Runaway October

Some Links:

• 75 Tips for Left­overs and Ingre­di­ents - via The Kitchn
• All-Natural Mois­tur­iz­ing Kitchen Hand Scrub — via Good Life {Eats}
• Child Cre­ativ­ity Linked with Out­door Free Time — via Steve-Olsen.com
• Your Favorite ‘Nat­ural’ Brands May Not Be What They Seem — via Mercola.com
• Nutella Self-Frosting Cake — via Car­men Cooks

Some awe­some tutorials:

• Funky Quilted Binder Cover — via Moda Bake Shop
• AWESOME Dog Bed — via Jezze
• Kid’s Teepee — via My Tiny Sweet Cheeks
• Hot Pink Cross Quilt Block Tuto­r­ial — via Betty Ninja
• Alpha­bet Quilt — via Reese Dixon

And a funny:

New Car via XKCD.com

So this last Mon­day was Mother’s Day and well… I didn’t do much of any­thing for any of the mother’s in my life. We’ve been so broke and I have no free time. We’re talk­ing not even a Hall­mark Card. My plan was to make plas­ter hand prints of the boys and hand them out. Then the sick­ness occurred. I’m just now get­ting around to it. I man­aged all of 1.5 hand prints before run­ning out of plas­ter when I was aim­ing for 5 total. Ugh. Some­days I feel like life wants me to go back to bed.

Matt and I had a small dis­agree­ment about his mother (because it was my fault I didn’t get her a card, I guess.). He said that he’s under the impres­sion that I didn’t want Ann com­ing over ofter because the house is never clean enough for com­pany. I was under the impres­sion that she’d rather stay at her house and enter­tain. Long story short Matt invited his parent’s over for din­ner this week­end. Now I have to get every­thing clean, look pre­sentable and make din­ner. I have no idea what to make.

Matt would like the nor­mal run-out of his favorite fat­ten­ing never-admit-you-make-it-for-your-family din­ners. I’d like to do some­thing spe­cial. Besides I picked up a cou­ple of cook­books from the library and have been itch­ing to test out some new recipes.

I noticed that cher­ries seem to be on sale cur­rently so I’m gonna head on down to the mar­ket and take a look. I’m think­ing about mak­ing a Cherry Clafoutis. Matt’s parent’s aren’t big dessert peo­ple but I never pass up the oppor­tu­nity to try some­thing new.

I don’t even know where I was going with this. Any ideas for din­ner? Maybe some barbecue?