Friday Fill-In #158

1. There are places in the U.S. that still don’t have snow.
2. Southern breezes blow those clouds away.
3. Standing in the freezing cold weather without a flake of snow is frustrating.
4. Living in South Carolina with a little one who would love snow, oh boy.
5. He went out tiger hunting with a feather duster.(The only thing his mother would let him track tigers with at age 22 months.)
6. Cold chills keep my mind from wandering.
7. And as for the weekend, tonight I'm looking forward to make a sausage casserole , tomorrow my plans include seeing who wins the Jesus Lives! Giveaway and playing with my guys indoors and Sunday, I want to go to church, fix a great Sunday dinner and blog!

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Goal Setting with Your Children- Links 4 Moms

As we start the New Year, many of us set goals and resolutions. I found a great site that help children set goals. It has a really nice goal planning worksheet. The site is called Goal Setting Kids. Here is the link to their site.

Two Awards from Momma's Playground and One from Ma, What's for Dinner?

I love to visit Momma's Playground! She really has a fun blog. Recently she contacted me with news that she was giving me two awards! I am so honored.

The Sunshine Award is awarded to bloggers whose positivity & creativity inspires others in the blogworld!!The rules for accepting this award are: Put the logo on your blog. Pass the award on to 10 bloggers. Link the nominees within your post. Let the nominees know that they have received this award by commenting on their blog. Share the love and link to the person from whom you received this award.

I was given this award by Mama's Playground and Ma, What's for Dinner! Please check them both out. Ma, What's for Dinner has great recipes for families.

For this award, you are to list 10 things that make you happy, then tag another 10 people.

Ten Things That Make ME Happy:
1- My husband
2- My son
3- Family
4- My Time with God
5-Watching my son picture walk through a book I have read hundreds of times
6. Reading a great book
7- Spending time with friends and watching their little ones grow and learn.
8- Finding Deals
9- Couponing
10-Blogging- Working on my blog, visiting other people's blogs, reading wonderful comments.

Momma's Playground chose to give both awards to the same ten bloggers. I have decided to follow her lead. I am also including the ten from Ma, What's for Dinner?'s award. I am grateful for both giving me this award.

Here a my awardees:
Miscellaneous Matters
Totally Tots
Our Country Road
Mom is Not Concerned
Life with the Grovers
Our Family Treat
Tammy's Two Cents
Mama to 3 Blessings
Adventures of a Flake
A Pocket Full of Buttons

The Big Game Old El Paso Green Chiles Giveaway

The Old El Paso Big Game Prize Pack
(Two cans of Old El Paso Green Chiles are also included.)

Do you have a football fan at your house?
I have one. I had hours of college football in my holiday plans. After the holidays, I can see NFL football on the horizon.

Do you have a football fan who snacks at your house?
I have one of those too. He loves chips and salsa.

Here are some dips, salsas, nachos and chili recipes using Old El Paso Green Chiles. They each have prep time of less than 30 minutes.

Nachos

Green Chile Dip

Taco Nachos

Black Bean Dip

Slow Cooker Salsa Chili

Here are the recipes I tried with green chiles:

I made the Impossible Easy Cheese Pie for New Year’s Eve.

We also had the Bean and Bacon Fiesta Dip.

What do you need to do to get the prize pack ?

-Tell me your favorite Old El Paso Recipe. (1 entry)

For extra entries do any or all of the following leaving a separate comment for each entry.

* Sign-up for any of the Betty Crocker Newsletters, come back and tell me that you did.

*Do the See Yourself in the Taco Moon Activity, come back and tell me that you did. (2 entries)
(I did this with a picture of JDaniel and it was really cool. See the bottom of this post)

*Write about this giveaway with a link back to it on Facebook or another social network site. (1 entry)

*Follow my blog. Leave me a comment saying that you now follow or that you already do. (1 entry)

* Twitter about this giveaway with a link back, you must also be following me on Twitter. Copy and paste: BigGameOldElPasoGiveaway@JDaniel4smom.(1 entry per day)

* Subscribe to my blog. Leave me a comment saying that you have subscribed or that you already do. (1 entry)

*Add me to your blogroll. Please leave a link to your site.(3 entries)

*Add my button to your blog. Please leave a link to your site.(3 entries)

*Favorite me in Technorati! (7 entries)

That is 10 ways to win. The winner will be chosen by using the random number generator at http://www.random.org/

This giveaway begins January 5th and ends January 17th at 11:59 p.m.

