Parenting Never Ends

Will you still love me when I'm 64?
My kids do.

"Dad, you're the best Mom anybody ever had."
"Dad, you're my best friend."
"Dad, I love you."
"Dad, I got all my best traits from you."

Their mother died when she and I were 35. Since then I've had the wonderful experience of being both Dad and Mom.

Today, even though they're adults and they live in 4 distant cities, we still take each other's counsel on difficult matters without slipping into the all-too-common realm of codependency.

There were some tough times, yet the kids have been very forgiving of the errors I've made. They say I did many things right. And if you know one of them today you would say that he/she is a good, loving and responsible person who is making valuable contributions to their community and the world.

Each has benefited from the lessons of my homely psychology and overcome their complicated upbringing as you will see in the following posts.

xoxo
Dad



Sunday, August 24, 2008

Recipes


Easiest ever recipe for chili
From SL
(More recipes added to this blog via "COMMENTS")
1 can each of:
Black beans (rinse beans, drain and put in pan)
Kidney beans (rinse, drain, put in pan)
Baked beans (do not rinse)
1 can diced tomatoes (I use spicy ones)
1-2 cups frozen corn (I used canned corn and it worked just as well)
1 Pkg taco seasoning (or chili powder and cloves or combo of other spices)
1 large onion chopped (I omitted)
1 green pepper chopped (I omitted)
Put the onion and green pepper in bottom of pan first and cook to carmelize a bit. Then add rest of ingredients
Bring to simmer then turn down heat a bit for at least one hour.
You can add some chicken or turkey sausage (cooked first).
This is an easy recipe to double so you have a lot through the week and some to freeze.

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