span></i></b></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia;">Breakfast: <a href="https://coffeebeings.blogspot.com/2021/10/breakfast-smoothies-2.html">smoothies with mango and mixed berries</a></span></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia;">Lunch: walnuts, almonds & dried cranberries, apples</span></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia;">Tea: broccoli salad with dried cranberries, cashews, cashew dressing, & red onion</span></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia;"><br /></span></p><p><b><i><span style="font-family: georgia;">Wednesday:</span></i></b></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia;">Breakfast: <a href="https://coffeebeings.blogspot.com/2021/10/breakfast-smoothies-2.html">smoothies with mixed berries & cacao</a></span></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia;">Lunch: Buddha bowls with kale, greens, raw hummus, raw falafel, carrots, & beets. </span></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia;">Tea: Raw key lime cheesecake & raw walnut cacao cake</span></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia;"><br /></span></p><p><b><i><span style="font-family: georgia;">Thursday:</span></i></b></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia;">Breakfast: <a href="https://coffeebeings.blogspot.com/2021/10/breakfast-smoothies-2.html">smoothies with mixed berries & cacao</a></span></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia;">Lunch: kale marinated in lime juice & olive oil with grated carrots & beets, spinach & beet leaves, kalamata olives.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia;">Tea: leftover broccoli salad with the addition of grated beets, green apples, & sprouted mung beans.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia;"><br /></span></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia;"><i style="font-weight: bold;">Snacks: </i>Fruit, dried fruit and nut mix, <a href="https://coffeebeings.blogspot.com/2015/02/chocolate-chia-energy-bites.html">chocolate chia spice bites,</a> coconut lime bites.</span></p><p><br /></p>Erinhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14667533845958762064noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-16016785.post-14009216479542980812021-10-10T00:27:00.004+01:002021-10-10T01:16:58.813+01:00Raw October: Week One<p style="text-align: justify;">This is the first time we’ve done a raw food detox with two of our older kids joining us, for this first week at least! Fortunately our twin who’s NOT doing the raw food detox helpfully shouldered most of the responsibility for cooked food this week. </p><p style="text-align: justify;">We used old recipes and I created a few new ones. One of my favourite things about food preparation is the opportunity for creativity. I love thinking about which flavours I want to experience in a meal and how to craft recipes that reflect that. </p><p style="text-align: justify;"><br /></p><p style="text-align: justify;"> <i><b>Friday, 1st</b></i></p><p style="text-align: justify;">Breakfast: <a href="https://coffeebeings.blogspot.com/2021/10/breakfast-smoothies-2.html">mixed berry smoothies</a></p><p style="text-align: justify;">Lunch: spinach and kale salad with plenty of sunflower seeds, avocado, cherry tomatoes, and creamy cashew dressing</p><p style="text-align: justify;">Tea: Carrot pasta bowls [carrot ribbons marinated in olive oil and lemon juice with olives, leeks, and basil] eaten with mung bean sprouts and pea shoots</p><p></p><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgtnQklMEnSFJ1-X7M97Cq_OUUBTj1CxDT_BP4vKlHo0nakRlbX0ju2kmGPtNQzuWY2GRi0TFKy2V2Pm6oRnlKlAjTZUkp79-J3N44TbIYhCfuWDPPJNXi58mcDZu6hv47qgfRbQA/s2048/raw+pasta.HEIC" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2048" data-original-width="1536" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgtnQklMEnSFJ1-X7M97Cq_OUUBTj1CxDT_BP4vKlHo0nakRlbX0ju2kmGPtNQzuWY2GRi0TFKy2V2Pm6oRnlKlAjTZUkp79-J3N44TbIYhCfuWDPPJNXi58mcDZu6hv47qgfRbQA/s320/raw+pasta.HEIC" width="240" /></a></div><p></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><br /></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><i><b>Saturday, 2nd </b></i></p><p style="text-align: justify;">Breakfast: <a href="https://coffeebeings.blogspot.com/2021/10/breakfast-smoothies-2.html">“purple” smoothies [with dragonfruit & blueberries]</a></p><p style="text-align: justify;">Lunch: broccoli salad with red onions, sunflower seeds, raisins, green apples, and cashew dressing</p><p style="text-align: justify;">Tea: <a href="http://coffeebeings.blogspot.com/2013/07/raw-taco-filling.html">raw tacos</a> with cashew cream and fresh salsa</p><p style="text-align: justify;"><br /></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><i><b>Sunday, 3rd </b></i></p><p style="text-align: justify;">Breakfast: muesli with almonds, almond milk, apples, and bananas</p><p style="text-align: justify;">Lunch: curried cauliflower and cashew mash, green salad with cashew dressing,<a href="http://coffeebeings.blogspot.com/2012/05/sprouting-chickpeas.html"> raw sprouted chickpea hummus</a> with carrots, peppers, celery sticks</p><p style="text-align: justify;">Tea: <a href="https://coffeebeings.blogspot.com/2021/10/breakfast-smoothies-2.html">smoothies with mixed berries and cacao</a></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><br /></p><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; 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text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjXwvDDc6C-CdW-ToiVg3tfPGdNgl6fubEg85krEH7JFAcodCOz8rd3p-UZ60pNXelsz2smgFragU8sO_bKW2-Y_J7kdO4W-CyMZ6FjtHiT37-EVjycCQisTJpezJlemKTTOYtAZA/s2048/raw+stirfy.HEIC" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2048" data-original-width="2048" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjXwvDDc6C-CdW-ToiVg3tfPGdNgl6fubEg85krEH7JFAcodCOz8rd3p-UZ60pNXelsz2smgFragU8sO_bKW2-Y_J7kdO4W-CyMZ6FjtHiT37-EVjycCQisTJpezJlemKTTOYtAZA/s320/raw+stirfy.HEIC" width="320" /></a></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><p></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><i><b>Wednesday, 6th</b></i></p><p style="text-align: justify;">Breakfast: <a href="http://coffeebeings.blogspot.com/2021/10/breakfast-smoothies-2.html">mixed berry smoothies</a></p><p style="text-align: justify;">Lunch: leftover coleslaw with cashew dressing, sunflower seeds, hemp seeds, & chopped apples</p><p style="text-align: justify;">Tea: <a href="http://coffeebeings.blogspot.com/2013/03/garlic-lovers-salad-100-veganoptional.html">garlic lover’s salad with sprouted mung beans</a></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><i><b><br /></b></i></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><i><b>Thursday, 7th </b></i></p><p style="text-align: justify;">Breakfast: muesli with Brazil nuts, almond milk, apples, & bananas</p><p style="text-align: justify;">Lunch: <a href="http://coffeebeings.blogspot.com/2012/06/vegetable-chilli.html">raw vegetable chilli </a>with green salad and almond meal leftovers from <a href="https://coffeebeings.blogspot.com/2021/10/almond-milk-coconut-milk-recipes.html">almond milk</a></p><p style="text-align: justify;">Tea: smoothies with mixed berries & cacao</p><p style="text-align: justify;"><i><br /></i></p><p style="text-align: justify;">Snacks: dried fruit and nut mix, raw Lara bars, apples, bananas, carrot sticks with raw hummus, <a href="https://www.blogger.com/blog/post/edit/preview/16016785/4874721194478960411">chocolate chia bites</a>, watermelon.