When I first started this blog I did a lot of recipes. I feel its time to do another one!! Here is my own recipe for homemade can chicken chili!!

2 Boneless skinless Chicken breasts cut into pieces small enough for you. LOL!
1 can chili beans
1 can kidney beans
1/2 bag frozen corn
1 can crushed tomatoes
cumin
chili powder
salt
pepper
Mrs. Dash spicy seasoning

Cook the chicken in a skillet until well done adding cumin, chili powder, salt, pepper, and Mrs. Dash.

Transfer chicken to a larger pot.

Empty and drain kidney beans and pour into pot.
Add chili beans, corn and crushed tomatoes. Simmer for about 10mins. Add cumin, and chili powder.

Cook until kidney beans are soft.

Serve!! Its soo yummy even E loves it and it makes plenty for left-overs/lunch the next day. Oh and its also soo much better the next day too!!!

One thing I have seen become an issue it the over use of social media. Of course this is one type as is Facebook, Twitter and everything in between. I use them and I will probably link this post to my facebook page. But I also believe it has taken us away from things that really matter most. I personally dont post huge details of my life on there. I very much edit what I say and how its worded. I dont cuss and I dont post things I dont want my extended family to see. There will never be juicy gory details about things on there. Most of my photo albums are private and only certain groups can see certain ones and a select few of those groups can see them all. I am not ashamed to say that there is a long list of people blocked from seeing things on my profile. I think that its a page for friends and family but also some where I can maintain privacy of my life and still stay in contact with extended family that I dont see often or live out of state. I do have times where I post more often than others. Times where I annoy myself at how much I update my status. But usually that is out of sheer boredom not from me actually thinking others want to know how yummy my lunch was. There have been several people cancel their FB page or resolve to stay off of it this year and while no I dont do that I do resolve to make sure I hold myself to what I see and think of others. If I am just done reading your endless rants on how unjust the world is to you, I will make sure not to do that myself, and so on. And by the way the world is not as horrible and wrong and harsh as many make it seem. Yes things can suck but seriously no one has a bad day 365 days in a row. And if you do you need to look into getting some professional help or making some huge changes because thats no way to live. And honestly most do NOT want to read it every day all day. Another thing DO NOT post your phone number on here when you have 758 friends and have never met the majority of them in person. Thats just screaming hey I am a retarded teenager here is my number call me so we can get together and you can murder me!! Come on people common sense here. I love seeing all the great pics of babies and friends babies and things like that. Those are great but when you have 17 different profile pics all of you taken from the same angle in different outfits in the bathroom, maybe we should add a little diversity and take a pic from a new angle when the toilet is not in the back ground. Yes I know I tend to just have one of many pics of my kid instead of spicing up the profile pic there but I tend to hate pics of me and he is just soo cute. And never once has it been a pic as I described above. Ok I do believe I can get off my soapbox now!! LOL!

Wow it really has been a while!! Lets do a quick catch up. The holidays were awesome. E was a pirate for Halloween, loved all the food at Thanksgiving and got way too many gifts at Christmas!! He makes the holidays so worth it! Everything is just better with him. I am currently waiting for my awesome hubby to get home so we can go to eat dinner before he goes to watch a UFC fight tonight. Yay I get cuddle time with my little man alone and he gets time with the guys. Two very needed things. So as I was saying I am currently here waiting having lets just say "some" wine and blogging away.

Something happened recently that has made me all too aware of how completely out of control we are of our own lives. How things will happen in Gods time and His way no matter what we want, need or do. We dont always know the reason behind them but there is one. I do believe that. I have to believe that. What doesnt kill us makes us stronger right? Makes us more aware of the things around us and how easily everything is taken for granted and can so quickly be taken away. I do not feel as if I have been punished for some misdeed I have done in my life. I dont think things work out like that. (Although we wont tell Evan that because when I ask him to come here and he runs and falls down I tell him the floor made him fall because he wasnt listening. LOL!) Had one small thing changed for those before me, my world could be so incredibly different or in fact nonexistent. So I do believe there are reasons for the choices we're given and the consequences and actions that follow the choice we chose. Life doesnt end because we have a bad day or something bad happens to us. It keeps on going and so do we. On to the next adventure in life waiting for us. Something better or just different than the path we were just on. That has changed because it needed to. No there arent always explanations behind why things happen and we may never know the reasons during this lifetime but its not something for us to figure out. No matter how hard or horrible it is, we have to go on. There are others in our lives that need us and depend on us. Dwelling on things wont change them or make them easier. But remembering them and reminding ourselves to be thankful for them does.

Sunday will be the 1yr anniversary of the death of my niece. She wasnt even 5months old and yet she was taken from her family and this earth by causes still unknown. There is nothing right or easy about that. My sister has had to go on every day since then knowing what has happened. But I can tell you that its made her so much more concentrated on her life right now. Not the past not the future right now. Lailas death doesnt get better, but it does get easier. When a band aide is ripped off the skin it hurts immediately but as time passes the pain eases and just the red mark is left. The scar from the wound under neath my never go away and will always be a reminder of what happened but the pain from it and the band aide will ease. My sister is definitely a hero to most and that includes me.