A Week in Review
(with a mid-western Home/Family Engineer)

O.K., get ready...it's fascinating stuff folks:

Monday: After seven years in waiting, I've begun putting my recipes in order. I realize that by now my antiquated idea of putting them in "photo" books it's probably ridiculus but I don't have the energy to figure out how to organize them on the computer. Twelve pages later, I've made it through cheesecakes...

English Toffee Cheesecake

(click to enlarge and go make a cheesecake! (-:)

Tuesday:  I finally had something to cook with my new Christmas present pot!   You'd think my inaugural run would be with something fabulous like a Coq au vin (p.s. I used this link because of the picture...usually a recipe reads "chicken" and not roosters! (-:)...but no...I chose to boil some...

RUTABAGA!

Whoo-hoo!

(I'm convinced it boiled exceptionally well (-:)

Wednesday:  Freed a bird from gazebo captivity in sub-zero weather.

(caution, if you've already had lots of excitement today, you might want to hold off viewing this captivating video...it could put you over the edge!)

Thursday:  No pics but had a nice (well...spicy) dinner with SP at Raja Rani followed by a bargain of a trip to Old Navy (all while trying to be home by 9p.m. for him to take his year-long online, 3 hr/3xs per week CFP course!).  Old Navy was a HUGE score (thanks for the sales tip Jennifer).  We walked out paying $85.00 for $363.50 worth of clothes/coats/shoes for the kids!!

Friday:  Made an oreo cheesecake for an event on Saturday from my newly organized recipes!  This shot is of the middle of the cheesecake.  Another layer of the cream cheese mixture goes on top of these oreos so they're like a middle layer.  Yumm!

So that's it.  I wonder what the social researchers would make of it all.  Took me a few days to pull this longer entry together and occasionally I thought about my "exciting" picture of a pot or a stack of old recipes and wondered if I'm missing something by not being in a research lab at U-M studying fruit flies or commuting to an office for important business deals.  And, I'm so glad to feel that I am absolutely not missing a thing and am happy and driven to provide a vibrant and loving home for my family during this chapter of my life!

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