Thanksgiving Party Menu Ideas For A Traditional Thanksgiving Feast
Posted on March 28, 2008 - Filed Under Food and Drink | Leave a Comment
Thanksgiving is a time where all the family traditions come out to share with friends and family. Here are a few tips for planning your celebration:
Many people spend the day, or more often just the afternoon, preparing their Thanksgiving meal. This meal generally includes the turkey, beets, mashed potatoes, stuffing, dinner rolls, candied yams, and of course dessert.
Read More..>>Chinese New Year Menu Ideas For A Delicious Chinese New Year Feast
Posted on March 27, 2008 - Filed Under Food and Drink | Leave a Comment
Tradition is how we have gotten many of our menu items for holidays. Chinese New Year is no different. Delicious Asian delicacies form a big part of Chinese New Year, and here are just a few ideas:
Some items you may find during Chinese New Year are a vegetarian dish called jai, whole fish, chicken, nian gao, rice pudding, and man tou. The menu items have more meaning than most foods available at a traditional New Year in the United States. The Chinese believe their food symbolizes many things. Among the symbolization of food is the attitude that the amount of food prepared shows abundance and wealth for the household.
Read More..>>Finding Balance When You Work At Home
Posted on December 10, 2007 - Filed Under Automotive, Self Improvement | Leave a Comment
Working at home can be a dream come true and a curse at the same time. Of course if you ask most people, they’d jump on the idea of working at home if they could find something legitimate that would bring in the right amount of income. I mean who would say no to something so perfect? But if you’re not careful you could find yourself working during all of your waking hours (and maybe some of your sleeping hours as well).
Read More..>>Old-fashioned Family Funeral Journey To A Country Church
Posted on December 9, 2007 - Filed Under Arts and Entertainment | Leave a Comment
Sometimes the journey and the destination become one. Thus it was on a recent family trip to a family funeral for a cousin with a beautiful woman with a beautiful heart and a beautiful voice. She’d sung at my sister’s memorial almost three years ago and at my mother’s graveside service about a year-and-a-quarter ago.
This is a big funeral inside the fully-packed country church, plunked down in the middle of agricultural land. I recall fanning myself here as a girl with a fan provided by a funeral home as we sat listening to a sermon and then rising to sing a hymn. Today there’s air-conditioning, recorded music, and barely a dry eye in the full house of the Lord. The town drunk made something beautiful for God inside this renovated Sugar Grove Church.
Read More..>>Getting Baby To Sleep
Posted on December 3, 2007 - Filed Under Home and Family | Leave a Comment
Most of the parents go through the difficulty of sleepless nights before that long-wished-for time come, when your baby manage to sleep through the whole night.
Getting a baby to adjust to a normal sleep schedule can be a challenge for new parents. If you want your baby to get into good sleep habits, you need to do your bit, too.
There is an old joke: “Anyone who says they slept like a baby has obviously never had one.” But, as I well recall, it’s no joke when you’re grappling with a baby who seems to think a decent sleep is 40 minutes long.
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