I downloaded a sample of this yesterday afternoon onto my kindle and read it last night. This is sooo funny!!! It reads kinda like Ozzy talks but a bit more coherent. Lots of "f" words thrown in but a good read non-the-less. I am only into his childhood escapades so it may get a bit more .... interesting as I click through the pages. I just bought the full version so my reading will commence later this evening. But now-responsibility beckons...

In the words of my new buddy......"SSSHHARROOONNNN.......where the F*** are my puppies!" Better go...

CSA arrival!

Thursday pickup of the CSA is quite exciting for me! Actually, even more exciting is the email that arrives the week before to tell me what is going to be in the box and what my options are for editing those items. Obviously, I am easily entertained as the thought of replacing apples (not a big fan) with Kale....thrills me!
In the continued attempt to use up the eggs that were purchased for the post wedding brunch I decided that Kale frittata would be in order. I had never made a frittata until I got the Barefoot Contessa cookbook and she has a simple recipe in there for one. Hers calls for bacon, potatoes and chives. I just doctored hers up and added Kale and onions. I used red potatoes for this one but usually use sweet potatoes. I just think the color looks cool. Purple cauliflower is awesome in this! I plan on planting MANY purple cauliflower plants this summer!




I also made a roasted beet salad with feta. Jeff still does not think that beets are great (or even good for that matter) so it just leaves more for me! Love them!!











Puppy update-I have decided that these two puppies are without a doubt-the cutest puppies on the planet. Seriously....adorable.

Wednesday night--no exercise AND CHOCOLATE

I drove home from work knowing full well that I was not going to "shred" (Jillian Michael) or walk on my treadmill while watching Medium Season 1 on a netflix disk...NO!! I was going home, hanging with puppies and EATING CHOCOLATE!! And...this chocolate would not be just any chocolate...it would be Nestle Semi-sweet chocolate chips!! This is my food of choice and has been since I can remember. I thought I was "off" chips but it came on me today-in full force! Blaise (the sonship) asked to borrow the truck at lunch. Said he needed to go to the "grocery store"...I knew what this meant...He was heading to the crack...oops, I mean "chocolate" store! I handed him the three bucks needed to score and................AHHHH, Heaven!




Oh, dinner...not that interesting. Tofu, cabbage, carrots, onions, and soba noodles. A few chow mein noodles sprinkled on the top....hmm, not like the high from the chocolate but it will do!

Married w/children...25 years into it!

I have been officially been married for 25 years as of today--yes, to the same man, yes, in human years (not dog years)...and yes, it actually is pretty darn cool! I thank God that this has worked out so well..

We got married without much of a plan...just assumed that everything would work out well..and it did!!! Not that we didn't have times that we regretted it (alot--just ask our kids!) Jeff is ANAL (sorry-but you are) and I am..well, messy, distracted and really quite off the wall. I admit it...not a whole lot going on upstairs...BUT..it has all worked out. Thank you Jesus!!

So, here is our 25th wedding anniversary dinner post. We had crab, zucchini pancakes, french bread and caesar salad with lovely wine. We stayed home because we didn't want to leave our puppies in their pen. They spend too much time cooped up as it is.

We are officially parents of grown children BUT--we cannot leave our new puppies in the evening. This leaves us in the WTF stage of life...but we wouldn't have it any other way. Here's to grown kids- who have made us proud, puppies that are making us crazy and .....everything else that awaits US!!!

Feeling fairly uninspired as a blogger this evening I thought I would go to my iphoto file to see if there was anything that sparked a blog post ( I must keep up with Stephanie as she has 2 posts for today!) and here it was!! A bathtub photo of my new son in law!! I don't think he looks at my blog so I feel fairly safe exposing him in this way!! Sorry Sam, I just had to do it! This is about the cutest thing I have seen in awhile....Love you Buddy!! Welcome to the family!!!

Saturday mornings are my favorite!

While I lollygag around this morning my wonderful husband is off to the coffee store to get my latte and a scone. He does this every Saturday--he is just groovy like that! I suppose we could get up, plug in the coffee maker and actually "make" our own coffee but that just does not happen at our house. We have tried the fancy ones with timers ( after having it set up many times by the son-in-law as well as the son...too hard for me to figure it out). We have a couple of french presses that we use for camping but I just hate cleaning them out--so that's out for the morning coffee.

But LULUS!!!!!!!! Just the perfect cup everytime!!!!! I hear the garage door.....yippee!!

Friday night-Shrimp!!!

The Eating Well cookbook that contains this wonderful recipe!

Salad--just because I need to use up these greens.









The finished product (served on rice)

















My typical stack of books that usually involve 3-4 cookbooks, multiple gardening books, a diet book or two for good measure and a bible for good intentions!!!