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Name: Stephanie
Gender: Female
Interests: living simply, loving, learning, laughing, friends, singing, desserts, children, China, Latin America
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8/1/2006
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| All the 5th grade students at my old school had to write a paper on their favorite teacher. These made me laugh out loud... Here's what some of them said:
* Miss Liu and I (student) have something in common. We like to tell
jokes and our favorite place to have fun is Shark Ice. (LOL I've
never been there!)
* Miss Liu makes learning fun. When she tests us and we get the correct answer, she will give us a cracker. (My kids were really parrots.)
* She is very likable and smiles. Once when I gave her a gift card, she smiled and said, "Thank you."
* She tells funny stories like when her cooking pan was on fire and the fire extinguisher didn't work.
* She always talked about her weekends with a big smile to us. Sometimes it had a happy ending, sometimes it had drama.
* Miss Liu is very patient. She explains clearly so that when we don't understand something, she'll explain and we'll suddenly get what we didn't know before. She does not rush people and helps me to understand complicated things. (There were six essays that said this...)
* She is kind and fair.
* She is forgiving. When we are bad sometimes, she will be frustrated but she always will forgive us. I think Miss Liu is wonderful.
Oh I love teaching and I love kids. :) All the hard work -- grading papers, rainy days, field trips, skinned knees, calls home, is completely worth it. Here are some great quotes ~~
Education is a leading out of what is already there in
the pupil's soul. ~ Muriel Spark
Education...is a painful, continual and difficult work to be done in
kindness, by watching, by warning,... by praise, but above all -- by
example. - John Ruskin
Judge each day, not by the harvest, but by the seeds you plant.
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| Long overdue entry.
Ah xanga, the old-fashioned blog.
Here is the latest pie. All shortening crust. Delicious!
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| I went apricot-picking with Joy the other day, and we gathered enough to make about 2 pies each. 
After doing much research on pie crusts ~ butter, shortening, lard, combination of each, I decided on JoC's Deluxe Butter Flaky Pastry Dough. Can't go wrong with Deluxe and Flaky right?
Recipe calls for 1 c. butter and 1/4 c. shortening. Instead of using food processor, used stand mixer instead. Very easy! Came together perfectly.
Using a make-shift surface, rolling out was simple. Hardly any sticking, beautiful consistency.
In the oven for 35 minutes, the whole house smelling like butter...
Final test: the taste??
Not bad.  Really nice buttery flavor, but could be flakier. Next time will use more shortening. More to come! | | |
| So many changes in life right now. Being engaged is wonderful.  When people ask me how I'm doing, I
give a variety of answers: busy, okay, stressed, overwhelmed, good,
great... and the truth is, through the vendor-searching,
ribbon-wrapping, last-days-of-school, packing-and-moving chaos, deep
down I am the most thankful person in the world. I've met my soulmate,
my best friend for life. 
Highlights:
~ Christmas in Sedona and proposal in Seattle
~ Eduardo's first time visiting the Bay Area
~ planning and executing a 3-day field trip for 60 kids (turned out to be a blast!)
~ my dad giving up a huge part of their vacation to give us a honeymoon
~ going back to visit my little Spanish church in Fresno
~ bridal shower ~ a near perfect day thanks to Joc, Lina, Grace, & Beck... minus backing up into a large truck
~ Mother's Day at home, made dumplings and carrot cake
~ surviving a grease fire
~ me and Charles found an apartment ~ it'll be our first home together!!
Been meditating on Prov. 3:5-6 lately. In light of my own life, and the happenings in China and Myanmar. And I'm awed at how every line is rich with meaning and promise.
Trust in the Lord with all your heart,
Lean not on your own understanding.
In all your ways acknowledge Him
And He will make your paths straight.
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