Thankful Tuesday

Dear Lord,

Thank you for this day, for the gift of life and good health, for our families and friends, for the jobs that help us get an income-which we many times take for granted...

Thank you for your hand of protection every night and every day, as we move through the busy streets, you have watched over us. Even when we forget to pray and ask, you still look out for us.

Thank you that I was able to finish my grad school and for the bout of malaria you smoothly took me through last week. Thank you for the opportunity to have a place I call home and for my constant supply of sukuma-wiki and other greens which we planted. And oh, for the first tomato I harvested on Sunday.

Thank you for Fathers Day which we just celebrated and for all the wonderful fathers out there who do a good job in teaching their children your ways. Thank you that I got the opportunity to share 24 years with my father.(RIP).

Thank you for the joy and love and laughter we share with our loved ones. For the good times we share, and the challenges from which we learn and become braver.

We look forward to the wonderful master plans you have for each one of us. Help us be patient as we watch them unfold.

Bless everyone who is reading this right now and please meet them at their greatest point of need!

lots of thanks,
Your daughter

Salad Recipes

I live with a Salad Freak! Seriously, my DH likes LOVES salads, anytime, all the time-breakfast or dinner. Well, these are the two meals I often prepare.

Even before I came into the picture (as lady-of-the-house), he used to buy a pack of salads at those food section at Mega or Shoprite and have that with yoghurt. Seriously! You now know I have a BIG job to do in trying to organize formal meals in our lives.

So, here are my three favorite salads to make. The nicest thing about this meal is that it takes less than fifteen minutes to prepare a mouth watering salad. And they are healthy, so, why not indulge...?

1) Potato-Egg and Mayo Salad 

I first saw this one at a supermarket and was intrigued by it. It does taste nice.

Ingredients

Boiled Irish potatoes

3 hard boiled eggs
1 medium onion (sliced into very small pieces)
1/2-3/4 cup mayonnaise

Slice the potatoes into small cube size shape, then bring them to boil. Cut your already boiled eggs into similar small cube shape sizes. Mix the two into one bowl. Cut up very small pieces of onions and add them into the mayonnaise. Add the mayo into the bowl that has the eggs and potatoes. You may sprinkle some parsley if you have. Re-fridgerate and serve. 

2) Coleslaw Salad

Forget the fancy name…this is basically cabbage carrot salad.

Ingredients: Sliced cabbage, grated carrots, onions, one tablespoon vinegar, salt and sugar, plus a drop of oil. Dress the salad with mayonaise or salad cream.

  

3) Cacumbali (Tomato-Onion Salad)

1 cup cucumber pieces, cut into  small pieces

1 cup tomatoes, cut into eighths
3/4 cup onions, chopped

1 garlic, chopped

Small cut pieces of fresh coriander (what we call coat-meal here)

Black Pepper

Salt to taste

Put the cucumbers, garlic, onions and tomatoes into a medium sized bowl. Add the coat meal and sprinkle with salt and black pepper. Mix and serve immediately for freshest taste.

Cooks Note: For a more adventurous cacumbali, very small pieces of pineapple may be added.

This can be served with any roasted or fried meat i.e. pork, chicken or even fried eggs!

What's your favorite salad? Plus, feel free to share any salad recipe you may have! 

Three Months Today!

Today marks 3 months on this tremendous journey of wifey-hood (Warning: Don’t look that up in the dictionary. It’s my concoction). I know it may not sound as a big deal, but I am grateful to God for the far He’s brought us(me). Aren’t we supposed to give thanks for both the BIG and small things? So, here’s my small BIG thing I would like to thank God for. Thank You Lord!

I asked my mentor in the Godly Marriage business, April about what exactly she recommends for a wife who wants to lead a submissive/respectful life to a husband. Well, if you’re frowning to that, let me just remind you that its God’s orders not mine.  You can read a lot more about that topic on April’s blog. One of my-all-time-fave blog The Peaceful Wife. 

So, some of the tips she suggested  a Christian wife has to do, here’s some of the list. Enjoy…and prayerfully think about this.

1. Stay as close to Christ as possible. Abide in Him. Be Spirit filled. You can’t be a godly wife without your power source!!!!!

2. Focus on God’s sovereignty. Trust God. Trust God to lead you through your husband. Realize that even if you don’t get your way, God is able to use your husband’s good and bad decisions to accomplish His will. This is the greatest test of faith most wives will ever experience.

3. Do not ever allow a little decision to become more important to you than your obedience to Christ or the unity of your marriage or your husband. There is no issue that is that important.

4. If your husband asks you to blatantly sin, then you will have to respectfully refuse to submit to him.

5. Watch your motives every day all day long. Pride and self-righteousness can easily creep in.

6. Watch your self-talk. What are you saying to yourself? Are you putting your husband down or criticizing him in your heart? Repent and turn to Christ right away!

7. Guard your heart and your marriage from other men. Set up healthy boundaries to protect yourself and do not seek to be close friends with other men.

8. Accept him, don’t try to change him. Appreciate and enjoy him as he is.

9. Share all of your emotions and feelings in a way that doesn’t blame him but be honest about your feelings. Don’t hide your heart from him. I like to share positive and negative emotions by simply labeling them. “I’m feeling so happy!” “I feel sad.” “I feel afraid.” “I am thankful!” “I love being your wife.”

And here's my home-made dinner to celebrate the beautiful 3 months!

 

Happy Fools Day!

Am not exactly sure if 1st April is an International Fools' Day?!?! Well, in Uganda it is a day we recognize. Its not a public holiday really but it is a known day. Or rather, half a day.You see, you can only fool people until 12:00pm on April 1st. I don't know who set up that rule...but, well that's what we follow.

It's such a significant day that even radio station D.J.s can switch work stations just to fool listeners. Who does that? It is really confusing to tune in to your fave morning show just to hear a different set of presenters. Well, if you ask me, I think it is a bit silly that we have a recognized day for lying!! Maybe that would mean that people do not have to lie for the other days in the year, save for this one....

Ok, so in the name of April Fools' Day, here's a picture for you. That's a friend, me and the hubs in the 60s!

Happy Fools Day People!

So, what Fools Day prank are you going to pull off? Or what prank did you pull of sometime?

Here I come

So here I come into the blogging world... It seems scary, scary as I had all these ideas going on in my head before I started the blog and now they all seem to have disappeared into I don't know what.

Whatever! This is just to celebrate the first ever entry into Life Diaries. Am looking forward to sharing all my life experiences here on my journey to becoming a super wifey. Well, I know there may not be such a thing as Super Wifey as much as there is no Super Man (pun intended). And yes, I may not be one, but I'll def keep trying...It's my inspiration phrase, let's say.

The trial journey has been on for 2 months, 3 weeks and two days now. [My friends don't get the counting beat] But I can't help it. I do it unconsciously. So for those whose maths is not all that, I became a wife on 3rd January 2014 and loving it and eager to learn as much as I can. Like they say, Knowledge is Power.

Here's a small little pic to start us off. The Hubs discovered this camera functionality and as you can imagine, many of our pics underwent such editing.

 Hope to talk to you later. Soon.