The Rewards of Motherhood!

I am the mother of a 16 year old. Most days, my job as a mother, are thankless. You work hard but sometimes you feel your hard work is for nothing. The rewards are sometimes few and far between. When you have small children, you often get hugs and kisses and I love you's, but once they start to get older and you are no longer the center of their universe, your job as mother seems to have less meaning. I am very lucky. I have a great son, but sometimes I think I will never get him raised to be responsible. He forgets everything and sees nothing wrong with drink cans and clothes littering his room. I try to help him but it seems like such an endless job. Just yesterday, we went to the football field for the big Friday night game, only to have to turn around and go back home to pick up his jersey. I realize as he gets older, I have to let go and let him learn from his mistakes. I get frustrated when he forgets to do things or looses things. I want his grades to be better. He just wants me to quit hounding him. He doesn't want the hear the speech I give every time he goes out. Be good and behave yourself. Sometimes, I even feel like he doesn't love me, although I know that is not true. Then there are the days you really seem to get you big paycheck. Sometime I am so proud of him that a paycheck could never be big enough to cover the rewards I feel. Like watching him hit his first homerun, when he brings home really good grades, or when you see him run with the football in a Varsity game. But today I really got a great reward as a mother. He was out with some of his friends, shopping at Wal-Mart and saw this elder lady trying to load her purchase in her car and he stopped to ask if she needed help. I was so proud of him. Here he was with his buddies but he still had time to stop and help this stranger. I feel like I have finally been rewarded for my hard work. Now, if I can just teach him responsibility!

We Interrupt this Life to bring you Football Season!

Wow! Can you believe those Cards? That's the Clark County Cardinal!!! They are 4-0 for the first time in a very long time and I am proud to say my son plays for them as well as my husband is a coach. We have the #1 Running Back in the state. Way to go Ryan Williams! You make GRC proud.

My New Kitchen

Here it is. What everyone has been waiting for. Pictures of my kitchen. I have waited a while to post these pictures. I am not sure why it has taken so long but I am sure time is involved. I seem to be short on that alot lately.

Anyway, here it is. I hope everyone likes it as much as I do. It is perfect. I love it!!! Everything is so clean and neat and organized. Love it, love it. Alot has gone in to the creating of this kitchen. Maybe some blood, alot of sweat and even some tears went to the completion of my wonderful kitchen. I want to thank everyone that worked on it. I want to say, "Thank You!" to Steve, Zach, Scott, Rick, and Leo. Your help was greatly appreciated. It is awesome!

Recipe of the Day!

I have a great friend who recently fell down some steps and broke her leg and tore legaments in her foot. Some of the football parents went together and made meals and delivered to her for a few days until she could get back on her feet. I made my chicken casserole and took to her. Today, I received a beautiful Thank You note from her. She was also requesting my recipe. She said that she and her mom liked it so much they would like to have the recipe. So, I thought I would share with all. I hope you like it as much and me and my family do.

Chicken Casserole

Ingredients:

4 skinless boneless chicken breasts (You can use canned chicken but we perfer the real thing)
1 box chicken broth
2 cans of cream of chicken & herb soup (You can use just cream of chicken but I like this alot better)
1 large blue bag of Peppridge Farm stuffing mix (I use a little over half of this bag but I like a lot of the stuffing part but if you perfer less, buy the small bag)
1 stick of butter or margarine (I'm like Paula Deen, I perfer butter)

I cook my chicken in the crockpot while I am at work about 7 hours on low. When I get home (Preheat oven to 350 degrees), I remove the chicken from the crockpot and place it in a 9x13 baking dish. Shread into small pieces. I then salt and pepper it. Pour both cans of cream of chicken & herb in a bowl and add 1 cup of chicken broth. Stir together and pour over shredded chicken. Be sure all the chicken is covered in the soup mixture. Then melt butter. Pour the Peppridge Farm stuffing mix in a bowl and pour the melted butter on top and stir. Pour chicken broth over stuffing mix until all is moist. I usually use the rest of the box but you decide how moist you want it. Place baking dish is preheated over for 20-30 minutes. Casserole is done when soup is bubbling and it is getting brown on top.

Eat and enjoy. My family likes this with mashed potatos and green beans. I usually open some cranberry sauce to go with it. Yum!!!