Grow Team Carlson!!: September 2008

Instructions for Budget Decadence

Gather the following materials:

a French press
a milk frother
some excellent coffee
A decent grinder (we'd love a burr grinder, but are little blade one works just fine)
milk
some sipping chocolate
your nice dishes
steel cut oats
craisins
brown sugar

Get up in the morning on Saturday and head straight to your local Farmer's Market. Enjoy the fall weather, purchase excellent seasonal produce, get a sample of an Asian pear (yum!) and buy some as a treat.

Come home and start some water boiling for the oatmeal while you put away your produce. Get the oatmeal cooking while you get your 6 month old down for his morning nap. While he sleeps, enjoy your oatmeal with craisins and brown sugar and a cup of coffee with some hot frothed milk - all in your nice bowls and teacups. Finish the meal with the baby in his high chair, banging a spoon against a plate.

Spend the day enjoying eachother's company - watching the baby get closer and closer to being truly mobile. Do dishes periodically while your spouse makes the baby giggle in the next room.

Snack throughout the day. Enjoy napping with the baby in the afternoon. Have leftovers for dinner that create minimal dishes.

Get the baby to bed for the night and then enjoy some of that sipping chocolate with some more frothed while you watch a movie or tv show with your sweetheart.

For Team Carlson, this is decadence.

It's been a good day.

That milk frother was one of the greatest Hannukkah gifts I ever got for Matt :-)

More photos

I'm making up for my delinquency.

We actually had a fun time travelling by plane to Washington State in August. Here are a few photos from the plane:

Now, meet Maggie. Maggie's mom is a frequent poster, named "mlarkin" or "goodtobethelarkster" depending on the epoch, on The Nest (where Brea spent many many hours during her pregnancy). Brea and "mlarkin," as Matt calls her, decided to meet up while in Seattle (where "mlarkin" lives). So. Maggie. She's cute, isn't she?