A new dawn, a new day, a new year, a new me!

Happy 2013!

But for serious, where did 2012 go?? 

Like I blinked and missed the whole thing.

It was a pretty good year, as far as years go.

We added a new little chunk to our family.

Our biggest little turned 4, and is like a legit person now.

We expanded our online business, and realized that our part time craft business could possibly, maybe, really be a full time business.

Which leads me to why 2013 is going to be the best, weirdest, most stressful but wonderful year.

Because I. Quit. My. Day Job!

Are you excited, because I'm super excited. But nervous. Sometimes when I think about it I want to throw up.

But I did it. I turned in my letter of resignation, and said see ya later, bitches! But not really, because I'm nice. So I told them I'll stay till they find a replacement for me (impossible, I know).

But the feeling of knowing that in a matter of weeks I will be out of the office and home, with my littlest little, focusing on the things that I love, is ah-mah-zing.

So fingers crossed that I

a) actually like/can handle being a work at home mom. I've never cussed out a baby, but then again I've never spent every waking minute with one, so....

b) Can actually pull this off. I mean, what if it was a fluke? What if everyone stops buying our stuff, and then we are poor, and then we have to sell our pets and possibly one (or more) of our children just to pay our bills?

Just kidding. 

I'm dreaming big here people!! And in celebration:

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Hope you have lots to look forward to in 2013, I'll keep you posted on how my new life works out for me♥

Just waiting to stuff my face....

I can not even express in words how pumped I am to chow down on some turkey tomorrow!!! This day can not get over fast enough!! I'm tasting the cranberry sauce and stuffing already...

And then comes the shopping. I am attempting to cover most of my xmas list with online shopping...screw those crazy crowds!! I'm needing to look at bar tables and stools for my mom, and a new toaster for the sis...so much fun stuff. 

I am going to have to brave the lunatics to go to one store...

the worst store of them all...

Toy R Us. 

This store in enevitably going to be bursting at the seams with crazy mom's and dad's, trying to score their $10 pillow pets and 50% Toy Story characters....and I'll be one of them. Cause my little man is dying for these figurines, and I'll be damned if I'm going to pay full price when with just a little pushing and perhaps a cat fight or 2, I can get them for half off.

Damn you Toy R Us and your exclusive items. Damn you.

Anywho, hope you all have a FANTASTIC Thanksgiving, and if I make it our alive, I'll catch up with you after the looooooong weekend!

Happy Memorial Day!!!!

I love any day that gets me out of work, and to celebrate, have fixed a mighty feast of delicious deep fried goods! My husband and I are always of fan of wings, but decided to try them boneless this time. I also found an amazing recipe for fried pickles(yum!) at  http://elizabethsedibleexperience.blogspot.com/2009/03/in-pickle.html

Here is the flour mixture for the wings. It has paprika, crushed red pepper, black pepper, chili powder, garlic, black pepper, and salt.

This looks a little gross, but don't fear, they will turn into amazingness! We used chunks of chicken breast instead of actual wings, so they would be boneless. They get coated with the flour mixture, then refrigerated for an hour. Then you coat them again really good right before you plop them in the deep fry. About 6-8 minutes, and they should be done. Soak them in the sauce, then eat them up! The sauce we use is a mixture of butter and hot sauce, but there are a lot of great pre-made hot wing sauces you can buy.

Here are the fried pickles, and some fried mushrooms.

And the yummy finished wings! 

Happy Memorial Day!!