March

Ok, this is ridiculous. A post a month? No respectable blogger only posts once a month. (Now for the lame excuse)...It's just that I feel like my life is just not that interesting. Is that sad or what?

Things happen all the time, bookclub, kids over for dinner, cat having seizures and taking him to the vet...you know, normal stuff. Oh, we are also having our kitchen countertops replaced with granite and getting stainless steel appliances. We have the countertop in but are waiting for the appliances to ship. So I haven't taken any after pictures until the new appliances are in. So yeah, things are happening. But I just don't feel inspired to write about them.

But this blog is more of a journal than anything else so I will try to forget that countless fans are hanging on my every word, and just write about stuff.

Mafia started having seizures about three weeks ago, out of the blue. So weird. He would lay on his side and convulse and paddle his legs. Then his eyes would dilate and he would drool all over the place. The first two times it happened, I was all, oh well, he's gotten into something, it's a freak thing. By the third time, I was all, Kevin! something's really wrong with him! (while crying hysterically). My reaction surprised me because I think I'm pretty logical about animals...you know, they don't live as long as us and they get weird illnesses and die and stuff. But I could NOT help it.

The next day, I took him in to the vet...239.00 later, I left with a bottle of pills that costs 3.00 and instructions to give him the pills twice a day and bring him in in two weeks for a blood test to check drug levels in his blood. So these pills are supposed to take up to a week to stop seizure activity. Well, he never had another seizure since that day. I don't think the pills are the reason. I think he got into something and it worked itself through his system. But regardless, I've been giving him the pills every day for two weeks now.

We are now running out of pills...and I don't believe in them anyway...and I don't want to put him through another vet visit...and I don't want to pay another 80.00 for a blood test...so I am playing vet and weaning him off the pills...am I a terrible mom? Kevin and I have agreed to experiment on our poor cat. If he starts having seizures again, we will, of course, go get more pills and start the whole thing again.

We've had a couple of family nights at our place that involved build your own meal type dinners. They are so fun. The concept is provide a lot of toppings or fillings and have everyone just put what they want in their own thing. The first time I tried it was with pizzas. I first made the dough and shaped it into individual rounds so that everyone could make their crust thick or thin.Then I got a lot of toppings together into small serving dishes so everyone could pick what they wanted. I had feta cheese, fresh garlic, basil leaves, tomatoes, pine nuts, pesto, tomato sauce, etc.Here's Chelsie and Polina with their pizzas...Kevin and Jasper...They all turned out really good. Michael couldn't join us that night so Chelsie made him a pizza in a pie plate and took it home.

The next time I tried this was with burritos. I got those tortillas from Costco that you cook yourself. And then I had all the fillings available that I could think of. Michael and Chelsie did all the prep work so I didn't have to chop any thing up. Nice for me! Grandma Gibbons was with us for that dinner. We all made our own burritos and had a great time catching up with each other. I am liking the cooking together concept. It's more fun than just cooking it all yourself and then there is a cool activity for everyone to participate in.

That's about all I can think of for this time. I really want to do a separate post for the kitchen and include befores and afters.