Menu week of February 15 2010
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Monday: beer potatoes & sausage
Tuesday: Sarah Struwe chili
Wednesday: baked potatoes w/ everything
Thursday: chicken & wild rice soup
Friday: jim plays @ phat thai – I sadly eat lentil soup at home
Saturday: date night!
Sunday: skirt steak w/ roasted tomatoes & polenta
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“Our deepest fear is not that we are inadequate, our deepest fear is that we are powerful beyond measure. It is our light, not our darkness that most frightens us. We ask ourselves, ‘Who am I to be brilliant, gorgeous, talented, fabulous?’ Actually, who are you not to be?”
–Marianne Williamson
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Wow, where have I been? Lots of places: back and forth to Denver a lot to help my sis who just had sweet twin boys. Running around like crazy at Tangle during our busy winter months. Crafting my little heart out in the few spare moments I’ve been able to scrape together. I’m in the midst of writing my 2009 year in review but until then here’s my new hat!
The pattern is free from the winter twenytten issue of Knitty.com. The yarn is Outer from Spud and Chloe. I’ve got to say that when we found out Blue Sky Alpacas was coming out with a new line of machine washable yarns, we ordered the whole line sight-unseen. And we haven’t regretted a skein of it. (As if Blue Sky could ever go wrong.)
I used the recommended needle size and whipped up this puppy in about two hours. I love it!
Gingerbread House Icing
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4 cups powdered sugar
3 TBS meringue powder
Just enough water to make it really stiff (a little over half a cup)
Mix. Pipe. Enjoy!
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Appropriate
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often, when the kids are misbehaving, especially in stores, I will tell them that their behavior is inappropriate. That has evolved into me just saying ‘inappropriate’ whenever they are throwing fit, fighting, or talking about poop in a restaurant.
Tonight at dinner Honor started telling us how he doesn’t like being named Honor (its boring you know) so we started offering him name suggestions. Jim suggested ‘butt show’ (anyone who knows Honor knows how well this fits as he is allergic to pulling up his pants). And Honor looked at Jim with a look that said "you’re ridiculous" and said "Dad, that’s appropriate.". Yes Honor, yes it is.
Menu week of Nov 16 2009
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Monday: chicken w/ lemon mustard sauce & seared radicchio
Tuesday: steak tacos (jim)
Wednesday: tomato, pasta & potato bake
Thursday: pizza (jim)
Friday: acorn squash something (jim will be out of town. This is the day we pick up our new puppy!)
Saturday: ?
Sunday: chicken in a pot
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Monday: lemon horseradish fish cakes
Tuesday: beef stew
Wednesday: Carne asada
Thursday: pasta w/ turkey Italian sausage and broccoli rabe
Friday: pizza
Saturday: ?
Sunday: flatbreads with lamb and Greek yogurt
Over achieving
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A month and a half ago my little sister and only sibling, moved 250 miles away to denver. Three days before that she found out she was having twins. At her ultrasound at 20 weeks, surprise, twins!
Twins!
So my promise to make one baby quilt turned into making two baby quilts and bam! Here we are: the shower has come and gone and I still need to make two baby quilts!
I’m feeling real excited for the plan that I have for the first quilt. As you can see I have the very beginnings going. It is going to be terribly cute, I antcipate. All I know is that they could be here in 2 months and I’ve gotta get sewin!
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Yesterday I had an appt with my stylist. I joked with her that it was our four year anniversary, almost to the day, since she started doing my hair. I’ve been feeling so bored with my hair that I decided to do something drastic and go for a longish pixie cut.
So here it is, shorter than I anticipated. I’m still not convinced that I like it but luckily everyone else seems to.
Little buddy off to school
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Honor officially started kindergarten today. I was worried about how he would act when we dropped him off but after I helped him with all of his morning jobs he told us "you can go now." (all day kindergarten is amazing!)
His teacher, who is amazing, said he had a hard time staying still but she had several talks with him and he was respectful.
When we picked him up he told us about his new friends, what he ate out of his lunchbox, about his THREE fresh air times and the pattern blocks which were his favorite.
Jim and I didn’t quite know what to do with our glourious 8 hours of kid free time, but I’m sure we’ll adjust just fine!