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Thanksgiving Slow Cooker Sweet Potatoes

Thanksgiving Holiday Meal Sweet potatoes just speak of Thanksgiving. What a treat they are, and healthy as well! This slow cooker version is an easy step to getting out of the kitchen and spending time with...

19 comments    advice family how to
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The Importance of Optimism, A Foster Parent's Story

I have a story to tell. As a foster parent of over 18 years, and after parenting over 250 kids and teaching classes for 13 years, plus counseling adoptive families and families in crisis, I've been inspired...

35 comments    life advice family
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Tales From The Badge - A Cop's Wife's Life

A cop's life is full of complications, exposure to the drug world, long working hours, domestic violence, teen rebellion, all of which spills over into his own family's life. A cop's wife life mirrors the cop in many ways. She must be a patience wife, able to stand on her own, to accept broken appointments and family plans, parenting with strength on her own. A cop in a uniform, deserves a strong wife.

45 comments    careers funny car
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Christmas Buttermilk Chocolate Sheet Cake

Part of the magic of Christmas is that all sweets, delicious meals, and brightly or creatively wrapped gifts just seem to appear. Or so it was, if you were 10, or 17, visiting my many aunts and grandmother in...

23 comments    home food recipes
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The White Potato Gets A Bad Rap

I love potatoes - sweet, white, red you name it. I'll walk a mile for a mashed potato and that is precisely the point of this article. WALK THE MILE. I did a bit of research on the white potato just because: ...

22 comments    how to food tips
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A Good Teacher Must Be "Teach-able!"

O wait a minute, we're not fighting, we're learning. Some people say they love to teach and they probably do. I'm just wondering if there are some who are caught up in "loving to dictate"...instead of teaching. I love a captive audience, we all do. But, teaching is more than having listeners.

16 comments    love advice education
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The Good and Bad of a Stalk of Celery

What's in a stalk of celery, besides water? Oops...sugar. I'll tell you the bad first, it's a short list. Celery's Bad Celery is high in sodium and what calories it has are mainly from the sugar, with...

19 comments    health food tips
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How To Create A Recipe!

Do you want to cook something different for dinner or dessert, but not sure where to start? Over the years of cooking, I had to be creative, because kids were awfully hard to please, not to mention a...

16 comments    family how to food
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The Glad Wrap Anger Management Exercise

Getting mad. I do it, you do it, we all do it. Sometimes, it works well. I think we need anger to fuel us to safe places. That emotional push is powerful. Fear, and anger are kissing/whacking cousins. The...

9 comments    health business love
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Low Fat High Flavor Cheese Biscuits

Something's always cooking around here. It's hard to shake the habits of the past. With our kids and foster kids in and out, the kitchen was a huge part of our life. Now,with just the two of us, we're so used...

7 comments    health how to food
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