</p>Erinhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14667533845958762064noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-16016785.post-43239768160180205972021-10-06T02:23:00.009+01:002021-10-06T16:17:40.946+01:00Almond Milk & Coconut Milk Recipes <div style="text-align: justify;">There’s a creamier version of homemade almond milk in the <a href="https://coffeebeings.blogspot.com/2012/03/raw-food-breakfasts.html">raw breakfast recipe here</a>. But another version I use nowadays, making raw milks in larger amounts, is this one:</div><div><ul style="text-align: left;"><li style="text-align: justify;">1 cup almonds, soaked overnight</li><li style="text-align: justify;">5 cups water</li></ul></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">For coconut milk:</div><div><ul style="text-align: left;"><li style="text-align: justify;">1 cup desiccated unsweetened coconut</li><li style="text-align: justify;">5 cups water</li></ul><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">Blend until creamy, about two minutes on high speed, depending on your blender.</div></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">Both coconut or almond milk can be poured through a <a href="https://wellearthgoods.com/products/nut-milk-strainer-bag-organic-cotton?variant=19013043519547&currency=USD&utm_medium=product_sync&utm_source=google&utm_content=sag_organic&utm_campaign=sag_organic&utm_campaign=gs-2018-11-10&utm_source=google&utm_medium=smart_campaign&gclid=CjwKCAjw7--KBhAMEiwAxfpkWPvpLa11bpML-TDRLybJ8WSiD3RyN0gj6icCLJpIBBEuECs3VKwCpxoCOMwQAvD_BwE">bag</a> that removes the meal to make them smoother. Use the meal to top green salads, in raw snack balls, in raw pie crusts, or in cooked food like cookies or pancakes.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">Freshly made milk can be stored in mason jars in the fridge for as long as they last-- not long around here! Both coconut and almond milks, stored in a closed jar, will stay fresh for at least a week in the fridge.</div>Erinhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14667533845958762064noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-16016785.post-58541334548730763062021-10-06T01:19:00.003+01:002021-10-06T13:56:45.447+01:00Breakfast Smoothies 2<p style="text-align: justify;">This is an updated version of our old smoothie recipe, which you can find <a href="https://coffeebeings.blogspot.com/2013/07/breakfast-smoothies.html">here. </a> This newer version is the one we’ve been using for the past six years or so. The fruit content has changed slightly and I’ve removed some of the nuts. This is a basic recipe, but below it I’ve included some yummy ideas for combinations. Use your imagination!</p><p style="text-align: justify;">Currently, our morning batches of smoothie are quite large, but I’ve written this recipe in single serving quantities so you can double, triple, or quadruple as needed! You can also multiply the recipe and save extra in a mason jar in the fridge for the next day.</p><p style="text-align: justify;"><i>Makes one portion</i></p><p style="text-align: justify;">The night before you plan to have smoothie, soak in a jar or glass jug (either in fridge or covered on the countertop):</p><p></p><ul style="text-align: left;"><li style="text-align: justify;">2 heaping tablespoons steelcut oats</li><li style="text-align: justify;">2 heaping tablespoons desiccated unsweetened coconut </li><li style="text-align: justify;">1 Brazil nut (optional)</li><li style="text-align: justify;">1/2 pitted Medjool date</li></ul><div style="text-align: justify;">In the morning, add the soaking mixture to a blender container along with 1/3 of an apple and 1/3 of a banana. Add 1/4 cup of another fruit: berries or anything else you like, really. [see below for additions to change the flavor!] All fruit can be either frozen or fresh; whatever is most available. Add 1 tablespoon ground flaxseed. Fill the blender container to the 2-cup mark and blend well. [about 6-8 oz water, measured]</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div><ol style="text-align: left;"><li style="text-align: justify;">Blueberry Cacao - 1/4 cup blueberries, small piece of avocado, small piece of fresh pineapple, 1/4 cup homemade almond milk, one heaping tablespoon cacao powder, few drops of vanilla extract.</li><li style="text-align: justify;">Blueberry Lemon - 1/4 cup blueberries, handful of greens like spinach or kale, 1 tablespoon fresh lemon juice, 1/2 tsp freshly grated lemon rind, piece of fresh pineapple, one tablespoon grated fresh beetroot, few drops of almond extract. </li><li style="text-align: justify;">Carrot Cake - two pecans, 1/4 cup homemade almond milk, one piece of pineapple, 1/4 cup grated fresh carrot, a bit of lemon peel, 1/4 tsp mixed spice or cinnamon, 1 tsp maple syrup, a few drops vanilla extract.</li><li style="text-align: justify;">Mango Strawberry - three or four strawberries, 1/4 cup mango pieces, one tablespoon grated fresh carrot.</li><li style="text-align: justify;">Peach & Carrot - 1/3 peach, 1/4 tsp cinnamon, one tablespoon grated fresh carrot, few drops vanilla extract.</li><li>Pineapple Cream - (add two pecans & two Brazil nuts to the soaking mixture) two large pieces fresh pineapple, 1/4 cup homemade almond milk, a few drops almond extract.</li><li>Pineapple Strawberry - three or four strawberries, 1/4 cup fresh pineapple pieces, 1/4 cup homemade almond milk.</li><li>Purple - 1/4 cup blueberries, one piece of frozen dragonfruit, one small piece of pineapple.</li></ol></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><p></p>Erinhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14667533845958762064noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-16016785.post-59736617385688802822021-09-29T01:37:00.005+01:002021-09-30T02:13:20.110+01:00Community and Beyond<p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">I’ve been reading through past blog posts to inspire me for an upcoming raw food detox that we’re doing, and came across <a href="https://coffeebeings.blogspot.com/2011/01/january-reflections-community.html">one that I’d written over ten years ago</a>. It’s made me think about how much more we understand the purposes of God for us as a family than we did ten years ago.</span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">The ten year old post definitely deserves a postscript-- an update. Ten years on, we are living in another culture and cultivating a different community, understanding more than we did in those days.