A Year Gone By...

2014
First and foremost, thank you to all of you who entered the YakPak giveaway that I held on the blog in my last post.  It feels like ages ago (almost 2 weeks already!).  It's crazy how fast time goes when the shit is hitting the fan.

One week from tomorrow, Jane and Emma turn one.  I was thinking earlier about all that we have been through in this past year.  From going into labor 2 full months before my due date, to bringing home two little bundles of piss and vinegar, to stomach viruses and RSV, from teething to sleepless nights (a LOT of sleepless nights), I feel as though we have come so far from the day we said, "Let's have a baby!"  How little we knew then, and how much love we know now.




We finally got some good news this week.  Our permits have been approved and we are moving towards a closing! (More details on this whole fiasco later.)  Jane and Emma will finally have a home for their second year of life on...

For now, we are here, battling boxes, itching our rashes (Emma has one that covers her from head-to-toe, lucky girl), and counting our blessings that we are finally moving forward.  


And to whet your appetite, here's a little sneak peak at our new backyard...


Here's hoping that the next time you see it, there will be an actual YARD, complete with a swing set for Jane and Emma.

I promise I will try to post more often, but the next two weeks we will be busy packing and trying to keep Emma from climbing on any more boxes...

Yup...feel my pain...

And we will also be trying to get Jane to make this adorable face some more...



Is this kid cute, or what?

Have a great week everyone!  Thanks for keeping up with us!



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Is That for Pick Up or Delivery?

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Hershey and I are chronic offenders.  If anything (and I mean ANYTHING) doesn't go our way in the course of our day, we order in.  

 It all started when I was pregnant.  I lost my sense of taste, and everything made me nauseous.  So I stopped wanting to cook.  I distinctly remember one night early in my pregnancy when I was trying to cook a meal for us.  I realized that nothing tasted right, and I put WAYYY too much garlic salt on my green beans.  That was the breaking point.  I stood in the kitchen, crying, holding my bamboo spatula, screaming, "I CAN'T EVEN COOOOOOOOK!!"

 Now, if you know me at all, you know I love to cook.  Cook, bake, you name it, I'm in the kitchen doing it.  Therefore, this moment in my pregnancy was quite traumatic for me, and from that point on, we ordered in.  

 Fast forward to the birth of the little ladies.  Since we spent 6 weeks running to and from the NICU, who had TIME to cook?!  My mom, inlaws, and family members brought us tons and tons of food, and thank goodness for them!  But whenever we didn't have food dropped off, we had it delivered.  I mean, we are definitely putting some delivery guy's kid through college based on our delivery tips alone.

 When I worked in Newark, I tried making us a weekly menu.  I sat down on Sunday nights, and I typed up the menu for the week.  Here's what it looked like:

Yes, I even had a fancy border and seasonal-themed watermark.  I hung it on the fridge every week, and it WORKED.  

I feel like the hardest part about cooking dinner every night when you have a super busy schedule is being creative -- coming up with something DIFFERENT to make to eat every night.  And when you can't come up with something to make, you just come up with a menu - to Chicken 'N Rib Crib, Sopranos, Panchos Burritos...you get the point.

In the interest of saving - time, money, my waistline - I have decided to come up with a weekly menu once again.  But I'm going to make it themed this year, in hopes that the routine will help (since we are now busier than EVER).

Here we go:

Meatless Mondays
Take Out Tuesdays (Can't give it up all together)
Wild Card Wednesdays (Spin the dinner spinner and take it where it lands)
Turkey Taco Thursdays
Fishy Fridays
Saucy Saturdays
Soupy Sundays

I'll post our weekly menu in the weekly round-up posts I'm planning to write, and I'll try to post at least one recipe a week on my recipes page.  Wish us luck!

We are also trying out different foods every 3 days with the girls now.  So far, they have had rice cereal, apples, sweet potatoes, and bananas.  Tomorrow they try carrots.  So far, nanas are their very VERY favorite food!
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