Concern for tomorrow's child

I'm sure many would agree with me the importance of Education in today's world. Even President Barack Obama reinforced this fact earlier this year when he was signing a new bill for Education. He said something along the lines that America is in search of highly skilled professionals and if they can't get it within, then they would go outside and get it! In other words, if America can't produce the best skilled in different fields, then they will look unto other countries who have individuals trained to be the best and bring them in.

It's interesting to know that some people would still argue and justify that education is no longer important and it is what you can do and how you apply yourself.

I said all of that only to say this:
A grandma in the school where i work just picked up her granddaughter. The teacher escorts the child to the hallway where grandma is waiting and the following conversation went on: (o, by the way, the office where i am is right by the way so i heard it all by myself and not from someone else...lol):

Teacher: Ok A, tell grandma what you learned today? Eu?
Child: the continent of Europe!
Teacher: Very good!
Grandma: wow! A, very good...and we just came back from there, we went to Mexico!

I'm in the office laughing my head off when the teacher peeps in to look at me a few minutes later...

Missing my man

Ok, so i thought i was going to last a couple of days without missing the Mr. since he was so much trouble before he left...but by gosh! i miss my man! and his only been gone 2 days...Now i have to count down....

Recipe for Okra Soup

Here u go GNG and for any other lady or even gentleman interested in making this dish:

I found the recipe on this blog http://foodandnutritionclub.blogspot.com/

it was really nice with pounded yam...I didn't use everything they included thugh but i made do...

My soup was perfect! yipee to me! and yes, i sent him away and used the recipe i found...hehehehe.... but can u imagine, now his telling me Vegetable soup is the next thing to make this weekend...men! i have to go find a good recipe and figure out which kind i can make: one with locust beans or plain....

I also discovered Always Infinity....I will no longer use Always super - long for my heavy days...Yipee!

Cooking - Naija Style

Am a pretty good cook but i'm not too sure about the very traditional nigerian soups. I mean things like egusi, ogbono, okra soup (ila alasepo), bitterleaf soup, etc. There is a common phrase that implies that good food is the way to a man's heart.

I want to start practicing some of these things by getting recipes online and doing it. Now i'm wondering do i outrightly tell the Mr. i can't do these things and i'm going to use recipes until i'm perfect them or do i sneak around and cook them while his away at work?

I'm going to try a recipe this evening for ila alasepo. I've done it several times but i realize it never really draws like i want it so i'm going to follow a recipe and see if i'll get it right! Maybe i'll be done before he gets back from work! hehehehe

A Post i should have done Since!

GNG my dear friend, here my story....



I think it was either late December or January 2008 when i did a post about my "supposed" adventurous/ignorant trip out of town...unfortunately i went back now to find the post to see if i could link it on herebut it must be part of the posts i deleted a while back just in case the Mr also finds it...funny, now he read my blog but only when i open it....

I guess i should have saved it anyway. So one very interesting evening we were having some serious/honest conversations...it included us asking each other what each person could do that would warrant for unforgiveness...so u can imagine the seriousness of the conversation.

Anyway, apparently, the Mr. had been curious about how i knew the people i went out of town with and how we ended up where we went because he also knew them and could not understand the connection. I honestly thought since we were "playing" honesty i should be honest and tell him the full story (i could have lied or just said don't worry about it)...which included the fact that i slept in the same room with the guy that invited me and nothing happened between us....I'm not saying he didn't make advances but i practically had to beg him!lol

in my original post about the event, i explained that i somehow assumed that the females would be sleeping in d same room and all but it really was not the case and there was nothing i could do about it! I truly didn't even think he was interested in me that way and thought he invited me on the trip only for pity sake after i had poured out about how boring and routinely my life was....

Anyway, the Mr. flipped! he would not have it! Infact he almost started crying explaining that he did not want anyone in that cycle to have even seen me evenhalf naked! lol mind u this was after i explained that i did all my changing in the bathroom and there was nothing half sexy about my pjs....hehehehehe...and for the 3 days were were at the place, the guys were downstairs almost all through gambling...and i mean even late at night....

even though i tried to apologize, my stubborness would not let me because i truly felt like this was all the way in 2007 even before i dreamt of meeting him. I couldn't understand why he could not accept i had a past...i mean, am almost 30 and unless i live elsewhere all my past will be in this same state...but thank God i somehow have a clean record....lol...yeah like i know that many people!

To cut a long story short, even though the story may already be long....lol...we ended up not talking for about 2 bothering days before he called me back with only this statement after which he dropped the phone "i miss u" ....yeah! i was tripped but still had to let it drag for one more day before we could talk it out....hehehehehe

Still don't understand his reaction....