</span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">When Dan and I first began to spend time together as a couple, we did so in community. We spent more time with others than we did alone. Even our alone times were spent in the Blue Cafe, where we regularly went for coffee and built relationships with the staff who worked there even as we worked on building our own relationship. Opening our lives to others has been at the core of who we are as a couple from the very beginning; it was what had been modelled to us by those who were discipling us. This continued on into our early married life as we opened the door of our tiny flat with open house evenings including multiple young people, dinners with other couples, coffee and tea with friends, squeezing them into our space along with our twin babies who came along at the end of our first year of marriage. We moved up the hill to a home that, though small, had a design that was excellent for the open door lifestyle that we felt characterised our purpose. We had small group meetings, game nights, Sunday lunches for students, birthday celebrations, and other families with children over to play. Opening our home also meant inviting others to stay for extended periods: friends and family in need, exchange students, overseas visitors. Eventually we had a Sunday evening open house, which allowed others to bring friends along. We didn’t know everyone who came, but eventually they all became part of community, living life with us. It was never easy. </span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">After ten years of this revolving door, we moved to the US. At first it felt like a break, a long holiday. Then we began to look around us to find the people who God was calling us to do life with. Sure enough, after a while we began to realise who they were and we began the process of building community again. Now in another home, another place, our door is open and though it looks a little different, in many ways it’s exactly the same. Our home is a place for connecting with others, sharing life, praying through difficult times, and seeing God work in the lives of many. Our children have grown up in this understanding, and they know that though we do set aside specific family-only nights, our home belongs to others, too.</span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">As I wrote in the original blog post, loving people as if they were Jesus creates community. There’s no special treatment given to those I can gain from as opposed to those who have nothing to give. Sometimes the house is neat and tidy when people walk through our door; at other times it’s chaotic and not very clean. Sometimes we are struggling with our attitudes and have little to offer; at other times our spirits are connecting to God’s Spirit and we have encouragement and wisdom to give. We are honest and open in those times that things are not going well; we don’t avoid communication or people and don’t pretend that everything is all right when it’s not. There is always welcome, though, and always a safe space.</span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">Does creating community from home look the same for everyone? No. Our callings vary, and our different levels of capacity vary, too. But we are all called to live generously. It’s not always comfortable, never easy, and requires us to be open, honest communicators. It requires us to give up our lives. We cannot remain in our own self-contained castle if we want to live generously.</span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">There's a connection between what we do as a family and the purposes of God. Of course there's the collective purpose that God has for all of us who are following the way of the Messiah: "go and make people from all nations into disciples"; and then there are also the individual callings and spiritual giftings that help us to do that. </span><span style="font-family: georgia;">We’ve been studying Philippians as a family, and as we read through chapter 3 the other day, I realised again how necessary it is that we ALL understand what Messiah Yeshua’s purpose --His calling-- is for each us. </span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">Mine and Dan’s mutual understanding of the call on our lives to create community and live with an open door has been a foundation of our lives together. We have lived this out for twenty years and are well acquainted with the ups and downs as well as, at times, our own lack in fulfilling this call to shepherd others. Our</span><span style="font-family: georgia;"> ability to live generously by opening our home to the capacity that we are able to is definitely our gifting. I know that the “open door” of our home is Messiah's purpose for us, no matter what culture we are in or where we live. It will always be that way. Our children may inherit some of that purpose from us, though it may look slightly different for them. They may be able to live generously in other ways. For this is </span><span style="font-family: georgia;">what an open door is really all about: a tool for living generously as we pursue the goal of what it is that the Messiah took hold of us for. </span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"></span></p><blockquote><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">“But the things that used to be advantages for me, I have, because of the Messiah, come to consider a disadvantage. Not only that, but I consider everything a disadvantage in comparison with the supreme value of knowing the Messiah Yeshua as my Lord. It was because of him that I gave up everything and regard it all as garbage, in order to gain the Messiah and be found in union with him, not having any righteousness of my own based on legalism, but having that righteousness which comes through the Messiah’s faithfulness, the righteousness from God based on trust. Yes, I gave it all up in order to know him, that is, to be conformed to his death, so that somehow I might arrive at being resurrected from the dead. It is not that I have already obtained it or reached the goal-- no, I keep pursuing it in the hope of taking hold of that for which the Messiah Yeshua took hold of me. Brothers, I, for my part, do not think of myself as having yet gotten hold of it; but one thing I do: forgetting what is behind me and straining forward toward what lies ahead, I keep pursuing the goal in order to win the prize offered by God’s upward calling in the Messiah Yeshua. Therefore, as many of us as are mature, let us keep paying attention to this; and if you are differently minded about anything, God will also reveal this to you. 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Friday is soup night at our house! This is one of our current favourites, a versatile soup packed full of veggies with a creamy tomato base. I like it because I always have these ingredients on hand, and if I'm bereft of fresh green veggies I can use frozen instead! This recipe makes about eight large servings.</div>
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Saute two large onions in a tin or two (2-4 cups homemade) of coconut milk, with a blend of dried or fresh herbs (thyme/oregano/basil/sage), garlic, and a sprinkle of cayenne pepper. </div>
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This recipe is one I've adapted from <a href="https://www.wellplated.com/vegan-pumpkin-muffins/">Well Plated </a>. It's similar to the original but we've definitely made it our own by substituting ingredients we usually have on hand. Last night for tea we ate the less sweet version with scrambled eggs, accompanied by an apple and pecan fruit salad.</div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;"><i>What would you like to do when you are older? </i>Be a professional footballer.</span><br />
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<span style="font-kerning: none;"><i>What's your favourite book[s]? </i> The <a href="http://www.redwallabbey.com/">Redwall series</a> at the moment.</span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;"><i>What are your top hobbies right now?</i> Making electronic music, playing with my football cards, listening to music.</span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;"><i>What do you enjoy doing with me? </i> Reading, having cups of tea together and chatting.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #444444; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 16px;"><i>What do you enjoy doing with Mr J? </i>Playing Lego Pirates of the </span><span style="color: #444444; font-family: "times new roman";"><span style="caret-color: rgb(68, 68, 68);">Caribbean on the playstation.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-kerning: none;"><i>What do you enjoy learning about the most? </i>Geography.</span><br />
