Moms & Kids

Check out these well know moms - and their moms - and their child or children.

Photos courtesy BlackCelebKids.com

Brandy

Kimora Lee

Vanessa Williams

Don't forget to take your family portrait!

Who sings about thier moms?

Dear Mama
2Pac

Boys II Men
A Song For Mama

R. Kelly
Sadie - remake

Junior
Mama Used To Say

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For Mother's Day - send flowers

Mother's Day is the second biggest floral holiday of the year, behind Valentine's Day. People send flowers to wives, mothers, grandmothers, daughters, aunts and others.

Take a look below to see the reason why.

What did you do for your mom on Mother's Day?

Mother's Day - Old School

The Intruders: I'll Always Love My Mama

I'll always love my Mama
She's my favorite girl
I'll always love my Mama
She brought me in this world

Sometimes I feel so bad
When I think of all the things I used to do
How Mama used to clean somebody else's house
Just to buy me a new pair of shoes

I never understood

How Mama made it through the week

When she never ever got

A good night's sleep

Talking 'bout Mama

Talking 'bout Mama

Talking 'bout Mama

I'll always love my Mama

She's my favorite girl

I'll always love my Mama

She brought me in this world

A mother's love is so special

It's something that you can't describe

It's the kind of love that stays with you

Until the day you die

She's taught me little things

Like say, "Hello and Thank you, please"

While scrubbing those floors

[ The Intruders Lyrics are found on www.songlyrics.com ]

On her bended knees

Talking 'bout Mama

Talking 'bout Mama

Talking 'bout Mama

I'll always love my Mama

She's my favorite girl

I'll always love my Mama

She brought me in this world

I'll always love my Mama

I'll always love my Mama

I'll always love my Mama

I'll always love my Mama

I'll always love my Mama

I'll always love my Mama

I'll always love my Mama

I'll always love my Mama

My Mama

She's my favorite girl

I'll always love my Mama

She brought me in this world

I'll always love my Mama

I'll always love my Mama

I'll always love my Mama

HAPPY EASTER

H A P P Y  E A S T E R

Love 

The Easter Bunny

Movie Review

Tyler Perry's Madea's Big Happy Family

FUNNY

*

Hilarious

*

LoL

I only have one  thing to say about this movie,

"By-Raaaaaaaaaaaaannnnnnnnn".

If you want to laugh, this is the film to go and see.

It's the same old Tyler Perry story line, but definitely a good laugh.

Laughter is the best medicine

Word of the week

Ad·vent

noun \ˈad-ˌvent, chiefly British -vənt\

Definition of ADVENT

1

: the period beginning four Sundays before Christmas and observed by some Christians as a season of prayer and fasting

2

a : the coming of Christ at the Incarnation b : second coming

3

not capitalized : a coming into being or use <the Advent of spring> <the Advent of pasteurization> <the Advent of personal computers>

Aunties

What is an Auntie? 

(Your mother's or father's sister - or who ever you want her to be)

If one of the following ladies were your auntie - what do you think she would say to you?

 
We all love Phylicia Rashad!  What would Auntie Phylicia have to say?

 
What if Oprah Winfrey was your Auntie!  Wow, what words of wisdom would she have for you?


 
Michelle Obama - what would Auntie Michelle talk with you about?



  What would Auntie Halle say?


 
How about Auntie Mo'Nique - You know she will keep it real with you.

Whether it's one of the ladies above, or a neighbor, or a teacher, or a sister, or any woman that's not your mom, but loves you like one - then that's your auntie. 

Seek her out and talk to her. 

I bet she'll always have some good advise.

We Are Family

Sister Sledge



(CHORUS:)
We are family
I got all my sisters with me
We are family
Get up ev'rybody and sing

Ev'ryone can see we're together
As we walk on by
(FLY!) and we fly just like birds of a feather
I won't tell no lie
(ALL!) all of the people around us they say
Can they be that close
Just let me state for the record
We're giving love in a family dose

(CHORUS x2)

Living life is fun and we've just begun
To get our share of the world's delights
(HIGH!) high hopes we have for the future
And our goal's in sight
(WE!) no we don't get depressed
Here's what we call our golden rule
Have faith in you and the things you do
You won't go wrong
This is our family Jewel

(REPEAT CHORUS TO FADE)

Federal Government Shut Down

Governments all over the world are going crazy and the United States' government is no different.

