S'more Pudding

5 cups of milk
1/3 cup of sugar or splenda
5 tablespoons of unsweetened cocoa powder
5 tablespoons of cornstarch
2 capfulls of vanilla
2 cups of mini marshmallows
3 gram crackers
1 tablespoon of milk chocolate chips

mix the milk, sugar, unsweetened cocoa powder, cornstarch, vanilla in a sauce pan. Heat on medium heat until it thickens. Turn of the heat. Add the milk chocolate chips and fold in half of the marshmallows. Grind the gram crackers coarsely. Fold in the rest of the marshmallows and ground gram crackers. Serve in a dish and enjoy.

Social Networking saves lives.

By now, you may have heard that Demi Moore and Nat Lankeford saved a life last night through the social network called Twitter. Although many prefer not to participate in Twitter to favor facebook, digg, and myspace, I recommend Twitter to save lives, increase business, make friends, inform about fundraisers, and increase awareness. Seriously, after last night, is there any doubt that social networking works? Sign in, I want to hear your opinion.

Preparing your toddler for kindergarden.

Presently, kindergarten worldwide are requesting more and more homeschooling from parents. Kindergartens want entering students to know how to count, know how to write, know how to add, and know the alphabet. Most of the above I have taught to my toddler in just a couple of hours a week.
First, how to count. I started teaching my child how to count when she was two years old. I had a poster of the ten commandments, and would point to the number telling her what the number was each day.Then, I would ask her to tell me what the number was as I pointed to it. When I was sure that she was comfortable with 1-10, I added 10 numbers a week using the same method. Currently, she knows numbers 1-100, and rarely makes mistakes about numbers outside of 6 and 9 which looks the same on a digital clock as I sometimes ask her the time.
Second, how to write. I know that kindergartens do not require entering students to write sentences or long words; however, they do like entering students to know his/her name. I taught my child to spell her name out loud at the age of two years old. Later, when she was comfortable spelling her name out loud, I gave her a pen and a piece of paper to show her what it looked like on paper. Currently, she writes her name, mom, dog, cat, hat, no, yes, and a host of two-letter and three-letter words.
Third, how to add. I am still in the process of teaching her how to add, but I found that computer adding games and holding up fingers help her start think about adding. Today, she can numbers 1+ up to 10. It is a start.
Finally, know the alphabet. I begin teaching my daughter the alphabet at age three years old. We sung the song, but it did not help her recognize the letters. I wrote the letters down, told her the letters, had her tell me what the letters were, and had her write the letters. Now, she can write and recognize 93% of the 26 letters of the alphabet. Like I previous stated, two hours of quality time a week works wonders.

Sharleece's Shamrock Cookies

1 bag of marshmallows
1 stick of butter
1/2 box of pistacchio pudding
3 drops of green food coloring
1/2 box of a 12.5 box of corn flakes
chopped pistachhio nuts (optional)
1 clover shaped cookie cutter

Instructions:

Melt the butter in a sauce pan, add the marshmallow stirring until melted, add the pudding mix food coloring stirring until mixed, add the corn flakes folding it into the mixure, add the pistacchio nuts if you like, spread the cookies on a cookie sheet lined with parchment paper, wait for the cookies to cool for about 30 minutes, cut cookies into clovers, and enjoy.

Is mail order a scam or not a scam?

Recently, I was on craigslist where I noticed that they did not like businesses that involve mail order. I understand that individuals who are not business owners may attempt to scam individuals; however, it gives legitimate business owners like myself with global internet business a bad name. How? You ask. I'll tell you how. Craigslist insinuates that money order payments and payment through paypal is a scam. Many reputable business, such as Spigel, Newport news, SMC, eBay, Amazon, and
my business accept payments both as money order and through paypal. I do not pretend to fully understand craigslist logic or motivation; but, I know it implies that legitimate businesses should seek another internet marketing avenue if mail order or paypal is 50% or more of the companies income. Mail order is definitely not a scam, and I am truly disappointed with craigslist view of mail order business.