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You can read Righty's <a href="https://coffeebeings.blogspot.com/2017/09/fifteenth-birthday-interview-with-righty.html">fifteenth birthday interview here.</a><br />
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<span style="font-kerning: none;"><i>What's your favourite book[s]? <a href="https://www.kmlarwood.com/podkin/">The Legend of Podkin One Ear.</a></i></span></div>
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<span style="color: #444444; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 16px;"><i>What’s your favourite music to listen to right now? </i>I listen to lots of different music. I listen to techno music so I can study how the </span><span style="color: #444444; font-family: "times new roman";"><span style="caret-color: rgb(68, 68, 68);">professionals do it.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-kerning: none;"><i>What are your top hobbies right now?</i> Playing football cards. Making electronic music on GarageBand. Playing football.</span><br />
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<span style="font-kerning: none;"><i>What do you enjoy doing with me? </i> Helping with different stuff like cooking and cleaning. Talking and playing games.</span><br />
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<span style="font-kerning: none;"><i>What do you enjoy doing with Dad?</i> Doing sleepovers, going to eat and playing games.</span><br />
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<span style="font-kerning: none;"><i>What do you enjoy doing with Coo?</i> Playing Playmobil. Having a tea party.</span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;"><i>What do you enjoy doing with Righty? </i>Playing football.</span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;"><i>What makes you sad?</i> Not being able to do something. Actually it makes me more mad than sad.</span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;"><i>What do you enjoy learning about the most? </i>Algebra, history, geography, science and writing.</span><br />
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<span style="color: #444444; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 16px;"><i>What's your favourite book[s]? Eragon</i>, <i>The Hobbit</i>, The <i>Redwall </i></span><span style="color: #444444; font-family: "times new roman";"><span style="caret-color: rgb(68, 68, 68);">series.</span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #444444; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 16px;"><i>What’s your favourite music to listen to right now? </i>Spanish </span><span style="color: #444444; font-family: "times new roman";"><span style="caret-color: rgb(68, 68, 68);">guitar, Ed Sheeran, Newton Faulkner, the Pirates of the Caribbean soundtrack.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-kerning: none;"><i>What are your top hobbies right now?</i> Playing guitar, playing football cards, reading.</span><br />
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<span style="font-kerning: none;"><i>What do you enjoy doing with me? </i>When you read aloud to us<i>.</i></span><br />
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<span style="font-kerning: none;"><i>What do you enjoy doing with Dad?</i> Playing guitar.</span><br />
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<span style="font-kerning: none;"><i>What do you enjoy doing with Coo?</i> Play music with her.</span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;"><i>What do you enjoy doing with Righty? </i>Talking about, watching, and playing football. Joking around.</span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;"><i>What do you enjoy learning about the most? </i>History.</span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;"><i>If you could choose any time in history to live in, when would that be? </i>1850, because that's when our house was built. </span><br />
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<span style="font-kerning: none;"><i>Is there anyone famous that you'd like to meet? </i>Paul Pogba [Manchester Utd footballer] </span><br />
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<span style="font-kerning: none;"><i>If you could be a character from a book, who would that be?</i> Eragon</span><br />
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<span style="font-kerning: none;"><i>If there were any imaginary/pretend things you could choose to do, what would it be? </i>Own a dragon and fly around like Eragon does with Sapphire.</span><br />
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You can read Mr J's <a href="https://coffeebeings.blogspot.com/2017/08/twelfth-birthday-interview-with-mr-j.html">twelfth birthday interview here.</a><br />
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<span style="font-kerning: none;">I’d like to have one like Adventure Girl does in the stories that Daddy tells me. They're just fun and exciting. </span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;"><i>What would you like to do when you grow up?</i> </span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;">Be a ballerina, or a musician who plays for people dancing in the ballet.</span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;"><i>What is it that you like about that? </i></span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;">It’s beautiful.</span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;">Quesadillas, rice and cheese, salad, refried beans.</span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;"><i><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A_Little_Princess">A Little Princess</a></i>, the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brambly_Hedge"><i>Brambly Hedge</i> storybook</a>, the <a href="https://www.kmlarwood.com/podkin/">Podkin One-Ear series</a>, and the <i><a href="https://flowerfairies.com/complete-book-flower-fairies/">Complete Book of Flower Fairies.</a></i></span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;"><i>Who do you like spending time with?</i> </span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;">My family, my cousins, and my friends.</span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;"><i>What do you enjoy doing with me? </i></span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;">Baking, colouring, when you read aloud to me, doing birthday interviews</span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;">Making jokes, playing games.</span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;">Just playing, like on the trampoline or with Playmobil</span><br />
