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Reader Recipes: Our Favorite Recipes From Mom! - The Frisky
Recently we asked Frisky readers to send us their favorite recipes from Mama — or, you know, a suitable maternal-like figure. Everyone’s mom has some special recipe that brings you right back home whenever you eat it. In honor of Mother’s Day (this Sunday, don’t forget!), we’ve collected half a dozen yummy recipes from readers’ mothers that should keep us in the kitchen all weekend. Why don’t you choose one to make your mom this Sunday?
“When I think about Mother’s Day, I usually picture a dad in plaid pajama pants destroying the kitchen with his kids in a clumsy effort to make his wife breakfast in bed. There is flour everywhere, kids are enthusiastically beating something in a bowl and Dad is putting a single red rose in a vase. The entourage brings breakfast to Mom, who is leisurely reclining on a mountain of pillows. Soon her kids are nibbling at the pancakes on her tray and her husband tells her she has an appointment for a massage/manicure/facial in a few hours. “Until then,” he says proudly, “you’re off duty.”
Mother’s Day looks a little different in our house. Because our four-year old son has two moms, it’s not always clear who gets special treatment that day. We both work hard all year and could both use a whole day ‘off.’”
1. He prioritizes what his mom wants over what he wants or what you want. All. The Damn. Time.
2. He will expect you to do everything she did for him, like his laundry and packing his lunch.
3. He’ll spend more of his free time on weekends with his mother ”fixing her dishwasher” than with you.
4. He will side with his mother on everything.
5. He always remembers her birthday. But your anniversary? Not so much.
6. He’s not so good at making decisions because she’s always made them for him.
7. He’s used to being babied, so he gets all bent out of shape when things don’t’ go his way.
8. He’s susceptible to manipulation. Not just from her, but from anyone in a position of relative power, like his boss or friends.9. She might end up going on the honeymoon with you. True story. It happened to a friend of someone the Frisky staff! (They’re divorced now.)
Whoa. Hi there, TIME magazine. You went there, didn’t you? I’m as pro-breastfeeding-in-public as one can be, but this cover photo the intentional provocation of this cover annoys me. The 26-year-old mother Jamie Lynne Grumet is model-hot and that’s no accident; nor is it an accident that her child she is breastfeeding is three-years-old, an age which some may argue is “too old” to be nursing at their mama’s breast. I make no judgments about this mother’s attachment parenting or breastfeeding. But I wonder, will the visceral reaction to this provocative cover — which I would place bets on being covered up at newsstands, a la Cosmopolitan titties — do more harm to the parenting tactics she believes in than it will do good? (via TIME Magazine Goes There With Toddler Breastfeeding Cover - The Frisky)
This Mother’s Day we’d like to take a moment to recognize our mothers for all the love they bestowed upon us, all the wisdom they imbued us with, and most of all, for the weird fears they attempted to instill in us. Whether they managed to turn us or not is a different story. Some we embraced (we agree that it is important to unplug your flatiron so as not to burn the house down), and some we vehemently rejected (tampons are perfectly safe to use). But we respect their perseverance in trying to make us accept their irrational truths as our own. Check out the bizarre fears our mothers taught us to have after the jump. (via 15 Weird Fears Our Mothers Instilled In Us - The Frisky)
