Beautiful Brown Babies

Congratulations to the McGhee's on their very beautiful six brown babies.

Vote -- And A Few Reasons Why You Need To!

• 13th Amendment Abolished slavery --- Abolish means To get rid of
• 14th Amendment All people born in the US are citizens with equal rights
• 15th Amendment Right to vote for all male citizens
• Abraham Lincoln's Reconstruction Plan 13th Amendment, South never really left the union, forgiveness
• Andrew Johnson's Reconstruction Plan Similar to Lincoln's plan offering forgiveness but also gave amnesty to Confederate Leaders
• Reconstruction Historical period marked by military occupation, Constitutional changes and Presidential Impeachment
• Radical Republicans Congressmen who wanted full equality for freedmen and disagreed with President Johnson's Plan
• Poll tax, Literacy Test, Grandfather Clause Voting barriers for African Americans, limited the effectiveness of the 15th Amendment
• Jim Crow Laws Created segregation in the South
• Reconstruction Amendments Attempted to provide political and legal rights for Freedmen and created a Constitutional basis for the Civil Rights Movement
• Sharecropping A form of Agriculture that limited the freedom of African Americans by keeping them on the plantation and dependent on their former masters
• End of Reconstruction Due to the Election of Rutherford B Hayes in 1877 the Federal troops were removed from the south
• Black Codes Regulations that limited the freedom of African Americans
• Freedmen Formerly enslaved persons (African Americans) after the Civil War
• Plessy v. Ferguson (1896) provided for legal segration based on race if "separate but equal" facilities were available
• Booker T Washington African American leader who advocated vocational training as way of economic opportunity and gradual equality for African Americans
• W.E.B. DuBois African Americans should achieve immediate equality by obtaining college education and challenging segregation in court
• NAACP Organization created by WEB DuBois to provide lawyers for African Americans whose civil rights were violated
• Tuskegee Institute Vocation training school created by Booker T Washington in order to improve the economic standing of African Americans
• Great Migration Period from 1900-1930 where African Americans left sharecropping in the south to obtain factory jobs in northern urban areas
• Little Rock 9 1st group of black students who were able to attend an all-white school because President Eisenhower used the military to enforce the Brown v. Board of Education decision
• Desegregation of Armed Forces Executive order by President Harry Truman to integrate the Armed Forces after WWII
• Montgomery Bus Boycott Official beginning of the Civil Rights movement, Martin Luther King Jr. becomes a national celebrity
• Civil Disobedience Based on writings of Saint Augustine and actions of Gandhi, citizens used non-violence to peacefully break unjust laws
• Sit Ins -- An example of civil disobedience used to force the desegregation of lunch counters
• Brown v. Board of Education (1954) reversed the Plessy v. Ferguson (1896) decision, declaring that "separate but equal is inherently unequal" and legally ended segregation
• Civil Rights Act (1964) Passed after Martin Luther King's March on Washington it made it a crime to discriminate based on race or gender
• Voting Rights Act (1965) Made it a crime to create barriers or restrictions to voting
• Freedom Rides and Selma Montgomery March Peaceful actions used to end barriers of African American voting rights

Tuesday Tidbit

God Made Moms To Teach Their Children….Your Perception is Your Reality

A well-known saying goes “you are what you eat” the same goes for ”you are what you think you are”. Your perception can indeed be your reality. So if you have desires that are bigger than the norm for you, your family, and those around you. By all means, do you and be you, by thinking outside that invisible box that many will try and place you in. We are children of God. We can’t allow ourselves to think we are less than what He made us to be. We are wonderfully and beautifully made and greater is He that lives in us, then he that lives in this world. Don’t allow anyone to plant seeds of discouragement or limits in your lives or your children's lives. Allow yourselves as well as your children to dream bigger than you can dream and encourage them to dream bigger than they can dream for themselves. Nurture those natural talents and see God manifest something that you never even thought could become possible. See much farther than your natural eyes can see. Live, love, and nurture more than you thought humanly possible and see God move all obstacles on your behalf. It’s always been mind over matter, and that’s what’s so wonderful about having faith in God. It’s also what’s so wonderful about His grace, His mercy and His favor. When we utilize faith. We can do anything. God has no limits, and we should not limit ourselves because of who we are in Him. The bible says,” Now faith is the substance of things hoped for, the evidence of things not seen.” It also says,” I can do all things through Christ which strengtheneth me.” So start utilizing that faith you claim and see God make your perceptions your reality.

Be blessed and encouraged today, it’s your choice. ~Delphine

Ephesians 3:20 -- Now unto him that is able to do exceeding abundantly above all that we ask or think, according to the power that worketh in us,

Philippians 4:13 -- I can do all things through Christ which strengtheneth me.

Hebrews 11:1 -- Now faith is the substance of things hoped for, the evidence of things not seen.

Tuesday Tidbit

God Made Moms To Teach Their Children To.....Seek God's Guidance.

Psalm 32:8 reads, "I will make you wise and show you where to go. I will guide you and watch over you."

This scripture says it loud and clear, seeking God's guidance will allow us to make wise decisions.