Government Shutdown 2011





April 11, 2011, could have been the first day of an American, Government, shut down.  That means that a lot of government working Americans would have gone unpaid to allow politicians 'more' time to decide on how to spend America's money. 

Now let me ask - why would America have to shut down the government to figure out how to spend some money?  Makes no sense to me.

Tell me what you & your family spend money on?
Tell me if you & your family would stop getting food, gas, water, clothing, etc. until it is figured out? 

Share your thoughts.

F.A.M.E by Chris Brown

Chirs Brown's new album

Chris Breezy has a new album out called FAME.  I haven't heard ALL of the songs yet, but I heard one that I like - Look At Me Now - it's pretty good.  I like it.

Unfortunately, there is an energy out there following Breezy around trying to turn him into a very angry person.  The key to life is to not let people push your buttons.  I pray that Chris can do it because I enjoy seeing him perform.

What are some of the ways that people push your button? 

How can you not get angry? 

Share your thoughts.

Friendship Train

FRIENDSHIP TRAIN
Glady's Knight and the Pips

FRIENDSHIP TRAIN VIDEO

Calling out to everyone across the nation
Said the world is in a desperate situation
Stealing, burning, fighting, killing nothing but corruption
It looks like mankind in on the eve of destruction
Oh yes it is now people let me tell you now
We've got to learn to live with each other
No matter what the race, creed or color
I just got to tell you what the world needs now
Is love and understanding get aboard the friendship train
Everybody shake a hand make a friend now
Listen to us now, we're doing our thing
On the friendship train

We've got to start today to make tomorrow
A brighter day for our children
Oh calm down people now we can do it
I can prove it but only if our hearts are willing
Now get aboard the friendship train
Everybody, shake a hand, shake a hand
Yes I'm talking about the friendship train
It don't matter what you look like
People or who you are
If your heart is in the right place
In the right place
Talking about the right palce
You're welcome aboard now

This train stands for justice,
This train stands for freedom
This train stands for harmony and peace
This train stands for love
Come on get on the friendship train
People listen to me now
Harmony is the key my sisters and brothers
Oh yes it is I say
Harmony is the key my sisters and brothers
People can't wait cause another day might be too late
Come on get on the friendship train

Michael Jackson Throwback

Cute!

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Booted

This years hot new fashion are boots!  Don't you just love them?

LADIES YOU ARE H-O-T

HOT!!!

The Lord's Prayer

Sometimes, all you need is a little prayer to get you through the day...if you don't have one, you can use the one that I use, sung by Loretta Devine.

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The prayer as it occurs in Matthew 6:9–13

"Our Father in art in heaven,

hallowed be your name.

Thy kingdom come,

thy will be done,

on earth as it is in heaven.

Give us this day our daily bread,

and forgive us our debts,

as we also have forgiven our debtors.

And lead us not into temptation,

but deliver us from evil.

For thine is the kingdom, and the power

And the Glory, forever."

Old School Hip-Hop

THE MESSAGE

It's like a jungle sometimes it makes me wonder
How I keep from going under
It's like a jungle sometimes it makes me wonder
How I keep from going under



Broken glass everywhere
People pissing on the stairs, you know they just don't care
I can't take the smell, I can't take the noise
Got no money to move out, I guess I got no choice
Rats in the front room, roaches in the back
Junkies in the alley with the baseball bat
I tried to get away, but I couldn't get far
Cause a man with a tow-truck repossessed my car

Chorus:
Don't push me cause I'm close to the edge
I'm trying not to lose my head, ah huh-huh-huh
[2nd and 5th: ah huh-huh-huh]
[4th: say what?]
It's like a jungle sometimes it makes me wonder
How I keep from going under
It's like a jungle sometimes it makes me wonder
How I keep from going under

Standing on the front stoop, hangin' out the window
Watching all the cars go by, roaring as the breezes blow
Crazy lady livin' in a bag
Eating out of garbage pails, used to be a fag-hag
Said she danced the tango, skipped the light fandango
The Zircon Princess seemed to lost her senses
Down at the peepshow, watching all the creeps
So she can tell the stories to the girls back home
She went to the city and got social security
She had to get a pimp, she couldn't make it on her own

