This is the best chicken recipe!

RITZY CHICKEN WITH POPPY SEEDS
1 cup sour cream
2 tablespoons lemon juice
2 teaspoons Worcestershire sauce
2 teaspoons celery salt
1 teaspoon paprika
1 cloves garlic minced(I use the kind in the jar)
½ salt
½ pepper
5 whole chicken breast, skinned, boned and halved
1 ½ cups crushed Ritz crackers
½ cup butter
2 tablespoons poppy seeds

Combine first eight ingredients in a container suitable for marinating. Add chicken breasts and marinate refrigerated overnight. Remove the coated chicken from mixture and roll in cracker crumbs. Arrange in a single layer in a 9x13 pan. Melt butter and pour half over the chicken. Bake uncovered for 45 minutes at 350degrees. Spoon the remaining butter and the poppy seeds over the chicken and cook 15 minutes longer.

I have made this recipe with chicken tenders instead and it turns out great—just reduce total baking time by one half to two thirds. Also, if you double the chicken in this recipe, it isn’t necessary to double the marinade. If you do more, then increase marinade accordingly.
You can also make a lower fat version of less butter and it’s great too.

"Cleaning your house while the kids are still growing is like shoveling the walk before it stops snowing. NEVER ENDING!"

I loved this quote I heard from a friend on facebook. Maybe because I live in that scenario every day of my life. :)


Inspired by: Mandy Best

Don't have more kids than you have car windows!!

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Inspired by: Heidi Roberson

“I don’t want to drive up to the pearly gates in a shiny sports car, wearing beautifully, tailored clothes, my hair expertly coiffed, and with long, perfectly manicured fingernails. I want to drive up in a station wagon that has mud on the wheels from taking kids to scout camp. I want to be there with grass stains on my shoes from mowing Sister Schenk’s lawn. I want to be there with a smudge of peanut butter on my shirt from making sandwiches for a sick neighbor’s children. I want to be there with a little dirt under my fingernails from helping to weed someone’s garden. I want to be there with children’s sticky kisses on my cheeks and the tears of a friend on my shoulder. I want the Lord to know I was really here and that I really lived.”

-Marjorie Peay Hinckley-

Inspired by: Angie Aguilar

From Grandma to Grandchild~When facing the challenge of making choices we need to ask ourselves three questions.
1) Is it Kind?
2) Is it Safe?
3) Would mom or dad do it?
I call it "The Three Rules to Live By"

Inspired by: Karyn Rhead Kidd

"Our deepest fear is not that we are inadequate.
Our deepest fear is that we are powerful beyond measure.
We ask ourselves, who am I to be brilliant, gorgeous, talented and fabulous? Actually, who are you not to be? Your playing small doesn't serve the world.
We were born to make manifest the glory of God that is within us. And as we let our own light shine, we unconsciously give other people permission to do the same."

Microwave Magic

*Tip
To clean your microwave quickly and simply, wet a dishcloth and place it in the center of your microwave. Turn on high and allow the cloth to sort of cook for about 30-40 seconds. The steam that this creates will help loosen any hardened spills and you can then use the heated cloth to wipe the inside clean. A note of caution: Don't try to use the cloth immediately; it will be very hot. This is a great way to disinfect your dishcloth, too.

-Linda Cobb-

"Your Greatest Challenge, Mother"

"You have nothing in this world more precious than your children. When you grow old, when your hair turns white and your body grows weary, when you are prone to sit in a rocker and meditate on the things of your life, nothing will be so important as the question of how your children have turned out. It will not be the money you have made. It will not be the cars you have owned. It will not be the large house in which you live. The searing question that will cross your mind again and again will be, How well have my children done? "

• Teach your children when they are very young and small, and never quit. As long as they are in your home, let them be your primary interest.
• Teach them to seek for good friends.
• Teach them to value education. “The glory of God is intelligence, or, in other words, light and truth” (D&C 93:36).
• Teach them to respect their bodies.
• Teach your sons and daughters to avoid illegal drugs as they would the plague.
• Teach them to be honest.
• Teach them to be virtuous.
• Teach them to pray.

Gordon B. Hinckley, “Your Greatest Challenge, Mother,” Ensign, Nov 2000, 97–100