Kitchen of the Week
I’m very excited to be the guest blogger for Kitchen of the Week over at Happy to Be at Home!
Hi, my name is Erin. My blog, Life in a Blender, is my attempt at bringing people into the life of a blended family.
My husband, John, and I celebrated three years of marriage at the end of July. It has been an interesting road for us as we each came into our marriage with kids of our own. On July 9th of this year, we added one of our own. All together, we have four kids living in our little Cape Cod. Life can be interesting with three special needs kids, a husband whose job calls on him at all hours and a baby demanding center stage. But we love our crazy life, most of the time.
Our kitchen is the nerve center of our house. My laptop is there 80% of the time and it is where all papers/forms/notes end up. Someday I hope we get to make it big enough to handle all of us at once!
Because of the issues of our kids, along with our own health, we try to stay away from processed foods and eat natural/organic foods. Lots of fresh produce and whole foods in our kitchen. We also have some picky eaters including one with Sensory Processing Disorder who only eats a select few foods. I love to cook, though, so the challenge of making something we will all eat is fun.
I hope you enjoy this week in my kitchen. I’m looking forward to actually thinking about all I do in the kitchen. It should be…uhm…interesting. 
Poverty Outside Our Borders
Take a minute to think of the irony in that sentence. My kids live in a wonderful suburb, have a solid roof over their heads and any number of foods present in the pantries, cabinets, fridge and freezer.
Yet - they’re starving.
I feel I’ve failed as a mother when my kids can use the word starving with a mountain of food surrounding them.
How do we teach our children to appreciate what God has given them? How do we show them that there are millions of children, just like them, who truly ARE starving? Who don’t have a single Scooby Doo Gogurt, let along a fridge to keep it in.
In our house we have started opening their eyes with this:
Feed My Starving Children was brought to our attention by our church’s Children’s Ministry Coordinator. She picked FMSC as our Sunday School’s ministry focus for the year. They are an amazing organization.
When Omar arrived at malnourishment center in El Salvador, he was eight years old and incredibly fragile, weighing only 19 pounds.
After eating Feed My Starving Children food for one and a half months, he weighed 33 pounds. At two months, he weighed an astounding 40 pounds. Omar represents a life saved.
I encourage everyone who has children, and even those who don’t, to get involved with an organization like FMSC. For pennies you can provide food for a child who has nothing.
