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    Chicken, Bean, and Veggie Stew

    I love a soupy stew on a cold snowy day!  This is a perfect snow-day stew.  My girls, outside playing in the snow, little feets getting froze, little noses turning from pink to red, cheeks all sorts of rosy, and mittens getting soggy.  Kids barging in through the back door demanding warmth and shuffling off their clothes and crawling under warm blankets on the couch.  “Mooooommmmm!  Can we have some soup and some hot chocolate?”    You betcha.   Ingredients:  3 large chicken breasts, thawed and diced 3 ribs celery, diced 1/2 cup baby carrots, shredded 1 can black beans, rinsed and drained 1 can chickpeas, rinsed and drained 1…

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    Hammer and Chisel Official Launch!!!

    You know me.  Ok, maybe not all that well.  Or maybe you’re new to my blog and you don’t know me at all.  Welcome!  Let me share with you a little something, in case you haven’t gathered it yet.  I love to workout but I didn’t always feel this way.  It’s been a recent journey- less than 3 years since I really started going to the gym.  I had a baby in between, too.  Actually I’ve had three but one since I really started working out.  I’ve always been skinny.  I decided last summer after my 3rd baby that I didn’t want to be skinny anymore.  I wanted to be…