Day 10- Songs you listen to when you are Happy, Sad, Bored, Hyped, Mad

Happy:

Sad: 

Bored:

Hyped:

Mad:

Day 09- Something you’re proud of in the past few days D

Let's see...something I'm proud of...that happened in the past few days... Man they like to make things hard. I'm kind of proud I got up this morning before the alarm went off. I'm proud I made a chocolate cream pie all by myself and the cream is expertly whipped by me:) I'm proud I didn't kill anyone while making said chocolate cream pie. I'm period I did the Thankful Challenge all through  November.

Happy Thanksgiving!!!

So I've gone crazy. I don't know when it started, but I realized it last night when I agreed to camp out with someone at Best Buy, Thanksgiving evening. Okay, maybe I started at the end of the story....but I am crazy so what do you expect.

So about a week ago when the daughter was sick with bronchitis, and I was sleep deprived because of taking care of said sick child. A good friend of mine called. He asked how I was doing, (buttering me up, I think), and the proceeded to the reason for his call. "Are you going Black Friday Shopping?" Now obviously, I hasn't gone crazy right at that moment, because I laughed at his question and said, "Nope". So then he asked me if I would be willing to help him out. Again not sure when the insanity started, but I'm guessing it is probably about this moment. So I told him I would call him Friday morning , and see where he was. Well Yesterday he called me, just to make sure I hadn't sought treatment for my mental illness, and to ask me if I was doing Thanksgiving with the Family. I told him yes, and then he told me, " Well after you leave there just proceed to Best Buy, I have a six person tent" This is the moment I should have stopped and thought the insanity through...but I didn't. You see I'm crazy, and crazy people don't think things through. So after eating a mind numbing amount of turkey, stuffing, mashed potatoes, green beans, and the occasional desert. I am dragging my butt to Best Buy, with my daughter in tow. Where will proceed to play board games and card games with my Friend, his girl friend, her children, and my child. While we are freezing our petunia's off.

See I told you I was Crazy!!!

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Honestly I want to write in here every day. I want to put on a fabulous Christmas Party for my daughter's classroom. This is my first time as room parent, I'm a little frightened. I want to have a fabulous holiday season with no drama, and fun, and laughter. I want to finish a book I have been trying to read for the past two months. I want to read Park Service. I want to continue on my limited Soda journey so far I have had to cups of Dr Pepper in the last two months. Long list of short term goals I know, but there is a lot going on right now and it can be a little overwhelming.

So just because I can I am going to leave you with my favorite song right now. I know the live version sucks, but trust me amazing song=)

So this week was all about soul food for me. Comforting warm, yummy food for the heart and the belly... and I was going to make my Grandmother's recipe for meatloaf. I had it planned out, I bought the ingredients. I had the hamburger in the bowl...but when I was looking for the recipe in my homemade cookbook I made for myself, I found a recipe for brown sugar meat loaf. Now in this homemade cook book, are not just recipe I have already tried but, recipe I want to try. So since I have started this awesome adventure I thought, "What the Hay." So Brown Sugar Meatloaf it is.

Brown Sugar Meatloaf

1/2 cup Brown Sugar

1/2 cup Ketchup

1 lb Hamburger meat

1 tbs Worcestershire Sauce

3/4 cup Milk

2 Eggs

1 1/2 tsp Salt

1/2 tsp Pepper

1 tsp Onion Powder 

1/4 tsp Ginger

Quick Oats 

1. Mix Together Brown Sugar and Ketchup and spread on the bottom of the slow cooker.

2. Mix the rest of the ingredients together. Now this part is kind of tricky. The amount of Quick Oats depends on the consistency of the meat mixture. You don't want it to liquidy. It needs to be any a semi damp ball, and that is when you will know you have put enough. I think I probably put in about a cup.

4. Place Mixture over Brown Sugar Ketchup in Slow Cooker

3. Cook on Low 6 hours.

I turned it over because that is where the pretty brown sugar ketchup glazed side was...it was really god=)

Day 07- A picture of someone/something that has the biggest impact on you

Here it is my picture of the person who has had the biggest impact on me.  Without my favorite fourth grader... I might be going down the same destructive path I was going down when I got pregnant with her at 19. She is my person, my laughter, my love, and a light in a sometimes desperately dark tunnel I walk. She it's the smartest kid I know...but I might be a little biased:)

Slow Cooker Cheesy Mexican Chicken

Okay Now just as a reminder I am only cooking for two with minimal to no left overs because we don't eat left overs enough, and that just requires me to clean out yucky refrigerators at least once a week. Now on to the recipe.

Cheesy Mexican Chicken

Two Large Frozen Chicken Breasts (I buy chicken breasts frozen in a bag, so I can get out what I need.)

1 can (10-3/4 oz.) condensed cream of chicken soup

1 cup shredded Cheese

1/2 cup milk

1 Packet of Taco Seasoning Mix ( I happened to have the low sodium Old El Paso one so that is what I used.

1. Place the frozen chicken breasts in you slow cooker. (make sure your slow cooker is off because putting frozen meat in a hot slow cooker can make the insert crack.)

2. Put all other ingredients in a bowl and mix together.

Ignore what is in the background my kitchen is a mess.

3. Pour mixture over chicken.

4. I am cooking it on low for 8 hours.

I am going to serve it over rice. But you can serve this in taco's, use it as the filling for enchilada's whatever you desire.