Get Ready, Get Set..............

Get Ready, Get Set............O.K. hold on just a second! I am going to keep you in suspense for just a little while! O.K., O.K., O.K., you talked me into tell you just a little bit. I am getting ready for a Fiber One Yogurt give away! And.....you all could be winners, so Get Ready, Get Set......... (wait for my post) te, he, he!

Hurry Winners..........Hurry!

Here we go................ and the winner is:

Diana

Please email me with you mailing information so this can get shipped! Thanks for your support!

Menu Monday

Still not doing to hot but we are managing! So much has gone on in our little world in the last few weeks - I don't even know where to begin. On an exciting note, we had family portraits taken today and I can't wait to see them. We have one of the best on location photographers and we sure put him to work today. I will pass his information along later.......

I found out that I am going to have to have surgery on the 23rd........UUUGGGHHH!! But necessary! I will have a 6/8 week recovery time. I am not that thrilled but I just need to get it over with and done. Finding out that I needed surgery and everyone being sick made me do some soul searching. I run myself ragged, volunteering, this event, that event and so on......... I decided to let go of some of my commitments and focus on some of my real passions! And at the same time, de-stress my life and free up some time. I fond myself chasing myself all around town sometimes and my life continues without me. On Halloween my baby turned 3 (yes - a halloween baby) and I think I have missed some of his infancy and now here we are and he is a toddler. Before I know it, he will be in college.

It will take me a couple of months to get my life on a new schedule but I am so looking forward to it all. And the peace that comes with it!

Well, enough about my past weeks.....how about yours? What do you do to de-stress your life?

While you are thinking how to answer that question.
CLICK HERE FOR THIS WEEKS MENU.

Again........why, why, why!

How many of you have been battling with all this crud and illness going around? I am sick and tired of someone being sick! It has started through our house again. That is a downfall of having a big family - it can circle around several times before you get rid of it! But - this is different!



I second guess myself as a parent and what we used to do for just general illnesses it seems that we just don't do it anymore - such a fear of running a fever. I am sick of hearing H1N1 ....I could really puke infact, I just might the next time someone brings it up! GO AWAY and let us be normal! I am so exhausted, both physically and mentally!



The baby is sick again although this time it does seem like he is responding to the medications! FINALLY! Hopefully Chubbie Chica will be back soon and back to the normal routine.

And The Winner Is...............

FEBREZE HOME COLLECTION WINNER is .............

Young in Texas!

Please send me your email address and I will be in touch with you on Monday to finalize everything! CONGRADS!

Come And Help Out........Hurry!

October is Breast Cancer Awareness Month and there has been a lot of advocating and you may have already helped out ...... but I need you to do one more thing for this great cause.



Please go and visit www.pinktogether.com and read some inspiring stories. You can even post words of encouragement or send virtual flowers. For everytime you do this, General Mills will donate money to the Susan G. Koman Foundation. How easy is that - not bad huh? All for a great cause!

Chubbie Chica will be giving away an Inspiring Hope Gift Basket, courtesy of the Susan G. Koman Foundation and Myblogspot. The winner will be selection by using random.com and announced on Nov. 1st!



Now - once you have gone to www.pinktogether.com and posted your words of encouragment. Simply post you link below - random.com will do the rest!

Thanks Susan G. Koman Foundation for all the awareness and thanks to Myblogspot for assisting in this giveaway!

Crock Pot Cookin'

It's Crock Pot Wednesday over at Dining With Debbie so here is Chubbie Chica's Crock Pot Cookin' recipe for the week. It actually is on this weeks Menu Monday.

Potato and Bacon Chowder
Serves 6 @ 3 pts

Ingredients:
4 cups potatoes, cut into 1/2-inch cubes
2 large carrot, diced
2 cup leeks, chopped, white part only
2 medium garlic clove, minced
8 cups fat-free chicken broth
1 cup uncooked barley
2 bay leaf
1/2 tsp dried thyme, crushed
1/2 tsp black pepper
8 oz Canadian-style bacon, cut into 1/4-inch pieces
1 cup(s) fat-free evaporated milk
4 oz fat-free half-and-half

Prep:
In a slow cooker, combine potatoes, carrots, leek, garlic, broth, barley, bay leaf, thyme, pepper and bacon; cover and cook on low for 6 hours. Stir in evaporated milk and half-and-half; heat through, uncovered, about 10 minutes.

Enjoy!