We began the weekend by sleeping in until 9am. A rarity for me, it felt amazing to get so much sleep. Kyle scheduled haircuts with our local hairdresser for 10:30a on Saturday. It was the first time she'd ever seen us together and we had a great time chatting it up while we both got our hair cut. Another great feeling.
I love grocery shopping. People might think it's absurd, but I love menu planning, making a list in order of how the ingredients are located in the store, going in and grabbing everything and timing the whole store-run. I also love seeing how many things I can buy on sale. This weekend I was able to stock up on canned tomatoes. I love it! I, therefore, had a lovely outing to the store, and upon my arrival back home, I set Kyle to trimming and cubing a pork loin for a new dish described by Emily on the GOFR. It's a divine crock meal, I might add. New flavors, perfect combo. But that was not the only culinary art created yesterday. I made two loaves of banana bread, both overflowing (literally) with goodness, one specifically with mini chocolate chips. Delicious!
We accomplished much in the food-prep and kitchen-clean-up, which always helps me feel better about my house and my life, incidentally. Kyle went to the nearby RedBox to grab the new Robin Hood with Russell Crowe and The Sorcerer's Apprentice with Nicolas Cage on Blu-ray. Both were highly entertaining. While I'm not a Crowe fan in the least, this take on how Robin Hood came to be an outlaw is phenomenal. Well worth a watch. The other was purely entertaining, very funny, and displayed lots of cool magic. We were so relaxed; the day was perfect (and sunshiny, too).
Today dawned and I realized we lost an hour of sleep, which was unpleasant, but we rebounded well. After church we stopped by Culver's for lunch where I was able to satiate a craving I didn't even know I was having: breaded pork tenderloin! I love them and this one (with pickle, tomato, and lots of ketchup) was awesome. We had another afternoon of cooking and cleaning up the kitchen, this time Stephanie's recipe for Chipotle Mexican Meatballs. With Kyle home, he got to do the dirty work of sticking his hands in raw beef: he loved it! I got to avoid doing that, which I loved! Tomorrow, we'll be making guacamole (first time ever), chopping some tomatoes, sauteing red & green peppers and an onion, and serving this all (with the meatballs) on tiny tortillas. We can hardly wait.
I finished my day with Bible Study, which is so uplifting. I'm so grateful for this group of women who've allowed me to be a part of their study for four years. It's been a fun and meaningful time for me.
Needless to say, as you can probably guess, I don't want this weekend to end (which is why I'm still awake and writing this ridiculous post). Oh well...I get to see my nieces, nephew, sister, and brother-in-law this week, and that, my friends, is enough to make this week worth starting!
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Can you tell how excited I was about the weekend? Look at how many exclamation points I used. Ridiculous. But proof enough that I was still flying high from the awesomeness that was this mid-month weekend in March.
A shopping list in order of location in the store?! I'm so impressed!!
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