Disclaimer: Old El Paso through MyBlogSpark sent me a prize pack for posting this information. I am using the prize pack as a giveaway item for my church’s group for moms. They will also be providing a prize pack that I can pass on to you.

JDaniel Sitting in a Chair

A "Roaring" New Year!

JDaniel woke up roaring Sunday morning. Literally he was roaring like a lion. He was still roaring while I made his oatmeal. It was so funny I had to laugh at the lion in the footie pajamas and blonde mop of hair sitting in the kitchen. Well, that encouraged more roaring. His roaring only stopped when his received in oatmeal bowl and sippy cup of milk. Saturday night he had noticed his lion costume hanging the closet in his room. He must have been thinking about lions all night long.

It is now Tuesday and he is still roaring. It looks like it is going to be a “Roaring" new year.

Muffin Tin Monday- Eyeballs for Lunch

This week there wasn’t a theme for Muffin Tin Monday. I went with my blog theme for the week Moving Forward While Looking Back. JDaniel had an eyeball themed lunch. He loved the crackers with bacon, the black eyed peas and the peaches with cherries. The Mexican bean dip didn’t go over well. The chili cheese pie had mixed results. (The dip and pie were left over from a Mexican meal we had for New Year’s that he had enjoyed then.) What a difference a day makes in toddler eating.

What a Difference a Year Makes!

Out
Jumparoo
Nursing
Low crawl
Babbling
Two naps
Waking up at 5:30 a.m.
Baby Einstein
The Hungry Caterpillar
Feeding him with a spoon and some self-feeding
Watching me clean
Existing with other children in playgroup

In
Climbing the outside of the stairs
Sippy Cups
Running
Words like coupons, football, oh-oh, eat,pacie,Jesus and many more
One nap
Waking up at 6:30 a.m.
Curious George and Thomas the Train
Richard Scarry’s Books
"I do it meself" (eating and everything else)
Sweeping and dusting
Learning to share with others in playgroup

My husband and I notice more and more how JDaniel has grown and changed in the last year.

Repost:Mommyhood Tip- Using Greeting Cards to Make a Picture Walking Book

This idea was originally posted during recycling week on JDaniel4's Mom in September. I thought I would enjoy seeing it again. You may have a lot of Christmas cards piled up in your house and this is a new use for them.

Here is how you put together your greeting card picture walking book:

1.You remove the front part of a bunch of greeting cards.
2.You take a hole punch and punch a hole in one corner of each card.
3.You put a metal ring through the holes.

How do you use them to picture walk?
-You can flip through the cards and talk about what it happening on each card.
-You can look for a particular color on each card.
-You can look for a particular element on a card.(trees,animals,candles,flowers)

Older Children
-You could use them to discuss the setting of each illustration.
-You could have a child select a card and use it as a story starter.
-You could have a child select a card and make up a word problem for that card.

Friday Fill-Ins #157

1. Last night made a Mexican dinner, toasted the New Year with my husband at 10:00 p.m., and we went to bed early. (JDaniel was up by 6:00 a.m. I was glad we went to sleep early.)

2. I am looking forward to this year.

3. The funniest thing JDaniel did yesterday was play hide and seek in the cubicles when we took my husband lunch at this office.

4. 2009 is over...so where do we go from here?

5. He said,"I love you'; she said,"I love you". They both meant it!

6. JDaniel has hidden his pacifier and it's up to us to find it before naptime.

7. And as for the weekend, tonight I'm looking forward to visiting my mom, tomorrow my plans include enjoying time with my guys and Sunday, I want to go to church and blog!

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