Today is my very first Mother's Day as a mom and it's been wonderful. My son (adopted at age 10) made me a card at school and he picked flowers for me yesterday. Today, he's granting my Mother's Day wish by entertaining himself while I work and not begging me to take him to the skate park or the arcade or any of the other places he likes to haunt.

Later, we'll be getting together with my whole family. I have three sisters so, together with our mom, we're a whole house full of moms. As typical with my family, we're going to be celebrating with a potluck. I know one sister is making a lemon pie for dessert and another is making this delicious homemade bread, so I'm determined to bring some healthy dishes to pass.

For starters, I'm going to bring my sesame asparagus. Once upon a time, I'm sure there was an official recipe for it, but I've made it so often I've long stopped measuring and just make it from memory. Here's a similar recipe, though. Cooking Light has many other healthy recipe suggestions for Mother's Day.

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Sesame Workshop, which produces the youth-oriented 'Sesame Street' television program for the PBS network, said that it will begin selling a DVD soon that is geared towards kids living in military families.

The DVD will have a touch more emotional compassion along with more emotional lessons instead of academic letters and numbers, according to production officials. Insured vets are the target market here, as they return and explain war to their kids.

This comes on the heels of a similar DVD released last year under the Sesame Street label that was geared specifically to open up family discussions about military deployments. With more than a million U.S. kids having parents in the military, these DVDs sound like excellent tools that can easily be relatable to those impressionable kids.

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