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...creating a strong, supportive community for women
Motherhood: Favourite Lunch Reciepes?
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No!
But doesn't this look great?
If only I can get organized enough to write down all of the ingredients needed, get to the grocery store, make these snacks then teach my housekeeper how to do the same.
Yes I said it... housekeeper because remember I don't have the time but more importantly energy to make this every week.
Check out these lunchboxes!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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Clearly these were not packed by Married Working Mothers!!!!!!!!!!!
But oh how I aspire for my child's lunchbox to look like these. Where do I begin?
This is our first year with sending a lunch. In previous years Channing was a lunch ticket kind of kid! I wonder if we have bitten off more than we can chew by changing our habits and complicating our lives.
Are you packing a lunch like this for your child? If you are like me here are some links to check out.
Lunch Recipe Ideas
1. http://www.womansday.com/food-recipes/cooking-tips-shortcuts/how-to-pack-a-better-school-lunch-120119
How to get organized
2. http://iheartorganizing.blogspot.com/2011/08/back-to-school-organizing-packing.html
Toddler Recipes
3. http://www.parenting.com/gallery/healthy-toddler-lunch-ideas?pnid=441982&viewFull=true
I think the key is getting off of my butt, stop watching football and get in the kitchen. There has to be an app for this!
Heeeeelllp!
Until I pack again,
Tiffany
GUEST BLOG: We Owe It To Saartjie
The
crisis of being woman demands a truth and a call for spiritual
healing and social renewal. I submit the
story of Saartjie Baartman as a contribution of and to truth.
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Saartjie
(Sara) Baartman was born Khoisan (indigenous first
people), in colonial South Africa in 1789 near the Great Fish River in Eastern
Cape. Before she left her homeland in
South Africa in 1810 (at the age of 21) she worked as a slave for Dutch
farmers. The Khoisans were negatively
labeled Hottentots (primitive form of humanity) by European settlers.
Hendrick
Cezar, the brother of Baartman’s employer and Alexander Dunlop, a physician on
a British Navy Ship took Baartman to London where the primary source of revenue
for her owner was Baartman’s bare anatomy.
She was promised a share of the monies and thus a way to better her life
(this is the same general manipulation of the female found in pornographic and strip-club
industries today). She was advertised as
a human oddity. She was placed on display
for the eyes of European Elites (1810-1816).
This was the start of the reprehensible showing of her body in night
clubs, circuses, colleges, and medical laboratories. Saartjie’s body was used
to satisfy sexual fascinations about African women.
In
1814 she was relocated to Paris, France where Henry Taylor exhibited her before
passing her on to various owners including a zoo keeper. Baartman died on January 1, 1816, miserable and
six thousand miles away from her homeland.
After
her death, Georges Cuvier performed the autopsy. He dissected her body. Her body parts, including her genitals and
anus were placed in formaldehyde containers and were kept on display at Musee
de l’Homme until 1976.
Numerous futile attempts were made to have Baartman’s remains brought back home to South Africa. It was Nelson Mandela, the President of a new and democratic South Africa (1994-1999) who reengaged the diplomatic conversations that led to the repatriation of Baartman’s remains to South Africa. Baartman was finally buried and granted eternal rest on August 9, 2002. This was 186 years after her death.
I wish to thank Mrs. Tiffany Hall and Mrs. Candilaria Thompson for this invitation to share. I hope your efforts will continually have at its core a transformative will to inspire, empower and educate.
Rev.
Jevon O. Neely is a proud Bahamian who studied at Williams Baptist College in
Walnut Ridge, Arkansas, where in 2001 he earned a Bachelor’s Degree in
Christian Ministries and a minor in Psychology.
In 2003, Rev. Neely enrolled at Candler School of Theology at Emory
University in Atlanta, Georgia; where in 2006, he graduated with a Master of
Divinity with a Certificate in Black Church Studies.
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Numerous futile attempts were made to have Baartman’s remains brought back home to South Africa. It was Nelson Mandela, the President of a new and democratic South Africa (1994-1999) who reengaged the diplomatic conversations that led to the repatriation of Baartman’s remains to South Africa. Baartman was finally buried and granted eternal rest on August 9, 2002. This was 186 years after her death.
I
decided to retell the story of Saartjie Baartman for the following reasons.
Firstly, it informs
us of the history of the Female Body, especially the Black Female Body as it was
inferior and dominated by the powerful of that time.
Secondly, the story provides an opportunity to compare women of today to Baartman. There is still a fixation on sex and the Female Body. There is still a disrespect of the
sanctity of a female. Thirdly, this
story can serve as a reminder of where we came from. Baartman was subjected to this horrid
lifestyle against her will. Nowadays, there are young women willfully
engaging in similar lifestyles and doing it with pride.
Hopefully the story of
Baartman will give women the power to make positive decisions. Saartjie could not
make a choice for herself.
Women have a choice today!
