Mothers Day

Mother's Day!

If you would of asked me about mothers day 4 years ago I would of said it was all about me and having a day to myself.

This year was the most amazing Mother's Day for me for many reasons:

The first being the fact that I don't have a mother to spend the day with!
(my mom died 3yrs ago, honestly feels like it was just this last News Years that I lost her). I was beside myself this year for Mothers Day , I guess it will never go away but you would think it would get easier not having her here for me anymore but it hasn't and it doesn't) I need her on a daily basis and think about her always!

So anyways this year I needed to do something for her and I didn't want to bring flowers to her grave site because she would be mad, so I got out her Obit. and read it and this is what she wrote for herself:
" in lieu of flowers send a bouquet to someone who can enjoy it while living or do something kind for someone who needs it or whisper a word of encouragement and love to our young people adn fellow - men in my memory"
So I loaded up Mya and put on a movie for her and we went and bought flowers and spent the evening delievering them to Mom's that are in our lives!

I received such wonderfull responses from the justure and I wish to thank everyone for their kind words. I didn't do it for attention I did it for HANNAH MARIE CARUSO.

PAY-IT-FORWARD ONE DAY!

Second Reason :
Woke up in the morning and little cutie Mya gave me a massage in bed, chris brought me coffee( I don't drink coffee anymore but I did so he won't feel bad) , the kids gave me the greatest cards/gifts made in school and Chris gave me a GSP and said this should stop some of our fights when traveling!

Chris topped it off with Making my favorite "CREPES"
(good thing I bought milk and eggs the night before)

Went to Church and than....

Third Reason:

Chris and Three guys planned,purchased,cooked,served and entertained the kids for all of sunday afternoon at our house. It was so awsome to spend it with everyone!


Sarah Serving her mommy some wine!

My Turn!







The Spread!


The Appies!

Turkey Feta Burgers

I had the pleasure of making dinner for a girlfriend the other day who has just had her 5th baby.
I brought her TURKEY FETA BURGERS and appearently it was a hit in there house so I thought I would share the receipe. My kids just love them, and they are so simple to make and so much better for you than a regular burger.

TURKEY FETA BURGERS:
(my version)
I don't normally measure so this is approx.

Two packages of ground turkey
1/2 -1 cup of feta
1 cup of fresh spinach chopped up into fine pieces
(the kids can see it but can't taste it)
2 Tbsp of Epicure Pesto(you can also use oregano)

Mix all ingredients together and form into a patty.
Lightly oil a pan with coconut oil or grapeseed oil
and cook on med.
Cook patties slowly to ensure that
they are fully cooked through
( turkey is not very fatty and
will burn easly on a higher setting)
Turn them over regularly.

Should make 6-8 patties

I'm so so sorry!

So I finally got a new laptop the other day and I just had some time to check out my blog.
All I have to say is that I'm so so sorry!
How annoying is all that music that you have had to listen to this past year.
My old laptop lost it's ablility to play music about a year ago so ever time I logged into my blog I had no idea that the music was playing over and over again!

So I couldn't figure out how to turn off the music, so I just ended up deleting the rockyou slide shows.

Ok So it has been a month since my last sip of coffee!
Was it hard? Yes!
Would I like a cup of coffee? no

I have no intentions of having a cup but I do have to tell you that Timmy's coffee does temp. me a lot. I can see myself having a little bit of a struggle when camping starts. There is nothing like a hot cup of coffee to wake you up after a crappy night of sleep!

So I decided once again that I was going to eliminate coffee from my diet.
I was determined!
Day one rolls around and I wake up and make myself and nice cup of vanilla rooibos Tea! YUM! No problem made it through the day. Chris comes home from work and throws a brown leather travel mug at me and says "here" the week before I asked him while at Petro (his morning coffee stop) "Why don't you ever buy a travel mug it comes with 3 free refills which basically covers the cost of the mug." his reply "cause" So I guess I got him thinking and so he picked me up a travel mug with 3 free refills. Great now I'm on a no coffeeine kick and he gives me 3 free refills.

So anyways I go to bed for the night and can't sleep because the headaches are kicking in already. I wake up with a massive headache and enjoy my vanilla rooibos tea. no problem.

I'm on my way for the day and I have a lunch date with a couple of girlfriends and I just don't want to ruin it with my headache so I decide to grab a cup of coffee on my way to pick up some flyer's for Chris. Headache disappears.

FABULOUS!

So I picked up these flyer's and the lady was so grateful that we are going to hand them out for her at the "Business 2 Consumer Expo" this weekend that she gives me a $50 Starbucks gift card. Fabulous yes, but not good for my no coffeince diet(yes I know I can geta tea).

So day three comes along and I take Mya to Tim Horton's for lunch and can't resist a coffee since I had already had one the day before, guess what I won a FREE COFFEE.

I take this all as a sign that now isn't the time to quit caffeine.

Maybe when my free coffee's disappear I will try again!
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Banana Bread Recipe

I'm not the best baker in the Kitchen but the one thing I do right is banana bread!

Banana Bread Recipe:
1/2 cup margarine
3/4 cup white sugar
2 eggs
1 cup mashed banana( I usually have some frozen that were going bad)
1 tsp vanilla
2 cups flour( usually use a mix of whole wheat/white)
1 tsp baking powder
1 tsp baking sode
1/4 salt
1/2 cup milk
1 tbsp vinegar
2/3 cups of chocolate chips

Cream together margarine and sugar.
Add eggs. Beat well.
Add banana and vanilla.
Then add all dry ingredients.
Mix and milk and vinegar.
Please in muffin tin or small loaf pans( Epicure sells silicone ones that are awsome) than sprinkle chocolate chips.
Bake at 350f for 30min.

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Dinner!
What do you make for Dinner when you have such a busy day and your son decides to come down with strep throat and is at home with you all day. You reach for Epicure Selections!
I made the most amazing heathly , yummy soup ever tonight and It seriously only took me five minutes to mix and 45 to cook.

Epicure Selections has come out with a line of Bouillions( veg./chicken/beef).
For $8.95 you receive a jar that make 50 cups of LOW SODIUM BOUILLION.

This is what you will find in the chicken bouillion:
Yeast, Natural Chicken flavor, onion, salt, celery, black pepper white pepper, glucose, molasses, gum acacia, herbs ,species.

Sodium Comparison. Epicure Selections is 80mg per tsp, the knorr powder is 520. Crazy difference.
MSG is not added to any of Epicure Selections products.

So Anyways I reach in the cupboard place a couple of tbls spoons of chicken bouillion to my pot of water, looked in my fridge and cut up some left over chicken breast,added rice from last night and opened up a can of corn and mixed it all together with two tablespoons of Red pepper ( pantry basic) and viola!

Home Made Chicken soup!YUMMMMMY!
Making soup is so out of my element but it was the easiest dinner ever!

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