Family’s Best Recipe

This is the food that my family requested me to make a dessert and I want also to share with you my secrets on how to win the heart of our love ones.

Gelatin with Avocado  Salad

Ingredients:

2 cups unflavored gelatin

1/4 cup cold water

1 cup boiling water

Juice of 1 lemon

Dash of hot pepper sauce

1 teaspoon salt

1/8 teaspoon pepper

1 teaspoon onion juice

2 1/2 cups mashed avocado pulp (2 to 3 avocados)

1 cup dairy sour cream

1 cup mayonnaise or salad dressing

Procedure:

Soften galatin in cold water for 5 minutes. Dissolve gelatin in boiling water. Add lemon juice , hot pepper, and onion juice. Cool. Stir in mashed avocado, sour cream, and mayonnaise. Beat to blend. Pour into 1 1/2-quart mold. Chill until firm. Unmold and serve on greens. Make 8 servings.

Father and Son

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Relationship of father and son sometimes it’s hard to adjust especially in the case of my husband which is most of his time he is away from his family and working away from home. Bonding with his kids is the most important thing to do when he is on vacation, for most of the time the kids are with me and I notice that the children are closer to me than to his father for the reason that he is always away from us. Giving them time to bond with each other is the simple thing to do to make the hearts of his kids closer to him. It’s not easy to be a father working away from his family and missing everyone he loves, but the destiny for us is meant to be away from home so for the main time we need to sacrifice our feelings just to win the future we are both aiming for our family and for our dear children.

Distance is not a hindrance of feelings towards his kids; it depends upon the father on how to win the hearts of his children in his vacation time. Being a mom I also let my kids understand the situation about why their father is always away from us. By the way my husband is a seaman and most of us know the situation of being away always from each other. Little by little my kids understand the situation and they told me that even their daddy is far away still they love and care for their father.

School days with my younger son

school-boy

Months ago when the school year starts, how excited my baby with his first day in school. He wake up early in the morning take a bath in the bathroom and eat his breakfast with no one assist him. While changing his school uniform he keeps on smiling full of happiness on his face that he is now going to school. When I finished fixing his uniform he called me. Mommy come on now let’s go to school we might get late. And I smile with my son and tell him that we still have time don’t be in hurry for it’s too early to go to school. Good that he understand what I said and what he did is watch television and waits for my signal to go. Very excited my son, and I’m so happy with his reactions that he shows interest in going to school at least I am not the one who carry him in going to school it’s him that wants to learn.

During his studies I ask his teacher of what is the standing of my son inside the class. And the teacher told me that my son Niko is the number one in her class and he is also behaving well. Full of happiness I felt in my heart knowing the result of his studies. At least I have a price of my hardship and I share right away to my husband the good news that I have and the felling of being a proud mother.

My son being a school boy

As years passed my elder son is now a school boy when in fact he is already eight years of age and now studying in grade-2. I send them in a Montessori school for which I really like their training towards their students. Every morning I drive them in school with my younger son and presently enrolled in a pre-school class. They both love to go to school for as they told me they have plenty of friends and the teachers are also good to them. My only problem to both of them is to wake them up early morning. If I awake them they both hide under the blanket and want to sleep again. I pity them both but I have nothing to do it’s time to school and they need to eat their breakfast, take a bath and fix their selves. I carry them outside the room and set down on the sofa but still they lay down again. Yet, I told them to go to the bathroom and take a bat first before eating a breakfast so that they can have a good appetite and not feeling sleepy. Good that they listen they both run inside the bathroom and take a shower, when they are done with their shower time they both set down in the table and together eat our breakfast.

This is my everyday routine with my kids but I did my best to take care of them, somehow if they are already big enough they will take care of their own and my job is to assist only their needs and guide t hem the way of righteousness.

Marriage

love

marriage in love

“To be in love,” said a cynical bachelor friend of mine, is to be a victim of glamour. Glamour isn’t only a false glow; it’s intoxication. And there you have the typical condition out of which youthful marriage is made: two dazed, immature and little more than childish minds, really unacquainted with each other and blinded by temporary intoxication, enter into a kind of contract to which the most crazily reckless business man would not dream of binding himself. And all their relatives and best friends stand around beaming, and expecting only the good and beautiful to come out of an act of temporary insanity.

