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Feature Article
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| Domestic Diva Spotlight |
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 Jenie Morris has been with CTR Nanny for 2 years but she’s worked in the field for 12 years!
She’s a great housekeeper and home manager! Jenie currently works for Tom and Susan H. in Cliveville, MS. Susans states that she just doesn’t know what she would do without Jenie!
Jenie is the mother of 4 children and an avid cross-stitch fan.
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The secret word is "LEPRECHAUN"
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| Helpful Hints |
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This bottle of nice-smelling window cleaner can cost as little as 25 cents!
Going Green Window Cleaner
12 to 16 ounces water
1/2 cup white or apple cider vinegar
1/4 cup rubbing alcohol (70%)
1-2 drops blue or green food coloring, if desired
1-2 drops lavender, cinnamon, clove or orange essential oil.
Combine the ingredients and put into a labeled spray bottle.
Tip 1: Use newspapers rather than paper towels. They leave no lint and you are recycling!
Tip 2: Spray the newspaper first, and then wipe down the window to avoid drips.
Tip 3: Wipe vertically one side of the window & horizontally on the other side.
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| Recipes |
Healthy Zucchini Treats
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Prep time: 30 minutes Preheat oven to 375° Fahrenheit.
What you need:
- 1½ cups shredded zucchini (about 2 small)
- 2 cups whole-grain pancake or biscuit mix
- 1 teaspoon cinnamon
- 1 teaspoon allspice
- 2 eggs
- ¾ cup brown sugar
- ¼ cup unsweetened applesauce
- 2 teaspoon fresh lemon juice
- powdered sugar (enough to dust the muffins)
- oven
- bowls — one large, one medium
- grater — a plastic grater is safest for kids
- measuring cups and spoons
- muffin tin and paper liners
- Wash zucchini and remove ends. Don’t peel!
- Shred zucchini using largest holes on grater.
- Place grated zucchini on paper towels and squeeze to remove water.
- Measure 1½ cups of squeezed-dry zucchini.
- Line a 12-cup muffin tin with paper liners.
- In a large bowl, mix whole-grain pancake mix (or biscuit mix) with spices.
- In a separate bowl, whisk together eggs, brown sugar, applesauce, and lemon juice.
- Fold the egg-sugar mixture and shredded zucchini into the pancake-spice mixture; don’t over mix.
- Fill each muffin cup 2/3 full with batter.
- Bake 10–15 minutes or until golden.
- Remove muffins from tin and cool on a wire rack.
- Sprinkle muffins with a dusting of powdered sugar.
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| Craft Ideas |
| Summer Rain Stick |
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This is a cool craft uses a cardboard mailing tube and uncooked beans.
Create the soothing sounds of a summer downpour! Be sure to get the help of an adult.
What you'll need:
Mailing tube with removable lid
Pale pink craft paint
Light blue craft paint
Mint green craft paint
Pale yellow craft paint
Paintbrush
Small dish of water
16 (2 1/2") screws
Hammer
Screwdriver
Hot glue gun and glue sticks
2 strips of pink ribbon, 18" long
2 strips of yellow ribbon, 18" long
2 strips of blue ribbon, 18" long
Scissors
3 cups of hard beans (i.e. pinto beans)
- Paint (with craft paint) horizontal stripes all the way down the mailing tube with a paintbrush. Make sure you rinse the brush well between colors in the small water dish. Go in this color order: light blue paint, pale pink paint, pale yellow paint.
- After the paint has dried, paint mint green vertical stripes on top of the light blue stripes. Allow the green paint to dry.
- Using a hammer, pound the first half inch of the screw into the mailing tube. Do this with all 16 screws. Make them spiral around the tube, about one and a half inches apart.
- After all of the screws are slightly pounded in, use the screwdriver and finish screwing the screws into the tube.
- Using the hot glue gun, go around each of the screws to ensure that all of them stay in place.
- Fill the tube with the three cups of beans.
- Hot glue the strips of ribbon into the lid of the mailing tube, going in this order: pink, yellow, blue, pink, yellow, blue.
- Hot glue the lid to the mailing tube.
Tips:
Use whatever colors of paint and ribbons that you want. Make different patterns with the paint and the screws. Be creative!!!
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| "We live in a resort community near Aspen Colorado. Finding good help and keeping them is always a challenge. We found CTR Nanny because of a referral from a friend in Aspen. The quality of the candidates they sent me was excellent. We have had our nanny for over a year now and she is everything we could have asked for. She is attentive, intelligent, creative, intuitive and very nurturing. If we have the need to replace our nanny, we will look to CTR Nanny again to assist us." Paul & Marsha - Aspen, CO |
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