Be blessed and encouraged today, it's your choice. ~Delphine

Loving Her Hair (Sesame Street Style)

A Movie We Parents Must See

Tuesday Tidbit

God Made Moms To Teach Their Children...About God's Grace

3 Principals for Christians Under God’s Grace to Live By.

1) A life of grace begins with mutual acceptance.
(We all are children of God)

2) A attitude of grace requires releasing others to be who they are.
(Freedom begins in God)

3) A commitment to grace means I never assume a role, I'm not qualified to fill. (Don’t judge others)

Be blessed and encouraged today, it's your choice. ~Delphine

2 Corinthians 12:9 -- And He said unto me, My grace is sufficient for thee: for My strength is made perfect in weakness

Ephesians 2:8 -- For by grace you have been saved through faith, and that not of yourselves; it is the gift of God

Philippians 4:19 -- But my God shall supply all your need according to His riches in glory by Christ Jesus.

One For The Kids

After doing a post on an African-american author whose main characters are brown kids. I discovered more authors that write for our kids. So begins my monthly book selection for brown kids, entitled "One For The Kids".



Keena Ford lives with her middle-school-age brother and mother in Washington, DC. Her father lives in Maryland, and she sees him on weekends. Eric is her best friend, but disaster strikes when he is assigned to the other second grade class. Both children try to convince the other that their classroom is more delightful. Not only does jealousy creep into their relationship, Keena creeps into serious trouble by ending up under the teacher's desk in Eric's classroom.

Keena's proclivity for unintended consequences is given a thorough workout in this wonderful early chapter book. She is a delightful new character. Her thinking processes are revealed to be entirely understandable to young readers, but the repercussions are quite funny. One can only hope that this book is only the beginning of a long and happy relationship with Keena.

Good Read of The Month

I read this book while on maternity leave back in 2003. It was a real eye opener for me and think it will be for all of those who read it. During my last pregnancy, my husband and I both only worked part-time. I was actually considered a quarter-time employee because I worked a total of thirty-hours per week to keep my benefits. My husband and I made the decision to have one of us become a part-time employee so we could nurture our family more but it worked out where we both could work part-time for a while. Am I am truly grateful for it. With that being said, towards the end of my pregnancy I found out my husband wasn't getting his paycheck on regular schedule because the company he was working for was having some financial difficulties and couldn't pay their employees at weeks at a time, and some employees had to go a month without being paid. Well my husband kept this news from me because he didn't want me to worry. But once he told me, I became worried that I would need to get back to work sooner then the 10 weeks I had requested off. Well by God's grace, I got my ten weeks off and we never skipped a beat in providing for our family because we had been wise in how we managed our household as well as our finances. I'm sharing this story to say, I'm truly blessed to have the husband I have. And because of God's favor and my husband's upbringing, as well as his professional training, life was good. My husband made some smart moves early on in his life, as far as investments, moves that would allow him to provide for his future family no matter if he had a job or not. We are truly blessed to not be in a two income trap situation but we also plan and make the necessary sacrifices in hopes of never having to be. We as a family have been blessed to be blessings to others, and because of that God has remained faithful to our family. I encourage everyone to read this book, it's a eye opener and points out the true reasons some of us are stuck in the two income trap.

Enjoy the read.

Tuesday Tidbit

God Made Moms To Teach Their Children...How To Grow And Live.

An old Chinese Proverb says, "Give a man a fish and you feed him for a day. Teach a man to fish and you feed him for a lifetime.". We as parents must teach our children this concept while they are young so when they are older and of age to be on their own that they will be able to fend for themselves. Since I have been in the business of renting and working with parents of youngs adults in college, I see many kids not prepared to make their mark in the world because parents have sheltered them and held their hands to long. Not allowing our children to venture out, to make their mistakes and learn from them, to try new things, or to be accountable -- stunts their growth. We must learn to trust God and what we have instilled in our kids to manifest. We so called caring parents are doing more enabling then helping. I read recently in a most powerful book, "that most parents with child(ren) extremely independent, achievement-oriented, and well disciplined by instinct will nurture these traits by not controlling his or her decisions. Instead, they spend more time helping the less resourceful child(ren) make decisions, or they actually make decisions for them. With that result, they strengthen the strong child and weaken the weak." Interesting isn't it. Let's as mothers of brown children allow our children to grown into their God ordained destinies by guiding them with our nurturing love and knowledge by teaching them to walk, so they may one day run. It's important for us as parents to be the watchmen on the walls when it comes to our seeds but it's also important to not allow our watching to cause us to enable them.

Be blessed and encouraged today, it's your choice. ~ Delphine


Hebrews 10:36 You need to persevere so that when you have done the will of God, you will receive what he has promised.

Proverbs 22:6 Train up a child in the way he should go; even when he is old he will not depart from it.

2 Timothy 3:15 -16 But as for you, continue in what you have learned and have become convinced of, because you know those from whom you learned it, and how from infancy you have known the holy Scriptures, which are able to make you wise for salvation through faith in Christ Jesus. All Scripture is God-breathed and is useful for teaching, rebuking, correcting and training in righteousness.