Happy Friday!
Today’s featured photo is of the beautiful artwork one of my students did for the envelopes that we use to keep Music Money in. Hmm…that just make me think that I should write a post on how I use Music Money sometime! LOL
As I type this, my Young Living diffuser is pumping out lovely bursts of “Clarity” essential oils. I’m feeling the Friday lull but have four siblings coming for piano lessons in just over an hour, so here we go!
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Here is an excellent step-by-step example of how an MLT-focused teacher teachers a rote piece. I don’t do quite a many steps as Anna, but would aspire to a format like this!
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I tend to find people like Tim Topham fascinating. (If you’re reading this Tim, yep, that’s you, LOL.) I love hearing how people like him manage such a large online presence. He spills a lot of that out in this post.
It kind of makes my head swirl seeing all those social media posts, but it’s certainly impressive!
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This post gave me another book to add to my reading list. Maybe you’ll find one too.
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Limiting the weight of children’s backpacks. Not a bad idea, India.
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How to actually get work done on an airplane. I suppose if you travel a lot, this could be really useful advice!
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Here’s what I made this week:
Crock Pot Loose Meat Sandwichs
These are based on a dive that was 45-minutes from our house growing up. The sandwich was called a Maidrite. We steamed the buns (small 100% whole wheat buns) in our new steam oven! They’re much better with steamed buns. Pickles and mustard are the best default toppings for this sandwich.
Asian Chicken Salad with Honey Sesame Dressing
I cheated and used pre-shredded lettuce and cabbage/carrots, but it was still all good. We love the edamame in this. It would be even better with some toasted shaved almonds on top in my opinion. It needed some crunchies.
Walnuts and raisins made it into this loaf but my preference is about half the amount of what they call for. I’m not big on nuts in baked goods but my husband likes it.
Garlic Butter Shrimp and Grits
Love, love, love grits. I only had 1 lb. of shrimp and it wasn’t quite enough. Definitely do the 1.5 lb. Otherwise, you’re left with a lot of extra “liquid/butter”.
Obsessively Good Avocado Cucumber Salad
I don’t know if I would say it was “obsessively” good, but I definitely love it.
1-Bowl Peanut Butter Protein Pancakes
Yum. Yum. I didn’t have flax on hand to make flax egg so I substituted with two eggs and it was fine.
