Sunday, 4/24/2011

Happy Easter!  Christ the Lord is risen today!

When Katie woke up, we let her search for her Easter basket.  She found it right away and was wonderfully thrilled with each thing in her basket.  Animal crackers, straws that turn regular milk into chocolate milk, a book about a lamb, a Dora the Explorer backpack, a flower headband, and a Disney princess coloring kit.  After breakfast we went to church with my parents and grandparents this morning.  We quickly had lunch so that I could get Ben to the airport.  And, after Katie's nap, she got to hunt Easter eggs in the backyard.  What fun!  

For dinner we played a little refrigerator roulette.  I ended up making a ham and cheese omelet with some bell pepper strips on the side.  Other than having to say goodbye to Ben for a week, this was a wonderful Easter.  

Friday, 4/15/2011

My plan was to cook chicken Italian sausages on the grill and serve them with a side salad.  Well, when I went out to turn the grill down from high to medium, I must have turned off the gas too.  I don't remember doing it, but when I went out to turn the sausages, the flame was out.  Geez...talk about a dinner fail.  The other thing that was weird was that the sausages were sprinkled what I thought was paint flakes from the inside of the grill.  Not wanting to risk ingesting paint, I brought the sausages inside, took the casings off, and browned the ground sausage in a frying pan.  

After the sausage was cooked, I added a couple eggs and cheddar cheese to make a large omelet.  Ben did some research after dinner and found out that the black flakes on the inside of the grill cover were carbon and not paint.  We've brushed the rest of the flakes off and will resume our normal grilling.