Best homemade Thai Peanut sauce/curry I've made!

So I got this recipe off on one of my friends blogs and pretty much fell in love! For once my peanut sauce didn't turn into goop! Woot!!

1 cup of Rice

1/2 bag of frozen stir fry veggies (fresh veggies work even better if you have them!)

1 cup chicken chunks (1 raw chicken breast)

1 8 oz can pineapple chunks, drained

1/2 cup chicken broth

2 tablespoons peanut butter

1 tablespoon soy sauce

1 tablespoon lemon or lime juice

1/4 teaspoon crushed red pepper

1 clove garlic, minced

1. Cook rice in a rice cooker, or according to package directions if using minute rice style

2. Cut up chicken breast into tiny chunks and cook in a pan until cooked through. 

3. For sauce, in a small saucepan stir chicken broth into peanut butter. Heat and stir with a wisk until peanut butter melts. Stir in soy sauce, lime juice, red pepper, and garlic; heat through. 

4. Add sauce to cooked chicken. Add pineapple and frozen (or fresh) stir fry veggies. Cover and simmer until veggies are no longer frozen (about 3 minutes. 

5. Pour sauce/chicken mixture over cooked rice and enjoy!

Makes: 4 Servings

It says it served 4, but not in my house!!

Two years seems like a week...

         Two years ago I married my best friend in the whole world. Looking back on the time we've spent together it seems like we just started dating, yet at the same time if feel likes we've always been together. These two years have been the best of my life (excluding when Matt had to leave for trainings, but even those times helped bring us closer together...).

I could probably go on for hours about how amazing these past two years have been, but I think I will go snuggle with my hubby instead ♥

Who knew the tears would come so quickly...

       I've always been protective of children. Especially since my parents added Daniel and Matthew to our family. They taught me what it meant to be an older sister, and what it meant to have someone younger then to care for. They are the ones that taught me how precious life really is. Matt is the one that made me want to adopt a child, and provide a better home and stable environment to grow in.

       Then Eric came into my life, and I learned about a new kind of love. The love a mother has for her children. I knew that loving a my own children would be different then how I feel about my nieces and nephews. But I didn't realize that having a child of my own would affect every other part of my life. I didn't know that once I had a child that I would grow to be more protective of children. I didn't even know that I could be more protective of children then I already was!! Then books that my dad used to read through his tears to me as a child made me start crying as I read them to Eric. Songs on the radio about children started touching me in different ways. Stories on the news about children being abused made me angrier and want to save the children from their abusers. Posts on blogs about children with incurable diseases brought me to tears, just from the pictures, and crying uncontrollably from their stories.

       I used to think that crying over anything was a sign of weakness. But now I know that crying for the right reasons is not weakness. If anything it's a sign of a loving heart. I hope that is something that I can teach my children as they grow. I'm sure when they are young they will be as baffled as I was when my dad cried reading us stories at night. I hope to teach them to embrace the caring natures they are born with, and use it to better the world around them in anyway they can.

Pushy husband...

       So after talking to Matt and finally having something sell I've decided (with more then a little nudging from Matt) to set up a blog/etsy to sell some of the things that I've made. It's not much right now, Matt's going to help me take some better/more pictures. But this is what it looks like so far! http://www.mmcustomcreations.blogspot.com
http://www.etsy.com/shop/MJHLong?ref=pr_shop

I'm waiting to put anything up on the Etsy site until Matt can take some better pictures. But that should hopefully be soon! :)