[2nd Chorus]
[ Lyrics from: http://www.lyricsmode.com/lyrics/g/grandmaster_flash/the_message.html ]
My brother's doing bad on my mother's TV
She says: "You watch it too much, it's just not healthy!"
"All My Children" in the daytime, "Dallas" at night
Can't even see the game or the Sugar Ray fight
The bill collectors they ring my phone
And scare my wife when I'm not home
Got a bum education, double-digit inflation
I can't take the train to the job, there's a strike at the station
Neon King Kong standin' on my back
Can't stop to turn around, broke my sacrophiliac
A mid-ranged migraine, cancered membrane
Sometimes I think I'm going insane, I swear I might hijack a plane

My son said: "Daddy I don't wonna go to school
Cause the teacher's a jerk!", he must think I'm a fool
And all the kids smoke reefer, I think it'd be cheaper
If I just got a job, learned to be a street sweeper
I'll dance to the beat, shuffle my feet
Wear a shirt and tie and run with the creeps
Cause it's all about money, ain't a damn thing funny
You got to have a con in this land of milk and honey
They pushed that girl in front of the train
Took her to the doctor, sewed her arm on again
Stabbed that man right in his heart
Gave him a transplant for a brand new start
I can't walk through the park, cause it's crazy after dark
Keep my hand on my gun, cause they got me on the run
I feel like a outlaw, broke my last glass jar
Hear them say: "You want some more livin' on a seesaw?"

[4th Chorus]

A child is born with no state of mind
Blind to the ways of mankind
God is smiling on you but he's frowning too
Because only God knows what you'll go through
You'll grow in the ghetto, living second rate
And your eyes will sing a song of deep hate
The places you're playin', where you stay
Looks like one great big alley way
You'll admire all the number book takers
Thugs, pimps, pushers and the big money makers
Driving big cars, spending twenties and tens
And you wanna grow up to be just like them, huh,
Smugglers, scrambles, burglars, gamblers
Pickpockets, peddlers even panhandlers
You say: "I'm cool, I'm no fool!"
But then you wind up dropping out of high school
Now you're unemployed, all non-void
Walking 'round like you're Pretty Boy Floyd
Turned stickup kid, look what you've done did
Got sent up for a eight year bid
Now your manhood is took and you're a may tag
Spend the next two years as a undercover fag
Being used and abused to serve like hell
Till one day you was found hung dead in a cell
It was plain to see that your life was lost
You was cold and your body swung back and forth
But now your eyes sing the sad, sad song
Of how you lived so fast and died so young

Don't push me 'cause I'm close to the edge
I'm trying not to lose my head
It's like a jungle sometimes it makes me wonder how I keep from going under
It's like a jungle sometimes it makes me wonder how I keep from going under

Yo Mell, you see that girl there?
Yo, that sounded like Cowboy man
Cool
Yo, what's up Money?
Yo, where's Cooly an Raheim?
They is downstairs coooling out
So what's up for tonight y'all?
We could go down to Phoenix
We could go check out "Junebug" man
Hey yo, you know that girl Betty?
Yeah man
Come on, come all man
Not like it
That's what I heard man
What's this happening, what's this?
What's goin' on?
Freeze
Don't nobody move or nothin'
Y'all know what this is (What's happend?)
Get 'em up, get 'em up (What?)
Oh man, we're (Right in there) Grandmaster Flash and the Furious Five
What is that, a gang?
No
Shut up
I don't wanna hear your mouth
Shut up
Officer, officer, what is the problem?
You the problem
Hey, you ain't gotta push me man
Get in the car, get in the car
Get in the god...
I said, "Get in the car"
Why is he?

 

Humble Thy Self

If you cannot think of a reason to be more humble in this life

 - check out the massive wave that hit Japan.

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Love one another - before it's too late.

My Baby's Daddy

Check out these ladies

Baby's Daddy!

Coretta Scott King's - Baby's Daddy

Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.

Betty Shabazz's - Baby's Daddy!
Malcom X

Michelle Obama's - Baby's Daddy!

Barack Obama



Could you imagine having one of these gentlemen as your Baby's Daddy?

I'm sure these ladies go (went) through a lot.

And all the while they keep (kept) it sophisticated.

My applauds to these Sophisticated Ladies.

Old School Music

YOU DON'T HAVE TO BE A STAR
Marilyn McCoo and Billy Davis Jr.

You can come as you are with just your heart
And I'll take you in, you're rejected and hurt,
To me you're worth, girl, what you have within, oh honey.




