Online Earnings

This month I requested payouts from the sites I told you about earlier. I did recieve a check for $40.32 and a paypal deposit of $25! For what? Just for reading emails and doing the occasional survey :)

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New Week - New Day

Things have been busy at our house lately. Ava started walking! And I haven't been able to sit down! :) Since coming home from Michigan it's taken me some time to get back to myself. I'm not 100% there yet but getting closer. We are HOPEFULLY moving into our house with in the week. We were told August 1st (But, we were also told July 1st - so fingers crossed) I don't plan to post any in depth recipes this week. I'll wait until I get into my new kitchen with lots of space and a full pantry at my disposal! I don't have much space in our apartment right now. I will post a few from the past (missing pictures) of dinners I made but never made it to the blog. They were some of our favorites. Hope you enjoy :)

Time Off - To Say Goodbye

Obviously I haven't posted anything in over a month. And, with good reason.
On May 23rd my little brother passed away. He had a heart attack and didn't survive it. My family and I travelled back to Michigan for two weeks to help my Mom and deal with funeral arrangements. I've been thinking about this post for a while, and what I wanted to say. It's been about 6 weeks. I hadn't seen my brother in 5 months. We didn't see each other every day and then we moved to North Dakota. I have days where I don't have time to slow down to think about this and then there are days I can barely hold it together. Today is one of those days. I don't have any other choice but to push through. I have a baby to take care of. Not sure how I would be handling it if she wasn't there to pull me through. I don't have much to say that I didn't say at his funeral. It's still not entirely real to me. Possibly because I'm over 1000 miles away from home and not there to see that he's not there either. Doesn't make the hurt go away though.

We Will Return...

Sorry for the absence the last two nights. I have a recipe from Wednesday night to share with and I will share recipes for Thursday and Friday even though we had subway last night and pizza tonight. It's been a busy few days :)

I will update again tomorrow! I Promise!

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I found a site that allows you to earn "points" to cash in for rewards. One category of rewards is cash deposited into a paypal account. I believe this is a referral only website.
Each day you get an email with free points. And 5-100 chances on the superlucky button to earn even more free points. There are also simple surveys that you can complete as well. Today during one of my spins I got a referral bonus link. Anyone that signs up with this link will automatically get 25 point bonus! You'll get points for completing your profile, as well as inviting friends. Anytime a referral earns a point through the superlucky button, you earn the same amount.

Use this link for the bonus points
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This one is an easy site to use. You can get points for nothing (it just takes longer to get to redeemable level).

If you have questions let me know!

Slow Cooker Angel Chicken

What you Need

About 1 1/2 pounds of boneless skinless chicken breast
About 12-14 oz of mushrooms (fresh or canned, your choice!)
1/4 cup butter
1 pkg. Italian dry salad dressing mix
1 can of cream of mushroom soup
1/2 cup white cooking wine
1/2 of an 8-oz. tub cream cheese spread with chives and onion
Hot cooked rice or angel hair pasta

Ingredients (minus butter)

Melt the Butter and Add in your seasoning packet

My Beautiful Little Kitchen Assistant (Who kept running in to me while I was cooking)

Add your Soup, Cream Cheese & Cooking Wine (I forgot the wine and got a thicker sauce at the end - It tastes better with the wine, but not bad without)

The finished sauce!

 

While your sauce is mixed and melted dice up your mushrooms and add to the bottom of your slow cooker

Add your chicken to your slow cooker on top of the mushrooms

Poor your Sauce over the chicken and mushrooms (I had to mix everything up because of the thicker sauce - but with the cooking wine added it thins out and is somewhat soup like)

The Finished Producte over  angel hair pasta!

Weekly Schedule

If there's one thing I've learned with having a seven month old it is to plan ahead. On Sundays I sit down with my Sunday papers, laptop and cookbooks. I plan out our meals for a week to two weeks at a time. This is my busiest day at home. Trying to clip coupons, print coupons, make my grocery lists and keep Ava out of trouble is challenging! I need a routine here as well. Here's what you can expect! (I do my grocery shopping every other weekend - So I try to plan two weeks in advance and I will try to post in advance my meal plans)

 -- Casserole Mondays

-- Slow Cooker Tuesdays

-- Soups & Salads Wednesdays

-- Thirsty Thursdays -- Look for Juicer and Smoothie recipes along with a random additional dinner meal.

-- Friday ends our busy work week with my Weekend Weigh-In and a quick 30 minute meal to jump start your weekend

--  Italian Favorites Saturday

-- Sugar Sunday -- Deserts and Sugary Sweet Treats! (Along with your desert you'll get your dinner recipe as well)


I rarely eat Red Meat. I never eat Fish. Most of these recipes will include Chicken. I'm not going to designate any special day for certain meats. Any of these days could be a chicken or beef day.  Once a week I'll post a breakfast recipe. This will fall on my husbands day off. His schedule rotates 4 & 2 so his days off are not set. I won't replace anything that is expected that day, it will just be an additional recipe. At some point in the future I may include additional desert days. I can easily post recipes without photos, but I am a photographer at heart and enjoy adding the photos to the recipes "how to".

My "routine" will begin next Monday as I already have a few meals already planned this week.