Chicken and Apples

This post is long overdue. 

A few weeks ago, I asked you if you had any good recipes to take your groceries just a little farther.  I got a BUNCH of great recipes and I plan to try many more of the ones you suggested.

For the first one though, I tried David Buckmaster's CHICKEN.

He said that after 4hrs at 275 degrees it would fall of the bone and be moist and delicious.

It did.  It was.

He also said it would last for many more meals than one, including a nacho meal.  

It did. 

Recognizing the fact that food pictures rarely turn out the way you want, just know that this shredded chicken pita rocked my world. You are a chef among men, Buck.  Also, I hope this was really your recipe and not your wife's because I'm giving you so many kudos.  But since you are married, we'll just assume credit goes to both of you.

In other food news, we had some friends over the other night.  Lili's job for setting the table was to bring out an apple to the table for each of us.  I handed them to her one by one in the kitchen and she took them out to the table. When we sat down to dinner, this is what we saw:

Each of the apples has a two-year-old girl sized bite mark in them.  :)

I guess she got moderately hungry each time on the long trip from kitchen to dining room.

We all still at the apples.

The Moon Daddy

Lili and I get precious time together often on Sunday nights.

We walk home from our neighbor's house where she and 8 other kids get babysat while we have small group at our house.

I get the privilege of hearing her explain her evening in all it's 2-year-old vocabulary glory while she marches down the street with her backpack on...it's the cutest thing you've ever seen.

Tonight as we were walking, the moon was starting to come out and she noticed...The following is the conversation we had about it:

Lili: "Mommy!  The moon is awake!"
Me: "That's right!  Hi moon!"
Lili:"Da moon is helping us to walk to my house, Mommy"
Me: "Ok.  Thanks moon!"
Lili:"Keep helping us walk to my house Moon. The Daddy Moon."
Me: "The Daddy Moon?"
Lili: "Yeah. The Daddy moon is helping us walk home. Mommy, when the moon comes down and goes under, you will be a moon and I will be a moon in the sky."
Me: "What do you mean? What?"
Lili: "When it comes down and goes under"

I know it's naturalistic and probably pantheistic, but could this be a taste of Heaven from my sweet baby's mouth?  To my knowledge, no one has told her ANY stories about the moon...maybe a picture of what Heaven looks like to a two-year-old.  I don't know.  But really, neither do you.  :)

Good night Daddy Moon.

iPhone App Pick-Me-Up

Truett is growing teeth. 

I'm growing tired.

Waking up at night to deal with this feels worse than when he was a newborn...how quickly we grow to love our sleep again...and miss it dearly when it's gone.

Good thing Tommie has the Stache-Tastic iPhone App to cheer me up. 

It also comes in handy when one of us is "just resting our eyes" during the afternoon lunch-hour/kiddo nap time.

Enjoy. I know I do.

Elegance...

I just know these will make even my cereal feel elegant.

I have a lighter blue one than even this one and I use it for everything.  At $5 a bowl, you wouldn't believe they're from anthropologie, would you?

I hope I get this set of six for my birthday.