Putting things away

We received a generous engagement gift of all the wine glasses from our registry. They were half unpacked then the giant crate and barrel box sat in the middle of the office for three months. Then I unpacked the rest and they sat on my desk for a week.

This weekend I got Bruce to hang our wine glass rack.

It is straight and even and flush and many other engineering words. It will also never fall off the wall.

It looks great AND there are no more wine glasses on my desk and no giant box taking up space in our office.

DIY Fruit on the bottom

So I'm trying to cut out chemicals, this includes food stabilizers and preservatives. I decided to try something I saw on Simple Bites making my own fruit on the bottom yogurt. I threw some berries, honey and a splash of vanilla in a sauce pan, then I smashed and let it reduce. Once it cooled I put it in cute jars and topped with plain greek yogurt, someday I'll make my own of that too. Definetly the prettiest thing in our lunches tomorrow.

Me Time

Approximately once a week (on different nights) one of us stays up late. Like really late, it's 1:18am and I'm about to but in The Italian Job. Me time. We're both stressed, me time and for that matter going to bed early time is essential for our sanity. I'll fill you in later about Kenny's surgery but sometimes me time ends up a little bit through the looking glass.

Football Food

So I had pinned this recipe for New Years Eve from here:http://tastykitchen.com/recipes/appetizers-and-snacks/the-gangs-all-here-jalapeno-cream-cheese-crescent-poppers/

I tried it out for the Patriots game last weekend, using my NEW food processor. They were awesome perfect beer/football munchies.

Couch blogging

So my big Christmas present this year was an iPhone; to replace my flip phone from 2005 and my iPod2. I don't really talk to Siri I'm afraid she'll make me lazy, but I do appreciate that this apple device multitasks. It's finally cold in CT (it's been so mild minus the October snow storm.) Now that it's cold most our nights look like this:

Bruce gets up earlier than me so I usually stay up a little later sometimes Kenny stays up with me giving me this look:

Also known as the "why aren't we in bed" look.

Hopefully this app will help me blog more.

Merry Christmas

Yesterday I wanted to write this great post about how I have one corner of our house that is the peace and joy of Christmas, in the tidal wave of a mess that the rest of the house is.  But then the mess consumed me. . . it took me an hour to figure out that reason my SD card wouldn't read from the reader in my printer was because the printer and the computer weren't connected.  Then we went to get my phone and it took us and hour and a half to drive a 30 minute drive because EVERYONE was trying to get to Target, Best Buy and ToysRUs, by the time we finally got there we discovered that not only is the iPhone 4S on back order but  I need super Verizon national customer service to separate me out of my parents plan, not just in store Verizon dudes.  Epic Christmas fail on our part = no gift for me until the new year. 

Did I mention that Bruce spent the day drilling a giant hole in the chimney? He did. Then he had an anxiety attack that the wouldn't finish and sent me to Home Depot and after a phone call about deciding what I need my phone died so I missed the call in which he would have told me to just come home he had completed the hole.

Then I took this photo.

And remembered that: We are all happy and healthy, we have jobs, an awesome dog, and a warm house to live in.  Yesterday our (and my extended family's) gifts were delivered to the medical day care unit at Franciscan Hospital for Children. (Learn more about FHC here they are awesome!) I remembered that these are the important things, the embodiment of the holiday. So slow down, take a deep breath and enjoy the season.

Merry Christmas!!!

Poor Kenny

Kenny Puppy has been having some lameness in his back legs, so we finally took him to the vet.  She couldn't find any glaring problems so she recommended doing a set of orthopedic x-rays to check out what was going on in his joints.  This required putting him under anesthesia. Bad news; he had one crappy looking hip and both of his knees don't look great either, probably partial tears in his ACL's.  Good news; he's super cute with the post anesthesia sleepies.