We’ve got a purple snow princess and a puppy dog in our house today. The purple snow princess was originally going to be a puppy dog. But, alas, we couldn’t find a puppy dog tail and I have zero crafting ability to make one. So, she proudly wore her purple snow princess outfit to school today (pictures to come later). The little one wore the puppy dog ears for exactly 5.3 seconds so we will have to come up with another plan for tonight’s trick-or-treating neighborhood activity. We have a ballerina tutu that will be just perfect…as long as it lasts longer than 5.3 seconds!
Today’s More About You Monday question is: Are you and/or your kids dressing up for Halloween tonight? If so, what are you/they wearing?
Chicken breast tenders were on sale this week for $1.97 per pound so we stocked up. We froze a bunch in various marinades to grill at a later date. For this week, I wanted to try a new recipe so I searched allrecipes.com, one of my favorite recipe sites.
I found a recipe for garlic chicken, tweaked it a bit and whipped up a batch. I don’t usually whip up much of anything. Usually anything I cook occurs in multiple stages, interrupted by laundry, diaper changes, homework help, etc. But Dave came home from work a little bit earlier than usual and entertained the girls so I got to cook to my heart’s content.
My note: I doubled the recipe. I didn’t quite double the oil…1/2 cup of oil seemed like a lot! I’m not sure how much oil I ended up using for 2 pounds of chicken. Just enough to moisten each piece before rolling in the bread crumb mixture.
This turned out quite yummy! Hope ate it with ketchup because Hope likes anything dipped in ketchup. Lauren dipped hers in a glass of water to remove the garlicky taste. I love my girls! 
A few days ago, a friend of ours posted on Facebook that she went through the Sonic drive-thru and the person in front of her paid for her order. I’ve always wanted to do that but never have.
Today was a caffeine day. I could have used a caffeine-IV but decided to settle for Starbucks iced tea, which is pretty much the same thing!
I placed my order at the drive-thru speaker and suddenly remembered my friend’s post. There was no one behind me in line so I said a quick prayer, asking God to send someone through the drive-thru if He wanted me to pay for their order.
Just as I got to the window to pay, a man pulled up to the speaker behind me. I asked the cashier if I could pay for the person behind me. She smiled and said, “Sure! A few days ago we had 25 cars in a row pay for the person behind them. It was awesome!”
Wow, that is awesome!
I debated writing about this on here because I don’t want to toot my own horn in any way, shape or form. But just as my friend encouraged me, I want to encourage all of you to pay it forward in some way. It doesn’t have to be big. Hopefully that man’s free $4 coffee made his day a bit more cheerful.
Ahhh! Just what I needed.
Just do it! Then tell us about it in the comments below.
