B is for Bunnies

A to Z Challenge....Letter B

B is for Bunnies

Bunny I would like to own

Bunnies I want my mom to crochet me

Bunnies I want to eat

Bunny I want to BE !!!

A is for Acceptance...Acceptance of my hair

A to Z Challenge .... Letter A

A is for Acceptance .......Acceptance of my hair

"You'd find it easier to be bad than good if you had red hair," said Anne reproachfully. "People who haven't red hair don't know what trouble is."- Anne to Marilla in Anne of Green Gables

When my mother was pregnant with me she used to fight with her sisters, as sisters often did. And one of the 'low blows' my aunt would hurl at my mom was " I hope you have a boy with flaming red hair" this of course would throw my mother into a full on rage since she did not want a boy and especially not one with flaming red hair. So flash forward a couple months and out comes her baby girl with a head full of flaming red hair...enough hair that the nurses in the maternity ward would put a little bow in it (which my mother would promptly pull out and smooth down my hair each time they did it haha) . So i believe that my hated of my red hair started in utero and continued for years. I would hate in school being called carrot head or bozo the clown or being asked over and over if i was going to try out for the play ANNIE.... I loathed my hair...even when I started going to the hair salon with my mom and i had women fawning over it. The hair stylists telling me that women paid a lot of money for my color and I should be happy, but of course I wasn't. I had no appreciation for it. My mother sat me down and tried to make me feel better about my hair by telling me a story about what happened when I was a infant. My mother was friends with woman who lived in our building and she was from Pakistan. One day her family had come from Pakistan to visit and was in the house when my mother and i stopped by for a visit. The women stood, eyes wide and staring at me . My mother said one took me from my mother and they all stood around me touching and kissing me and singing. My moms friend explained to my mother that they are amazed because they never saw anyone with my hair color. The believed I was good luck so they kept touching me. Even though I liked to hear the story , it still didn't make me love my hair anymore. So I just dealt with it like paying taxes or doing laundry until one day working at a job during college I had a woman staring at me. She stared for about 15 mins until I gave her a nasty look and then she came up to me. She went on to tell me that she was a artist and she was sorry that she was staring but she had never seen a hair color like mine. She went on to explain that she sees strands of gold and copper and deep red and light red and she was amazed by it. I smiled and thanked her and I have to say from that day on i saw my hair in a different light . I started to appreciate it, I started to notice other redheads and I started noticing people noticing it, which made me happy. It took some years but soon i was accepting of it ...and dare i even say, appreciating it... Now I am grateful to have these fiery locks...wearing them proudly ..honored to be among the company of other famous red headed women such as Lucille Ball, Queen Elizabeth I, Lizzie Bordon(hehe) and there a even reports that Marilyn Monroe was born a redhead. ...now if I could just learn to accept that I don't have thick luscious hair instead of my thin hair ...but one thing at a time haha :)

sunday

Tomorrow I have such a to-do list....cleaning,laundry,working on my writing (I am so behind), booking my ticket to florida, writing some emails and then going out with some friends for dinner. I know I should have done some of those things today but i was just too lazy and I was actually hiding out in my room. Grrrrrrr to the to-do list hahaha ... OHHHHH but i will take some time to work on my Pinterst....I am OBSESSED hahaha ...i love it and i have found so many pretty pictures and great ideas...My Bucket list is growing thanks to Pinterest !!! :)

love this

swaying

true words....cute tune...Im swaying to it ...and smiling :)


<3 <3

slow cooker chicken pot pie

Thank You real simple magazine for putting this recipe in your recent issue. It was very tasty and super simple to cook. The only suggestion I would make would be to use regular mushrooms...i felt the criminis gave it a slightly woody taste... but still yummo... enjoy

real simple magazine slow cooker creamy chicken pot pie
Ingredients

8 ounces cremini mushrooms, stems trimmed and halved if large
4 carrots, cut into 1-inch pieces
1 medium onion, chopped
1/3 cup all-purpose flour
2 sprigs fresh thyme
1 bay leaf
1 1/2 pounds boneless, skinless chicken thighs (about 8)
kosher salt and black pepper
1 sheet puff pastry (half a 17.3-ounce package), thawed
1 cup frozen peas
1 cup frozen green beans
1/3 cup heavy cream

Directions

In a 4- to 6-quart slow cooker, mix together the mushrooms, carrots, onion, flour, thyme, bay leaf, and ½ cup water. Place the chicken on top; season with 1 teaspoon salt and ¼ teaspoon pepper.
Cover and cook until the chicken and vegetables are tender, on low for 7 to 8 hours or on high for 4 to 5 hours (this will shorten total recipe time).
Thirty minutes before serving, heat oven to 425° F. Using a 4½-inch cutter or large glass, cut the pastry into 4 circles. Place on a baking sheet and bake until golden, 8 to 10 minutes.
Ten minutes before serving, add the peas, green beans, cream, and ½ teaspoon salt to the chicken mixture and stir to combine. Cover and cook on high or low until heated through, 5 to 10 minutes more. To serve, place the chicken mixture in bowls and top with the pastry rounds.

Happy Birthday Mom :)

A mother is the truest friend we have, when trials heavy and sudden, fall upon us; when adversity takes the place of prosperity; when friends who rejoice with us in our sunshine desert us; when trouble thickens around us, still will she cling to us, and endeavor by her kind precepts and counsels to dissipate the clouds of darkness, and cause peace to return to our hearts. ~Washington Irving

Today is my moms birthday. My mother is the best thing I have in my life and I would be eternally lost without her . She is a loving, caring , sweet, self-less, gorgeous person. She has always been there for me and has always put my needs before hers(even in times when I didnt deserve it) and I can never begin to express what that means to me. She deserves so much more than I can give her this year and i vow to make it up to her as soon as i can. So until then , we are celebrating the best we can. We went to dinner the other night with my aunt and that was a lovely dinner in a quaint little Italian Bistro and we really had a wonderful time,Today Mom and I went to get mani/pedi . It was nice mommy quality time and I got a nice long pedi so that was even better hahah...Tonight we are going to a nice dinner with some family and after we will have cake. I am one lucky girl to have such a wonderful Mom.....   Love you Mommy !!  
Here some pics of her and us..... (dont tell her i posted them...she'd kill me hahahaha)