There is no prestige in dressing scantily, sexing for
money and being a “Tip-Drill” (that is having dollar bills (tips) place in a
G-String while dancing on a stage or a pole). The
social identity of women is rudely redefined when damning vocabulary (bitch,
hoe, slut and “cutta”) is used and made normal.
Sadly, these words are readily accepted and used by some females, and accepted
without resistance. That is a problem.
Then
there is the abuse and adultery of women.
In some male and female minds it is a normal for women to be beaten on
and cheated on. There are some women who
decide there is no other choice but to engage in promiscuity,
monogamous promiscuity, and even acts of prostitution as a means of survival
and economic empowerment. These and
other forms of women-hatred need to seriously be rethought and reenacted.
Freedom of the woman must start with women!
Women must organize themselves
to assist and rear the young in our communities. Women owe it to Saartjie and the many others who have given their lives for our freedom to choose a better way of life.
Further to that, as a man and a father, men who are willing to be advocates must also take a stand. We are one human family, women and men, men and women. It is imperative that we get involved in the process of female liberation
and the creation of a more equal society.
For
the Sacred Ancestors,
Jevon
O. Neely
Rev.
Neely’s foundations are in the Bahamian Baptist tradition. He was ordained at Bethel Baptist Church on July
18th, 2004. In 2010, Rev.
Neely joined the Bahamas Conference of the Methodist Church (BCMC). He serves as Chaplain at Queen’s College
School, Minister at Ascension Methodist Church and a Lecturer of in the
conference’s Center for Leadership, Education and Training (C-LET). Rev. Neely is writing his first book The Black Bahamian Male set to be
released the summer of 2014.
Rev. Neely is married to Mrs. Sandena
O. Neely (nee Mortimer) and they have two wonderful children. In his spare time he enjoys his family life,
gardening, painting, reading and writing.
PART TWO: When Your Husband Doesn't Love You!
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Earlier this year during May I wrote on the topic 'MARRIAGE: When Your Husband Doesn't Love You'. For those of you who may not have read that specific post, I shared the details of my first marriage. I received a comment on the article. Please read the response below written by Anonymous. ( I have pasted it exactly as I received it.)
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Dear Anonymous,
Thank you for your comment and your support. We all have to experience pain in order to develop our character. We both felt the pain of a man telling us they no longer wanted to be with us. One day I asked myself, "If this man does not want me, why do I want him? Why do I want someone who does not want me?" I eventually moved on. It seems as if you have had another reaction. In your comment you said your husband is back home. If I understand correctly, he has returned because of a 'returning love spell? You have cast a spell to make him return? To each his own, but if I may ask... would you want someone to do this to you? Supposed your husband casts a spell to make you go away? How would you feel? I must confess I believe in the Bible, I believe in the Bible's Golden Rule. Do unto others as you would want them to do unto you. Matthew 7:12. Does your husband know that you have placed a spell on him? If not, what do you think he would do if he found out? I know that you are happy your husband is at home but in your quiet moments, try to consider whether a marriage being held together by trickery is in fact a happy marriage. I believe you deserve an honest relationship. Your husband deserves one too whether that be with or without you.
My fellow readers, this was my response, not my immediate response but my official response. What are your thoughts? Let's talk ladies!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Until I respond again,
Tiffany
Are You Ready For Some Football?
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There are two types of women in this world... women who watch football and women who don't!
There are two types of women who watch football any given Sunday...women who know what offsides, first downs and punts are, women who know that Any Given Sunday is a football movie and then there are women who watch football at a Superbowl party, the type of women who talk instead of watching the game! ( Real football women hate the fake football females. Go watch Lifetime like you normally do instead of interrupting us during the Superbowl! Take your girlie pies, your casseroles and leave us with the nachos and the men! Sorry let me reel that back in!)
Which type of woman are you?
If you haven't guessed it by now I am a football girl. My husband met me like this. I don't do football because he does football, I do football because what sport is better?
Now I know MWMs has readers who play football. There is a vibrant female flag football league in our country. ALL HAIL TO YOU. "Great you are!" I aspire to your talent, teamwork and tenacity to tackle and score touchdowns!
(Touchdowns are the six points... nevermind, either you know or you don't!)
And so for those of us who watch the game, today is a great day. Today is the first sunday of the 2013-2014 NFL Football season. Thank goodness! Sundays are now about church and football.
Which team do I support? None! I know right!!!!!!!!!!
I just like to talk smack about all teams especially the mighty mighty worthless Miami Dolphins.
As I type I am watching the Jets/ Bucs game. I have to confess I am a Geno Smith Fan. I want him to succeed, just like I want Vick to protect his body and win some games. I just like the game.
I know some of you do too!
To my women who miss their husbands on Sundays because they are somewhere watching a game, my advice to you is... I have none. Oh no, yes I do have some advice. DON'T PRETEND TO LIKE THE GAME IF YOU DON'T. Let your husband go watch the game, just make sure when he comes home he has something fun to come to or else he will stay out longer watching yet another game.
For those of you who want to learn the game, I will gladly teach you. Serious inquiries only!
Until I watch again,
Tiffany
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