Kim was honored to do the Friday crock pot post for Stacy's awesome blog at www.stacymakescents.com - we had this for dinner last Saturday and it was great - check it out! ____________________________ Being a busy mom of 4 small children, I absolutely love all-in-one-meals. Add the worry-free benefit of a crock pot and you have a recipe for extra time with your family instead of time slaving in the kitchen! Don’t get me wrong, you’ll still have the smiling faces and empty plates … [Read more...]
The ‘man card’
Everybody knows about the ‘girl card,’ that ace in the hole the ladies play anytime there is a bug to smash, something nasty to take out, or a heavy object that needs lifting (Honey, can you use those big strong muscles to move this furniture around for me?), but did you know that men and kids have cards to play as well? ‘Man card,’ you ask? Isn’t that a relic of a bygone era? Men aren’t supposed to have any ‘cards’ these days, right?! No my friend, it is not, and yes, we most … [Read more...]
Stuff kids like (but parents hate)
Being the ‘hip’, ‘happening,’ ‘with-it,’ extremely cool parents we are, we enjoy life to the fullest and want to have fun. Indeed we purposefully seek out good times for us and for our children, although when this happens it’s usually our children who have the fun while we have… something else entirely. The fact of the matter is, kids and parents tend to have wildly differing opinions on just what ‘fun’ is, and it’s been this way at least since the 70’s when we were born. (Anthropologists … [Read more...]
Evil, rotten dictators and the children who love them
Politically and philosophically, I’m all about liberty and freedom. I really am – just not for my kids. For them, I’m a ruthless, totalitarian dictator (at least that’s how I imagine they must think at times). I make Hugo Chavez look like Mister Rogers. And my wife, the Eva to my Hitler, is just as bad. Consequently, our kids live in a ‘police state’ that’s probably pretty close to a prison if you think about it. Their every move is monitored. Everything they see, eat, and touch is thoroughly … [Read more...]
Five traits our ancestors had that are sorely lacking today
Out with the old, in with the new. That’s always been the mantra, at least as far back as I can remember. Old things, old ways are constantly being improved upon or replaced with bigger, better, more convenient methods of doing things. Each generation thinks it knows more than the last, and in a way it does. Knowledge builds upon knowledge; technology upon technology. We would never have the cool things we have today if great inventors like Franklin, Edison, Tesla, et al hadn’t paved the way. … [Read more...]
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