Chicken Tortilla Soup

OK, gals....and fellas!
If you are searching for something new to make....here ya go.
(Approved by my son, who can never be 'filled up', my adorable Mate, and even my picky 18 year old...!!!)
Makes a good amount...and is *inexpensive*!
(I admit, I 'cheated'...used REAL 'half and half' and sour cream...served with tortilla chips!)
ENJOY!

"No...I really....really....am... just fine! Nope. Not sick..."

I've always been a 'fabulous actress'....
(especially after becoming a 'mom'.)

"No...I really....really....am... just fine! Nope. Not sick..."

I feel like 'crud' today...run over by a wagon, and then crapped upon by the horses that said wagon is being pulled by...and then, baked in the sun.(However, as a rider myself, I do not find horse 'crap' all that bad--not to mention its known benefits for the garden....so, perhaps I shall choose a wagon...being pulled by pigs...Yes. Much more 'disgusting'.)

Indeed, rule #1: 'As a mother, from this day forward, thou shalt never---ever---be ill, or show weakness.'(There is too much 'sh%t' to do---with 3 kids, 3 dogs, 2 cats, 2 birds, the house, never ending laundry, cooking, 'cleaning',carpools, sports? ALWAYS something.)

...'Chop! CHOP! Get on with it woman!There is no time to dilly-dally!' say the many different voices in my brain...(that one has the British accent...'Ms Pattmore'... if you watch 'Downton')

Popped some motrin and a Benadryl just now...'mothers little helper' for sinus aggravation.(If you are old enough to remember? You just sang part of a Rolling Stones song....am I right? HA!)I am an 'older' mother....well 'older' in the fact that I had my 3rd child when I was almost 39-ish.(My first 2 were born before I was 32...so, I wasn't 'old' then...I actually had e-n-e-r-g-y!)

Hello?(yeah. I can't drive right now.)
I will stay home...let the one 'driving kid', pick up the 'non-driving kids'.('My Chickens' are almost 19, 16....and...9 years old, respectively...I've been married and divorced---TWICE---'don't judge.')

So, it won't matter if I get too dizzy, and  'fall out' over the laundry, or making dinner----right?
(The stove is electric, so, I wont catch my hair on fire.)
I really should go lay down. 'Rest'.
(but as soon as I do...the dogs will need to go out, or, more than likely, the cats will start fighting.)

So, I fake it. Fake smile, fake walk, fake drive---                                                         (well, no. Not that...I didn't take the 'Ambien' Luna Moth stuff...makin' you sleep, eat  and drive---never remembering a thing...although, it wouldn't surprise me if I was 'sleep eating', because this premenapausal weigh gain thing is KILLING ME! Where is this coming from....I have a potato chips and beer body and skinny legs...oh, I do think I KNOW what happened. My ass, has gravitated to my belly...My torso is on backwards!)

Turn off the cell phone...YES! And REST!
I have 2 teenagers and a 9 year old...
(What if THIS is the day that asteroid finally hits the earth. What then? HUH? Or someone barfs at school?) 

Gotta keep it at LEAST on 'vibrate' mode. 
(snicker.)

I'm not complaining. Moms don't do that. 
We trudge through...get things done...eat the burnt toast...and revel in the fact that, yes...these kids will rule the World one day!
(or at least pick out our Nursing Homes!)

Last Meals of Death Row Inmates....

(If you had one last meal....What would you choose?
I found this on BuzzFeed.com...The different meals are both expected....and... unusual.)

Photographer Henry Hargreaves re-created them for his series No Seconds.posted on February 18, 2014 at 5:54am EST

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1. Henry tells BuzzFeed: “When I first came across all the requests I found it to be such a fascinating insight into the minds of these soon-to-be executed individuals.”

Henry Hargreaves / Via henryhargreaves.com

2. “As I read the requests I began to imagine these prisoners as people and not just numbers. The story became much more real in my mind and I wanted to represent this visually.”

Henry Hargreaves / Via henryhargreaves.com

3. “Our culinary choices often say something about us that we sometimes cannot articulate easily. One of the trends with last meals were the amount of fried or comfort food.”

Henry Hargreaves / Via henryhargreaves.com

4. “To try to find a little comfort from these last bites is an interesting glimpse into their mind.”

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5. “I’m not trying to push my political beliefs on the viewer. My main goal was to have the viewer identify with the prisoner though their meal request.”

Via henryhargreaves.com

6. “I wanted the viewer to think of them as a person for a moment instead of them being anonymous.”

Henry Hargreaves / Via henryhargreaves.com

7. “Nor am I trying to make a judgement about the crime.”

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8. “The viewer can make up their own mind as to whether they agree with the punishment or not.”

Henry Hargreaves / Via henryhargreaves.com

9. Victor Feguer, who was hanged in 1963 for kidnap and murder, asked for a single olive. He reportedly thought it might grow into an olive tree from inside his body and hoped it would make use of him as a symbol of peace.

Henry Hargreaves / Via henryhargreaves.com

Henry says: “I think the religious angle poses a big juxtaposition, most of the states that continue to practice the death penalty are in the American ‘bible belt’ and the bible preaches forgiveness, where as this penalty stands in total contrast to this belief.”

10. Texas has reversed the tradition of allowing Death Row inmates their final meal choice.

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11. Henry says: “As much as i think its a strange ritual I think it’s worse to have reversed this age old ritual. Im sure there was more money spent in creating the legislation than will be saved.”

Henry Hargreaves / Via henryhargreaves.com

12. “I think it’s a subject that people can relate to and are curious about. We all eat and we will all die.”

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