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<span style="font-kerning: none;"><i>What's your favourite thing to do on your own? </i></span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;">Dance, read with my blanket, make crafts.</span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;">Drawing, colouring, pretty writing, sewing, painting, paper craft pictures (like Eric Carle’s)</span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;">Family games, family movies, go to England together</span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;">Birthdays and Christmas and Thanksgiving and all the fun days</span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;">When people die and people get hurt</span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;"><i>If you could choose any time in history to live in, when would that be?</i> </span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;">The time when there were Tudor princesses</span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;"><i>Is there anyone famous that you'd like to meet? </i></span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;">Darcey Bussell</span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;"><i>If there were any imaginary/pretend things you could choose to do, what would it be? </i></span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;"><i>What is the adventure you would most like to have? </i>I’d like to go on the same adventure that Sherlock Holmes has in the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Hound_of_the_Baskervilles">Hound of the Baskervilles</a>.</span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;"><i>What would you like to do when you’re a grown-up?</i> Play football professionally</span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;"><i>What's that going to be like?</i> Something I’ll enjoy</span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;"><i>What's your favourite supper? </i>I like so many, but one of my favorites is vegetable chilli and rice.</span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;"><i>What's your favourite cake or pudding?</i> Homemade chocolate fudge cake</span><br />
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<span style="font-kerning: none;"><i>What's your favourite book[s]? <a href="https://www.amazon.co.uk/Cats-Seroster-Piccolo-Books/dp/0330292390">The Cats of Seroster</a></i> and <i><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Lord_of_the_Rings">Lord of the Rings</a></i></span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;"><i>What’s your favourite music to listen to right now? </i>Electronic music. I listen to Aerochord and Rogue the most.</span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;"><i>What are your top hobbies right now? </i>Playing football (soccer), experimenting with making my own electronic music, reading, being one of Paddy’s best mates.</span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;"><i>What do you enjoy doing with me? </i>I like to help you clean and tidy everything, and play games</span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;"><i>What do you enjoy doing with Dad?</i> When we work together on a project, having sleepovers where we play games and talk.</span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;"><i>What do you enjoy doing with Coo?</i> Helping her with a craft project</span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;"><i>What do you enjoy doing with Righty?</i> Play football</span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;"><i>What do you enjoy doing with Mr J?</i> I like to help him organise his things, or work on Lego together</span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;"><i>What's your favourite thing to do on your own? </i>Listen to music or play with my football cards</span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;"><i>What's your favourite family day out together? </i>Going to Bloomington</span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;"><i>What makes you happy?</i> Being able to rest after a long, busy day</span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;"><i>What do you enjoy learning about the most? </i>I enjoy history, and maths is always my top favourite</span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;"><i>If you could choose any time in history to live in, when would that be?</i> During World War II. It would be interesting to know and understand what it would be like to be a German during WWII. </span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;"><i>What is the adventure you would most like to have? </i>Search for bobcats and mountain lions at night in a silent vehicle</span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;"><i>What would you like to do when you’re a grown-up? </i>Be a professional footballer (soccer player)</span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;"><i>What's that going to be like? </i>A lot of work, especially to get there</span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;"><i>What's your favourite supper? </i>This is so hard to answer because I love everything we eat. I really liked the homemade pizzas we made a few weeks ago. </span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;"><i>What's your favourite cake or pudding?</i> Baked cheesecake is good, but I think my favourite is still homemade chocolate cream pie [made with coconut milk custard]</span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;"><i>What's your favourite book[s]? </i>Right now, the <i><a href="https://journeymama.com/journey-mama-books/">World Whisperer</a></i> series</span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;"><i>What’s your favourite music to listen to right now? </i>Electronic music, like trap or dubstep. I listen to Rogue and Aerochord the most.</span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;"><i>What are your top hobbies right now?</i> Experimenting with making my own electronic music, playing football cards and football, writing my book, reading, playing with Paddy.</span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;"><i>What do you enjoy doing with me? </i>Cooking with you, and when you read out loud to us</span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;"><i>What do you enjoy doing with Dad?</i> Birdwatching together, watching football, whenever we get a chance to work on a project together</span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;"><i>What do you enjoy doing with Mr J? </i>Talking about books and football</span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;"><i>What's your favourite thing to do on your own? </i>Read books, listen to music, play with my football cards</span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;"><i>What's your favourite family day out together? </i>Going to new places and state parks</span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;">You can read Righty’s <a href="https://coffeebeings.blogspot.com/2016/09/fourteenth-birthday-interview-with.html">fourteenth birthday interview here.</a></span></div>