I don't need no superstar cause I'll accept you as you are.

You won't be denied cause I'm satisfied with the love that you can inspire.

You don't have to be a star, baby, to be in my show.

You don't have to be a star, baby, to be in my show.

Somebody, nobody, knows could steal the tune that you want to hear,
So stop your running around cause now you've found what was cloudy is clear. Oh honey.

There'll be no cheering from the clouds, just two hearts beating out loud.

There'll be no parade, no tv or stage, only me till your dying day.

You don't have to be a star, baby, to be in my show;
Oh, honey, you don't have to be a star, baby, to be in my show.

Don't think your star has to shine for me to find out where you're coming
from; what is a beauty queen if it don't mean that I'm number one?

I don't need no superstar cause I'll accept you as you are.
You won't be denied cause I'm satisfied with the love that you inspire.

You don't have to be a star, baby, to be in my show;
Oh, honey, you don't have to be a star, baby, to be in my show.

Justin Bieber movie

This young man is so cute - I pray for him! 

He has the heart and voice of an angel, I pray that demons stay away from him.

I saw his movie and he 'appears' to be very genuine!

He has a lot of people who, I would have to say, support him.  There were people in the movie like, Snoop Dogg, Ludacris, Miley Sirus, Usher, and others.

He has a good sound, can dance, and a happy heart.

Heaven stay in his corner!

2Thumbs up - I like the Bieb!

Prince - a concert review

    PRINCE!!!

I have to say I love this guy!  His concert was awesome. 

I treated my mother to the Prince concert because back in the day she was a die heart fan!  Because of it, I know most all of Prince's old school songs. 

Back in the day I thought he was a little weird (sometimes) but I went to his concert and I 'really' like Prince.  Nice to see how he's matured :).

Of course he has to be in his 50s so he wasn't jumping off of tall speakers and riding in on motorcycles, etc., but he still sounded like the good ole Prince.  Even my mother was up dancing - with her bad foot.

He did everything from Purple Rain to Controversy.

Nice clean show - awesome stage - cool back up singers - Ms. Sheila E (you go girl!) - and a tight band (as usual)!

2 Thumbs UP!

Classy ladies

Here are some pics of today's (the 2000s) classy ladies.

  Gabrielle Union

 Nia Long

 Sanaa Lathan

  Regina King


  Taraji. P. Henson

Love the way you keep it 100 ladies!



Get your sexy on!

Extra Extra - read all about it!!!

Hey my sexy ladies, I want to challenge you to get your sexy on. 

Here are the rules:

1.  No breast hanging out
2.  No skirts above your thighs
3.  No blouses tighter than a t-shirt
4.  No leggings, not being used as just that - leggings (they go under something - they do not stand alone).

So that's it.  Get your sexy on without displaying sex! 

Can you do it? 

Lift Every Voice and Sing

IN HONOR OF BLACK HISTORY MONTH

Lift every voice and sing,

'Til earth and heaven ring,

Ring with the harmonies of Liberty;

Let our rejoicing rise

High as the listening skies,

Let it resound loud as the rolling sea.

Sing a song full of the faith that the dark past has taught us,

Sing a song full of the hope that the present has brought us;

Facing the rising sun of our new day begun,

Let us march on 'til victory is won.

Stony the road we trod,

Bitter the chast'ning rod,

Felt in the days when hope unborn had died;

Yet with a steady beat,

Have not our weary feet

Come to the place for which our fathers sighed?

We have come over a way that with tears has been watered,

We have come, treading our path through the blood of the slaughtered,

Out from the gloomy past,

'Til now we stand at last

Where the white gleam of our bright star is cast.

God of our weary years,

God of our silent tears,

Thou who has brought us thus far on the way;

Thou who has by Thy might

Led us into the light,

Keep us forever in the path, we pray.

Lest our feet stray from the places, our God, where we met Thee,

Lest, our hearts drunk with the wine of the world, we forget Thee;

Shadowed beneath Thy hand,

May we forever stand,

True to our God,

True to our native land.

In the beginning God made man

In the beginning of the bible, it states that God made man - and out of man he made woman. 

I believe God made a man to be loving and caring and kind and considerate.  A man is an easy thing to love.

But, today's blog is about men who are not being the above stated things. 

I'm not here to diss men - but rather speak on the men who are not being the things that God intended them to be. 

