Valentine's Day and New Stuff, Part II
Yesterday was V-Day. I made the kids heart-shaped grilled cheese sandwiches. Maddie had dance class and Will made Pretend Soup for their dinner.
Then I set up dinner for me and Rob downstairs. This is a woebegone kitchen island covered with a tablecloth, but our new table came today. Pictures will follow someday. I just figured that we had all of this space downstairs that we weren't using, and we might as well eat down there as go out! We had a roast and salad with pears and blueberries and gorgonzola cheese, and asparagus with white balsamic vinegar and pine nuts, and because I overcooked the rosemary new potatoes, we had tatertots with it, served with Navarro gewurtztraminer grape juice. For dessert we had a Mike Christenson Hazelnut Truffle Torte, which was a great thing for me. When we were newlyweds and didn't know how to cook, the Christensons would invite us downstairs to try whatever exotic dish they had just slaved over all afternoon in their wee kitchen. This was one of those that we wolfed down.
Here's the new furniture in the basement, including (at center) the loveseat that Tomas fell off of and broke his arm from last Friday. He has a green temporary splint now, but he'll get a cast tomorrow morning. The delivery guys brought the wrong ottoman the first time around, and when I called about it, Macy's said "Oh, yeah! This is ORANGE!" and I had to tell them 'we actually wanted the orange one, but we wanted it to be oval, not square . . .' We like it.
And here is Mama and Sebi's latest GeoTrax track at the other end of the room (note the new paint job while you're at it). Fisher Price GeoTrax is going to singlehandedly keep me from getting Alzheimer's because it is such good brain exercise for me to try to make a different closed system every time. Keeps the kids busy too!
Then I set up dinner for me and Rob downstairs. This is a woebegone kitchen island covered with a tablecloth, but our new table came today. Pictures will follow someday. I just figured that we had all of this space downstairs that we weren't using, and we might as well eat down there as go out! We had a roast and salad with pears and blueberries and gorgonzola cheese, and asparagus with white balsamic vinegar and pine nuts, and because I overcooked the rosemary new potatoes, we had tatertots with it, served with Navarro gewurtztraminer grape juice. For dessert we had a Mike Christenson Hazelnut Truffle Torte, which was a great thing for me. When we were newlyweds and didn't know how to cook, the Christensons would invite us downstairs to try whatever exotic dish they had just slaved over all afternoon in their wee kitchen. This was one of those that we wolfed down.
Here's the new furniture in the basement, including (at center) the loveseat that Tomas fell off of and broke his arm from last Friday. He has a green temporary splint now, but he'll get a cast tomorrow morning. The delivery guys brought the wrong ottoman the first time around, and when I called about it, Macy's said "Oh, yeah! This is ORANGE!" and I had to tell them 'we actually wanted the orange one, but we wanted it to be oval, not square . . .' We like it.
And here is Mama and Sebi's latest GeoTrax track at the other end of the room (note the new paint job while you're at it). Fisher Price GeoTrax is going to singlehandedly keep me from getting Alzheimer's because it is such good brain exercise for me to try to make a different closed system every time. Keeps the kids busy too!
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