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Twelve years we've had with Mr J. This boy continues to be very much himself, an individual personality in the midst of a family of firstborns. It is a joy to watch him grow in character and understanding, and to see the realisation of facets of his personality that were evident early on but are only just now reaching maturity.</div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;"><i>What would you like to do when you grow up?</i> I’d like to be a musician and then travel around to visit famous places like the Great Wall of China and Niagara Falls.</span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;"><i>What do you think that will be like? </i>Music usually makes me feel calm and I’d like to be able to create music that makes me feel calm inside. I like the way I can create different sounds. Travelling will be fun because I can see places from history. </span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;"><i>What's your favourite meal? </i>I like a good chicken curry, a bit spicy. My other favourites are vegetable chilli [Mr J knows how to make this!], and a proper cooked English breakfast.</span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;"><i>What's your favourite book[s]? <a href="http://www.tolkienlibrary.com/booksbytolkien/hobbit/description.htm">The Hobbit</a></i>, the <a href="http://journeymama.com/journey-mama-books/">World Whisperer books</a>, </span><span style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: initial;">the </span><i style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: initial;"><a href="http://en.tintin.com/essentiel">Tintin</a></i><span style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: initial;"> books - especially the </span><i style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: initial;"><a href="http://en.tintin.com/albums/show/id/35/page/0/0/the-secret-of-the-unicorn">Secret of the Unicorn</a>-</i><span style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: initial;"> and the </span><i style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: initial;"><a href="http://www.alagaesia.com/books.php">Eragon</a></i><span style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: initial;"> series.</span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;"><i>What do you enjoy doing with me? </i>I like to sew with you, and when you read aloud to me. I like to talk with you and smell your food cooking.</span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;"><i>What do you enjoy doing with Dad?</i> I like it when he reads to me, and we have sleepovers, joke around and be silly. It's fun to build Lego with him.</span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;"><i>What's your favourite thing to do on your own? </i>Read, play the ukulele and make up my own tunes, play with our football card leagues.</span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;"><i>What's your favourite family day out together? </i>Going hiking or camping, visiting Spring Mill [state park].</span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;"><i>What makes you happy?</i> People laughing. Paddington pretending to be fierce. When I find out that something good has happened in the world, like a war ending.</span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;"><i>What makes you sad? </i>Wars and people fighting. When people die. </span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;"><i>What do you enjoy learning about the most? </i>Maths, just because I enjoy equations and Venn diagrams; and history, as I like learning about places and people from the past. </span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;"><i>If you could choose any time in history to live in, when would that be?</i> When the English came to live in Massachusetts at Plimoth Plantation.</span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;"><i>You can read <a href="http://coffeebeings.blogspot.com/2016/08/eleventh-birthday-interview-with-mr-j.html">J's eleventh birthday interview</a> here. </i></span></div>
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Eight years we've had so far with this young lady! She's as lovely as she looks, beautiful inside and out. She reminds me of a fairy princess, except that the pixie dust magic in her wake takes a more tangible form by surrounding us with the pretty things she's constantly creating. She is not a morning person and doesn't yet appreciate her brothers' jokes, though she's quite capable of holding her own in banter with them when she chooses to! This is a tiny peek into her world...</div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;">I’d like to go back to Donaldson Cave at Spring Mill state park</span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;">All of them!</span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Famous_Five_(series)"><i>The Famous Five </i>series</a> by Enid Blyton, the <a href="http://www.littlehousebooks.com/">Laura and Mary</a> books by Laura Ingalls Wilder, <a href="https://www.betsy-tacysociety.org/maud-hart-lovelace/">Betsy and Tacy</a> books, <a href="http://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/books/features/five-children-and-it-by-e-nesbit-book-of-a-lifetime-cheerful-child-centred-anarchy-9995453.html">Five Children and It</a>, <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Treasures_of_the_Snow">Treasures of the Snow</a>. I just like all books.</span><br />
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<span style="font-kerning: none;">My family, Eisley and Everleigh, Adalyn and Chloe. I miss spending time with my friends in England.</span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;"><i>What do you enjoy doing with me? </i></span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;">Playing games like Go Fish, Chinese checkers (chequers), Wildcraft, and Bananagrams. Have cuddles. </span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;">I like it when he reads to me and tells me stories about Adventure Girl</span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;">I like to do mystery digs and tea parties with him.</span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;">I like it when he helps me. He’s kind.</span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;">I like it when we drive to places to stay overnight, like when we went to St Louis or Cape Cod.</span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;">You can read Coo’s <a href="http://coffeebeings.blogspot.com/2016/06/seventh-birthday-interview-with-coo.html">seventh birthday interview here</a>. Though our questions have changed a bit over the years, it was quite interesting to reread <a href="http://coffeebeings.blogspot.com/2013/08/eighth-birthday-interview-with-mr-j.html">Mr J's eighth birthday interview</a>!</span><br />
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Here's Righty, laughing in anticipation at the idea of the sparkler candles being lit on his third birthday cake. He's always been so good at living in and appreciating the moment, someone who truly understands how to enjoy today. We are so thankful for his lighthearted, happy, creative, busy presence in our family.<br />
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<span style="font-kerning: none;"><i>What's that going to be like? </i>I’ve not really thought about it recently. Normally I think about that but I haven’t lately.</span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;"><i>Who do you like hanging out with?</i> My family, the Costellos, the Crawfords, Layton, Seth, Anna and Nathan. I like playing games with Grammy and watching movies with Grandpa. I like playing Chinese checkers with Nanny and playing the Wii with Grandad.</span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;"><i>What do you enjoy doing with me? </i>Calling you ‘Mevvy'. Playing games and learning history together.</span><br />
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<span style="font-kerning: none;"><i>If there were any imaginary/pretend things you could choose to do, what would it be? </i>I would be someone who could disappear and hide in the forest, so that my enemies couldn’t find me, like a wizard or a ranger.</span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;">You can read Righty's <a href="http://coffeebeings.blogspot.com/2014/10/twelfth-birthday-interview-with-righty.html"><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none; -webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(4, 46, 238); color: #551a8b;">twelfth birthday interview here</span></a>. Somehow we missed his thirteenth birthday, which is a shame, but never mind! </span><br />
