Share a Recipe Today!

The response from yesterday's blog post was awesome.. So far we have a lot of you that want to particiapate..Onwards to today's Eclectic Calender Holiday!

Share a Recipe Today!

Here's a really easy recipe for something I make from scratch.. Yummy Crunchy Chicken Fingers!


There are a couple of things you need..

 1). Grapeseed Oil (doesn't burn as easily as reg oil)

2). 3-4 Boneless- skinless chicken breasts cut into medium size pieces.

3). 2 Eggs ... beat them senseless in a bowl. add about  4 tbsp of water in with the eggs.. (makes it go farther..for larger batches.)

4). Cornstarch. About 5 tablespoons.. put this in a shallow dish or use a plate

5. Seasoned bread crumbs or if you have regular bread crumbs,then season with Montreal Steak spice.
 put this on a plate or in a shalow bowl.


Once the chicken is cut into nice medium size pieces give it a bath in Cornstarch,egg, and bread crumbs.. in that exact order.. then place on wax paper on a separate plate and stuff it into the fridge for an hour.. This lets everything set..

Then pour into a non-stick pan  a half cup of grapeseed oil. This is a all natural and the food tastes 10x better..

Fry the chicken til golden brown. Then eat and douse in plum sauce or a special ketchup.

*side note* if you don't have bread crumbs you can mash up some Rice Krispies in a ziplock bag and use for coating chicken..


This is so much better than buying pre0cooked /frozen fake chicken in the store.. Your family will thank you!

Bon Apetite'

The Written Word Blogathon!

I thought that I would try a little something with writing.. As most of you know I write poetry.. Which is somewhat theraputic for me.. I want to take it to the next step and write a short story but with you all in mind.. Lets say this is a blog story and each week someone will be tagged to finish a paragraph then on to tagging the next person... A fictional story.. maybe something of the top of my head to get things rolling.. .. So don't be shy and tell me what you think after reading this little experiment.


"The sun was edging on the horizon, peaking through silver slits of clouds. She sat there watching, waiting for the end of days. On this day she had wished for a fresh new start. Oblivious to what was really happening to her. She couldn't shake that feeling of being watched. She didn't know who or why,  but she felt it."

This is something I thought that we all could participate in every week..copy and paste the  paragraph and add to it then tag another blogger and so on..

I will tag Aliencg for the next installment.. Good luck.. it will be really interesting to see what everyone writes..as we have some very talented bloggers out there!

Conversations With LHM!

Thanks to all that left some really nice comments regarding my previous post! It means alot..

I thought I might share some conversations that I have had recently with LHM.

"Pappa a Meme a Momma out in eep eep". (This is him asking to go out in the car.)

"Momma a Meme go on Buc". (Going on the bus)

"I wana go out", (signs for friend)

" Momma, Meme, Pappa go choo choo". (Asking for us to go to the hobby shop that has trains)

"I wan mor juice peas" (asking for juice)

"I wan meat a cheese peas". (loves kolbassa and cheese)

"I big bo". (he is a big boy)

"I wan moove" (asking for a movie)

"I wan dig dig moove" (loves movies with trucks or construction going on, Bob the Builder)

As you can read this, a year ago he didn't have the vocabulary like this.. He also knows and can say primary colours, can count to five and he will tell you he is 4 years old..He has a way about him that is so expressive.. I was like that as a kid too. So that might mean he will be creative and funny.. He is already such the little ham!

About A Year Now!

So it's been about a year now since LHM has been attending regular speech sessions.He has been doing extremely well and now with the potty training.. Everything seems to have fallen into place.. it has not been easy by any means. It has been a tough road to get where we are now.. I realized early on in all the therapy that we had a long road ahead of us and trying to keep things in perspective. That too has had it's challenges..I had doubts about his progress.. usually this happened when a off-handed remark was made by various family/friends.. Mostly I have had a fairly good attitude about it.. I also knew that it wasn't going to be easy and was resigned to that.. Not that I didn't have faith in my son, but because of moments in our day to day routines. I saw even the slightest progress..I would share this with even the "Doubter's".. So they themselves could see that he is a bright and healthy child. Even if they only saw him once in awhile, they eventually saw that progress was made and would be happy.. And there was/is always that underlining feeling from them that it wasn't enough. It was like a double-edged sword effect..

