Kanga’s Kitchen

When I was growing up, I read a lot of books about dating & romantic relationships. The one thing that’s stuck with me the most and that’s proved the most profitable is Eric & Leslie Lucy’s ideas on the stages of intimacy (ie, “the two shall become one”): In dating, cultivate spiritual intimacy (friendship).  In engagement, cultivate emotional intimacy (romance).  In marriage, culminate your relationship with physical intimacy (sex).  And then continue to develop all 3 kinds of intimacy/one-ness for the rest of your life! Such a great strategy, with beautiful results! ❤️  For premarital counseling, we went through Focus on the Family’s “Ready to Wed” program. This program guides  soon-to-be-wed  couples through conversations about literally every part of life, which is so important when getting ready to join yourself to another person for life. This way, we entered marriage with, like, zero surprises. We knew each other very well and were best friends and therefore ready to sta

This thumb-cut was a couple days ago, from a pumpkin that needed to be prepared for purée-ing (before it would’ve gone bad); and this index-finger-cut was from slicing a just-finished-cooking loaf of garlic bread for last night’s dinner.  I always try to be careful, but it seems impossible to avoid these occasional cuts, lol. 🤷‍♀️  Well, my mom was over yesterday and she recommended I use a serving fork to hold food in place, instead of using my fingers for that purpose.  And then this evening while I was busy making pan-fried flounder, hush puppies, & salad for tonight’s dinner, my husband recommended I use tongs to deposit food in the skillets - again, instead of using my fingers.  Sounds like some good advice, don’t ya think?! 😉