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Out of our three boys, Lefty --pictured above at left :)-- is the one who is most likely to be leading the pack in every outdoor adventure. His planning skills are beyond my own sometimes! Whether it's a woodland walk or an afternoon of football (soccer) training, he has a wonderful gift for leading with grace and a genuine care for others. I am so thankful to be his mother and grateful for his presence in our family.<br />
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<span style="font-kerning: none;"><i>What is the adventure you would most like to have? </i>I’d like to be in a Sherlock Holmes mystery adventure, like in </span><span style="font-kerning: none; text-decoration: underline;"><a href="http://literature.org/authors/doyle-arthur-conan/hound/">The Hound of the Baskervilles</a></span><span style="font-kerning: none; text-decoration: underline;"> story.</span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;">I'm so thankful for this boy. He loves birthdays and every year, it's just that little bit more fun to spend the day celebrating him. </span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;">His eleven years have been wild and crazy. Not every newborn boy has the privilege of putting up with older twin brothers, or keeping up with them as he grows. Mr J has made an excellent job of both, and he's survived!</span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;"><i>What's your favourite book[s]? </i><a href="http://www.tolkienlibrary.com/booksbytolkien/hobbit/description.htm">The Hobbit</a>, the <a href="http://www.worldofjohnflanagan.com/rangers-apprentice/">Rangers Apprentice</a> series, <a href="http://www.tolkien.co.uk/category/The+Lord+of+the+Rings">Lord of the Rings</a>, anything adventurous.</span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;"><i>What do you enjoy doing with Dad?</i> Playing card games and board games with him. I like going out to eat with him and going bowling and playing mini-golf. </span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;"><i>What makes you happy?</i> Music, seeing other people who are happy, creating something, being with my family, playing games, seeing Riaan smile. [our friends’ eight-month-old baby]</span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;">You can read Judah's <a href="http://coffeebeings.blogspot.com/2015/08/tenth-birthday-interview-with-mr-j.html">tenth birthday interview here</a>. Our birthday interviews were an idea from Lauren, who blogs at <a href="http://www.sparklingadventures.com/index.php?c=the-interviews&s=article"><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none; -webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(231, 103, 0); color: #e76700;">Sparkling Adventures</span></a>. They're a great way of seeing the changes that take place as our kids grow older, as well as noting the things that remain the same!</span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;">Roxaboxen, Laura and Mary series, Paddington series, Grandma’s Attic series, Children of the Forest.</span></div>
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<span style="text-align: justify;">I would have a real, talking bear like Paddington Bear, who I would love and cuddle.</span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;">You can read Eve’s <a href="http://coffeebeings.blogspot.com/2015/06/sixth-birthday-interview-with-coo.html">sixth birthday interview here</a>. Our birthday interviews were an idea from Lauren, who blogs at <a href="http://www.sparklingadventures.com/index.php?c=the-interviews&s=article"><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none; -webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(231, 103, 0); color: #e76700;">Sparkling Adventures</span></a>. They're a great way of seeing the changes that take place as our kids grow older, as well as noting the things that remain the same!</span></div>
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Published in the US as <i>Charlotte Brontë: a fiery heart</i>, this new biography by English writer Claire Harman surpassed all my expectations.</div>
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I've long possessed a keen interest in the Brontë sisters, not merely because of the unusual books they endowed to posterity. As a group of writers their ability to decipher human emotions and psychology is astonishingly acute for women whose lives offered very little in the way of human society. How did they grow into this and what influenced them? I was keen to find out and excited about reading this new book. </div>
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Claire Harman has delved deeply into the entire Brontë catalogue of research, particularly the hundreds of surviving letters that passed between Charlotte Brontë and her closest friends. She spent hours at the <a href="http://coffeebeings.blogspot.com/2013/06/bronte-parsonage-museum.html"><span style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(4, 46, 238); color: #551a8b;">Brontë Parsonage Museum</span></a> in Haworth, immersing herself as much as possible in the world of the Brontës, their home as well as the drearily beautiful surroundings of the rugged moor and the "strange uncivilized little place" in which they spent most of their short lives.</div>
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Charlotte Brontë and her sisters existed in a world --an entire culture of dependence-- that is almost completely forgotten in today's Western society. The reliance of women on the benevolence of their fathers and brothers was absolute, unless they were able to receive an education or marry. Fortunately for Charlotte, Emily, and Anne, their father was a Church of England vicar who was unusually well educated for a man who had been born into poverty in Ireland. He made his way to England and never looked back, possessing a will to forge ahead and compartmentalise. This indomitable will kept him going through his wife's early death, pushed him to educate his children himself away from the "uncivilized" world of Haworth, and probably influenced his elderly manipulation of his surviving daughter Charlotte.</div>
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The pre-<i>Jane Eyre</i> part of Charlotte’s life makes for a dark preface to her future success. After being cocooned in a home environment that was marked by the oddly detailed creation of imaginary worlds with her siblings, she goes to Brussels with her sister Emily to round out her education. Experiences incurred here influence her writing for the rest of her life.</div>
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Upon her return home from Brussels, she and her sisters Anne and Emily embark on an almost feverishly intense quest to publish their writing. Here <i>Jane Eyre</i> comes into being, written in a fury. The three sisters finally publish their first books under gender-neutral aliases: Acton, Currer, and Elliot Bell.</div>
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One of my favourite scenes in this book is the one in which Charlotte reveals her true identity to her London publisher, Mr Smith. Chased by rumours that "all those Bells" were actually one and the same author, Anne and Charlotte set out to disprove the gossip by visiting London in person to prove their identity. Wisely, Harman allows Charlotte to relate the story herself through a letter to a friend. After she tells Mr Smith she is Currer Bell, handing him a letter from himself to confirm it, he "looked at it-- then at me--again--yet again-- I laughed at his queer perplexity-- A recognition took place--. I gave my real name--Miss Brontë..."</div>