Exactly to what degree my friend’s “horror of marriage” is warranted, no one can say. We only that, no matter how crazy the contract, most husbands and wives do get along with each other somehow, not always happily, but well enough, which more or less harmony, more or less conflict, and great deal of the deepest devotion. In this most difficult human relationship, the wedded must still grope for individual salvation.

I began to ask myself, is there a great essential element in the happiest marriages, and if there is what is the nature? I answered also with my self. As an experienced victim of glamour the secret of marriage is to love and to be loved, and the understanding with each other is always there to both couple.

The Art of Staying at Home

staying at home

Stay at home is the term commonly used for the person who has to stay at home. It conjures up untidy visions of the aged and infirm, the shut-ins, and the unsociable. Yet there is an art of staying at home. And a good of us tired of aimless visiting, too much bridge strenuous journeys to nowhere in particular, would like to practice it. We should like to stay at home with a greater sense of fitness and stay fun.

The kind of home we have, its size or its magnificence, is of slight importance. We don’t need a vaulted temple for gracious living. Nor are there any hard and soft rules, some finds that ceremony helps- customs that lend to dignity and importance to routine.

I remember one day I was running out of gas and needs to cook for our food in a minute time and we are running out of time for my baby will be going to school, I go to my neighbors house to ask a favor if I can cook my food even one menu for we are out of gas in our house and my neighbor say ok. And as I notice to them they are very busy watching television and the other kids are reading books.

Practices of this sort however, are auxiliaries at best. Obviously the first great step in mastering the art of staying at home is to build up fortifications which make home a place of privacy and luxurious solitude.

Love, Marriage, Children and Security

Love, Marriage, Children and Security

If you have to choose one of the following, an interesting job, an independent income of P5.000.00 or $100 more or less a week, a happy family and home life- which would you choose? That question was asked recently of a cross section of husband and wives. Eighty percent answered a happy family and home life.

A happy family life is probably the principal factor of adults, as it’s in the security of children. Much has been tell about marital security. Yet most discussions of what make a happy marriage place little emphasis on the necessity of having children. Wars can come, jobs can go, money can run out, but if father, mother and children stand by each other, hope and happiness may survive.

Having children is a physical process but the experience is a spiritual one as well. It involves continuous self-sacrifice of many kinds, possibly even the sacrifice of immediate financial security.

Lack of money has often been given as a principal cause of marital unhappiness and separate or divorce. And yet the higher the income the higher the separated or divorce rate. Obviously, people without sufficient money to indulge their whims, their impulses, their selfish desire, must of necessity make greater efforts to overcome their difficulties. These difficulties often prove temporary and so the couple remains united and regains their happiness. Thus financial insecurity maybe a help in achieving marital security.

Business and Pleasure

pleasure time

My friend introduces me a new business that according to her it makes us beauty and we can have it for free if we just try to learn the business. I listen to her testimony and it takes only an hour and we are done. Do you like our new business? She asks me. I smile to her and say; “yes” I really like to try for I can now get my beauty products for free, anyway I have plenty of friends also that need the product. Maybe you will ask and wonder why I can get the product for free. The business flows like this; they have plenty of beauty products and I need only to introduce to my friends the product and if they like and choose any of the items I am the one who will purchase and give to the client but take note every item is discounted up to 35% so if our clients have plenty of orders so that’s the time that I can have my rebates and automatically I can purchase items for free. I like my new found business because for me I used to buy in the mall with no discount at all but now I can have it for free if I give only even a little time just to introduce to our friends. Anyway we don’t give a full time to this business but it is only on us on how to budget our time.

Pleasure for me is always there it is always included in my time schedule for I don’t want to work and work, take care of the kids all the time but I need also time for myself it is very important for me being a mother of two to relax and have fun sometimes not make as lusyang( oldies).

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