Runaway October

Okay, so after a 7 month hia­tus, I am back. If you ever want to get com­ments on your blog, just stop blog­ging for a really long time. I hope to be back blog­ging reg­u­larly now. I over­hauled the whole blog, got rid of unnec­es­sary “fea­tures” and setup a new gallery tool. Be sure to check out the pic­tures, by click­ing on the links either above or to the right. I update with pic­tures of the boys reg­u­larly.

New Year by *Sally M*

On another note, 2009 has come to a close. It was a year of ups and downs for us, like I’m sure it was for most other fam­i­lies. We were taken to court by one of my day­care clients, and nice guys always fin­ish last. My hus­band bought me a won­der­ful new home! He also plowed through mas­sive lay­offs at his work and even ended up with a pro­mo­tion. We were sur­prised with an unex­pected preg­nancy and sub­se­quent mis­car­riage. We made new friends, lost fam­ily mem­bers, and all in all I think we weath­ered the storm nicely. We can only hope 2010 is as good… Well, maybe with a lit­tle less of the downs, of course.

As is typ­i­cal for me, I hope that I can use my blog to stick to my New Years res­o­lu­tions, which are pretty typ­i­cal for me, just look at the one’s from years past. But this time I have a whole house to dec­o­rate and make homey. On a bud­get. I also con­vinced Matt to buy this lit­tle pretty for my Christ­mas present…in pink of course.

Cav­allini 2010 Daily Planner

My hope is that I’ll have plenty of space to sched­ule things ahead of time, so that I don’t end up scram­bling the day before a birth­day or 4 weeks before Christ­mas again. My plan is to make Christ­mas presents through­out the year, and maybe setup a cou­ple craft­ing get-togethers. So if any of you are inter­ested in meet­ing to have some good food, a few drinks and make batches of Christ­mas presents with friends, let me know.

I have lots of new recipes to try, crafts to make, sewing to do and I hope to do a bit of can­ning. And by a bit, I mean I think I’ve been bit­ten by a can­ning bug. I found a new source for cheap, fresh pro­duce and home­made jam and jel­lies has never sounded bet­ter. I still need to set up and dec­o­rate my “craft room”. I’m kinda ignor­ing the fact that half of it is sup­posed to be for Matt’s com­puter stuff. We debate over the name of it con­stantly. Matt orig­i­nally named it the S.O.R. — Server Oper­a­tions Room. I’ve decided it’s the Sewing Machine Oper­a­tions Room — S.M.O.R. That’s a  much nicer name, don’t you think?

So those are a few of the things I’ll be work­ing on this year. Wont you join me?

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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?