I have to rememebr and appreciate how far we have come.. he couldn't do this on his own.. he had lots of help.. The first person to help was my good friend KK, she knew sign language and helped tremendously in the beginning..She uses her skills with other kids that are learning to talk.. it really makes a difference with communication.

It will be closer to a year near the end of the month and he still has much more to learn.. In the meantime he is a happy, healthy and extremely energetic little 4 year old.. I always tell him he must have "Ants in his pants".

this is from the spring of 2008..Summer of 2009.. Blowing bubbles..

Where Have I Been?

Well last Friday I had a slight problem with a pulled muscle on the right side of my shoulder blade.. That put me in a funk.. I took a couple of pain relievers and although I still felt pain.. I didn't care.. I was in and out of it all day..Then the weekend was upon us and we stepped out in the brittle cold to run a few errands and back to the warmth of our house.. We also have some issues with our furnace.. it's 3 yrs old and the pressure sensor was fubarred.. that is now been replaced with a new one.. Thanks to a good friend that is a tradesman he was able to help us out.. Hopefully that is all that was wrong with it.. On top of that we have issues with our beautiful car.. it seems that the power steering or the hose to it has a leak.. you can hear it when turning the steering wheel.. so BHM has been topping up the fluids  and hopefully once he gets back to work we can get it fixed properly..

Lately I have been staying up way past my usual bedtime and getting into playing this game that I have on the laptop..so I think yesterday afternoon I was feeling some crappiness and ended up going to bed by 930 pm. I felt somewhat better today although my shoulder blade is tender and sore again.. That is what I get for trying to lift LHM.. That didn't help..

 it's been brutally cold and still not much snow here.. some parts of Ontario got slammed last week and yet we seemed to have escaped another blast of the white stuff. Tomorrow is speech  for LHM and then I will take him to have a playdate at  the school.. I was suppose to go to scrapbooking at my friends yesterday but early in the day LHM had a horrible bout of the poops and then vomiting.. by the afternoon he appeared to be much better.. Then I was feeling that crapiness and it almost like I was going through menopause.. hot and then cold.. Ugh!.. I'm way too young for that to be happening.. but I figured it was due to being sooooo tired..

last year's garden..

So I hear that it's 42 days till spring.. but I believe it would take at least another few weeks till I can get into gardening.. I can't wait.. I miss my perenials.. well have a good night all!

Photo Time!

Hamilton Flood !

I was over reading Tara's blog and saw she had mentioned about having water issues and it reminded me of a flood that Hamilton had back last year.. In July of 2009.. here is a link for the story and I will post some pictures.. LHM's daycare was affected by this and she lost about two days of work due to her basement flooding.. After having it renovated not long before this flood happened.. It took another few month's before everything was back to normal and having her basement clceaned up and redone.. http://www.thespec.com/Local/article/607266

Redhill Valley Expressway..completely saturated by all the rain..

People were trapped in the car with a couple of babies.. thankfully they all were rescued before anything tragic took place..

Nothing New!

I had written a post earlier, then I deleted it.. It was about something that happened last summer and after thinking about it more tonight, I didn't want to go down that road with where the post was leading.. So then I was trying to think of something else to post and I came up with nothing..

Nothing really new happening here at the moment.. LHM is still making progress with potty training.. He has speech therapy tomorrow.. I expect it to go pretty well.. Both MPR and CB are over having a little family time and here I am on the damn computer..lol They are watching "Star Trek". I have seen it now about 6 times.. So I didn't think that they would mind all that much..

I'm looking forward to BHM going back to work (keep fingers crossed).. He will be outta my hair soon.. ha ha!

I watched "Smokin Aces 2" earlier.. good movie if you like that Blow'em up-shoot'em up type of movie..It's not as good as the first one..

\Here's a picture or three I thought you might enjoy!