Wine'ing Momma

7 Thanksgiving Cocktails Everyone Will Enjoy

November 19, 2017 by Alisha Leave a Comment

What’s not to love about this time of year? Food, family and being thankful for all you have! Seriously though, sometimes being around family can be a bit of a nightmare so I’m sharing a few seasonal cocktails made with zero-calorie Sparkling Ice and world-renowned Italian winery Santa Margherita to help make the holidays more tolerable!

Fall Punch

INGREDIENTS

1/2 cup apple cider

1 cups hard cider

1 cup Sparkling Ice Crisp Apple

1/4 cup bourbon

1/4 cup lemon juice

Cinnamon sticks, for garnish

Cinnamon sugar rim, for garnish

DIRECTIONS

Rim the glass with a lemon and dip into cinnamon sugar, set to the side. Combine ciders, bourbon, Sparkling Ice Crisp Apple, and lemon juice in a pitcher- stir to combine. Fill glasses with ice, then punch. Garnish with a cinnamon stick and serve. [Read more…]

When Breast Cancer Hits a Loved One

October 26, 2017 by Alisha 7 Comments

October is the month when the world brings more awareness to breast cancer. But for me, each month is a reminder of how breast cancer can affect those we love. On March 1, 2013 my mom had a double mastectomy after a biopsy showed early signs of cancer. Luckily my mom has her mammograms performed yearly and the cancer was caught so early that she did not need radiation or chemotherapy.

Breast cancer is the most common cancer among American women, except for skin cancers. About 1 in 8 (12%) women in the US will develop invasive breast cancer during their lifetime.

The American Cancer Society’s estimates for breast cancer in the United States this year are:

About 231,840 new cases of invasive breast cancer will be diagnosed in women.
About 60,290 new cases of carcinoma in situ (CIS) will be diagnosed (CIS is non-invasive and is the earliest form of breast cancer).
About 39,620 women will die from breast cancer

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Have You Tried Kroger Money Services?

September 7, 2017 by Alisha 1 Comment

This is a sponsored post written by me on behalf of Kroger Money Services. All opinions are 100% mine.

Now that the kids are back in school, money appears to literally be flying out of my pockets at rate faster than I can keep up! LOL The girls have decided this is their year for umpteen extra-curricular activities. We have marching bang, soccer, Little Kids Rock, LSAT Prep…..yea let me stop there before I stress myself out even more. Luckily for me, Kroger is here to help save the day with Money Services.

Money Services is super convenient and can help you save up to .50 cents when you need to cash check & debit cards, pay your bills or buy money orders! I belong to a credit union that is not located in my area and a lot of times I end up getting a large amount of cash to pay for some of the girls activities. And since I don’t have any checks (like who wants to pay money for something you use a handful of times a year) I like to opt and get money orders. [Read more…]

Tough Mudder Tried to Kill Me!

September 4, 2017 by Alisha 2 Comments

Ok so I’m being a little dramatic when I say Tough Mudder tried to kill me….but I’m sure I saw my life flash before my eyes at least twice.

Back in July I shared a post full of Tough Mudder Training Tips. Guess who didn’t take their own advice and was so out of shape it wasn’t even funny! I seriously thought I was gonna throw up a few times but in the end I survived and now I want to share my experience as a 40+ out of shape REAL mom! I mean heck I always keep it real around these parts but I’m gonna be extra real today! LOL

This year’s Tough Mudder in Nashville was held on the grounds of the Nissan Stadium. When I arrived I was surrounded by so many amazing people ready to take on the obstacles. But as I walked around I kept thinking…where the heck is the mud??? Well the owners of the stadium were like “Ain’t no way in **** y’all are gonna tear up our grounds with mud and all kinds of foolishness.” So it was more of an asphalt/dirt/grass Tough Mudder. But in the end if worked out and I didn’t have to worry about where I was gonna rinse off so I didn’t leave my car looking like I’d been playing in a swamp all day.

Mid August in Nashville can feel like a moist sauna on a good day so I was happy that the weather had decided to cooperate and wasn’t quite as humid. There were a ton people in attendance and the races were done in waves. We started around 10am and we finish around 11:30am. Now had I done EVERY obstacle my arse would have easily been there until 3pm…no lie! One of the obstacles was like the monkey bars where you basically go hand over hand. I looked at it and was thought I might give it a try but knew in the end I’d basically look like this.

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