Sharleece's Coffee Delight

Sharleece's Coffee Delight

3 cups of plain yogurt
1 cup of milk
1/2 cup of espresso grounds
2 whole bananas
1/2 cup of milk chocolate chips/sugar free cocoa
1/2 cup of honey (optional)

Mix well in a blender and enjoy.

Baked Ziti recipe contributed by Real Estate agent Craig Duckworth

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Baked Ziti with Spinach and Tomatoes

INGREDIENTS: 1 pound Italian sausages, casings removed 1 medium onion, chopped 3 large garlic cloves, chopped 1 28-ounce can diced, peeled tomatoes 1/4 cup purchased (or homemade) pesto sauce 10 ounces ziti or penne pasta (about 3 cups), freshly cooked 8 cups ready-to-use spinach leaves (about 2/3 of 10-ounce package) 6 ounces mozzarella cheese, cubed 1 cup grated Parmesan cheese

DIRECTIONS: Heat heavy large saucepan over medium-high heat. Add sausage, onion and garlic. Sauté until sausage is cooked through, breaking up meat with back of spoon, about 10 minutes. Add tomatoes with juices to pan. Simmer until sauce thickens slightly, stirring occasionally, about 10 minutes. Stir in pesto. Season sauce with salt and pepper (Can be prepared 1 day ahead. Cover and refrigerate. Bring to simmer before continuing). Preheat oven to 375 degrees. Lightly oil a 13 x 9-inch glass baking dish. Combine pasta, spinach, mozzarella and 1/3 cup parmesan cheese in large bowl. Stir in hot tomato sauce. Transfer mixture to prepared baking dish. Sprinkle with remaining 2/3 cup Parmesan cheese. Bake until sauce bubbles and cheeses melt, 30 to 45 minutes.

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Beautiful Moms’ Recipe Gurus

Beautiful Moms’ Recipe Gurus

Beautiful Moms’ Recipe Gurus is a fun group where you can share and learn new recipes or learn how to cook old ones better. Recipes range from simple to complex meals that are wonderfully tasty. Go to www.sharleece.ning.com to join. Membership is free until September.

Sharleece's chicken nugget recipe.

Sharleece's Chicken Nugget Recipe

1 package of chicken tenders
5 cups of your favorite cereal
2 cups of buttermilk
salt and pepper, optional

Preparation and Cooking Instructions:

1. Marinate the chicken tenders in the buttermilk for 30 minutes although overnight is better.
2. Grind your favorite cereal in a food processor or by hand.
3. Thoroughly coat the chicken tenders in the cereal crumbs.
4. Fry the chicken tenders in a deep fryer or bake them in a 350 degree oven for 20 minutes each side.

Enjoy.

Children's Hospital Fundraiser

Purchase a cuddle me close baby blanket for $10, and a percentage of the proceeds go to charity. Keep the baby blanket for yourself or donate it directly to the Children's hospital. Email Jerricare@yahoo.com or call 765-606-1261 for purchase details.

Interesting Prospective: Kid friendly meal revisited.

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Kid friendly meal revisited.

Homemade Applesauce

Home applesauce is a wonderful and easy meal for a child 8 years and older to prepare with a little help from an older sibling or from a parent. I suggest gala apples to start the dish, because gala apples have a natural sweetness that does not require adding refined sugars or honey. However use whatever apple that you like adding sugar to taste.

1. 5 gala apple peeled, cored, and sliced.
2. 1 - 2 cups of water.

To prepare, add the apples to the pot after peeling, coring, and sliced them. Then, pour water into the pot until the apples are covered. Cook the apples on medium to high heat on top of the stove until soft for about 30 - 45 minutes. When you stir the apples, they will start to fall apart or to speed up the process you can use a masher. Let cool and eat or eat warm. Great you have just made homemade applesauce. Doesn't applesauce taste good without added preservatives? Share with your friends.

Embezzlement within Small Businesses on the rise.

