Meal Monday - Week 2

I'm excited to try the chicken and wild rice casserole. My coworker, MARLO, gave it to me a while back and I have yet to try it! I have no doubt it will be off the chain.

A Few Recent Family Photos

Meal Monday - Week 1

One of These Doesn't Belong

I don’t know about you, but I believe a home should be lived in. My home is clean and decorated as nicely as our shoe string budget will allow us. And though we’re constantly on the go, we do the best we can to pick up after ourselves. But our home is not on display. It is definitely lived in!

And when we cook, our dinners don’t include three courses, nor are they gourmet. They’re just quick, thrifty and pretty tasty, too, so long as Chris is cooking!

If you or someone you know is able to maintain the Pottery Barn home, cook like Rachel Ray all the while living in your home, more power to ya! But that will never happen for the Freemans. It’s good enough for us just to have our meals planned out for the whole week, and it’s even better if we get the groceries in advance! It’s just one less thing we have to deal with, and it lets us actually enjoy our evenings together.

So as a means of accountability to me, and maybe encouragement to others, I’m going to start posting the meals I’ve planned out for the week. We'll call these posts "Meal Mondays". If you want the recipes, let me know! And if you do the same thing, I want to know what you're cooking for the week!

Something's Come Between Us

You can pick your friends. You can pick your nose. But you can't pick your friend's nose... especially Hannah's. She's got the job handled!

We went downtown to take family pictures last month and I finally have pictures! Thank you David Sutton and Devin Brown for the pictures, and thanks to Aaron Handley for making the baby smile!

More pictures to come in another post.

Cookie Monster

 Chris let Hannah try some of his chocolate chip cookie last night, and naturally, she loved it! Look at that face! How could anyone resist?

Hannah's Walking

For the first time that I can remember, my intuition as a mom was spot on! When Hannah turned 10 months, I told Chris that I knew she would start walking by the end of the month. And she certainly did! Saturday, February 28 at about 7 o'clock, Hannah took her first steps (that I'm aware of). I couldn't be more proud!