Oct 26th-It’s a month late-oops!

Last week Craig and I had lots of adventures, we used our daddy weekend to the fullest. You see, every other weekend from Fri at 5:30 until Sun at 5:30 Rachel is with her dad. Craig and I usually try to actually go out or at least stay up late because we essentially have a free babysitter and why not take advantage of that while we can?

So, one of my best friends, Jessy, has a new boyfriend and we decided to “get to know him” a little by spooning his yard. (She said he wouldn’t mind so I promise this isn’t hazing) We drew silly, happy faces on about 50 spoons and stuck them in his lawn. It sounds silly and it is, but it’s not destructive and it’s cheap easy clean fun. Plus it aerates their lawn, yeah that’s it. The next morning we found out that the boyfriend’s mom thought it was someone from church and that the spoons were kinda cute. Although we aim to please it wasn’t the reaction we were hoping for. Craig and I are hoping to spoon the house again because the mom enjoyed them so much.

We spent Saturday juicing grapes. Craig’s parents have a monstrously huge grapevine in their yard and they were kind enough to pick a bunch of purple concord grapes for us. We borrowed their steamer and started the process of making homemade grape juice. It sounds hard but really isn’t. If it was, I would so not be doing it-I AM NOT SUZY HOMEMAKER (despite what Craig says). Although I have become more domestic since being married to Craig, I still believe in buying things (ie: bread, most jam, juice veggies etc) from the store, cooking from a box and asking my mom-in-law to do any hemming. Anyway, one of the perks about “doing grapes” is that your house smells so good. In fact, when we had the box of grapes in the trunk of my Civic (best car ever) my garage smelled like grapes. The process is simple: wash grapes, put grapes in steamer, wait about 1 ½ hours and carefully pour juice into quart jars, seal jars, dump out dehydrated grapes (AKA: grape guts). The only bummer about doing grapes is that it requires you to be home for most of the day because you need the stove on to help dehydrate the grapes and it can over take your kitchen with minimal effort. Now with just 2 cups of sugar, 2 quarts of water and the juice we have a quenching, healthy organic (not important but sounds cool) drink. I feel so domestic!! Martha Stewart, eat your heart out-just kidding- I can’t even hem pants.

This week my blinds came in!!! J J J I’m so excited to be rid of the ugly blinds I have in my 95 inch front window. Craig didn’t have time to install them today, but he promised to do them one night next week when his dad can lend wisdom/experience and his power drill. Oh I am so excited. I know it sounds silly, but as a stay at home mom, I see my blinds quite frequently through out the day and it’s harder to look at ugly ones than it is nice ones(I think). Stay tuned for the conclusion of the new blinds adventure.