Soups on for the Giveaway Winner.

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The randomly picked number is: 4

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Highest Number 32

BOMBTASTIC BELLE ! COME ON DOWN, YOU'RE OUR WINNER !
Belle has already been contacted. Hope you enjoy your mugs.

Everyone else, thank you for entering and there will be another giveaway soon.

Little Ricky Pickles 1st Snow

Little Ricky has gotten a name addition. My daughter said he looks like a "Mister Pickles" so we started calling him Ricky Pickles.

He is now believed to have some retriever somewhere along his lineage as he brings you all his toys to throw. He will start with his little teddy bear, if he gets no response from you he will then go get an old necktie that has a bunch of knots tied into it. If you still do not respond he will start bringing the raw hide bones, I think these are to bribe you into playing.

All of a sudden, you'll look down and there will be toys and bones all around your feet and he's sitting there, with that infamous Jack Russell stare. As soon as you look at him a big bark comes out and he grabs a toy and lays it in your lap. If you do start throwing, be prepared to be in it for the long haul.
His favorite game is you throw, he retrieves, you go to throw but he does NOT let go and a great time is had engaging in tug-o-war until he lets you have it. Then it starts over. He's a great growler and sounds extremely ferocious. Kind of a cross between Wolfman Jack and the Tasmanian Devil.

It snowed quite a bit here last week so I got him out in the yard and took some pictures.





He keeps us all laughing.

Take Me Back Tuesday...My Daughter.

I am participating in "Take Me Back Tuesday" over at A Giveaway Addicted Mommy.

This photo of my beautiful daughter takes me back to 1991 when she was about 15. Sarah went to the Job Corp that year and really did a lot of growing up. I am so proud of her.


Today she works in Boston at a Mid-east restaurant, does wonderful photography work with bands, has a lovely vintage shop on Etsy, is an artist, and has a slew of crafts she enjoys.
She is also mommy to Logan, a mix breed and Stagger a deaf Boston Terrier. Sarah is fluent in American Sign Language.

This photo was taken by a neighbor of ours in Norfolk Va. by the Hague, I love the foggy morning look it has.

Thank you Sarah for all the love and joy you have brought into my life. I love you.

Progresso Soup Mug Set Giveaway !

Yum mm Fiber...No REALLY, yum mm. CLOSED (come back soon for another giveaway, or sign up to follow and find me on your blogger dashboard)

Fiber = bad rap for years. Jokes about eating cardboard come to mind.
But then we all started educating ourselves, and realized there were plenty of great ways to fit more fiber into our diets. Keep those pipes in good working order. Fiber is also essential to losing weight.

But WAIT ! Now there's even more fiber to be had... in soup.
That's right, in your soup bowl.



Progresso soup has added more fiber to four of their soups. Now you can get 28% of your daily fiber in one serving of : Creamy Tomato Basil , Chicken Tuscany, Hearty Vegetable & Noodle and Homestyle Minestrone.

I usually make soup from scratch, but I do keep cans in the cupboard for times when there is major cold weather activities going on outside and a nice hot bowl of soup is the only thing that will do.

Progresso sent me a can of their Homestyle Minestrone to try out, and even sent two huge cobalt blue soup mugs and spoons so I could open the can, eat soup, and not have to wash a soup bowl first to do it in.



Tasty soup, although Minestrone is not my favorite, I'm more of a Creamy Tomato Basil kinda gal.

But hey, they sent it, I ate it and I ended up with almost one third of my daily fiber in that one bowl of soup.

AND WAIT ....they are offering you dear peeps, a chance to have your own mugs and spoons so you can eat soup.
Snazzy cobalt mugs. Silvery spoons. Fiber in your soup. Sounds good.

ENTER

Just leave a comment saying how you add more fiber to your families meals. Or a good high fiber recipe would be nice too if you have one. Make sure to leave your email in your comment or make sure its on your blogger profile if you are a member of blogger.

EXTRA ENTERS-( do the one above first please.)

*Follow this here blog publicly- 2 extra entries- leave 2 extra comments for these. Like "follow #1"then "follow#2" if you already follow just do the same.

**Follow in google reader- 2 extra entries. Tell me you do.

**Blog about this giveaway-3 extra entries- yep, leave 3 separate "I blogged #1"...Blogged #2...Blogged #3

This will run until Sunday January 17th at midnight EST. Winner will be announced on Monday January 18th.

Progresso Soup and MyBlogSpark provided soup, mugs and spoons so we could try the soup out and provide my opinion here on this blog.
All opinions are mine alone. Nobody dares put words in my mouth.

I Won the Warmest Mittens and I Love Them.

I like to sew, but I have not been sewing in quite awhile. But I am getting ready to get back into it, so I have been wandering around the web looking at sewing blogs.

A while back I came across a blog , Sew Glamorous, and I thought "wow, this is a sweet blog about someone who hand makes a lot of different things and posts about them". I also fell in love with this bag....
Photo from Sew Glamorous
But alas, I found her blog after the giveaway for it.

BUT I WON THESE !!!

Photo from Sew Glamorous

Angie posted about how she hated making them. It was a pain and that they came out not feeling right to her and that she wanted to give them away to anyone who wanted these p.i.t.a mittens.
She also said they were extremely warm....mmmmm....warrrrmmmmm.
I am a sucker for warm when it comes to my circulation challenged hands.
So I entered....and I won. ( I was the only entrant on her blog, not sure if anyone else did on her facebook, poor mittens)
But na na na naaaa. I won and I love them. I have never had a warmer pair of anything on my hands.
Thank you Angie.
I Love hand-made recycled stuff.