A man not being a man, is like a rose, not being a rose.

A man not being a man, is like the sun, not being the sun.

A man not being a man, is like 'love' not understanding how it works.  Love brings growth - hate brings death.

Of course things in the world have protective devises:

A rose has thorns, to protect itself. 

The sun can burn you, to protect itself.  

At times love must be blind, to protect itself.

But a rose does not set out to intentionally prick you.  The sun does not set out to intentionally burn you.  Love does not set out to intentionally make you look stupid. 

Hurt happens when you aren't being careful.  When you get pricked, you don't kill the rose.  When you get burned, you don't shoot the sun.  Therefore, when you get hurt by love you don't kill the messenger.

The topics of my blog today deal with men (who are not being loving, caring, kind and considerate - what God intended them to be).  But rather, they are men who want to kill the messenger.  My topics today deal with Domestic Violence.

Domestic Violence must stop!  Please help me spread the word. 

Movie Review - Neflix

The Stoning of Soraya M.

For some strange reason this movie attracted my attention.  I clicked on it from our Wii game console and just like that it was streamlined from Netflix and onto my television screen.

Talk about domestic violence, Soraya M's story is an example of domestic violence at its highest.

Soraya M. is another strong woman that endured hurt, pain, then death, from a man that said he loved her - her husband.

According to the story, her husband wanted a younger wife.  He wanted a divorce so that he could go and have this younger wife - okay fine - go have her, but also stay committed to your vows.  Take care of what you already have.

This "MAN" told his wife that the other woman had more money than she did and that was one of the reasons why he wanted a divorce.

Needless to say, his wife did not want the divorce, but knowing that she would eventually have to get one, she took a job and began making her own money.  When her husband saw things, he became jealous, set her up by saying that she was committing adultery and in their town, the conviction for adultery is being stoned to death.

The producer and director of this movie made sure you could truly understand what stoning to death meant...I cried.

I will not let Soraya M. die in vain.  I will tell anyone and everyone about what happened to her.  In my opinion, she died because of a selfish man & money!

DOMESTIC VIOLENCE must stop!

Domestic Violence.

Happy Birthday

Tanya Hill-McCall

Today is the birthday of my cousin, Tanya, who was killed by her husband - she would have been 44 years old today.

Why did her husband take her life - Was it for the love of money?  I don't know, but it is something that is going on in our world today - Domestic Violence.

What causes domestic violence - Selfishness?  I don't know, but our world definitley needs to put a stop to it!

I know the bible says love your wife as you love yourself - if you hurt your wife does that mean you unconsciously want to hurt yourself?

I know domestic violence goes both ways,

but today I am not talking about women who hurt men,

we can save that for another day. 

Today, I am talking about the growing number of men

who continue to hurt and kill women.

I don't have an answer.

I do know that I miss my cousin and I don't understand why she had to die. 

So that it's not in vain, I dedicate this day (February 20th) of my blog to her.

I love you Tanya.

Please help put a stop to Domestic Violence.

If you have some thoughts on the matter, please share.

FOR THE LOVE OFMONEY

By the O'Jays

Money money money money, money (x6)
Some people got to have it
Some people really need it
Listen to me y'all, do things, do things, do bad things with it
You wanna do things, do things, do things, good things with it
Talk about cash money, money
Talk about cash money- dollar bills, yall

For the love of money
People will steal from their mother
For the love of money
People will rob their own brother
For the love of money
People can't even walk the street
Because they never know who in the world they're gonna beat
For that lean, mean, mean green
Almighty dollar, money

For the love of money
People will lie, Lord, they will cheat
For the love of money
People don't care who they hurt or beat
For the love of money
A woman will sell her precious body
For a small piece of paper it carries a lot of weight
Call it lean, mean, mean green

Almighty dollar

I know money is the root of all evil
Do funny things to some people
Give me a nickel, brother can you spare a dime
Money can drive some people out of their minds

Got to have it, I really need it
How many things have I heard you say
Some people really need it
How many things have I heard you say
Got to have it, I really need it
How many things have I heard you say
Lay down, lay down, a woman will lay down
For the love of money
All for the love of money
Don't let, don't let, don't let money rule you
For the love of money
Money can change people sometimes
Don't let, don't let, don't let money fool you
Money can fool people sometimes
People! Don't let money, don't let money change you,
it will keep on changing, changing up your mind.