Parmesan Crusted Chicken

I am so proud of myself.......

This was the first meal I cooked in a week!!  And it tasted amazing!

I cook 99% of the meals in my house but this week I have been sick, along with my kids.

 Just how sick?? A chronic sinus infection, croup, pink eye, leg cramps, ear infections and so on......and let us not forget I am pregnant and I can not take much of anything to help.  I think the tears from extreme pain convinced my doctor to let me take an antibiotic. See, when you are a high risk pregnancy you just can't take anything :)  I did tell him that I would take 9 months of nausea again over all this sickness stuff....and I am not kidding!!!

ok, ok, back to the food.....because that is why you are are here anyway right?! 

 After eating pretty much nothing all week, I went hunting for a good recipe I have not made in a while and I found this one.  Sounded good, tasted even better.  And of course it was hand written in pencil on an index card with no reference as to where it came from, so I am not taking credit for the recipe myself.  I wish I remembered where or who gave it to me. 

Here is what you do:
3-4 chicken breasts   (I cut mine into 3 strips so they would cook faster)
1 cup of plain yogurt  (I used Yoplait's plain Greek yogurt)
2 cups of crushed Ritz crackers
1/4 cup of Parmesan cheese   (I used the real stuff....not the green bottle kind)
1 T of garlic salt
1 tsp salt   (I left this out because my Ritz were already salted)

**Mix all the ingredients together EXCEPT the yogurt.  Roll your chicken in the yogurt then roll the chicken into the cracker mixture.  Place on a foil lined oven pan and cook in the oven for 45 minutes on 350*
I served mine with rice and a veggie

YUM!!

Back To School Accessories and new designs

Toddler Leash Handles are great

BACK TO SCHOOL accessories. 

If you need an extra hand walking the kiddies to and from school across those busy roads, this is the perfect help.  I made myself one a few years ago and I have used it tons of ways. (crossing streets, going on walks, grocery shopping, to and from doctor appts inside a busy hospital, walking through a busy parking lot)

They available in MY ETSY SHOP

These New designs are sure to please any little man or girl

*tools*sharks*skulls*rockets*hand prints*princess*flowers*lady bugs*garden*

Here are 2 up close examples just to get you excited!!

Award Winning bookcase turned PLAY KITCHEN

If you missed my Play Kitchen from last year...well you are in luck.

Here are the LINKS to how I put this

Play Kitchen together for my kids

by using an old bookcase and a ton of "things" from the thrift store.

 My Play Kitchen won the theme award at my State Fair last year.

And with the State Fair coming up again soon.....I thought this was a great repost to share with all of you who missed it or those of you who just might need some new ideas to make your own just in time for a Christmas gift.

Again, here are the LINKS to the Play Kitchen and a few accessories to go with it!

Halloween Already??

 Call me crazy.....for getting into Halloween stuff already 

BUT 

I was bound and determined to get my ideas made and placed into my Etsy shop before it came and went. I feel like I am already behind on so many other things but as far as these items I am not :)  So check them out and get them while you can because I only had enough energy to make a very limited stock since I am also growing my third baby!!  hehe

Spiders, Halloween Bunting and Candy Corn Banner

are all found HERE

Family Banner

Is your summer melting away..... to fast?!

Now that our big family reunion has come and gone that is how I am feeling.  Summer is almost over and I am not sure I like how fast it went this year.

 My husbands side of the family get together for a reunion every summer.  This year we were asked to make a family banner to represent our little family.  My hot hubby came up with the "Berry Robbins" idea himself. Works well when you have Berry OR Robbins in your name. (Baskin Robbins Ice Cream that is) and I took his idea from there and came up with this banner:

 And because #3 baby is coming in a couple of months I didn't want the banner to be out dated so fast so I made it so I can update it next year.  I HEART felt :) So easy and fun and all I used was scrap fabric to make the heart ice cream cone.  The black and white letters are t-shirt letters that you iron on (find those at Joann's)

Please try and enjoy what you have left of your summer.

 I know I will!!