Lets Give Them Something to Talk About

More and more women, men and children are being expected to take on more and more responsibilities.   Due to worldly pressures, women think they have to have a spotless house, while working a full time job or being a stay at home mother, all while raising perfect children who they do activities with daily, and also have perfect homemade meals prepared and having meals stored in the freezer/ pantry etc…, while also volunteering at church, school, for girl/ boy scouts etc…    Men’s pressures are just as high, they have to be the ultra romantic man who works full time at a high paying joy, but still devotes his entire heart to children and finds time to take his wife out, when he is off he is expected to clean the house and bring breakfast in bed to her.   Children are to be in multiple activities (that their parents inevitably have to drive them to in addition to all their other chores), do their homework, have 1 hour structured play and 1 hour unstructured play, s...

I am part of a life group.   It is pretty cool.   We meet once a week and talk about our life, we talk about the message that we heard at church on Sunday and we pray for each other and share funny stories about our lives in general.   We usually meet on Thursday nights and each bring some sort of food to share.   This week it was Asian night.   It was so good, people brought all sorts of yummies to share.   I was happy.   My husband always makes the joke about Chinese food being the stray cats and dogs, so as I was in charge of dessert this time, I made something unique.   I made a special cake, Kitty Litter Cake.   Yep, it is a cake that actually looks just like kitty litter.   I put it in a red tub that looked like a litter tray and served it with a slotted spoon.   I made homemade tootsie rolls in the shape of poo on top.   It was pretty convincing.   The “poop” was brown and sticky and mounded on top of what l...