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Happy Friday, Friends! If you're new here, check out some of my favorite posts down the right side along with my social media links. I'd love to connect with you! Each Friday I link up with High Five for Friday and share the highlights of my week.

1. Last week I turned 30. Saturday night I went out to celebrate with 11 wonderful friends. I am SO blessed to have these great women in my life.

I pinned this recipe from Kraft Foods not too long ago. I'm always looking for new ways to dress up chicken without adding in pasta or many carbs. My love for black beans has growing in the past year, so I wanted to give this a whirl.

The recipe directed 4 chicken breasts (about 1 pound) but our grocery store only has larger ones - two per pound, so I got four knowing the cook time would be a bit longer.

One thing that has saved out cooking recently is this handy little digital thermometer (similar). It has a wired probe that you plug into it that you put into whichever meat you're cooking. It has all the temperatures pre-programmed and beeps when you hit the recommended temperature. Set it and forget it, right? Perfectly cooked meat and no guessing if it's done.

You may wonder - why in the world is it in Celsius? Well... I'm not sure. It used to do Fahrenheit. But it doesn't matter because it still tells me which temps are for which meats along the bottom of the display.

The recipe was a hit. With the larger pieces of chicken, it took about 10 minutes longer than the recommended time to cook (still about 30 minutes), but still a very manageable time. Everyone gobbled down the food and we had leftovers for lunch. Try it out!

Thanks for stopping by! If you're new, take a look to your right and connect with me. I post many of my outfits on Instagram during the week, but post the details of each piece here on Wednesdays. Linking up with The Pleated Poppy.

Growing up, I was United Methodist - both of my parents are United Methodist pastors. But, I was surrounded by many Catholic friends who were always giving something up for Lent. It just wasn't something we did. I had actually been pondering *maybe* doing it this year...I love a good soda, maybe I should give it up, but I wasn't totally committed.

I was checking out Instagram and came upon a post by Caroline G about random acts of kindness. She's so good at it! Read through the thread, a gal had the idea to do an act of kindness each day for Lent. My first thought was, I am in.

So, will you join me? Lent begins tomorrow. One act of kindness each day for 40 days. That's it.

I'm going to share some of my acts of kindness with the hashtag #fortydok, so look for that on Instagram.

Dear Amateur Blogger,

You're doing great. You write because it's fun, and that's how it should be. If it ever turns not fun, you need to take a step back and evaluate. You started this because it was enjoyable and you thought you had something to share with the world.

It's ok that you don't get many page views. Every eye that does read your work is an important one if it's one or 1,000. If one person ties their scarf a new way, is uplifted, or gets something free because of a post, you've made a difference.

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