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What would pass for a cute "mistaken identity" anecdote in today's society was a profound shocker in early Victorian England. What a triumph for these Brontë women who were so ahead of their time!</div>
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Any of us who have some familiarity with the Brontë saga are aware that their era was plagued by high mortality, caused by disease, lack of access to clean water, and poor nutrition. Anne, Emily, and Charlotte endured the sorrow of losing their mother when they were small children, and less than a year later their eldest two sisters died in short succession after virulent attacks of tuberculosis. Their one surviving sibling, Branwell, wrote brilliant poetry and attempted portrait painting but could not control his addiction to opium and alcohol. He died not long after his sisters' initial writing successes. Within months of his death Emily and Anne both died of tuberculosis, leaving Charlotte to care for her elderly father.</div>
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Claire Harman writes carefully and honestly about this time in Charlotte's life, adroitly avoiding a sense of melodrama that has pervaded other accounts of the Brontë family. The grief that controlled Charlotte's existence and the immutability of her beloved sisters' deaths is obvious without being overdone. Charlotte also had to endure critics who did not recognise her sisters' genius, in a total misunderstanding of the nature of their novels. In her newfound status as a bestselling author, she wrote biographical prefaces to new editions of Emily's <i>Wuthering</i> <i>Heights</i> and Anne's <i>Agnes Grey </i>in the hope that they would not be forgotten.</div>
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For Charlotte the next four years were marked by constant writing, most notably a rewrite of her first novel, <i>The Professor </i>(published posthumously) and her usual personal correspondence with friends. <i>Shirley</i>, published right after Anne's death, did not possess the brilliance of Charlotte's first novels. She was clearly feeling a profound sense of loss. I find this a telling clue that Charlotte's own creativity was fed and fanned into flame by the close proximity of her sisters, their ideas and intensity. I wonder what different novels we might be reading today if not for the fact that their writing burst from a creative bubble that collectively enveloped the three of them. </div>
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In the final year of Charlotte's life, she married her father's curate after an intense period of emotional manipulation by her father, who preferred that she take care of him rather than marry. The marriage was finally agreed to under the condition that the newly married couple live with him in Haworth. Just months after Charlotte's marriage, she died abruptly of what Claire Harman surmises was "hyperemesis gravidarum" --an unusual condition of pregnancy that causes the sufferer intense sickness: in the 1850's, virtually a death sentence.</div>
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"Of all the subjects I have written about, hers is the most unquiet ghost," Claire Harman says of Charlotte Brontë. </div>
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<i><a href="http://www.barnesandnoble.com/w/charlotte-bront-claire-harman/1122726899?ean=9780307962089">Charlotte Brontë: a fiery heart</a> —</i>@ Barnes & Noble.com</div>
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<i><a href="https://www.waterstones.com/book/charlotte-bronte/claire-harman/9780670922260">Charlotte Brontë: a life</a> —</i> @ Waterstones.com<br />
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Related post: read <a href="http://coffeebeings.blogspot.com/2013/06/jane-eyre-2011-re-visited-review.html">my review of 2011 Jane Eyre film</a>. </div>
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">Go camping in the woods.
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">Make up stories about Mr Sacksall. He's an imaginary person I made up a while ago. He drives a little van and is about five inches tall. He reads adventure books. He goes rafting and has lots of adventures.
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="line-height: 18px;"><i><a href="http://www.barnesandnoble.com/w/little-pilgrims-progress-helen-taylor/1020408247">Pilgrim's Progress</a></i>, <i><a href="http://www.amazon.com/Where-Fern-Grows-Wilson-Rawls/dp/0385323301">Where the Red Fern Grows</a>, </i>and the <a href="http://www.paddington.com/gb/books/" style="font-style: italic;">Paddington</a> books</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">Lego, Playmobil figures, cardboard footballers [a game our boys devised with handmade football players and goal]</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">Yellow</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">Dogs</span><br />
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<i><span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">What do you like about dogs?</span></i><br />
<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">They're fluffy, cute, playful, and I just love them.
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">You and Daddy, Coo, Lefty, Righty.
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">Bananas.
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">Playing with dogs.
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">When dogs and people die. Like Max [dog] and Solomon [little brother].
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">Play tennis and football. [soccer]</span></div>
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<i><span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">What do you like to do with Daddy?</span></i><br />
<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">Play card games.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">Play Playmobil.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="line-height: 1.4;">Listen to you reading aloud, </span><span style="line-height: 18px;">hug</span><span style="line-height: 1.4;"> you.</span> </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">Make soap and cook food.</span><br />
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<i style="line-height: 1.4;"><span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">What does Daddy do all day?</span></i></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">Helps us learn math, breaks his toes. [J is referring to Daddy's recent numerous foot injuries]</span><br />
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<i style="line-height: 1.4;"><span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">What do you do all day?</span></i></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; line-height: 18px;">Play, eat, and imagine.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; line-height: 1.4;">Mr J's ninth birthday interview can be found <a href="http://coffeebeings.blogspot.com/2014/08/ninth-birthday-interview-with-mr-j.html">here</a>. The birthday interviews we do are an idea from Lauren, who blogs at <a href="http://www.sparklingadventures.com/">Sparkling Adventures. </a></span></div>
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