I know that it has been a while since the Enron fiasco; however embezzlement and accounting fraud still weighs heavily on the minds of small business owners. The simplest way to prevent embezzlement is through checks and balances. Checks and balances occur through separation of duties within the accounting department. For instance, must small business hire on bookkeeper to handle all of the bookkeeping duties. While this approach is cost effective, it could easily lead to embezzlement due to no checks and balances or separation of duties. The best way for the owner in the example to prevent fraud would be to have one or more employees manage accounts receivable, one or more employees manage accounts payable, one or more employees long-term assets, one or more employees manage long-term debt, and so on. The checks and balances system and separation of duties is an Accounting Practice Board (APB) accepted practice to prevent fraud and embezzlement in accounting. Or of course, the small business owner can use the other embezzlement prevention technique--hire your spouse, if you feel you can trust him/her. After all the main objective is to prevent loss of funds. You work hard, and you deserve all of your money.

Update about Parkview studios

Another reason to not stay at Parkview studios located at 3501 Harris Rd. Fort Wayne, IN, the staff stole my clothes and hygenial products. This blog is inconjunction with "Don't stay there, Do stay there."

Abuse, the new epidemic?

When most people think about abuse, they think about physical, sexual, or drug abuse. However, today, I am talking about an abuse that hurts the self-esteem of men, women, and children alike--harassment and intimidation.
Today, harassment and intimidation leads to people moving from their homes, to children being forced into submission, and to people fearing for their lives in general. Furthermore, harassment and intimidation causes the abused individual to hate oneself, to hate others, to think/try suicide to end the abuse, and/or to become an abuser. Therefore, the above statements prove that harassment and intimidation results in emotional, social, and spiritual deterioration.
Harassment and intimidation has many forms; it can be as simple as constantly telling someone to shut up, constantly entering the place where the person is staying without his/her consent, constantly hacking into his/her computer and erasing important documents while he/she is on the internet, and constantly threateniing the person when he/she steps out on his/her porch. Today, abusers are even rewarded for harassing and intimidating individuals by their peers. Moreover, the Civil Rights Commission states that an individual has the right to be free from harassment, intimidation, and coercion in the place where he/she is staying.
How can we stop the cycle of abuse? Stopping the abuse is simple as well:

1. Do not participate in the abuse
2. Do not reward or appauld the abuser from abusing another individual;
and,
3. Report any abuse to the civil rights commission and encourage the
abused individual to do the same.

Afterall, we are all neighbors and can live together in peace. Save the abuse for our enemies when we are in an official war. Love your neighbors as yourself, and do unto others as you would have them do unto you.

Hot new baby product.

The cuddle me close baby blanket is the latest sought after product. They are perfect for swaddling, covering car seats, and keeping the baby warm. The crocheted cuddle me close baby blanket has a unique and fun design and come in several colors: pink, white, lavender, yellow, green, red, blue, and peach. The cuddle me close baby blankets are not sold in stores. For more information or to purchase, email me at Jerricare@yahoo.com or call me at 765-606-1261.

Clean water is a PRIORITY.

It was recently discovered that children playing in or near lakes are at risk of contacting brain eating parasites; granted there are only 200 reported cases a year. Wouldn't you want to support testing of all lakes, rivers, and waterways before your child enters?

Don't stay there, Do stay there.

Hi bloggers,

While traveling through the state of Indiana after my company raised $10,780 for charity through its first fundingraiser, I discovered several places that were nice to stay in and horrible to stay in. Do not stay in these places if you like cleanliness and privacy:

1. Muncie Inn in Muncie, Indiana is very dirty;
2. H&K Hotel in Anderson, Indiana treats its guest like employees
3. Anything made by FADLEY is made very badly because the plumbing does not work and the place is very dirty;
4. Parkview Studios in Fort Wayne, Indiana's staff is intrusive, expect no privacy;
5. Budget Inn in Muncie, Indiana is intrusive and rude; and,
6. Flannery and Collins anywhere in Indiana is intrusive and ghetto.

Do stay in these wonderful places:

1. Motel 6, the staff is helpful and clean; and,
2. Comfort Inn/Suites is clean, unintrusive, and feels like a home away from home.

My picks are affordable and nice. Please do not be blindsided by the unpleasant places to stay. Save yourself the trouble. Do you have places to add? I welcome your comments.