How-to Video for Fathers!

This smart little one-minute video says it all: the role of a father in a child’s life is PRICELESS:

Bailout Babe*

 

I hear your hidden cries because

I know what she’s done to you

You’ll never admit it

Of course

But I see

She has no respect for you.

 

I see you working way too hard

To keep her close to your world

But the price that she asks

Is too high

Can’t you see

She’s a greedy little girl.

 

I hear her laugh at your expense

She thinks it is all a game

To mask her true greed

With affection

For you

Because she has no shame.

 

I feel the finery she has bought

With your affectionate dues

But it tears at my heart

Paining me

From within

That you are the one to lose.

 

I sense the love you try to give

Each time that you bail her out

Yet I hear her coarse words

About you

Every day

Your love’s now a measured amount.

 

Not measured by heartfelt service

Nor thoughtfulness in deed

Instead, without respect

Your love

Is suspect

Unless it satisfies her greed.

 (*An original poem by LaDonna Mobile)

 

 

Helping Fathers and Sons Reconnect

This precious parenting message pretty much says it all in a one-minute video; I hope everyone who sees it will pass it along to friends and family who care about family togetherness and the role of a father in the lives of his children:

Get Imaginative with Your Kids!

This darling parenting tip is priceless! I’d love to write more about it, but I’m signing off to go and spend some quality time with my children, as modeled by the father in this video:

A Message for Women

To all the women out there who think they don’t have talent, please watch this one-minute film and learn the truth!

Do You Know the Muffin Mom?

This is the most AWESOME blog–my new site for sharing all of the fantastic muffin recipes I’ve been inventing over the years! Check it out at http://themuffinmom.wordpress.com/

This is bad–VERY BAD

Oh dear; the Baking Bites blog has a recipe up for HOMEMADE GIRL SCOUT COOKIES.

I bake–a lot. I am in SO much trouble now!

Crockpot Meatless Sloppy Joes

We made these DELICIOUS sloppy joes yesterday and they were a hit! My kids even ate them! 

Rather than meat, this recipe calls for brown rice and beans. However, I think I would like to substitute wheat grains next time, because when they puff up, they resemble ground beef more than rice and beans do!

 

Ingredients:

1 tsp canola oil

1 chopped onion 1 chopped green pepper

1/2 c. shredded carrots

1.5 cups brown rice

2 cans navy beans (or smaller beans), drained

3/4 cup hickory BBQ sauce

1 bottle chili sauce

4 cups water

Optional: 1 cube beef bullion (for beef flavor)

Sautee oil, onion, carrots, and green pepper in a skillet until crisp-tender. Combine remaining ingredients in crock pot; add vegetables from skillet. Cook on low for 8-9 hours. Serve on buns, crackers, or alone.

 My kids liked their sloppy joes on buns; I preferred to eat mine on crackers, because I don’t do white flour anymore. These tasted great!

 

 

P.S. If you don’t want to buy ready-made chili sauce, here’s a recipe for you to make your own:

2 cups canned tomatoes
1 onion, chopped
Dash of cayenne pepper
1/8 teaspoon cloves
1/8 teaspoon cinnamon
1 tablespoon sugar
1/4 cup vinegar
2 tablespoons chopped green pepper
1/2 teaspoon salt, approximately

Instructions:

In a heavy-bottomed saucepan, combine the tomatoes, onion, cayenne, cloves, cinnamon, sugar, and vinegar. Simmer, uncovered, for 1 hour. Add the green pepper and simmer 30 minutes more. Add salt to taste. Chill before serving.

Yield: 1-1/2 cups

*Need more healthy recipes? Visit the Muffin Mom at http://themuffinmom.wordpress.com/ 

MIYM Tortillas!

Thank you, Frizzlefry, for teaching me how to make the most delicious melt-in-your-mouth tortillas! If everyone knew how to make these, the tortilla manufacturing business would be done for!

http://melissaastle.blogspot.com/2008/05/tortilla-tutorial.html

The Fast Food Demon

Vile Voice
A poem by La Donna Mobile

“What do you wish?”
Asked a voice from somewhere.
I said, “Please destroy me
Beyond all repair.”

 

“Ah yes,” it replied
“I can damage you so
You will get your money’s worth
And I think you should know

 

That the damage I cause
Will sorely deform you,
Grotesquely disfigure
And brutally transform you.”

 

So I paid it to hurt me,
To poison my blood.
To bloat and to beat me
With venomous food

 

I paid it to fill me
With blubberous fat
Each time that it asked me
“Would you like fries with that?”