Date Night

Jonathan and I had a date night last weekend.

Best thing ever.

Molly got an actual no family member babysitter.

Not so great :)

Both Jonathan and I really like Kari, she's great!  She came to watch Molly for a few hours but when it came to time for bed and bottle... She was having none of it.  Molly cried, screamed and made a huge fuss.  So much so that our babysitter called her Mom for advice and ended up coming over to feed Molly.  Kari was so embarrassed when she told us... we thought it was funny and felt bad for Kari!  Oh Molly.

Back to our date night.  If you haven't been to Amore and like Italian food, you must go.  Now.  Stop reading, make a reservation and eat up.  SO good.

Have you made your reservation yet?

Herb Garden

When Jonathan and I lived in Muskegon we had a decent sized garden.  It was one that his Grandpa Portenga had started and we just continued it.

When we got married I wanted to grow some herbs too.  So we started with two.  Basil and Cilantro.

And they burned.

Last year we did Basil and Tomatoes.  Over watered and over heated.  Failed.

This year I'm determined.  I'm going to grow cilantro (salsa anyone?), basil (never met a caprese or pesto I didn't like), dill (I make some killer veggie dip) and maybe tomatoes.

Am I forgetting anything?  We've got to find the right place in the yard to put them... but I am determined.

When we went to Drummond we went with another family.  Nikki is Jonathan's best friends wife.  She's great.  While we were there we had a number of conversations about organic foods, making things on your own and so on.  We talked about cost and ease, as well as what is better for children.  I never thought I would care and always looked at those people who focused on the organic are a little nutty.  But I realized I might be a little nuts myself :)

I brought veggie dip that I had made with fresh dill... I try to only buy block cheese because I don't like the chemicals that are used to shred cheese... we make our own taco seasoning among other things.  All this is because it's cheaper or an easy change.

I'm a little nervous about what kind of mother I'm going to be for Molly... and I think the mom I'm going to be will make some baby food... but I still want her to like Kraft Macaroni and Cheese...

Nikki would agree with me that she only buys organic when it financially makes sense... and she would also agree that her kids like the other stuff, she seems to have a great balance.

I know I'm ahead of myself right now.  Molly can't eat anything yet... and when she does it's so limited.  But I can start now, with Jonathan and I.  We can look at what we're eating and make sure it really makes sense for what we're trying to accomplish.

But we'll start with an herb garden.

Drummond.

We survived!

We left Thursday at around 1:30 for our 5 hour drive to the UP.  Nervous about how Molly would handle it, but off we went.

She did AMAZING.

Didn't cry at all until we got on the ferry.  It's only a 30 minute drive after that to the cabin.  So thankful!

Then on the way home... didn't make a peep the whole time.  Seriously.

We had fun.. but it was cold.  -10 the morning we left.  Molly stayed inside most of the time, but J and I were able to go for a 25 mile snowmobile ride.

The best thing about DI?  Is that our cell phones won't work :)

Bible Study

We're baaaaaaaack.

It felt so good to be back to Wednesday night.  But this is going to be heavy.  And good.

I may have to make sure I have enough points for a glass of wine every Wednesday from this day out :)

Video Monitor.

This thing is enough to make a girl panic.

Molly goes in a sleep sack that swaddles at night.  She can't get her arms out and sleeps really well because of it.

But lately she's started to move around the crib.  I call it her caterpiller move.  We've never seen it, but she ends up in different positions in the crib than what she started in.

This morning was terrible.  Jonathan wakes up at 6:30 and usually I'm half awake then.  I'll check her in the monitor, roll over and try to get a little bit more rest.

But not today.

Girlfriend was not in the monitor at all.  I ran to the other side of the house with a pit in my stomach.  She, of course, was fine.  She had caterpillered all the way to the corner where we couldn't see her on the monitor.  She was just sleeping away all peaceful like.

I could have used a drink.

I love the monitor, and now I hate the monitor :)

Snow.

Snow is super pretty, but I hate it when it affects my plans.

I had a wonderful night with a few girlfriends planned, and the weather got in the way.  One friend was able to come but the others couldn't make it for various reasons due to the weather.

I had a blast with the one friend, but I cannot wait to reschedule and make time with the group.

Wine is necessary for all of us sometimes :)

Dimmer Switches.

They drive me nuts.  This house is full of them.

Full Force the lights are too bright most of the time... but when they are dimmed the lights make the worst noise ever... just a horrible dull humming noise.

Such is life :)

On another note- I had a wonderful birthday.  Jonathan and I had a dinner of my Dads Eggrolls and my favorite wine with a glass of Tequila Rose for dessert.  We weren't going to do any gifts, but he got us tickets to go to Miranda Lambert and arranged Molly to go to his parents for the night.  A much needed break coming up.  The concert is just in Lansing, but it'll be nice for Molly to spend time with her grandparents.